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Ruben’s veterinary exam in Africa – Animal Defenders International / SWNS The ‘world’s loneliest lion’ has returned to his natural habitat after he was abandoned in a private zoo in Armenia for five years. 15-year-old lion Ruben was part of a pride living in the now-closed zoo, but while all the other lions were relocated, Ruben …
Prehistoric takahe bird by Kathrin Stefan Marks (CC license on Flickr) In a massive and historic conservation success story, eighteen takahē birds have been released into the wilds of a nature reserve on Lake Wakatipu. This is hoped to be followed by seven more in October, and another 10 in the early months of next …
Meadow Brook Medical Care Facility Every so often, it’s the shelter dog that adopts the humans. Scout was a mutt and a stray and was kept at a shelter in Michigan until the pooch with no past decided he was tired of waiting to be adopted and went trotting out looking for someone to adopt, …
credit – Andrey Atuchin A pair of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog-like snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The two new dinosaur species belong to the Abelisauridae, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs that were counterparts to the tyrannosaurs of the Northern Hemisphere. Living alongside the …
A sparrow in Berlin – Svetozar Cenisev Despite being more aggressive in defending their territory, sparrows that live in urban areas find more time to visit the nest and feed their young, a surprise to scientists who believed that more aggression would mean less time with their offspring. Researchers have dubbed them city sparrows, as …
The Golden Eagle Trust Irish conservationists report that the magnificent osprey has successfully bred in the wilds of the Emerald Isle for the first time in almost 250 years. Worldwide, ospreys are doing great—listed as “Least Concern” by the IUCN who add they are increasing in population. However their massive brown and white wings have …
Ivana Cajina – unsplash Horses have incredible sensitivity to not only outward human emotions such as joy and anger, but also inward, low arousal emotions like sadness, a new study shows. This emotional sensitivity isn’t limited simply to facial expressions, but extends to the sounds coming from the individual whom the horse is observing …
Moose in his new home – WTRK A Great Pyrenees who saved his foster family from a fire on their houseboat has been adopted just 1 day later by a secret admirer. The fluffy white dog named Moose alerted Sheila Janes and her husband Chris, asleep on their houseboat, that a fire had broken out …
credit – Mountfitchet Castle – via SWNS After an open-air museum took in an orphaned fallow deer, the little thing fell head over hooves for the owner’s 11-month-old daughter. The deer, named Ziggy, was rescued and taken in by Jeremy Goldsmith who runs Mountfitchet Castle, a Norman castle and museum. Goldsmith and the staff at …
We’ve all heard of melanistic leopards, albino pythons, and great white whales, but how about this little princess? Born at a zoo in Tennessee, you’d have to go back to the 1970s to find the last recorded instance of a giraffe being born without spots. Born on July 31, she is already as tall as …