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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — The first naturally fluorescent frog was discovered recently in Argentina — almost by chance, a member of the team of researchers told AFP Thursday. Argentine and Brazilian scientists at the Bernardino Rivadaiva Natural Sciences Museum made the discovery while studying the metabolic origin of pigments in a tree-frog species common to South America. Under normal light the frog’s translucent skin is a muted yellowish-brown color with red dots, but when the […]
Zoo-goers in Australia are introduced to a rare baby pygmy hippo, the first of its kind born at Taronga Zoo in seven years. https://youtu.be/Y3AM8ntiegU
STA. MARIA, Romblon (Eagle News) – Nasagip ng mga tauhan ng Philippine National Police (PNP) at Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ng Romblon ang dalawang pawikan sa bayan ng Sta. Maria noong Martes ng umaga, March 7. Ang nasabing pawikan ay nakuha sa isang hukay malapit sa dalampasigan ng Sitio Tuburan, Brgy. Concepcion Norte, Sta. Maria, Romblon. Ayon kay Benito Largueza na pansamatalang nag-alaga ng nasabing mga pawikan, nakita aniya niya ang mga ito sa […]
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Using sweet treats and patient coaching, scientists in London have taught a group of bumblebees how to play football. The study at Queen Mary University of London saw a number of bees trained to move a small yellow ball to a circled location in order to score a goal and get a sugary reward from scientists. The sporting prowess shows a sophisticated level of learning, the scientists said, with previous studies […]
Amid the risk of drones being used to snoop or carry out attacks on French soil, the air force groom eagles to take down the unmanned aircraft mid-flight. In this video, four golden eagles are being trained for the job at Mont-de-Marsan in southwestern France. (AFP VIDEO)
CHENGDU CITY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) — Female Giant Panda Bao Bao arrived at her new home in southwestern China’s Sichuan province late on Wednesday (February 22), after leaving the National Zoo in Washington D.C., United States. The panda experienced a 16-hour flight in the crate and was then carried into a van directly from Chengdu’s Shuangliu airport to the Dujiangyan Base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), where she […]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) — When conservationists discovered the world’s newest crocodile species after years of sloshing through mangroves and swamps from Senegal to Uganda, the elation was tempered by the knowledge that it was on a path to extinction. Now, in its struggle to survive, the West African Slender-snouted Crocodile’s fate is tied to a zoo in the heart of Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan, that itself faced an uncertain future not long ago. […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to a loss of 80 percent of the population in the last decade. Some 25,000 elephants have been slaughtered in Minkebe National Park, an area that had been considered a sanctuary, said the report in the journal Current Biology. “Because Gabon is thought to hold the largest remaining population of forest elephants, […]
WASHINGTON D.C., United States (Reuters) — Giant panda Bao Bao will leave the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. next week and move to China under a breeding agreement and officials at the Smithsonian National Zoo are preparing her for the long journey. Bao Bao, a three-year-old female, who was the first surviving cub born at Smithsonian’s National Zoo since 2005, has enchanted zoo visitors and others who watched her via live “panda cam” footage. She […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose. The sands at Farewell Spit where the nearly 700 pilot whales beached in one of the largest mass strandings ever in New Zealand were closed to the public after authorities declared the rotting bodies a health […]
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (Reuters) — Fu Feng and Fu Ban, the famous panda twins born in Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, turned half a year old on Tuesday (February 7). The 6-month-old panda cubs can now be seen rollicking around and climbing tree branches in their pen. “The twins love to climb up high. Their sharp claws make for a good hold. If they do tumble down from time to time they land safely on a thick layer […]
BULGARIA, Europe (AFP) — Two stray Bulgarian cats who lost their hind legs in accidents have been given bionic paws, in what vets say is the first such operation in Europe outside groundbreaking Britain. https://youtu.be/PcqVwQdcUFQ
