Critter News
JUNE 19, 2010
Here is one of their stories about tortoises being smuggled in luggage.note the drug connection. Enforcement agencies discovered 300 tortoises from Madagascar bound and packed in two suitcases that also contained drugs at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last week. Tags: wildlife smuggling tortoises.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
The idea is that some finches from what is now Ecuador ended up on the Galapagos Islands, and subsequently diversified into a number of different forms … they speciated … filling various niches that on the mainland would have been filled by a number of different species. However, this is not the case with the Galapagos Tortoises.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Elephant The big – two species of elephant are now recognized as occuring in Africa, the smaller and more secretive Forest Elephant and the larger, more familiar African or Bush Elephant. The little – the two species of black Buffalo Weavers obtain their appellation from their dark coloration that resembles their fearsome namesake.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Seychelles’ small landmass combined with geographic isolation results in few species. The book ends with further reading suggestions, list of useful websites, and the index of both English and scientific names. That antiquity produces a high level of endemism, e.g. 19% of 62 breeding birds are endemic to the islands!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Because, let’s face it, when you get off that plane and look at those severe volcanic landscapes and then find yourself face to face with one of the islands’ four mockingbird species, you’re not going to think, “Oh, look, lava and a mockingbird.” The updating of the text is very important.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2023
Some 320 species have been recorded here, and in springtime it is possible to observe more than 150 bird species in a week. Last but not least, there were three species of shrikes, Red-backed , Lesser Grey and at least 2 Masked Shrikes , possibly 2 more, an entire family (not all were showing so well).
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
National Geographic Channel’s upcoming show, Unlikely Animal Friends, will bring you stories about Christian the Lion and his humans, a baby hippo and a giant tortoise, a lioness and a baby oryx, an orangutan and a hound dog and more! A baby hippo chooses a giant tortoise as a surrogate parent. UNLIKELY ANIMAL FRIENDS.
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