Archive for the 'Exotic' Category
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
MUAR: A stake-out by the General Operation Force (GOF) intelligence unit led to the seizure of live pangolins being transported in a car near here.
A 24-year-old man was arrested after a short car chase at Sungai Sarang Buaya in Bakri, near here, at about 11pm on Sunday.
About 40 live pangolins, including several babies, were recovered [...]
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia – Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite. Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world’s largest lizard were not afraid — until the dragons started to attack.
The stories spread quickly across this smattering of tropical islands in southeastern [...]
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
BANGKOK (AFP) – Thailand’s famously celibate giant pandas finally produced a cub Wednesday, after artificial insemination succeeded where attempts to get them to mate using pornography and low-carb diets failed.
Chiang Mai zoo director Thanapath Pongpamorn said eight-year-old female Lin Hui gave birth to a cub weighing an estimated 200 grams (eight ounces), just three months [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
ROME: The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world’s oceans, UN officials and environmental groups said yesterday.
That sound pollution — everything from increasing commercial shipping and seismic surveys to a new generation of military sonar — is not only [...]
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
By JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press Writer Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press Writer – Fri Nov 7, 10:29 pm ET
French scientist Ivan Ineich displays a never-before-seen species of gecko, AP – French scientist Ivan Ineich displays a never-before-seen species of gecko, baptised with the latin name …
PARIS – French scientists say they hatched a new gecko species [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Masakambing (Abbott’s) yellow-crested cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea abbotti at Sukun tree.
Image: Indonesian Parrot Project, summer 2008.
I had the most fascinating telephone discussion with Bonnie Zimmermann, Vice President of the Indonesian Parrot Project, about the recent reported rediscovery of several individuals of the rarest cockatoo in the world. This species, known as the Masakambing (Abbott’s) yellow-crested cockatoo, [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Last tuesday I found that some of the adult sugar glider try to attack a baby sugar glider. Therefore, I decide to take out the baby and handfeed it.
The baby glider still not open her eye yet, but she is quite active and drink her milk well. Here is some of her photo.
Everything is fine, [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
NST, 2 Feb 2008
SETBO VILLAGE (Cambodia): Being responsible parents, rice farmer Khuorn Sam Ol and his wife might not be expected to be keen on having their child play with a 5m-long, 100kg snake.
Yet they are unflustered that their 7-year-old son, Uorn Sambath, regularly sleeps in the massive coil of a female python, rides the [...]
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
The paperwork for my project is not finish yet. I am eager actually, but there are lots of information about pangolin that I still don’t know.
There are lots of difficulties and challenges to find a good information about breeding pangolin. Not many information available online and there are not many people that interested in pangolin..
If [...]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Baby alligators have been popular as exotic pets. They can be bought in special pet stores and souvenir shops. Some states have made rules against taking care of alligators.
But if you are still keen on getting one as pet, read on the things below so you’ll know what to do or what to expect.
1. You [...]
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