Polar Bear LOVES Husky Dog
loving a young husky dog. True Friends.
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loving a young husky dog. True Friends.
Pigeon and Monkey
A little infant macaque is “taken under the wing” by a white pigeon
on China’s Neilingding Island in Guangdong Province.
Evidently, this little 12 week old baby monkey was separated from its
mother and faced certain death until rescued by a refuge worker.
The story is that the baby was inconsolable until he was befriended
and nurtured by the white pigeon, another resident of the shelter.
It seems the pigeon understood the baby needed him or her.
They have become inseparable friends. The image was shot by
Jianbin Huo of China, a photojournalist. Hopefully, the two will be
allowed to spend as much time as possible together.
Macaque monkeys are very intelligent, sensitive and loving. They
hold lifetime memories of family and tribe. This little baby may
hold love and memories forever for his little friend.
Animals that THINK
Remarkable Video from America’s Funniest Home Videos
Smart Animals AFV
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1. A Dog moves a chair for a specific reason
2. A bird use bread to fish
3. A badger carefully maneuvers a branch
2. A bird use bread to fish
3. A badger carefully maneuvers a branch
freaky cool girl
Very Clever! : )
Bats Dying of Deadly Fungus
Bats Continuing to Die All Over US Eastern Seaboard
April 14, 2009
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“It’s here and it’s definitely deadly. A fungus that’s killing off bats so fast, one expert says some species could be wiped out.
Scientists have tracked White Nose Syndrome for about three years in this part of the country. It’s killed an estimated one million bats, according to the Washington Post.
Now the mysterious fungus is in two Virginia caves, biologists confirmed just last week: the Breathing Cave in Bath County and Clover Hollow in Giles County, hundreds of miles from the other known infected caves.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30174433/
“We thought we’d have more time to prepare,” said Rick Reynolds, a wildlife biologist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. “Unfortunately, no one knows what to do about it,” he told the newspaper.”
“If this continues to spread, we are talking about extinctions,” Thomas Kunz, an ecologist and bat expert at Boston University, told the newspaper.
“I’ve studied bats for 44 years. This is unprecedented in my lifetime. It’s not alarmist. These are just the facts.”
No bats or few bats could have a devastating effect on our food supply and you’d be itching and scratching a lot more. Bats eat mosquitos and a lot of the insects.
“What are these insects going to do that aren’t being eaten?” Kunz said. “They can cause serious damage to crops, gardens and forests, further upsetting both the natural and human-altered ecosystems.”
“According to Andrew Madden, the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Western District Manager, the bat mortality rates in the region has reached a ‘catastrophic’ level… Mortality in some caves and mines in Massachusetts may be as high as 95 or 100 percent.
…Bats eat thousands of pounds of agricultural pests and nuisance species like mosquitoes every summer, so there’s no telling how the changes to the bat population could ripple through the ecosystem, not to mention the human food chain.” 04/12/2009
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_12126510
“Basically, they’re starving to death… White Nose Syndrome is only a byproduct. Probably due to bio accumulation of pesticides and climate change. Bats are voracious insect eaters and their loss could be catastrophic for agriculture.”
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| The Great Bat Die Off – New England East Coastal Regions, Spreading to Other StatesThe little brown bat is a furry little round creature with a tiny upturned nose and a huge penchant for pesty insects. These bats are dying off in increasingly alarming numbers. In a number of caves, they death rate is 100%.
Wildlife biologists are extremely concerned and consider this a major problem. The culprit has been identified as a white fungus that infests the nose, skin and wings of the bat. The bats are found flying around in winter rather than hibernating, in extremely poor condition, severely dehydrated and starving. One little bat was gamely trying to drink from snow to quench thirst. Unfortunately, he will undoubtedly perish as bats cannot survive during the day exposed to cold and light. Biologists are puzzled as to why the bats are leaving their caves in droves in the daytime, severely malnourished, dehydrated and underweight. Here are some quotes from Mine Conservation Regarding Bats:
“Bats are primary predators of vast numbers of insects that fly at night, and many such insects rank among North America’s most costly agricultural and forest pests. These include cucumber, potato, and snout beetles; corn-borer, corn earworm, cutworm, and grain moths; leafhoppers; and mosquitoes. A single little brown bat can catch more than 1,200 mosquito-sized insects in an hour, and the 25 million Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) that formerly occupied Eagle Creek Cave in Arizona consumed over 250 tons of insects nightly, the majority of which were agricultural pests. A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats living in the old Orient Mine in Colorado consumes nearly two tons of insects nightly, largely moths. Just one of the many moths that such bats eat, the corn earworm moth, attacks a wide variety of crops, from corn and cotton to tomatoes and pumpkins. Since each female moth is capable of laying hundreds of eggs, as few as 100 can force a farmer to spray a large area of crop lands. Illustrative of the impact that even small colonies of bats can have, just 150 big brown bats can eat sufficient cucumber beetles each summer to protect farmers from 33 million of these beetles’ root worm larvae, pests that cost American farmers an estimated billion dollars annually. Long-nosed (Leptonycteris curasoae and L. nivalis) and long-tongued bats (Choeronycteris mexicana) are believed to be important pollinators for some 60species of agave plants and to serve as both pollinatorsand seed dispersers for dozens of species of columnar cacti, including organ pipe and saguaro, which rank among the southwestern desert’s most familiar and ecologically important plants. Loss of these bats could further jeopardize these already declining plants, harming an entire ecosystem. Bats are primary pollinators and seed dispersers for many of the most ecologically important plants of the desert Southwest. This lesser long-nosed bat is about to pollinate a saguaro cactus. Mexican free-tailed bats rank among North America’s most valuable wildlife, consuming enormous quantities of insect pests each summer night.” Full Article Here: A large library of Bat Images: More Information Comprehensive Information: Video of Endangered Species Biologist, Images of Bat Situaton A Stunning and Beautiful Slide Show of Bat Cave Images |
Updated Thirsty Koala
New Collection of Pictures of “Sam the Little Burnt Koala
New: Tiny Baby Koala Video at Bottom of this Post
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and Little Burned Koala Bear
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![](http://cdin.us/blogsites/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/koala-bear-bob-sam-love.jpg "Burned Koala Bears - \\"Bob\\" puts his little arm around \\"Sammie\\"")
Colleen Wood / Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter via Reuters
A koala nicknamed Bob puts his paw around fellow fire survivor Sam, a little girl, at the Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter in Rawson, Australia. Sam has been deeply traumatized by the disaster, but is slowly recovering.
“…SYDNEY – A bond between two burned koalas rescued from Australia’s deadliest wildfires has provided some heart-warming relief after days of devastation and the loss of more than 180 lives and possibly millions of animals… ”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123220/
“The baby koala rescued above was found shaking underneath a verandah and “looking very sick” after its mother was apparently overcome by the ferocious heatwave that struck Victoria last week.”
Millions of other animals are said to be in dire straits…
SAM became the most famous koala in the world when firefighter David Tree stopped to give him a drink amid the devastation.
“The most amazing part was when she grabbed my hand. I will never forget that…”
“…Carer Jenny Shaw said she suffered burns on her paws and was in a lot of pain, but was on the road to recovery.
She was put on an IV drip and is on antibiotics and pain relief treatment.
“She is lovely – very docile – and she has already got an admirer. A male koala keeps putting his arms around her,” Ms Shaw said….”
New Quote About Sam and Bob from her caretaker:
“She said Sam had suffered second degree burns to her paws and would take seven to eight months to recover while Bob had three burned paws with third degree burns and should be well enough to return to the bush in about four months.
“They keep putting their arms around each other and giving each other hugs. They really have made friends and it is quite beautiful to see after all this. It’s been horrific,” said Wood.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123220/
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story…
Some links to offer help:
https://wic032p.server-secure.com…
http://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au…
https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations…
Thank you : )
New – Video of a Tiny Baby Koala.
“This is the smallest baby Koala that I have ever seen…”
Dog Tries to Talk
The top video features a little fellow trying his best to “speak.” You can actually see how he moves his tongue in his attempts to “communicate.” Below this video is another where his “talking” is dubbed with “The Minute Waltz.” Pretty cute.
“The Minute Waltz” Dubbed Version (Check out the ‘high’ notes : )
The Magnificent Wolf
Ruthlessly, the wolf is being hunted down and destroyed.
It could be a costly and devastating mistake.
The Dog Files has done an excellent online video about wolves.
Meet their beautiful white wolf who “sings,” and learn about
the magnificence of and our kinship with, wolves.
You can click on the image above to go to their website.
Their wolf episode video is below:
From Aldo Leopold:
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“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.” I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view. Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain, and seen the south-facing slopes wrinkle with a maze of new deer trails. I have seen every edible bush and seedling browsed, first to anaemic desuetude, and then to death. I have seen every edible tree defoliated to the height of a saddlehorn. Such a mountain looks as if someone had given God a new pruning shears, and forbidden Him all other exercise. In the end the starved bones of the hoped-for deer herd, dead of its own too-much, bleach with the bones of the dead sage, or molder under the high-lined junipers. I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades. So also with cows. The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf’s job of trimming the herd to fit the range. He has not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers washing the future into the sea. We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars, but it all comes to the same thing: peace in our time. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men." ~ Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain Thanks to Suzanne Stone, MyYellowStone Wolves More Information: |
Hippo Saves Gazelle
Amazing…
A valiant and courageous hippopotamus actually attempts to protect
and then, save the life of a very young impala gazelle.
After bringing the fawn to shore, the hippo very gently tries to revive
and comfort the little antelope by carefully and tenderly taking its head
into its mouth.
The video below is the clearest resolution I could find. The sound
may be high – you might want to turn down your volume a tad.
It’s an extraordinary video. One person who contributed said it very
well: “One of the saddest stories ever told…”
And yet, you may very well be deeply warmed by watching the
hippo’s magnificent courage and loving actions.
This video is seemingly unbelievable, until you watch for yourself.
Here’s another link to another version of the video:
The hippo and croc live within an uneasy truce. hippos are one of
the most powerful creatures on earth and are capable of biting a
croc in half. Nevertheless, the croc will not hesitate to hunt baby
hippopotamuses.
Here’s another very sad video of a baby hippo being taken by a
crocodile. The mother soon appears to lick and then mourn the
loss of her baby. She raises her head and opens her mouth wide
as if in a silent scream. Devastating.
Notice that the another large hippo is at her side – perhaps the
father.
Tortoise Adopts Baby Hippo
A baby hippo, rescued from the sea in Kenya after losing its parents,
has adopted a giant tortoise as its ‘mother’. Yes, folks, tortoises and
hippos can love each other…
The animals share a compound in a sanctuary and have formed a
close bond….
