Archive for the ‘Wildlife’ Category
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Stockholm's homes are heated with bunny biofuel. Elmer Fudd must be fueling around in the wabbit patch. Swedish hunters kill thousands of pesky rabbits, that are said to be destroying the capital's parks. The bunny bodies are frozen, ground and mixed with wood chips, peat or waste, then incinerated to ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Suryia, an Orangutan, and Roscoe, a Bluetick Coonhound, are best friends, living at a preserve for endangered animals in South Carolina. They met a couple of years ago when Roscoe, looking thin and hungry, followed staff home to The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in Myrtle Beach. ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
The Instanbul Dolphinarium opened in December 2008 in Instanbul, Turkey. The project was built as a joint venture between Turkey and Russia. At this facility, people and dolphins can swim together. The Dolphinarium promotes the therapeutic benefits that humans derive from swimming with the dolphins. It also suggests that "a ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Australia has a problem. There are just too many camels and not enough food and water.
Camels are not indigenous to Australia. They were brought to the country in the period from 1840-1907, to aid explorers in the Australian desert. There are more than 1,000,000 feral camels now, and their population ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Harry and Pepper were a couple of male penguin pals living in the San Francisco Zoo. The two of them adopted an egg last year, incubated it, hatched it, and provided care for the chick. But a different sort of chick has busted up the same-sex pair. Linda, widowed when ...
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
"I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon." Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman (from The Maltese Falcon, 1941)
And now there is not even one. Illegal hunting of the Maltese ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Rasa sent me this email the other day, about a newborn baby deer that was rescued during the night, after its mother was killed by a car:
Hi Everyone,
Late in the evening a friend knocked on our door with a newborn baby deer in her arms, not more than an hour ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Those Tasmanians are enterprising little devils. Creative Paper in the coastal city of Burnie, Australia, in Tasmania's Northwest, is making handmade paper out of wombat droppings.
The wombat is a herbivorous marsupial (pouched mammal). Its vegetarian diet results in fibrous waste that can be boiled and molded into sheets of ...
Posted in Animals in Art, Wildlife | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Four months ago Sophie Tucker, a four-year-old blue heeler, was swept off a sailboat in rough seas off the coast of Australia. Jan Griffith, the dog's owner, had given her up for dead. The closest land was an island about five nautical miles away, and the waters were shark infested.
But ...
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
In less time than it takes to search Travelocity.com for airfares to Africa or Antarctica, you can make your own wildlife film. National Geographic supplies the footage, sound effects and music, and you can write your own captions. Have some fun or turn your kids loose on the keyboard, and ...
Posted in Marine Mammals, Primates, Video, Wildlife | Comments Off
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