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May 31, 2007

Orphaned Baby Hedgehogs: A Prickly Problem

Category: england

We know that a rash of recent posts has put us at risk of entering cuteoverload territory , but we couldn't resist these pictures of seven baby hedgehogs from two different families at the Prickly Ball Farm Hospital in Devon,...

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May 30, 2007

Can Bomb-Sniffing Bees Save Innocent Lives?

Category: croatia

A mad scientist at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, has developed a new technique for finding unexploded land mines: bomb-sniffing bees! Professor Nikola Kezic spends his days training hives of honey bees--whose sense of smell is much more powerful than...

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How to Score Some Pangolin

Category: indonesia

Wildlife officials from Southeast Asia met in Cisarua, Indonesia this week to discuss cross-border animal smuggling. Chief among their concerns was the rapid growth in pangolin trafficking. Scaled mammals with long, sticky, extendable tongues (up to 16"), Pangolins were once...

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May 29, 2007

Musical Male Humpbacks Score More Gals!

Category: whale

"Some people call me Maurice." Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae A study from two Australian researchers from the University of Sydney shows that male humpbacks who sing while migrating have better luck with the ladies than those who don't.Michael Noad and...

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Dairy Cows Read the Writing on the Wall

Category: biotechnology

In 2001, scientists at New Zealand biotechnology firm ViaLactia (that translates to Milk Road, right?), identified a cow with a genetic mutation that resulted in its producing skim milk. Since then, Milk Road has successfully bread a strain of cows...

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May 25, 2007

Panda Enslavement

Category: baby panda

Female pandas ovulate for only 3 days out of every year, making them one of the least evolutionarily "fit" animals we are aware of. If you were in God's factory trying to figure out where to invest, betting on the...

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May 24, 2007

Battle at Kruger

Category: South Africa

Kruger National Park in South Africa is a renowned location for observing some of Africa's most famous wildlife. Here we have all of that wildlife fighting one another, all at once. Basically this is Kruger's equivalent of a WWE event....

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Flaming Flamingos Win Adoption Rights

Category: united kingdom

In another example of how much more progressive Europe is than the US, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire (i.e. Brittania) has entrusted the care of an orphaned flamingo chick to gay parents. Carlos and Fernando, the only...

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May 23, 2007

Hammerhead Shark Had Immaculate Birth

Category: immaculate conception

Nuestra Tiberone de la Conception, Hammerhead shark, Sphyrna zygaenaA female hammerhead shark gave birth to a pup in the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska in 2001 despite having no contact with a male shark. Thanks to new DNA profiling technology,...

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May 22, 2007

Beasts from the Depths

Category: diving

A new book, "The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss" by Claire Nouvian, a French journalist and film director, reveals haunting images of some of the most bizarre creatures on the globe, ones that live in the deepest parts...

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