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A rare pygmy hippo has reached the ripe old age of three weeks and is thriving at the Taronga zoo in Sydney, Australia. Monifa, (which means “I am lucky”) was very weak when she was born, and could not stand or walk immediately, so she could not be fed by her mother. She has been painstakingly hand-raised by the keepers.
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This pot-bellied piglet is about 10 days old, and lives at Domino’s petting farm. We were told that these pigs are mostly used as pets, are very smart, and keep their enclosure clean. There are about 20 of these little critters running around in the pen, and they all sleep together in a long line.
Extra! Extra! This Piglet featured on Cute Overload!
Before I visited the Georgia Aquarium, most of what I used to know about cuttlefish included the fact that they can be purchased neatly packaged in dried chewy form in Japanese groceries. So, I was very surprised when I first met one face to face in the Georgia Aquarium and realized they are remarkably intelligent creatures.
Cuttlefish are invariably curious about people, and will come up and try to get a better look if you catch their eye. They are precision swimmers, able to hover motionless near an object of interest by rippling their skirt of fins, only to suddenly jet off in another direction using their funnel siphon when they have seen enough.
Continue readingUpdate, Nov. 26, 2007 The cub has been named Zhen Zhen!
Here’s a photo diary of the as-yet-unnamed female panda cub born August 3 at the San Diego Zoo. The little panda is the fourth cub of Bai Yun, a panda that arrived from China in 1996.
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Continue readingCan you guess what this picture is? for the answer, click the link below: Click here to continue and see the answer Buffalo as seen from space! This is a satellite view of the buffalo
Continue readingOne of the more amazing characteristics of fish is their ability to learn by imitation. I’ve noticed imitative behaviors in all of my fish, including goldfish, parrot cichlids, convict cichlids, severums and oscars. Although they come out of the egg already knowing how to swim, how to eat, and how to hide, they add new behaviors as they grow.
Learning attitude: Parrot Cichlids
When young parrot cichlids are put in a tank by themselves, they will usually remain shy for weeks or months. They will hide behind anything they can. If there is nowhere else to hide, they will hover at the top corner of the tank tipping downward slightly, pretending to be part of the filter. However, if they are put into a tank with adult parrot cichlids who have no fear of humans, they get over their shyness very quickly! When we got one of our younger parrots, “Baby,” she immediately adopted the oldest parrot cichlid Winston (a female) as her “mother.” She would follow Winston around, and generally imitate everything she did, and as a result showed very little fear of us.
But most of our newly acquired parrot cichlids spend at least a day or two hiding, during which they peek out from a secure spot to observe what’s going on in the tank.
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