Animal & Nature Fix of the day
Save Rhinos!!
It is so SAD that we can no longer see rhinos in Amboseli National park yet Amboseli was once home to a huge population of magnificent black rhinos that featured very long horns. One of the most popular and most photographed rhino from Amboseli is ‘Morani’ who died of old age in Sweetwaters Ol Pejeta Conservancy (Northern Kenya) in 2008 aged 32 yrs old.
I hope this strikes a cord in our hearts – that if conservation is not enforced by all means we’ll have no more of these beast in the world
- Pet cheetah Jolie is fed by owner Magda Pienaar in the family kitchen in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Big cat Jolie – named after film star Angelina – has made herself comfortable in Magda and Japie Bienaar’s house – sleeping on their bed and eating from the kitchen table. Magda said: I was really against the idea of getting a cheetah as a pet. One day I saw an advert in our email inbox about a cheetah auction. I knew my husband would try and buy one so I deleted it immediately. But a few days later his brother phoned, he had gone to the auction and bought three of them. He ended up selling my husband Jolie. But we are glad he did now – she is part of the family.
Picture: Matthew Tabaccos / Barcroft Media
Pet cheetah Jolie interacts with the Pienaar family’s other pet cat. Magda’s husband Japie said: She makes a lot of mess in the house, urinating everywhere and chewing everything. It’s her wild instincts. She’s a big cat, but she slept with us on our bed until she got too big. We sometimes take her in the car with our dog to the game reserve. She loves chasing the antelope. Because she’s in captivity she isn’t very fit, but it doesn’t stop her trying to catch them.
Picture: Matthew Tabaccos / Barcroft Media
A polar bear family swim in formation after the cubs caught the eye of a hungry male bear. This image was captured by British tour guide and photographer Paul Goldstein at Spitsbergen in Norway.
Picture: Paul Goldstein / Rex Features
Sunset over Clevedon!!
Two silhouettes that were walking along the wall of a marine lake in the small Victorian town of Clevedon, North Somerset. The photo was captured last Thursday evening at sunset.
Picture: Paula Palmer
Mid-Air Face Off between a wedge-tail eagle and a crow fight in the sky above Gunnedah, Australia.
Picture: Rob Griffith
Milky Way Hut !!
A Yanomami Indian shack is pictured at night in the community of Irotatheri, in the southern Amazonas state of Venezuela, just 19km (12 miles) from Brazil’s border
Picture: REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Polaris, Storm, Magneto and Juggernaut are not members of a band of superheroes; the fantastic four are a quartet of African pygmy hedgehogs born in Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, Texas. The spiky bundles of joy were born on August 17, the smallest weighing in at 18 grams and the largest 36 grams.
Picture: Cameron Park Zoo
Freediver Leina Sato swims with a pod of spinner dolphins off the coast of Hawaii
Picture: Bo Pardau/National News and Pictures
Bottlenose dolphin Rainbow and her newborn calf play in the waters in Moray Firth, Scotland…
Picture: Tim Stenton / Barcroft Media
.The newborn bottlenose dolphin playfully launches himself out of the water off the coast of Moray Firth, near Inverness, Scotland
Picture: Tim Stenton / Barcroft Media
A runaway horse wanders along the tracks at Castleton station in Rochdale, while the 10.37 Leeds-Manchester Victoria train is halted just ahead of it
Picture: MEN Syndication
A couple discovered a huge python hitching a ride in their car. The slithery squatter sneaked underneath the bonnet of Marlene Swart and Leon Swanepoel’s car while they were on holiday at the Kruger National Park in South Africa. They were on the look-out for lions when the five-metre python shot out of the grass and disappeared under their car. When the snake failed to reappear Marlene and Leon were forced to endure a three-mile journey knowing the python was somewhere inside their vehicle before arriving at the nearest lookout point.
Picture: CATERS NEWS
A lioness and her cub are photographed on the Masai Mara in Kenya by Exodus tour guide and wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein
Picture: Paul Goldstein / Rex Features
Lion mother Layla holds one of her two cubs by the tail in their enclosure at the zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany
Picture: ARNO BURGI/AFP/GettyImages
This high resolution infrared NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite image shows Hurricane Michael churning in the Atlantic Ocean. With maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185kmh), Hurricane Michael is the first Atlantic storm of the 2012 season to reach Category 3 intensity.
Picture: NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP/AFP/GettyImages
Putin Octopus!!
Russian President Vladimir Putin touches an octopus in a laboratory of an oceanarium on Russky Island, near Vladivostok
Picture: EPA/MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV / RIA NOVOSTI / KREMLIN
Tags: birds, black rhino, bottlenose dolphins, cheetah, crow, dolphins, eagle, freediver, hedgehogs, horse, hurricane michael, jolie, leina sato, lions, milky way, milky way hut, octopus, polar bears, python, silhouette, sunset