 The post-rapture service industry is booming thanks to a dire prediction that Saturday, May 21, is Judgment Day. The leading post-Armageddon pet care company, Eternal Earthbound Pets, has been deluged. Keep reading Saturday’s Apocalypse boosts post-rapture pet care industry  Branson is letting lemurs take over his spare British Virgin Island of Moskito. Some biologists worry, but political upheaval has made Madagascar unsafe for the primates Keep reading Richard Branson to create a private Lemur Land island to save species  Did Obama cave on political riders in the budget compromise? Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson de-listed wolves in Idaho and Montana in a closed-door deal. NOAA almost protects orcas in Puget Sound. PA to declare open season on porcupines. Keep reading Budget compromises wolves, other politics shafts orcas, PA porcupines  The contemporary Wild Kingdom a mother sea otter that gives birth to a pup on a dock in Monterey Bay. Keep reading Wild Kingdom: the drama of an otter family in Monterey Bay  For about $3,700 you can buy a tame fox puppy from Russia. You’d support important research on domestication and save the pup from a fur farm. Keep reading Buy your own pet fox puppy–and help save an important experiment  The Chupacabra–the elusive goat-sucking beast for which canines with mange are all to frequently mistaken–may not even be plausible as an ancient myth. In Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore killjoy scientist Benjamin Radford says it all just started in 1995 with one woman who saw a B-movie. Keep reading Chupacabra myth not so ancient; started in 1995  A couple bridges and a wildlife center are your best shot around Homosassa. Otherwise head 1 hour to Tampa Electric or 2 hours to Blue Springs Keep reading Nobody makes it easy to see manatees from shore in Homosassa, but you can  Crystal River Manatee Probably the easiest and most reliable way to see manatees on the Nature Coast in northeast Florida is at the Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, right off the main drag, route 19. You can see female manatees that can’t leave and young manatees that will be released someday getting fed at the Manatee Care Center. Plus, it’s one of the very few places in the area you might get to see wild manatees from the shore (easier on you and the manatees)–provided you show up in January or early February. Like pretty much all the Homosassa manatee attractions, it’s hard to get your head around where the logistics. The wildlife park used to be a private zoo in Florida’s roadside zoo attraction heyday; the lone hold-over is the hippo, Lu, now 51. Otherwise, it now only takes native wildlife that can’t live in the wild because they were injured, sick or raised in captivity. The park has a big parking lot and outpost on route 19 but the real action is closer to the shore. You either take a pontoon boat (they leave about every 15 minutes) or you walk. Or, you can just drive there. The park really begins deep in the pretty, winding Spanish moss covered roads of old Homosassa. Captive manatees getting fed at Homosassa Wildlife Park Some people will tell you the park only has captive manatees. Not true. Wild manatees visit the area. I heard varying accounts of Keep reading Homosassa Wildlife Park: Manatees in rehab and wild in the river 
Baby picture of Crane # 412, 2004-2011 Hunters kill 4th endangered Whooping Crane in 2 months. This bird, #412, learned to migrate by following an ultralight aircraft from Necedah, WI to Cherokee County, AL. Last year his chick disappeared. Hunters killed three whoopers in GA this winter. Less than 600 survive. The bird was discovered Jan. 28–two days before the end of waterfowl hunting season. The main hunting area in Cherokee is the Little River National Preserve, which got national parks funding and designation in 1992, but with the special exception that hunting be allowed there. Great idea. Chattanooga Times Free Press Rare and freaky blanket octopus spotted octopus off Florida. It’s red, huge and has cape-like arms. People rarely see these regular residents, which live far off shore when the Gulf Stream isn’t acting funny. JustNews.com via Scienceblogs Michigan wants to ban wildlife rehabiliators from helping sick or injured mute swan. They want to restore the native trumpeter swan, instead. MLive Israel tests bomb-sniffing mice for airline passengers. Om Dagens Nyheter Leaked report shows Tanzania’s road through the Serengeti would carry a million cars a day. The road would cut off the migration of elephant, zebra and wildebeest, the country’s main economic engine. Chicago Tribune Obama administration says, sure, walruses deserve endangered species protection, but they won’t get it. LATimes  Delmarva squirrels need land; PA squirrels need pine and a tour of other animal news Keep reading Delmarva squirrel needs land; flying squirrel needs pines; |
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