Precious little is known about the giant manta ray fish, and Biologist Andrea Marshall got to know them slightly better thanks to a first hand experience with the fish. She calls them “the most beautiful underwater birds” and simply looking at the images, we can clearly understand what she means.
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is known to be an “island” of trash, mainly plastic, floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is well known that it has vastly negative effects for marine life, and these shocking pictures from photographer Chris Jordan drive the point home.
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People visiting the West Midlands Safari Park near Bewdley in Worcestershire, UK will get a chance to see a very rare sight. Three white lion cubs in the Safari Park are now old enough to be viewed by the public. White lions as it is, are a very rare breed, with a count in 2004 putting their number at just 30. Since they are easily identifiable by their prey and hunters due to their color, not many white lions survive in the wild, they are though, bred specially in zoos.

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It’s a raining, overcast day and my favorite Labs are sleeping at my feet.  I think they feel the laziness the dreary day brings.

Later, they will be up and about and I will take them on one of their daily long walks.  They have places to go, things to sniff and business to take care of. (more…)

Cow gang in the morning

The article mentioned in part one, suggests you not eat meat in an attempt to reduce the greenhouse gas (methane) caused by cows.  I propose that human emissions of methane could eclipse that of the cows raised for meat if we follow that advice and limit our intake to non-meat food.

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Cows and wind turbines

I came across an interesting article on combating global warming.  Aside from a picture of a cow with a gas-mask device to capture cow belches, another picture (see after the jump) shows another methane capture device.  Intended to capture cow farts, I can just feel sorry for the cow.  That hose feeding the pink plastic methane storage balloon has to be uncomfortable for the cow.

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New data shows that humpback whale populations have been growing steadily over recent decades, and as a result, the U.S. government may take the humpback whale off the endangered species list.

Last year, the National Marine Fisheries Service, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), received results from an extensive study showing that the north Pacific humpback whale population has been growing 4-7% a year over the past few decades.

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The Montgomery County animal shelter in Conroe, Texas, closed gates on Monday, September 19, due to lack of funding. The sad news has made the rounds on the biggest social media websites, including Facebook and Twitter, causing a widespread confusion that all animals without a home were supposed to be euthanized.

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What is it that mysterious creature that is creeping under the surface of the Lake Worth Lagoon in Palm Beach County, Florida, the United States?

Greg Reynolds of LagoonKeepers.org said that  “Channel marker ten is the first time we saw the unknown creature. We followed it and started taking video.”

Don Serrano, who was with Greg Reynolds when the creature was caught on tape, said that it’s “different, very different.”

Although they don’t know what it is, both Greg and Don are certain that it is something. And, even though the creature in the Lake Worth Lagoon has not yet been identified, it’s been called “the elusive muck monster.”

Thomas Reinert, a marine biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, who studied the video, says that it seems to be an animal moving without breaking the surface.

“I can only speculate,” Reinert said, “but we need more evidence to determine the identity of the so-called muck monster.”

Tippi Hedren, actress and animal rights activist, says she will take care of the two tigers that lived on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, California.

“We have so suddenly lost,” Tippi Hedren was quoted as saying, “one of the most beautiful and enchanting entertainers on our planet.”

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