
The Daily Beast is pronouncing “Case Closed” on the 5,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell on Arkansas–or as every news story likes to put it “rained from the sky.” Not so fast
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![]() The Daily Beast is pronouncing “Case Closed” on the 5,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell on Arkansas–or as every news story likes to put it “rained from the sky.” Not so fast Keep reading 5,000 dead red-winged black birds still bewildering ![]() Best Friends vid has dogs happy at Christmas with their families–and with human hands. Also Santa visits Wolf Park and a penguin escapes to whale-watching boat Keep reading This Week in Great Animal Videos ![]() A white deer is beguiling Staten Island. He says hi to people waiting for a bus near the South Shore Golf Course. Keep reading Rare White Deer Spotted on Staten Island ![]() The latest Bradt guide, Australia Wildlife, shows why more Americans should consider this British publisher of eccentric and eco-friendly guides to big and obscure places around the planet Keep reading Bradt Australia Wildlife Doesn’t Send You on A Wild Platypus Chase ![]() A puckish civic group has restored a 60-foot long bridge for squirrels to its rightful and historic place of prominence in Longview, WA. Keep reading Washington’s Squirrel Bridge Restored to Its Place of Prominence ![]() When Tom takes out his harmonica, Roger sings along. Keep reading Video: Dog Sings Blues, Accompanied by Harmonica ![]() New York City may finally be safe for parrots. The city council is about to vote on a bill that would protect the colonies of monk parrots. Texas girl survives rabies without much treatment. She did become “combative” as one of her symptoms, though. The Fish and Wildlife Service is auctioning off 300,000 items made from wildlife to save on storage costs. Don’t expect any rhino heads or elephant feet. They aren’t selling anything endangered and the listings so far are pretty tame: Avon watches or Cole Haan “leather driving slippers w/ dog-faces water snake skin trim.” This isn’t what you fear: it’s a kind of snake. Fruit bats can eat fermented fruit because they’re big drunks anyway. The Sage Grouse might be declared endangered by next Friday. Guess what? The Wyoming Tribune doesn’t think they deserve it and thinks the 2005 decision by the Bush administration–though found tainted by politics–was just fine. This cow in India can milk herself. She doesn’t need anyone to pull on her udders, she just whizzes the milk away.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UipgU4KuAhU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01] To see more animals go to animaltourism.com ![]() Tiger quoll giving tongue,originally uploaded by pierre poliquin. Australian biologist Michael Archer is hellbent to stop or reverse human-caused extinctions one way another. First he tried resurrecting the Thylacine, the mascot of tragically extinct animals, using DNA from museum specimens. Now, according to Time, he’s close to getting permission to let regular people keep endangered species as pets so they won’t go extinct in the wild.Archer, a professor at the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales, has been pushing this idea to the public for a while, as this 2000 article from the Telegraph shows. He told both publications something like: “No animal that human beings have turned into a domestic pet has ever died out. It’s the ones we don’t value that become extinct.”In particular Archer wants to try to save the quoll, a small marsupial with the spotted coat of a fawn. Quolls eat bugs, grubs and mice, but they’ve been wiped out by fox and cats. Cats often carry toxoplasmosis, which makes female quolls infertile, according the Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary, which that has been arduously them since 1986. Predictably, as when anybody wants to try some last-chance idea to help an animal, another animal lover pops up to criticize and impede them. In this case, animal rights activists worry it will play into the hands of the pet industry. More seriously scientists worry whether people will be able to provide appropriate homes.Captive breeding has already saved or helped Keep reading Save Endangered Species; Make them Pets? |
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