Archive for September, 2008
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
KINABATANGAN: There is much about the Bornean Elephant that is unknown, according to a conservationist in Sabah.
“We do not yet understand their actual family structures and how group dynamics are,” said Nurzhafarina Othman, the conservation biologist at the Danau Girang Field Centre, who heads a new study which is the first on the social structure [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
SYDNEY (AP) - A tiny frog species thought by many experts to be extinct has been rediscovered alive and well in a remote area of Australia’s tropical north, researchers said Thursday.
The 1.5 inch-long (40 millimeters) Armoured Mistfrog had not been seen since 1991, and many experts assumed it had been wiped out by a devastating [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
There is probably nothing more frustrating to a cat owner than litter box accidents. In fact, habitual litter box accidents are the number one reason why cat owners give their cats up to animal shelters. When your cat refuses to use the litter box, there is usually an underlying reason. Before you become exasperated by [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Doctors at ‘Klinik Kembiri’ say pets could be spayed or neutered from as young as six months old.
KUALA LUMPUR: City Hall has been preventing about 20 million unwanted pregnancies since 2003.
And no one is complaining.
This is because the unwanted pregnancies are among stray cats and dogs roaming the streets of the city.
So far, they [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
By Haslin Ghaffor
SANDAKAN, Sept 10 (Bernama) — When the waters that surround Selingaan, Gulisaan and Bakkungan Kechil islands, were turned into a marine park and named Taman Pulau-Pulau Penyu in 1977, it was done for a certain intention.
The move was not only to protect the turtles that land on the three islands, but also to [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
MUAR: The marine police here arrested eight men and seized 16 pangolins worth about RM81,000 off Sungai Sarang Buaya near here.
The men, aged between 15 and 39, are believed to be part of a syndicate.
They were caught while waiting for a fast boat to arrive from Bengkalis, Sumatra, at about 11.30pm on Monday.
Muar marine police [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
By HAMDAN RAJA ABDULLAH
MUAR: The marine police have crippled a pangolin-smuggling syndicate with the arrest of eight men and the seizure of 16 pangolins worth about RM81,000 off Sungai Sarang Buaya near here.
The syndicate members, aged between 15 and 39, and a mastermind were caught while waiting for a boat to arrive from Bengkalis, Sumatra, [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
TUMPAT: The rampant smuggling of wild boar meat into Thailand, is due to the lack of surveillance along Sungai Golok, said villagers here.
“They know they will not be caught,” said Hassan Daud, who lives in Simpangan opposite the illegal jetty on the Thai side where the business is done.
“Smugglers sometimes cross the river four [...]
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Tokyo: Green polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo.
Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their colour in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
The sight of the green polar bears has prompted many questions from visitors concerned [...]
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Today in the afternoon, I saw my ducorp’s cockatoo copulating again. I m not sure why, but I think they are laying eggs and copulating very frequent this year… in this 3-4 month alone, I think they start to lay eggs about 3-4 times already…
Hopefully the female is okay with this…
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