When you take a look at this photograph, what do you see? It’s a stupid question, but while most of us are quick to respond with: “it’s a fish, obviously” it seems that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals would give you quite a different answer. They would tell you that this slimy little [...]
A second, normal-sized egg popped out of a giant egg laid by a chicken raised at a high school in Shiga Prefecture, a school official said Saturday after breaking open the shell. The huge egg, which was 8.1 centimeters high and weighed 158 grams, was laid at the Yokaichi Minami High School in the city [...]
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A baby colobus monkey named Darby was born at the Denver Zoo on Oct. 15 and can now be seen, weather permitting, with the rest of its troop in the Primate Panorama at the zoo.
Darby, like all colobus monkey infants, is all white — in contrast to the adults, which are mostly black with [...]
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As these adorable twin giant panda cubs playfully roll around on the floor, they seem worlds away from the devastating earthquake that destroyed much of their habitat in south west China.
They are one of the first twins delivered this year at the Bifengcia base of the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Yaan, [...]
Image: flickr/Lukas Vermeer
Maybe there really isn’t anything that you can’t buy online.
Endangered animals, including chimps, marmosets and leopard cubs, are being bought and sold online, according to a new report.
Over six one-week observation periods earlier this year, the International Fund for Animal Welfare found more than 1,400 live, exotic animals being traded online. [...]
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It was a normal Sunday afternoon at Pat Cowie’s place.
Until a pigeon laid an egg on the stovetop.
As they do.
The pigeon popped in an open door at Pat’s Evans Street home, climbed 14 stairs (leaving an incriminating trail of pigeon poo on the way), turned hard left at the top, wandered into the kitchen, and chose [...]
A nervous swimmer might scan the waves for Jaws. In this case, it’s more a matter of Claws.
But the tiger cubs splashing happily in the water are too busy diving, paddling and having fun to think about hunting.
Keeping their 200lb frames afloat takes quite a bit of effort, which is why their handlers join them [...]
Image courtesy of flickr.com user Rudester
A 3-year-old gorilla died Thursday after being slapped and knocked down by her 13-year-old father at Omaha, Nebraska’s Henry Doorly Zoo.
Baina, a silverback gorilla, had been separated from her family as part of an effort by zoo staff to get her father Samson to mate with an older female.
When the [...]
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As this little fellow’s countryman Rolf Harris might say, ‘Can you see what it is yet?’
No? Well, that’s not surprising. How many times have you seen a baby kangaroo (joey) photographed this early in his mother’s pouch? He’s still at the embryonic stage, and about the size of a jellybean, but has been captured [...]
Sarabi nuzzles her newborn baby who is just a few hours old at the Memphis Zoo on Friday. The second new baby in two months was born to the zoo Friday morning around 7am. Until about three years ago, the zoo had gone 15 years without a successful birth. The babies are born while the [...]
