kittymowmow on November 19th, 2008

I’m posting this at 3:30 AM on Wednesday, with just 16 hours left until the Orangutan Outreach Benefit Concert starts.
I finally finished all the signs and donation collectors, or “donation stations,” as I christened them. I tried to make this event as environmentally friendly as possible and used recycled materials for as many things as [...]

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kittymowmow on November 17th, 2008

This song, entitled “Warm Panda Cola,” is by one of my favorite bands, The Boy Least Likely To.  I’m featuring this song because it’s about a Panda! Or maybe it’s just about panda cola?  Either way, since it mentions pandas, it’s worthy of mention on Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo.

I’m renewing my old habit of featuring [...]

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Colugos (aka flying lemurs)—the closest living relatives of primates most notable for their ability to glide from tree to tree over considerable distances—are more diverse than had previously been believed, according to a new report published in the November 11th issue of Current Biology.
Primates are most familiarly represented by monkeys and [...]

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kittymowmow on November 13th, 2008

If watching this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD6UpPQkNBU) doesn’t convince you of the REAL (not made up by animal-rights-psychos, I swear) need to protect orangutans and thousands of other endangered species from the destruction of deforestation and the palm oil industry, then …you should really keep researching it.  All I’m asking you to do is think about the [...]

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kittymowmow on November 12th, 2008

Watch this video! It may not show up on RSS readers, so here’s the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxioapZ1nww

Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo is throwing a Benefit Concert for Orangutan Outreach, and now it’s just a week away!  If you live anywhere near Tuscaloosa, AL, you should DEFINITELY come out the benefit.  It’s gonna be awesome!  Orangutans WILL be saved [...]

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kittymowmow on November 11th, 2008

It’s day 2 of Orangutan Awareness Week! How are YOU celebrating?

Tell me about the ways you or someone you know are helping to save orangutans. Are you donating to Nyaru Menteng, Orangutan Outreach, or Borneo Orangutan Survival International?
Are you actively educating yourself and others about Orangutans and the palm oil industry (an industry [...]

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kittymowmow on November 10th, 2008

Orangutan Awareness Week is November 10-16.  Celebrate by helping us save the orangutans from extinction and educating yourself and others about the issues!

This week I’ll show you videos that will help you understand orangutans, why they are threatened, why we need to protect them, and what you can do to help.
Related articles on the web:

Orangutans’ [...]

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Scientists say that they have taken a step closer to recreating extinct animals like the mammoth, after successfully cloning living mice from donor animals that had been frozen.
A team of Japanese scientists produced the clones after thawing mice that had been frozen at minus 20C for up to 16 years.
Clones had been created [...]

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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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Lauren on October 30th, 2008

An eight-armed creature that looked more like a modern party favor than a living animal colonized a large section of the world’s oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged, suggests a new study.
The findings represent the first comparable animal fossils from the Ediacaran Period, 635 to 541 million years ago, which appear [...]

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