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Zoo Clueless Over Ostrich’s ‘Sex Change’
by Ezquara
Posted December 4th, 2011 at 1:34 am

A year after their procurement, the city's Nehru Zoological Park has realized that it's popular ostrich couple is not a couple after all! The authorities recently realized, much to their bewilderment, that the couple was actually a pair of male birds. The zoo park had acquired an exotic ostrich pair in June 2010 at a cost of Rs 3 lakh from a local bird dealer, who sourced the large flightless birds from Dubai. But within a month of the purchase, the seven-month-old female of the pair d...

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Luna The Cow Jumps Like A Horse
by Ezquara
Posted April 10th, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Determination has paid off beautifully for one German teenager. Denied a horse by her parents, she quickly made due by riding — and teaching to jump — an animal at hand ... in her case, a cow named Luna."She thinks she's a horse," Regina Mayer 15, told the Associated Press from her home in the pastoral countryside near the Austrian border. And Luna acts like a horse, too. "She was really well behaved and walked normally," Mayer said of training Luna shortly after she was born two year...

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Scientists Develop Zebra Barcode Reader
by Taanuu
Posted April 10th, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Scientists have developed an image scanning program that can distinguish between individual zebras by their stripes When a zebra has been entered into the database and given a StripeCode, the researchers match another picture of the same animal by comparing the StripeStrings of the new and original images. Each image will generate a different set of StripeStrings, but the underlying ratios of black and white should remain similar… By finding the StripeCode with the most similar Stri...

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Cat And A Dolphin Become Best New Buddies
by Ezquara
Posted April 10th, 2011 at 12:21 am

They certainly make an amusing couple. A tabby cat enjoys a few nose-to-nose moments with a dolphin before reaching out with a paw to stroke the side of its face.Both the cat and the dolphin seem extremely curious and playful in each other's company.The touching scene was captured on camera in one minute and 50 seconds of total cuteness. At first the dolphin keeps resting its chin on the top of the cat's head.Then the cat reaches out with its paw, beckoning its giant buddy to come clo...

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Featherless Penguin Dons Wetsuit
by Ezquara
Posted April 9th, 2011 at 12:08 pm

Looks like something's rustled this little guy's feathers! A Humboldt penguin in Singapore hasn't stopped molting since last year, and in a bid to keep him warm and safe, officials at the Jurong Bird Park have fitted the 10-year-old with his own wetsuit, which looks even more useful when he goes for a swim. Designed to encourage the growth of new feathers, while preventing existing ones from falling out, the wetsuit is similar to one that was used with successful results in 2009, when ...

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Kellie Pickler Cries When Her Snake Eats Mice
by Wish
Posted April 9th, 2011 at 11:57 am

Kellie Pickler's busy schedule means she and her husband Kyle Jacobs travel frequently. When they're away from home, the country star's grandfather Ken Morton handles the couple's python's meals. "Whenever Kyle and I were gone, grandpa had to be in charge of feeding the snake and it scared the s--- out of him,"Pickler told at the 9th annual Dressed to Kilt event at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on Tuesday. Pickler appreciates the reptilian caretaking. "My grandpa, bless his heart, we ...

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Most Expensive Pet Wedding
by Ezquara
Posted April 8th, 2011 at 6:49 pm

The bride wore a white dress decorated with 1,800 Swarovski crystals and accessorised with a pearl necklace.And as she trotted into the room to the wedding march, played by a harpist, she was met by the groom, smartly dressed in a tuxedo.Afterwards, 80 guests enjoyed a sumptuous buffet in a marquee adorned with £4,000 of flowers, balloons and decorations. But this was no ordinary wedding. The happy couple were two pampered dogs who were married in a ceremony in the grounds of a mansion i...

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New Stingray Discovered
by Taanuu
Posted April 8th, 2011 at 12:57 am

This is an x-ray of a new stingray that was just discovered in the Amazon rainforest. Dubbed the “pancake” stingray due to it’s resemblance to the breakfast food..It’s pretty amazing that we’re still discovering new species that we didn’t know existed until now. If they’re just now finding something as big as this, who’s to say that Bigfoot doesn’t really exist? Tell me, who?! (source)\...

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Training Sharks To Eat Lionfish
by Ezquara
Posted April 8th, 2011 at 12:33 am

Lionfish are pretty, but they belong in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They lack natural predators in the Caribbean, so lionfish have become quite the invasive species since they escaped from aquariums ten years ago to breed in the waters off the US and Central America. In Honduras, divers are not only hunting them, they are also training sharks to eat the lionfish! “At the beginning, the divers just killed lionfish and fed sharks with them to get the sharks to develop a taste,” said...

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Pandas Help Lighten The Mood In Japan
by Ezquara
Posted April 2nd, 2011 at 10:25 pm

A pair of pandas that arrived from China a few weeks ago made their first public appearance at a zoo in Tokyo on Friday, providing a little light relief for victims of the tsunami that hit the country in March.About 300 people who were forced from their homes by the tsunami joined thousands of others at Ueno Zoo to welcome male panda Ri Ri and female Shin Shin, both 5 years old, whose arrival in the country was broadcast live on national television in February. The pandas' debut was postp...

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Egyptian “Dog Catacomb” Has 8 Million Mummified Dogs
by Ezquara
Posted April 2nd, 2011 at 10:12 pm

In a labyrinth of tunnels beneath the Egyptian desert lies a truly remarkable catacomb containing the mummified remains of dogs and jackals. Now, since this is Egypt, mummies aren’t exactly unusual – what made the Dog Catacomb so different is that it contains an immense amount of mummified puppies.They estimate the catacombs contain the remains of 8 million animals. Given the sheer numbers of animals, it is likely they were bred by the thousands in puppy farms around the ancient Egy...

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India Cheers Rising Tiger Numbers Amid Habitat Concerns
by Wish
Posted April 1st, 2011 at 10:14 pm

The number of Indian tigers living in the wild rose to 1,706 at the latest count, giving a boost to conservation efforts for the endangered species in the country with the world's largest population of the big cats.But the government on Monday raised concern over a sharp decline in the habitat where tigers were found, which could shrink further if the government goes ahead with new development projects. "We have a mixed bag," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said at the release of the t...

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New Rodent Discovered In Brazilian Mountains
by Wish
Posted March 29th, 2011 at 9:57 pm

A new rodent living in treetops was discovered recently in the Atlantic Forest, one of Brazil’s most-ravaged ecosystems, according to a report. The foot-long creature, referred to as a white-spotted mountain rat or “Drymoreomys albimaculatus,” lives at an altitude of 1,000 meters in mountain ranges in southeast Brazil, biologist Alexandre Percequillo told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper “An evolutionary mystery hangs over this rodent species because the closest species to him lives i...

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