Animals
Rare Albino Southern Right Whale Calf (PICS)
[gallery] A rare albino southern right whale calf was spotted at West Australia's Finder's Bay. Makes sense to find the calf in Finder's Bay, eh? The calf is about 2 months old and has the name "Wilgi Ma Nung" which very unoriginally means "white whale" in the local Wardani Aboriginal language. I mean, why not call him/her "Spot?" Whale watchers say "Spot" ...
Sea Turtles Order In Italian
Perhaps the plight of these sea turtles is what is causing these other little fellows to be confused about their lot in life. Some 60 newly hatched sea turtles seemed to have gotten lost during their rite of passage ... their initial march to the sea. Instead of finding the big wet, they marched into an Italian restaurant ... ordered ...
Lion Cub and Puppy Playing Together
Can you imagine a fight between a dog and a lion? It's an unfair battle! But make that a beautiful puppy and a lion cub and you have a playground. It doesn't matter what's going to happen in years when the lion is going to be 10 times heavier than the dog, it's the fun they have today. It doesn't ...
Teaching Wild Animals to Swim
For all those that thought cats can't swim we have news for you. They can if they are being taught, and that's exactly what Dr Bhagavan Antle did for the last 25 years. A young lion cub is being taught how to swim Tiger loves to get his paws wet for a good swim Baby orangutan learns how to swim A swimming tapir, ...
Sea Turtles – Endangered Marine Life
Categorized from threatened to critically endangered, sea turtles from the world's oceans have mostly been hunted down for their meat, fat and shells (tortoiseshell). These days, the most significant threat for them is a commercial fishing technique called longline fishing, that uses hundreds or even thousands of baited hooks hanging from a single line and causes accidental sea turtle ...
Animal Olympics?
Dang it! These animal Olympic events weren't on my TV sked and I am afraid I missed them. How come all the good stuff gets by me? Okay, how come most everything gets by me? There is the Bear High Bar Gymnastic Event. Pygmy Loris Climbing Elephant Soccer Goat Riding What do you think about using animals for entertainment purposes? Maybe the animals could get ...
What Polar Bears Eat for Dessert
Ever wonder what a polar bear has for dessert? Wonder no more. This polar bear at Osaka's Tennoji Zoo is getting a summer retreat and a reprieve from the summer heat. I had an apple for breakfast this morning. Thank goodness my wife didn't stick it in an ice cube, an ice cube the size of a freezer at that! So, how's ...
If Batman Had a Cat, it Would Be 4-Eared Yoda
Sure enough, if Batman had a cat it would likely be this little fellow. Or, if a cat wanted to hang out with Batman ... then ... wait!! Is that you Catwoman? Apparently, the woman in the pic found this little feline being passed around in a Chicago bar and decided to take him home. Is she Catwoman? Yoda is the cat's ...
Cute little Penguin gets made Knight of the Realm
Nils Olav is a penguin. But not just any penguin. Everything started in 1972 at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland during the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the annual military music festival, when the penguin became a mascot of the King's Guard. The name, he got it from lieutenant Nils Egelien who declared him an honorary member of the military and after ...
Greenhouse Advantages of Kangaroo Farming
Pretty odd I must say, but a recent study revealed that if Australia is going to farm kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep (to remove 36 million sheep and 7 million cattle by 2020), that could lower the overall greenhouse gases by 3 percent each year. Do you think it's that simple? First of all, Australians won't understand that killing kangaroos ...
