About animals

[Danik 2016]

Didn´t know they were so small. I wonder why they didn´t turn the same colour as the hand.

[tailor STATELY]

Audio Creatures (from down under)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGgYoSFsouI

[Danik 2016]

Interesting audio and visual effects! At times a bit creepy!

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful Sea Turtle pics!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/world-sea-turtle-day-photos/

[Danik 2016]

New Link to the American Kitten Academy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFwbII94meY

[tailor STATELY]

Cat herding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFuQaToq9d8

[Danik 2016]

Cute propaganda. But I still remember Tino looking over his shoulder to see if I was following him to the kitchen.

[Danik 2016]

Cecil the Lion's Son Shot Dead, 2 Years After His Father

https://www.livescience.com/59888-cecil-the-lion-son-shot-dead.html

[YesNo]

Sorry to read about the lion.

[Danik 2016]

I was sorry too. Specially as there was a lot of indignation about the death of Cecil and there seemed to be absolutely none about the death of his son. The first case always gets a lot of atention from the media. Than it seems that people lose interest.

[YesNo]

Here is something about bee intelligence I ran into today by accident: https://flowartstation.com/2017/08/04/intelligence-test-shows-bees-can-learn-to-solve-tasks-from-other-bees/

[Danik 2016]

Interesting study Yes/No. I believe bees are very capable because they have to work and distribute jobs among their teams.

[Danik 2016]

Cat language video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz6yBbBRr8Y

[YesNo]

Good video about cats. The sense of "guilt" was interesting.

[Danik 2016]

A cats duet by Rossini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1wXNHllYFE

[YesNo]

Nice cat duet!

[Helga]

interesting video about understanding cats better, might have to use it, I just got a cat a few days ago. Dog and cat getting along very well, he tends to try and eat electrical chords and things like that... any videos about that?

[Danik 2016]

Congrats for your new pet, Helga!
These links may interest you:
https://www.canidae.com/blog/2014/07/how-to-stop-your-pet-from-chewing-on-power-cords/

http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-Cats-from-Chewing-on-Electric-Cords-and-Chargers

http://www.pethealthnetwork.com/cat-health/cat-behavior/why-does-my-cat-chew-electrical-cords

[YesNo]

My cat chewed on electrical cords briefly, but I shooed her away from them and that seemed to solve the problem.

[Danik 2016]

For cat lovers:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/how-i-survived-living-with-a-cat-stuffed-with-uranium?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=First+Dog+on+the+Moon&utm_term=240892&subid=10718893&CMP=ema_1732

[YesNo]

One almost needs health insurance for one's pets.

[Danik 2016]

I agree. All goes well as long as the pets don´t fall ill.

[Danik 2016]

Whales and dolphins live ‘human-like’ lives

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?80444-Astronomy&p=1344073&viewfull=1#post1344073

[Helga]

One almost needs health insurance for one's pets.

I got one for my cat, I was going to get one for my dog too but he was to old. My brother has two cats and one of them was hit by a car and if he had been insured it would have been cheap but they paid a whole lot to get him back to normal.

[tonywalt]

Thankfully the vets in the Cayman Islands are reasonable.

[Danik 2016]

I got one for my cat, I was going to get one for my dog too but he was to old. My brother has two cats and one of them was hit by a car and if he had been insured it would have been cheap but they paid a whole lot to get him back to normal.

I am glad there is this possibility in you country.

[Danik 2016]

Thankfully the vets in the Cayman Islands are reasonable.

Vet fees are not so expensive here either. But depending on what treatment the animal needs the end result can be very expensive.

[tonywalt]

Vet fees are not so expensive here either. But depending on what treatment the animal needs the end result can be very expensive.

True, my bills have been reasonable. I should say my dogs have always been healthy.

[tailor STATELY]

Weird looking bug... https://www.snopes.com/2017/10/21/weird-insect-intrigues-facebook-users/

[Danik 2016]

Ugh...but fortunately it´s only a video!

[kiz_paws]

I would die a thousand deaths of one of those varmits ever landed on me! :eek:

[Danik 2016]

This Is One of the Tiniest Ancient Birds, and It Lived Alongside Giant Dinosaurs

" About 127 million years ago, tiny birds the size of grasshoppers lived alongside some of the biggest animals to walk the Earth, including the long-necked sauropods, a new study finds.

When it was alive, this less-than-2-inch-long (5 centimeters) chick would have weighed just 0.3 ounces (8.5 grams) — about the weight of one-fifth of a golf ball. That makes it one of the smallest birds from the dinosaur age on record, the researchers said."
https://www.livescience.com/61931-ancient-tiny-bird-fossil.html

[Danik 2016]

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?80444-Astronomy&p=1349267&viewfull=1#post1349267

[YesNo]

This Is One of the Tiniest Ancient Birds, and It Lived Alongside Giant Dinosaurs

" About 127 million years ago, tiny birds the size of grasshoppers lived alongside some of the biggest animals to walk the Earth, including the long-necked sauropods, a new study finds.

When it was alive, this less-than-2-inch-long (5 centimeters) chick would have weighed just 0.3 ounces (8.5 grams) — about the weight of one-fifth of a golf ball. That makes it one of the smallest birds from the dinosaur age on record, the researchers said."
https://www.livescience.com/61931-ancient-tiny-bird-fossil.html

So birds didn't come from dinosaurs.

[Danik 2016]

It seems they evoluted separately, Yes/No. But I never heard of that small bird before.

[mr. dudesky]

Here are some more weird animals that are endangered:
Saiga antelope
Pied tamarin
Sea angel
Golden snub-nosed monkey
Olm/Proteus
Did a lesson plan once about weird animals, these are the ones I remember

[Danik 2016]

Danger Islands with an enormous colony of Adelia penguins:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?80444-Astronomy&p=1349385&viewfull=1#post1349385

[Danik 2016]

Just wanna let everyone know that we are down to our last male white rhino before the species become extinct off the earth :(
Yes, it´s very sad:

World's last male northern white rhino on the mend after infection threatened the species

The world's last male northern white rhino is recovering from an infected leg that raised fears over the past week he might have to be put down, a veterinarian at a conservancy in Kenya says.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-08/worlds-last-male-northern-white-rhino-sudan-could-be-on-the-mend/9526632

[Danik 2016]

Here are some more weird animals that are endangered:
Saiga antelope
Pied tamarin
Sea angel
Golden snub-nosed monkey
Olm/Proteus
Did a lesson plan once about weird animals, these are the ones I remember

Thanks!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/2013/10/golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-sartore/

[kiz_paws]

Just wanna let everyone know that we are down to our last male white rhino before the species become extinct off the earth :(So very tragic. *sniff*

[tailor STATELY]

Deepest marine fish to date... https://weloveanimals.me/meet-worlds-deepest-dwelling-fish-captured-camera/

[Danik 2016]

They are beautiful!

[Danik 2016]

A cute story:

Two Golden Retrievers Greet One Another – But Their Owners Spotted Something Else

"A woman named Pam Corwin was out shopping one afternoon when something queer has caught her attention.

She spotted two identical dogs rushing towards each other and happily greeting one another...."

Read more on: https://weloveanimals.me/two-golden-retrievers-greet-one-another-owners-spotted-something-else/

[Danik 2016]

Meet the yellow palm warbler


http://www.rrbo.org/in-the-field/notable-birds/unusual-species/yellow-palm-warbler/

[Danik 2016]

Easter chocolate warning for pet owners

Vets issue a warning to pet owners after six in 10 saw chocolate poisoning last Easter.


http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-43590952/easter-chocolate-warning-for-pet-owners?intlink_from_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2 Fnews%2Ftopics%2Fclm1wxp533pt%2Fanimals&link_location=live-reporting-map

[kiz_paws]

Why don't people just familiarize themselves BEFORE getting a pet about the things that are so dangerous/harmful to pets?! This really baffles me, as an animal nut that I am.

I see idiots smoking in cars, with their pet dog in there with them???!?!?! Love to take a hose to those types...

Anyhow, I digress...

Thank you, Danik, for posting this important information.

[Danik 2016]

There still are people that treat animals as living toys.

[Danik 2016]

An interesting study:

How Would the 'Mona Lisa' Look to an Eagle, a Cat and a Butterfly?

"Most animals see the world in a lot less detail than we do.

"We are not the pinnacle of essentially any sensory system, except acuity," said Eleanor Caves, a postdoctoral researcher in biology at Duke University and the lead author of the new review. Regarding how detailed we see the world, 'we're really close to the top.'

Caves and her colleagues gathered hundreds of academic papers to get a comprehensive look at how sharp hundreds of species of animals, fish and insects see the world. Researchers typically define visual acuity with what's called "cycles per degree"— or how many black-and-white parallel stripes an animal can see in 1 degree of their visual world."
https://www.livescience.com/62709-animals-see-a-less-detailed-world.html

[tailor STATELY]

The vanishing Vaquita... https://psmag.com/magazine/watching-the-vaquita-vanish?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

Google: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=vaquita&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[tailor STATELY]

Looking for something in these threads and thought to post as well:

A link to new found species on Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/plants_animals/new_species/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for reviving this forgotten thread, Tailor :). I read about some amazing facts, fishes with placenta,flying squirrels and gigantic birds.

It's a miracle': hundreds of thousands of bees survive Notre Dame fire"

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/19/europe/notre-dame-bees-fire-intl-scli/index.html

It´s old news but I wanted to post it here.

[tailor STATELY]

Very fortunate for the bees... I see so few anymore and I am even leaving dandelions uncut where I can so they might have food in this hot weather (high summer here)... we leave the majority of our acreage wild. Having a good crop of plums from maybe a dozen trees total just now, but the bees were sparse all the same. No, no pesticides are ever used...
• https://grownatives.cnps.org/2010/03/31/bee-friendly-gardening/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Secret III]

True story about a sparrow.

So I was waiting for a city bus near a busy intersection about a week or so ago when I heard some squeaking cries from behind a bush near the stop. I went to check it out and it was a baby sparrow about 2/3 the size of a full grown adult. I caught her and went to the stop to show the other bus riders. I put the sparrow in another bush and got on my bus.

That same day around 10pm I returned to see if that bird was there and it was. Crying and crying and crying, I couldn't get the sparrow to shut up and it appeared too weak to fly. So I kept the sparrow and put her in a cage with feeding dishes but she wouldn't eat anything that first day.

Second day I finally got her to eat out of my hand. I had to actually shove bread down her throat and fill a bottle cap with water and almost shove that down her throat too. I could not get her to feed herself.

Day 3 and she finally quit crying all the time. I guess she was so starved that all she could do was cry. So then I tried to get her to fly and she could fly some but not enough to get high into a tree or fly more than twenty meters or so. Her tail feathers were missing so that had something to do with it, I'm sure.

Two more days of hand feeding the sparrow and trying to get her to fly and she was getting really friendly with me and not getting so scared each time I would pick her up. In fact, right there on the day I got her to fly sufficiently she wouldn't leave if I gave her the chance and started crawling all over me and more politely asking for food and water without the loud squealing.

Then I decided to try and find her flock and surprisingly they were across the intersection from where I found her, using a broken water spout as a bird bath. I took her out and walked towards their watering hole and the entire flock changed attitude from happy singing to angry chirping. As soon as they saw me carrying one of their babies they got loud with anger.

As I walked towards the watering hole the sparrow flock of about 25 birds or more flew up into the trees. She noticebly got slightly more perky as soon as she saw her flock and I walked across the parking lot and set her in the makeshift bird bath where she stood motionless. A few of them dive bombed me and got very close but didn't actually peck me.

When I finally got her to fly up into one of the trees with her flock they got silent and quit chirping angrily. I also noticed that she put more muscle into flying when she could see her flock. Must have been a morale booster. I chased her as high up into the tree as I could and left.

The next day (two days ago) I found her near where I let her go, getting fed by what was probably her mother bird, shoving twigs down her throat. I walked up to the sparrow baby to see if I could pick her up and she flew high up into the tree. I was satisfied that she could make it in the wild once again.

Ever since returning the sparrow baby to her flock I noticed birds at that intersection start chirpimg cheerily when they see me. And today, while boarding the same bus but a mile further along the same route I spotted part of the same flock of sparrows with the same baby bird, chirping and getting excited as I neared the trees they were in.

Interestingly, I learned from this experience that each bird has a unique voice just like people. When I heard that sparrow baby chirp today and I looked up to see her in the tree and saw that in fact it was the same baby bird with an adult companion (probably the same one I saw shoving twigs down her throat) I was quite surprised because I thought I would never see her again. I wonder, are they slowly following my bus routes to see where I go?

Many animals aren't empty drones and have their own personalities just like people.

[Danik 2016]

Very fortunate for the bees... I see so few anymore and I am even leaving dandelions uncut where I can so they might have food in this hot weather (high summer here)... we leave the majority of our acreage wild. Having a good crop of plums from maybe a dozen trees total just now, but the bees were sparse all the same. No, no pesticides are ever used...
• https://grownatives.cnps.org/2010/03/31/bee-friendly-gardening/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

The bees are certainly thankfull. I think pesticides are bad for humans and animals even if there is goverment control.

[Pompey Bum]

True story about a sparrow.

So I was waiting for a city bus near a busy intersection about a week or so ago when I heard some squeaking cries from behind a bush near the stop. I went to check it out and it was a baby sparrow about 2/3 the size of a full grown adult. I caught her and went to the stop to show the other bus riders. I put the sparrow in another bush and got on my bus.

That same day around 10pm I returned to see if that bird was there and it was. Crying and crying and crying, I couldn't get the sparrow to shut up and it appeared too weak to fly. So I kept the sparrow and put her in a cage with feeding dishes but she wouldn't eat anything that first day.

Second day I finally got her to eat out of my hand. I had to actually shove bread down her throat and fill a bottle cap with water and almost shove that down her throat too. I could not get her to feed herself.

Day 3 and she finally quit crying all the time. I guess she was so starved that all she could do was cry. So then I tried to get her to fly and she could fly some but not enough to get high into a tree or fly more than twenty meters or so. Her tail feathers were missing so that had something to do with it, I'm sure.

Two more days of hand feeding the sparrow and trying to get her to fly and she was getting really friendly with me and not getting so scared each time I would pick her up. In fact, right there on the day I got her to fly sufficiently she wouldn't leave if I gave her the chance and started crawling all over me and more politely asking for food and water without the loud squealing.

Then I decided to try and find her flock and surprisingly they were across the intersection from where I found her, using a broken water spout as a bird bath. I took her out and walked towards their watering hole and the entire flock changed attitude from happy singing to angry chirping. As soon as they saw me carrying one of their babies they got loud with anger.

She noticebly got slightly more perky as soon as she saw her flock and I walked across the parking lot and set her in the makeshift bird bath where she stood motionless. As I walked towards the watering hole the sparrow flock of about 25 birds or more flew up into the trees. a few of them dive bombed me and got very close but didn't actually peck me.

Ah, my wife would say the two of you had deep karma, probably from previous lives. It's nice they accepted he bird back. Sometimes they don't.

[Secret III]

Ah, my wife would say the two of you had deep karma, probably from previous lives. It's nice they accepted he bird back. Sometimes they don't.

Yes, that was my first thought, that I would find the sparrow alone again because her flock would reject her but I guess this time she got lucky. Nursing a bird to full adult would've been a huge hassle for me.

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful story Secret III.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[tailor STATELY]

"Rare animal known as the ‘magic rabbit’ spotted for the first time in 20 years"...

http://awwanimal.com/rare-animal-known-as-the-magic-rabbit-spotted-for-the-first-time-in-20-years/?fbclid=IwAR1_L3EFm7TE4kKgs-xzwY7M2kykY9dvnsZi_8M_WBdbgSera7kIFo_UGA4

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the interesting link, Tailor. I posted it in the german forum, bet they have never heard about the "magic rabbit".

[Danik 2016]

An "angry-looking" tortoise has been rescued after it started a fire in a house.

The 45-year-old reptile was home alone when it knocked a heat lamp on to its bedding in a room at the house in Duton Hill, Great Dunmow, on Christmas Day.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-50915895

[tailor STATELY]

Lucky tortoise... looks like an albino.

More grumpies (the Sphinx looks downright evil): https://www.sadanduseless.com/they-love-xmas-not/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

LOL! They must all be thinking: My Humans got nuts. Putting these darned red furs and caps on me!

[tailor STATELY]

The güiña:

https://www.livescience.com/guina-tiny-wildcat-voice.html?fbclid=IwAR3JPT0jee3Q2Wj_yGPPryu340qJD5 it

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful cat specimen. It looks like a small tame onça. The sound it makes is weird indeed.

[Danik 2016]

The "Naja of Brasilia"

A curious case happened 4 days ago in our capital, Brasília, and I couldn´t find an English report on it.
A seldom specimen of a very venomous snake bit a veterinary student, age 22, who had time to call his parents by phone, before entering hospital, where he had to be coma induced. Luckily one or two doses of the antidote to the snake´s venom could be found in the Instituto Butantã from São Paulo, at a three and half hours distance by plane from Brasilia and the student could be safed. But questions arose, as the culprit Naja, which isn´t from a national species, was found at 14 km distance of the house of the student, who seemed to have kept her as a pet. That specially as the Operation Snake, initiated by the police of Brasilia, found 17 more rare hidden snakes, which are not native in Brazil. The police suspects an illegal commerce with wild animals quadrille and the student will have to explain the whole occurrence to the police, as soon as he is well enough to do it.

Meanwhile the initiator of all this was brought to the Zoo of Brasilia and it rose to a Brazilian celebrity as "Naja de Brasília", with Instagram account and approximately 1, 600 followers. It also gained a foto sequence which documented its beauty.
snake:
https://g1.globo.com/df/distrito-federal/noticia/2020/07/11/fotos-zoologico-faz-ensaio-com-cobra-naja-que-picou-estudante-em-brasilia.ghtml

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful creature...
Naja on the web
The pictures of the snake were released on Friday (10) by the Brasília Zoo and, in a few hours, fell in favor of the internet users. In a post on social media, a user calls the records a "boring essay". Until the last update of this report, the post on Twitter had 44.9 thousand likes and 10.9 thousand shares.

Tragic that students are lured into illegalities... and the fines (R $ 2000.00) nowhere near what they should be... traffickers can recoup their losses several fold by selling one exotic snake:
The police estimate that the animal is worth up to R $ 20,000 in illegal trade.

(sigh)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for looking it up on Twitter, tailor! I only didn´t understand the "boring essay" part as they were news. Must be one of those social media metamorphosis.

Just one update: the student was released from hospital two days before it was intended (family maybe afraid of the mediatic dimension of the case) and every one concerned was heavily fined. The snakes, about ten of the seventeen were imported, were all donated to adequate institutions.

I think that in this particular case the traffic of wild animals was successfully interrupted, at least for the time being.

[Danik 2016]

And in the Siberian Zoo of Novosibisk:
https://twitter.com/siberian_times/status/1284573663467986944

Mom is at a bit of a loss how to deal with it: "Don´t know, were all this people came from. It has suddenly become crowded in here."

(Video comes after the pics): https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/bichos/2020/07/zoologico-na-russia-celebra-nascimento-de-16-filhotes-de-felino-raro.shtml

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful cat... tried google translate on the 2nd page with no joy. Stunning blue eyes.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Sorry, tailor. Didn´t mean to put you or any one on trouble. The Brazilian text is not important, but I wanted to post the cat video, posted together with the pictures, which wasn´t available anywhere else. Probably fished out of the FB of "The Siberian Press".

[Danik 2016]

Sorry, tailor. Didn´t mean to put you or any one on trouble. The Brazilian text is not important, but I wanted to post the cat video, posted together with the pictures, which wasn´t available anywhere else. Probably fished out of the FB of "The Siberian Times".

[Danik 2016]

What looks like a locust version of the film "Birds" by Hitchcock is really happening in the north of Argentina. The neighbor countries, including Brazil are afraid that the insects may take over and destroy all the plantations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PCbqAXreRk

[tailor STATELY]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." - C.D.

Didn't know, but should have realized, that locust swarms aren't limited to the U.S.A. and Africa. One would think that someone over the last 100 years would have thought of a way to stop swarms like this.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Loved the citation!

[Danik 2016]

One last update on the "Naja of Brasilia". The beautiful snake, now a web celebrity, has been transferred together with six other sisters to the Zoo of São Paulo.

[tailor STATELY]

Good news on the snake !

More new re: A study in China about locusts...
CHEMICAL WARFARE —
Researchers find a chemical that makes locusts swarm
Future swarms could face decoy pheromones, genetic manipulation, blocking chemicals.
JOHN TIMMER - 8/12/2020, 2:39 PM ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/researchers-find-a-chemical-that-makes-locusts-swarm/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link, tailor. I haven´t heard anything any more about the Argentinian locusts. I hope they were dispelled somehow.

A cute picture just as a refreshment after so many bad news:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/25/us/huge-black-bear-in-pool-trnd/index.html

[tailor STATELY]

(lol) Big bear just chillin'... love it. We have a local that posts on facebook from their critter cams that comes up with some interesting nocturnal visits... will post some when they come up.

Oh, and Miss Helen is back... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-being-stolen-baby-stroller-miss-helen-shark-back-san-antonio-aquarium-180969872/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

What a story! He stole the shark to keep it alive!

[Danik 2016]

A handful of cuteness:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/national-zoo-panda-cub-is-a-boy-trnd/index.html?utm_term=1601979988021f635e8349662&utm_source=Five+Things+for+Tuesday%2C+October+6%2C +2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=248570_1601979988022&bt_ee=Q7EjMtjNtpAmLXJ136foD3C%2BH7eDCf1ucvmF2RZTv% 2BoKZPHIMz%2FDtuQWx58jxCus&bt_ts=1601979988022

[Danik 2016]

https://www.boston.com/news/animals/2020/10/20/baby-male-gorilla-franklin-park-zoo

No comments needed!

[Danik 2016]

Don´t know if anyone still looks at this page, but here is Jonathan, the oldest tortoise in the world, an inspiration for all oldies:


https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/oldest-tortoise-jonathan-scli-intl-scn/index.html

[Danik 2016]

Ditto!

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/13/us/missouri-lost-dog-cave-rescue-trnd/index.html

[tailor STATELY]

Awww ! Lucky pup to be found :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

The oldest cat in the world according to Guiness
Meet Flossie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6J-Un_byIY

[tailor STATELY]

Saw that on fb :)

Also found on my fb feed: Fossil within a fossil: https://interestingengineering.com/science/bird-dinosaur-frog-in-stomach

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Amazing!

[Danik 2016]

A curious find!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11490767/Black-kitty-called-Burnt-Toast-stuns-owner-dragging-ALLIGATOR-HEAD-Wisconsin-home.html

[tailor STATELY]

Lol... proud kitty cat !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lion cubs born 28.11.2022 with their mother in the maternity in the Zoo of S Paulo. The cubs were engendered after a genetic scrutiny that might generate envy in any human royal family. The texts in Portuguese can be ignored.

https://www.bol.uol.com.br/noticias/2023/01/22/video-filhotes-de-leao-nascem-no-zoologico-de-sao-paulo.htm

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful :)

So glad that genetic diversity is taken into account: google translate
Reproduction According to Zoo SP, the pair's genealogical analysis was carried out by a data management platform from more than a thousand zoos in 90 countries. “Based on your information, it is possible to know, for example, where the ancestors were born and lived. /01/22/video-leon-cubs-are-born-in-zoologico-de-sao-paulo.htm?cmpid=copiaecola

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[tailor STATELY]

New(ish) kitty... https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article273384230.html

Google pix... https://www.google.com/search?q=ghjattu+volpe&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=O1H&sxsrf=AJOqlzXX0DGvaDQhkyFfGod0D4XzdGLmJg:167939180 7588&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja6YSB3uz9AhVMLUQIHaX9DO0Q_AUoAXoECAEQA w&biw=1242&bih=598&dpr=1.1

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful cat-fox or fox-cat!

[Danik 2016]

Cat adopts orphan rabbit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hKGeMHLqdU

[tailor STATELY]

So cute :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Animals in the Zoo of Belo Horizonte enjoying ice cream in the unusual heat.
https://www.uol.com.br/nossa/noticias/redacao/2023/09/24/cuidados-pets-onda-calor-brasil.htm

[tailor STATELY]

Poor animals :( Some good advice on what to look for re: distressed animals using google webpage translate. Pray your heat spell dissipates soon.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Sorry,tailor, didn't intend to put you up to so much trouble.
I posted the link because of the cute video with the animals licking the ice. The link took a lot of time to load because of the numerous ads and I was going to delete it again

[Danik 2016]

How a lonely mountain lion contributed to the world´s largest wildlife overpass
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/08/us/iyw-wildlife-overpasses/index.html

[tailor STATELY]

Great idea :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Egg hunt in German Zoo of Gelsenkirchen:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/german-zoo-hosts-easter-egg-hunt-animals-108568979

[tailor STATELY]

re: Mountain lion a few posts ago: “A mountain lion lived in L.A. and people didn’t fear him,” said Pratt, who has memorialized P-22 on her arm with a tattoo. “They saw him as a neighbor; they’d be eating dinner and he’d walk by their dining room at night and they’d share a photo and be like: ‘Hey, P-22 visited me.’ “

I live 5-miles away from where the latest fatality by a mountain lion occurred in California. A 21-year old male was killed and his 18-year old brother was severely injured. Both were well versed in how to act around encounters, but it didn't help them. We live with them but are becoming less cavalier about the situation. The mountain lions have been devastating pets (mostly pet cats) and live stock in our area for quite some time... and yet there is plenty of other game available: deer and turkeys, etc. . Consequently our local social media has blown up on how to deal with the situation; it doesn't bode well for the big cats, :( https://www.gtgazette.com/news/mt-aukum-brothers-victims-in-mountain-lion-attack/article_e2f907ed-abb4-5d94-9e6b-006d70e23904.html

Egg hunt: delightful !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

I don't know what to say, tailor. It's a sad story and it a complicated situation. From some other posts I know that you sometimes come rather close to big mammals. The question seems to me, why they are seeking out areas habitated by humans if they have enough to hunt in their own area. Maybe the small animals in human areas are easier to get. This male used to prowl around in the evenings. What made him attack this time? Throwing things at him?

[Danik 2016]

For tailor, bounty and other deer lovers this deer trilogy:
https://www.storystar.com/story/20129/alan-s-jeeves/fiction/drama-human-interest

[tailor STATELY]

Lovely trilogy :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

I don´t know how much is known in US about the floods in Rio Grande do Sul, the state that is most south in Brazil. It has been raining heavily there for many days, many cities, including the capital, Porto Alegre, are under water, specially those that contain any major river or lake. The streets have turned into rivers, many people have lost anything and are homeless and those that are still at home are trapped there, depending for food and water on the kindness of neighbors that pass with a boat under their windows.
Canoas, where this story happened, is one of these flooded cities.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13396679/flooding-rio-grande-sul-brazil-homeless.html

[tailor STATELY]

Yes, and the weather is still not cooperating: "Flooding forecast to worsen in Brazil’s south, where many who remain are poor"... https://apnews.com/article/brazil-floods-climate-change-inequality-8a1d0e3a00bfd9a5b7918e62d6aab02a

Prayers.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link, tailor. I´ve got the feeling that we are living biblical times. I don´t know how long it has been raining continuosly in the south, but I should think about 10 days. And this time the problem started in the atmosphere itself. Usually , when it rains in the south some days later it rains here, rain, chill and heat travel up and reach São Paulo, sometimes slightly modified or attenuated. This time cade is an atmospheric blockade, that keeps all the rain in the south and the heat wave here.

Here you can see the contrast beween the heavy rain areas (dark green) and the white area, where S. Paulo lies, practically no rain:
https://tempo.inmet.gov.br/PrecAcumulada. What I think is that this phenomena may appear elsewhere as well, inside or outside Brazil.

The horse Caramelo is almost well now, enjoying good care and good food. He has though some problems in keeping his balance while standing, probably due to having to stand for four or five days in that small roof area.