javamanjoe/animals

TRANSPARENT FROGS FOUND IN COLOMBIA.

POACHERS LEAVING ELEPHANT ORPHANS. ["touching must see story"---jmj]. CBS) Can you imagine an orphanage that's a happy place? 60 Minutes couldn't, but then we found one. The kids don't arrive here smiling. Like orphans all over the world, they've been abandoned. They're hungry, sad and desperate. But after a few years, they're healthy, well-fed and happy.

WHAT TO FEED BIRDS THIS WINTER. The variety of bird seeds and mixtures on the market is staggering. In most locations, however, the best all-around attractant is black-oil sunflower seed. This seed has a high meat-to-shell ratio; it is high in fat; and its small size and thin shell make it easy for small birds to handle and crack. (Striped sunflower seeds are larger and have thicker seed coats.)

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR CAT IS PLOTTING TO KILL YOU. Thanks 'piever'.

ALIEN-LIKE NEWLY DISCOVERED SQUID FILMED. Thanks 'cuy'. A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and--strangest of all--"elbowed" Magnapinna squid.

HERO DOG SAVES BOY FROM SNAKE. Thanks 'aivzdog'. A dog that leapt between a three-year-old boy and a highly venomous brown snake has been honoured by the RSPCA.
Diesel, a cattle dog-dingo cross, was today hailed as a hero and received a big bone for saving a Sunshine Coast couple's grandson from being bitten by the snake

STOP THIS CRUELITY. SIGN PETITION HERE. THE INCREDABLE RISSOS DOLPHIN MASSACRE. Thanks 'piever'. In Feroe, Denmark every year the young boys of the island go to the beach and kill this innocent animals. The Risso's Dolphin is a playful animal that only feels curiosity towards human kind. When they reach the beach they are trapped by this barbarous people that unmercifully kill every dolphin they can reach. By this they prove that they are not kids and now are adults. This is an act of cruelty towards animals that only get close to them to play. I believe that human kind has evoluted enough for us to tolerate such act or be participants of such cruelty. I hope this petition get to someone that can do something to stop this act of cruelty from a "civilized" country.