Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Conservation, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 02 9th, 2009 | No Comments

New Bird Species: New Species Of Babbler Discovered In China

A new species of babbler has been described from Guangxi province in south-west China close to the border with Vietnam. Named Nonggang Babbler Stachyris nonggangensis, after the reserve at which it was discovered, this new species is closely related to Sooty Babbler S. herberti but is larger and has...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Conservation, Endangered Species, Mammals, Science & Tech on 02 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Endangered Pere David’s Deer on track to revival

The story of the Pere David's Deer is one of a species wiped out on its native Chinese soil and taken halfway around the world - and to the brink of extinction - before staging a dramatic homecoming and revival. After nearly 1,000 years, the critically endangered species - once numbering only 18...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Mammals, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 02 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Tigers ‘Took The Silk Road’ To Russia

DNA from an extinct sub-species of tiger has revealed that the ancestors of modern tigers migrated through the heart of China – along what would later become known as ‘the Silk Road’ – a team of scientists from Oxford University and the NCI Laboratory of Genomic Diversity in the USA report. In...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Farm & Ranch on 12 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Chickens earn their keep in Chicago as some city dwellers raise them for eggs or as pets

Just past a busy intersection in this neighborhood on Chicago's West Side, a flock of hens softly cluck about the yard, seemingly oblivious to the stares of a nearby alley cat. They are “like pets with eggs,” said Donna Knezek, who along with her partner, Liz Sharp, keeps five hens in a chicken...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Culture, Mammals, Music on 11 17th, 2008 | No Comments

Warm panda cola by a melon in the sun

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...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Extinct Species, Science & Tech, Underwater on 10 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs

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,...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Mammals on 10 30th, 2008 | No Comments

World’s Rarest Big Cat Gets A Check-up

The world's rarest big cat is alive and well. At least one of them, that is, according to researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) who captured and released a female Far Eastern leopard in Russia last week. The capture was made in Primorsky Krai along the Russian-Chinese border by a...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Mammals on 10 26th, 2008 | No Comments

Pictured: The adorable twin panda cubs bred in captivity just months after killer earthquake

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...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Mammals, Science & Tech, Veterinary Medicine on 10 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Heroin elephant can never be freed

Four-year-old Xiguang and three other elephants who the smugglers also captured were taken to an animal protection centre on China's tropical island of Hainan to recover from their ordeals and overcome their heroin addictions. While they are all fit again, after three years of domestic life...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Mammals on 10 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Taipei, Beijing to exchange animal gifts: Chiang

Taipei and Beijing have reached a consensus on bringing two giant pandas that China has offered to Taiwan, Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chiang Pin-kung (???) said yesterday. Chiang said Taipei would not get the animals on loan, but both sides would offer animals to each other as gifts. Click...
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