The southeast Kansas zoo had a surprise in store for them when one of their dogs chose to adopt three tiger cubs that were born over the weekend. The owner of the park - Tom Harvey - said that when the cubs were born the mother had problems with them and stopped caring for them altogether a day later.
Marsupials are a type or group of mammals that usually have pouches much like the kangaroo. These mammals give live birth instead of laying eggs - but the gestation period is not as long as placental mammals. They actually give birth quite early in the growing stage.
When the animal has been given birth to it is only an embryo helpless to do anything. It will climb from the birth canal to the nipples of its mother where it will grab on with its mouth and develop. It may take weeks or months to develop.
Police were given a tip that led them to a home that was full of dozens of cats and dogs that were living in horrible and unhealthy conditions. “This is a problem house. We have been working on it for months and months, but again, it’s very difficult to get into somebody’s private house because of an animal report,” said city of North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns.
Many populations of African rhinos are increasing in numbers because of the conservation efforts that people have been working on. However, there is still one species that does not seem to be improving and at this time may already be extinct – the Northern white rhino. Back in 2006 only four of these animals could be found by the world’s best rhino specialists. During their most recent search they were not able to find any.
A weedy sea dragon that lives in the Georgia Aquarium is a rare creature that is pregnant. This is the third time ever at any U.S. aquarium that this creature has been pregnant. The unusual thing about this situation is that the male is the one that carries the eggs.
Italian officials spotted a deer in a nature preserve that had a single horn grown out of the middle of its head. “This is fantasy becoming reality,” Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato said. “The unicorn has always been a mythological animal.”
The 1-year-old Roe Deer — nicknamed “Unicorn” — was born in captivity in the research center’s park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Tozzi said. He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns.
Biologists believe that the Caribbean monk seals have become extinct because of the amount of people that hunt them for research, blubber, and food. They stated that it has been decades since they have seen a sighting of one and they now fear that the Mediterranean and Hawaiian monk seals will be the next ones in line.
The last confirmed sighting of a Caribbean monk seal was in 1952 between Jamaica and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service confirmed Friday that the species is extinct.
A possum can grow be small to medium of size and is native to New Guinea, Australia, and Sulawesi. Possum’s are known to give out a horrible odor that is caused by large musk glands that are located behind each ear.
Dr. Jane Goodall is a primatologist who is proposing that the Nobel prize be given as a reward for the ability to advance medical knowledge without having to experiment with animals. The scientist who pioneered certain research projects on chimpanzees while in the wild believes that moving away from animal research is a “goal towards which all civilised nations should be moving”.
The Tasmanian devil in Australia is now on the endangered species list due to a deadly cancer that is killing them off. Scientists believe that the tumor begins in the head of the animal and slowly spreads to their face and mouth. This keeps it from being able to eat anything and and kill it in as little as two months. Because of this the population of the marsupial has decreased by close to 60%.