Rarest rhino species may be saved by crowdfunded drones

Ol Pejeta Conservancy asks the public for $35k to buy a drone to protect what may be the world’s last four northern white rhinos from poachers.

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Japanese dolphin killers at it again, this time more discreetly & daily tour of animal news

Blue Atlantic discovers Japan still slaughtering dolphins in way that doesn’t turn bay red. South Africa kills four poachers. Six WWF workers kidnapped in India, likely by poachers.

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Belarus fox shoots hunter–but prosecutors doubt it; Rescued FL bobcat an online hit

Belarus fox shoots hunter–but prosecutors doubt it; Rescued FL bobcat an online hit

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Oregon's Peak Week for Whales; A "South Sudan" Would Be Good For Wildlife

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Gray whales migrating by the west coast now. HSUS gives Obama a B–talk about grade inflation. Scotland plans squirrel safari (this time not hunting grays) & more animal news.

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Worst South Africa DVD ever

Kristine Pearson

Getting ready for a trip to South Africa to see wildlife, I subjected my husband to yet another travel video I found on Netflix called Destination Africa, which purports to be from 2005. What I got was easily the most awful and awkward travel documentary ever made on Africa.

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3 Guys Vie for title of “Buffalo Whisperer” in Canada, US and S Africa

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Canada’s Buffalo Whisperer takes Bailey for a ride in a convertible. The US and South Africa have their very own Buffalo Whisperers, too. Here are each of their cases to be the real Buffalo Whisperer.

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Bats in or near Kruger in South Africa

Fruit bats roost Skukuza Camp in Kruger National Park/ By Zypresse Ulrike Loehr

Even in South Africa, where they’ve got some of the best wildlife-viewing on the planet, tourists and locals are still entertained by their bats. Ngwenya Lodge, which backs up against Kruger National Park, has built a number of bat houses. In Kruger itself Skukuza Camp has a roost for fruit bats.

“We have put up a number of bat houses on the property that are mostly occupied by Angolan and Little Freetail bats,” Brian Whiting, a director of the lodge told me in an email. “Some may be occupied by Giant yellow house bats,”

They don’t do tours, but they don’t need to since they’ve already figured out what time the bats leave their roost at different times of year.

The lodge also gets Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bats, but those don’t live in houses. One study in Kruger showed they especially liked fig and sycamore trees. In Kruger many sleep “under the eaves of the shop,” Siyabona South Africa says.

Bats Gauteng & Northern Regions Bat Interest Group says South Africa has 56 bat species, including four fruit bats. Fruit bats (also known as flying foxes) are the ones tourists like me would be most interested in because they’re huge. South Africans have been building shed-sized bat houses for 50 years, hoping to wipe out mosquitoes and the malaria they carry.

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Animals Catch World Cup Fever

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Mickey is all feet with the football

Around the world animal lovers are posing cute critters with soccer balls. It’s as if instead of Brazil versus England, it’ll be Team Fish versus Team Elephant.   A Japanese aquarium figured out how to give a soccer ball to fish, with “Blue tangs, symbolising Japan’s national soccer team who are popularly known as “Blue Samurai.”

I’m not above it. Here’s the squirrel football team.

Alvin puts on his game face

The Gray Team has the ball

Blue tangs symbolize Japan's team, who are called "Blue Samurai"

South Korean OAfrican penguins play football at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

African Soccer Star !! by Picture Taker 2

Corgi in Training by this is emily

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