Two 3-week-old cheetah cubs are being hand-raised at the National Zoo and will require around-the-clock care until they are ready to make their public debut late this summer. (Photos: Janice Sveda)
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May 25
May 11
The wild horses of Corolla, N.C. (Photo: Corolla Wild Horse Fund)
(Source: The New York Times)
Apr 23
Two Tasmanian wallabies who escaped from a petting zoo in Scotland have been found and returned.
Their owner told the BBC Scotland: “The man who sold the wallabies to us told us that wallabies hate swimming so it would be fine for us to put them on one of our three acre islands. However, within six hours of us buying them they were furiously swimming” for shore.
Apr 20
A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg. Instead of passing out of the hen’s body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched inside the hen.
The chick is fully formed and healthy, although the mother has died.
Apr 16
Baby goats!
Apr 05
My most beautiful Africa photo (by Verte Ruelle)
Apr 01
Anori, half-sister to Knut, made her public debut this week at Wuppertal Zoo in Germany.
Mar 08
These sled dogs are wearing booties. (Photo: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA/Rex Features/Rex Features)
Mar 06
Mar 02
Li Quan, a former international fashion executive, has introduced a successful breeding program in the grasslands of South Africa—originally using animals born and bred in Chinese zoos. The hope is that the new generations of South African born tigers can be taken to the Far East, to be re-introduced into the wild.
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I want all the tigers.
(Source: BBC)
Feb 16
Cats boxing! In 1894!
(Source: The Atlantic)
Jan 16
Peek-a-mink (by Amanda Guercio)
Dec 13
Biotopia (by Laura-Lynn Petrick)
Dec 09
I fucking love this commercial. I’m not sorry.
“It took me eight months to train the little chubby one to yell, ‘Row.’”
“Row. Row. Row…”
Nov 22
![By comparing the DNA of modern horses and those that lived during the Stone Age, scientists have determined that the spotted horse drawings of Pech-Merle are a realistic depiction of an animal that coexisted with the artists, rather than a symbolic illustration.
[Photo: Drawings of horses from the Chauvet cave in France, right, and a horse from the Lascaux cave, also in France. (French Ministry of Culture and Communication)]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv1tc5ytc11qzygpco1_500.jpg)
By comparing the DNA of modern horses and those that lived during the Stone Age, scientists have determined that the spotted horse drawings of Pech-Merle are a realistic depiction of an animal that coexisted with the artists, rather than a symbolic illustration.
[Photo: Drawings of horses from the Chauvet cave in France, right, and a horse from the Lascaux cave, also in France. (French Ministry of Culture and Communication)]
