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The world's rarest big cat.

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:12:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Know as the Amur, and is found in Russia and China.

I had no idea Russia had Leopards. Just shows you learn something new everyday.

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

Tags: animals, photos

tiny hedgehog family

Thu, 08 May 2008 11:52:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Early arrivals: Bluebell, Primrose, Daisy and Buttercup - named after spring flowers - were born a month earlier than normal on April 26

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Your dog has somthing to tell you...

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:54:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mine just says allot of BS.

So both cats and dogs derived a way to communicate to suite humans.

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

The emotion conveyed by a dog's bark often seems obvious to its human companions, but new research shows just how clear the message can be -- at least, to other dogs

Dogs "express basic emotions

the scientists made recordings of Hungarian Mudi dogs barking during two different situations

when a stranger entered the property

when the dogs were tethered to a tree and left alone

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

scientists next outfitted each of the listening dogs with a heart rate monitor

the sound of all dog barks caused a listening dog's heart rate to jump

hearing a certain type of bark consistently over time stabilized the heart rate

Previously, other researchers thought domesticated dogs barked primarily for our benefit, since neither adult wolves nor feral dogs bark

it's likely that the dogs understand the different contexts producing the barks

Tags: animals, behavior, news

Boys and thier toys a biological connection

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:05:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is cool; I thought that I liked playing with cars because I just liked playing with cars, and not because a monkey told me to.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Boys prefer playing with cars to dolls because of basic biological differences rather than social pressures, scientists say.

Researchers observed young male monkeys spent more time playing with vehicles than with cuddly toys

this suggests that in most cases boys have an innate predisposition for masculine toys

The animals were offered two categories of toys - ones with wheels such as wagons and other vehicles, and various dolls and cuddly toys including such as a Winnie the Pooh.

each type of toy was placed 30ft apart to see which monkeys would be attracted to which category

In most cases the monkeys formed a group around one of the toys and eventually one of them would snatch it and run away

11 males spent more time playing with wheeled toys, while the 23 females played with both the cuddly and wheeled toys equally

onclusion contradicts those of the dominant psychological theory that the preference of boys for vehicles and toy soldiers and that of girls for dolls

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WTF is that a shark!!

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:48:21 GMT

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Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

Rare "Prehistoric" Shark Photographed Alive

Flaring gills, three-pointed teeth, and an eel-like body make the frilled shark look like a living fossil. So when a fisher spotted one off Japan in January 2007, he knew he had something special. National Geographic News readers apparently agreed—this gallery was our sixth most viewed of the year.

Tags: nature, animals, shark

Meet the world's first Hexapus

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:45:16 GMT

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Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

Caretakers at a British aquarium recently discovered that one of its newest residents, an octopus named Henry, had six legs instead of the usual eight.

Workers at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre first noticed that Henry was—as it were—two feet short, as he was crawling up the wall of his glass tank.

Aquarium officials dubbed the creature a hexapus, saying he's the first of his kind ever documented.

The cephalopod's deficient limbs appear to be the result of a genetic mutation rather than an accident, and the animal doesn't represent a new species, experts said.

Henry will go on public display in about a month, and visitors will be able to see that he gets along just fine with what he has,

Tags: animals, news, nature