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Keepers at the Mountain Zoo in Germany are celebrating after successfully breeding Roti Island snake necked turtles for the very first time. The species is considered to be extremely endangered and hails from Rote Island, which is south west of Timor and north of Australia. The newborns are currently around 3cm long but will grow to around 24cm
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(via Tammy the anteater to greet fans in London Zoo late-night walkabouts | World news | The Guardian)
Spectacled Bear Cub Ventures Outside For The First Time
A Spectacled Bear cub, born recently at Zoo Antwerpen in Belgium, ventured outside, into its enclosure for the first time. The youngster wasted little time exploring all the the exhibit has to offer, sniffing out every square inch and even bravely testing its claws by climbing the many trees in what it now calls home. The cub is making a name for itself as quite the daredevil and is already being called “a little rascal” its keepers.
Learn more and see more photos of the cute “little rascal” on ZooBorns!
Maggie (left), a 5-year-old female Jack Russell terrier/Australian cattle dog mix, and BB, a 4-year-old female Labrador retriever/beagle mix, in Charleston, S.C.
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Fancy (left), a 3-year-old female Pekingese mix, and Kai, a 7-year-old Labrador retriever/beagle mix, in Leiper’s Fork, Tenn.
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Dr. Anton Mari Lim from Zamboanga, Phillippines, plays with Kabang, the hero dog from the Philippines, as she is released from the veterinary medical teaching hospital at UC Davis in Davis, Calif., on Monday, June 3, 2013. Kabang saved two young girls from an oncoming motorcycle in the Philippines struck by a motorcycle in December 2011. She was brought to UC Davis in October, 2012. Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle (top photo caption)
The clinicians, staff and caregivers that treated and cared for Kabang gather for a farewell photo. Photo: Don Preisler, UC Davis (middle photo)
Kabang shown relaxing in her caregiver’s yard while her surgery healed. Photo: Don Preisler, UC Davis (bottom photo)Veterinarians and care givers at UC Davis bid farewell Monday to the faceless wonder dog that drew international attention after she leaped on a speeding motorcycle and saved two girls from being run over in the Philippines.
The muzzle-less mongrel named Kabang chewed treats, tossed around a squeaky toy and wagged her tail furiously after she was given a clean bill of health by specialists at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at UC Davis.
(via Faceless dog gets clean bill of health at UC Davis - SFGate)
Rough green snake in a Japanese maple tree
Photograph by Jason Wiles (via Snake Picture – Animal Photo – National Geographic Photo of the Day)
Female elephant seal scratching her head while another sleeps peacefully behind her on the beach in San Simeon, California
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Chickens provide the fertilizer on this Pennsylvania farm. The mobile coops are relocated daily to distribute manure evenly so that it won’t drain into the Chesapeake Bay.
See more pictures from the May 2013 feature story “Our Fertilized World.”
Photograph by Peter Essick (via Farm Picture — Nature Photo — National Geographic Photo of the Day)
The garden ant Lasius neglectus, which was discovered in 1990. Photograph: Gert Brovad/Zoological Museum Co/PA
Ants in Germany repeatedly ring woman’s doorbell
A terrified woman called police after her doorbell kept ringing in the night, only to realise ants were to blame.
California’s ‘Dwarf’ Fox Is Back From the Brink
Fox has one of the fastest recoveries in the Endangered Species Act’s history.
One of America’s rarest mammals, found only on six Channel Islands, the island fox was driven nearly to extinction in the 1990s by predatory golden eagles. By 1999, there were only about 85 island foxes left on Santa Cruz Island, while nearby San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands were each down to about 15.
Today, the species is on the verge of a dramatic recovery—one of the fastest in the history of the Endangered Species Act—with nearly 2,500 on the Channel Islands.
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