Do you know how wonderful dogs are

We purchase vehicles based on how comfortable and safe they are for our dogs. We sleep on the very edge of our beds and do not get up to pee because we do not want to wake our sleeping dogs. We exercise them, we spend thousands of hours socializing and training them, and we design our vacations around where they want to go. We spend billions of dollars developing medicines and veterinary procedures to make animal lives better, and spend huge sums of money each year on toys and luxury items for pets.

They take their dogs to the vet far more often than they go to the doctor, purchase houses they think will make their dogs happy, and then remodel them with flooring better suited to their dogs comfort. We build ponds and pools and agility fields. No question, dogs are wonderful, and so are most dog owners. In addition to denigrating humans, many of these quotes seem to assign to animals some sort of idealized spiritual status—that they are kinder, gentler, less aggressive, more tolerant, and just all around more wonderful creatures than evil, detestable human beings. I hate to burst the sweet Disney bubble, but animals can be and often are every bit as selfish, hostile, aggressive and cruel as man. They are dogs!




　　"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It’s the best deal man has ever made…"

Dog lovers often adorn their emails, websites, and social networking pages with sweet quotations like this one. In general, these quotes are intended to illustrate how much we love dogs, not to be considered seriously. At first glance these quotes are generally sweet and illustrate how wonderful dogs are—how generous, forgiving, and loving.
However, in an effort to exalt dogs, many of these quotes are inaccurate and unintentionally send troublesome messages that have serious negative consequences.  They kill each other for fun, they fight, they eat crap, they eat their own babies, etc. It is great to appreciate and value the wonderful traits of animals, but sentimentalizing these traits and imagining that animals are all wise, benevolent, and enlightened beings is simply not true.
A society that is passing more and more laws to protect sweet, wonderful, innocent animals from the evil of being associated with man. Many lawmakers and average Americans have become persuaded that interaction with humans is BAD for animals. That surely these wonderful creatures deserve a life away from the exploitation and cruelty of humans. They have forgotten how much good we do for our animals, and we need to be very careful that we are not instantiating this skewed perception, and in fact that our statements reinforce what we know to be true.
　

My Animals Life

Yet here I am, one and a half films and a few commercial shoots into my new career as an independent film and commercial director. There have been so many divergent paths along the way. But as the months go on, I am doing more directing and less ad-guy freelancing, and I have to say, it’s incredible.

So I thought it would be a fun exercise to plot my career path in much more detail than the greatest hits you’ll find on my resume and Linked page. I think it’s a pretty good example that even if you’ve spent most of your life doing one thing, it’s not too late to evolve into something else.

• 1993: Graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor of Arts in English/minor in Journalism.
• 1993: Worked for the Boston Phoenix Personals department in their call center, helping singles write things like: “29 yo man seeks woman for long walks along the Esplanade. Must share passion for leather masks.”
• 1994: Realized this was not a gateway to more serious journalism. Quit and moved to San Diego without a car or a job.
• 1994: Became a receptionist at Flowers Group Advertising & Design in San Diego. Published my first ad copy. (A coupon ad for Sea World.)
• 1995: Homesickness and a desire to pursue copywriting bring me back to Boston. No job, but a clarity of purpose.
• 1995: Odd jobs at mutual fund companies and call centers as I worked on my spec copywriting portfolio. Most likely interrupted your dinner to sell you an MBNA credit card. Sorry about that.
• 1996: My first advertising job! The Morrison Agency in Atlanta takes a chance and hires me as a junior copywriter. Start to believe I’m hot shit.
• 1997: After roughly a year at TMA, I get homesick again and move back to Boston. This time, though, I had a job lined up at Allen & Gerritsen. My account was to be Sybase.
• 1997: Writing sales sheets for enterprise software was not exactly what I pictured when I got into advertising. Where were the frequent flier miles? The Super Bowl commercials? The stays at Shutters?
• 1998: Enter the portfolio program at the Creative Circus in Atlanta (my second stint in that city). Even though I was working in the business, I wasn’t doing the kind of work I wanted to do. And my portfolio wasn’t strong enough to get me into the agencies that were. Time to start over.
• 1999: Graduate from the Creative Circus. Get a job at a Boston-suburb startup agency called the Donovan Group.
• 2000: Win my first advertising awards.

Right now, I’m on the Boston to New York Megabus on my way to film a commercial for Yahoo! And it got me thinking, “How did I get here?” I mean, two years ago, becoming a director was the last thing I would have imagined. Climb the ladder to creative director? Sure. Own an agency some day? Possibly. But film director? Those were the specialists. The hired guns. That could never be me.
　

Crisis of birds foods

The study is published online by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was funded by grants from the French Polar Institute and the U.S. National Science Foundation. "This is the first time anyone has looked at the odor-tracking behavior of individual birds in the wild using remote techniques," said Gabrielle Nevitt, professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior at UC Davis and an author on the study with UC Davis graduate student Marcel Losekoot of the Bodega Marine Laboratory and Henri Weimerskirch of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.

Albatrosses nesting on Possession Island in the southwestern Indian Ocean were fitted with GPS receivers that recorded their exact position every 10 seconds and stomach temperature gauges that noted every meal. When the birds returned to land after a foraging trip, the researchers removed the equipment and downloaded the data. Wandering albatrosses fly for thousands of miles across the ocean, usually gliding a few feet above sea level. Floating carrion, especially squid, make up a large part of their diet.

They found that the birds usually flew across the wind, which allows them to cross plumes of scent drifting downwind and is also the best strategy for energy-efficient soaring.Sometimes birds would fly straight to food, but almost half the time an albatross would either turn upwind or zigzag into the wind toward a meal. Both patterns suggest that the birds were following a plume of scent, rather than visual cues. Birds could turn upwind toward a food source several miles away -- well over the visual horizon.

Hunting by scent allows the albatross to cover a strip of ocean several miles wide as it flies crosswind, Nevitt said.Wandering albatrosses and their relatives do not appear to have particularly good eyesight, compared with other predatory birds, and their eyes may be adapted to scan movement on the horizon. That might help them detect other groups of other birds gathered around food.

Albatross with killer whale

Dr Richard Phillips from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) says: "These images are really interesting. They show us that albatrosses associate with marine mammals in the same way as tropical seabirds often do with tuna. In both cases the prey (usually fish) are directed to the surface and then it's easy hunting for the birds."
The study took place at the breeding colony of black-browed albatrosses at Bird Island, South Georgia in January 2009, as part of a UK-Japan International Polar Year 2007-9 project.

The camera, developed by the National Institute for Polar Research in Tokyo, is removed when the albatross returns to its breeding ground after foraging trips. It is small (the size of a packet of polo mints*) and weighs 82g.

Although the camera slightly changes the aerodynamic shape of the albatross, it didn't affect the breeding success of the study birds.A miniature digital camera was attached to the backs of four black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophrys) breeding at colonies on Bird Island, South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. Results are published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE from the Public Library of Science.

The amazing pictures reveal albatrosses foraging in groups while at sea collecting food for their chicks. It also provides the first observation of an albatross feeding with a killer whale – a strategy they may adopt for efficiency.

A prolonged exposure taken in the darkroom

In some of those examples, bioluminescence is thought to help attract mates, send messages back and forth among members of the same species, or attract prey like in the case of the deep-sea angler fish, which dangles a glowing lure in front of its gaping mouth. Any small fish or other animal following the beacon's glow is gulped up as it approaches the invisible predator hiding in the darkness.Marek and his coworkers hypothesized by using bioluminescence as a warning signal, luminescent millipedes would be attacked less than non-luminescent ones.

Biologists have discovered and described more than 12,000 species of millipedes, but the vast majority remains undiscovered and is thought to number around 100,000. Just like all other millipedes, Motyxia are vegetarians, feeding mostly on decaying plant material, but in the course of adapting to a lifestyle primarily underground, they lost the ability to see.

"They spend the day burrowed beneath the soil and leaf material, but even though they are blind, they somehow sense when night falls, and come to the surface to forage and mate and to go about their millipede business," said Marek, who conducted this work under the NIH Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Training program in the labs of Wendy Moore, an assistant professor of entomology and curator of the University of Arizona Insect Collection and Dan Papaj, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.

"When they are disturbed, they ooze toxic cyanide and other foul-tasting chemicals from small pores running along the sides of their bodies as a defense mechanism," Marek explained. "Some millipede species that are active during the day display bright warning colors to announce their defenses to predators, but because Motyxia are out when it's dark, we hypothesized they use their greenish glow in place of a warning coloration."

Most dominant fungus to destroy all opponents

Likening what happens in woodlands to the popular Nintendo Wii game, Spore Wars, Ph.D student Tom Crowther's study has just been published in the international journal Ecology Letters. His findings reveal that, by feeding on the most combative fungi, invertebrates ensure that less competitive species are not entirely destroyed or digested. Huge fungal networks, often stretching over several hectares of woodland, compete with each other for space and resources and, now, findings have shown that invertebrates living on the woodland floor have the potential to govern the outcome of these battles.

Tom said, "By not allowing the most dominant fungus to destroy all opponents, fungal diversity is maintained within the woodland. This is an important process as fungi are responsible for maintaining soil quality and fertility, allowing our native trees and plants to grow, and the woodland itself to function.
　　
"We also know that the diversity of soil organisms plays a major role in determining plant diversity. In many ways, what happens in the woodland is very much like the game Spore Wars. Without these invertebrates acting as peacekeepers, many important fungal species would be displaced reducing fungal diversity and ultimately affecting the cycling and recycling of nutrients within the soil."
　　
Tom, a student at the Cardiff School of Biosciences, based his work on laboratory microcosm studies, developed with his Ph.D supervisors, Professor Lynne Boddy and Dr Hefin Jones.The study is the first to show how predicted changes in soil fauna, as a result of current climate change, may potentially have major consequences for the functioning of Britain's woodland ecosystems.
　　
Considering the implications of the results, Tom said, "It's possible that what we've seen happen in woodland may also take place in all other soil environments. Soil invertebrates may not only be important in ensuring the health of our forests by maintaining fungal diversity, they may also be crucial for our garden and agricultural soils."

World's Oldest Ground-Edge Implement

Monash University archaeologist and member of the team who made the discovery, Dr Bruno David, said while there have been reports of much older axes being found in New Guinea, the implements were not ground. "This suggests that axe technology evolved into the later use of grinding for the sharper, more symmetrical and maintainable edges this generates," said Dr David. "The ground-axe fragment is dated to 35,000 years ago, which pre-dates the oldest examples of ground-edge implements dated to 22,000-30,000 years ago from Japan and Northern Australia."

Archaeological excavations undertaken in May 2010 at Nawarla Gabarnmang in Northern Australia uncovered the artifact. Evidence for stone tool-use among our earliest hominid ancestors dates to 3.4 million years ago. However, the first use of grinding to sharpen stone tool edges such as axes is clearly associated with modern humans, otherwise known as Homo sapiens sapiens.

Nawarla Gabarnmang is a large rock-shelter in Jawoyn Aboriginal country in southwestern Arnhem Land. The discovery of the rock-shelter was made by Ray Whear and Chris Morgan from the Jawoyn Association while flying by helicopter on 15 June 2006.

The discovery of the axe was made by a team of researchers including Jean-Michel Geneste from the Centre National de Prehistoire of the Ministry of Culture in France, Hugues Plisson from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Bordeaux in France, Christopher Clarkson from the University of Queensland, Jean-Jacques Delannoy from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University de Savoie in France and Fiona Petchey from the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

"Axes fulfilled a unique position within the Aboriginal toolkit as long use-life chopping tools, were labour intensive to manufacture and highly valued," said Dr David.

Scientists' working hypothesis to plant-eating monkeys

The scientists' working hypothesis is that excess plant-eating monkeys found on some of the smallest islands counterintuitively spur extra tree growth, which in turn boosts populations of insects that then attract all those birds, Duke investigator Kenneth Feeley reported Tuesday at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting. "If you think about it, you wouldn't expect any sort of relationship between howler monkeys and birds," Feeley said in an interview before the meeting. "It took us by surprise."

The Duke professor "did a census of the bird communities in 1993 and 1995 and found that small islands had an extremely high density of birds, an average of two times what we found on the mainland, and on some islands almost 20 times as many," Feeley said. Many of the smaller islands, only a few acres or less in size, also have howler monkey populations up to 30 times higher than those off the islands. "Wherever there are lots of howlers there are also lots of birds," Feeley noted. "So we have a strong positive correlation between the two groups."Currently favored is a hypothesis that the plant-eating monkeys are actually making the trees they feed on more productive. "It's kind of a backward logic, but essentially it has to do with the rates of nutrient cycling," he added.

According to that view, an excess number of plant eaters increase soil fertility. "The dung of a howler monkey is recycled very rapidly, and so essentially trees benefiting from this are able to produce more vegetative matter," he explained. Because plants are also eaten by insects, the extra growth "allows for a high density of insects, which in turn allows for a high density of insectivorous (insect eating) birds," Feeley said. Since Terborgh's original survey, the Duke scientists have done additional bird censuses during the last three years and expanded their research area from 12 to 31 islands. In the process, their findings have become more variant, with some otherwise similar islands found to support high bird densities and others essentially none.

Class Mammalia

The Class Mammalia includes about 5000 species placed in 26 orders. Systematists do not yet agree on the exact number or on how some orders and families are related to others. The Animal Diversity Web generally follows the arrangement used by Wilson and Reeder (2005). Exciting new information, however, coming from phylogenies based on molecular evidence and from new fossils, is changing our understanding of many groups. For example, skunks have been placed in the new family Mephitidae, separate from their traditional place within the Mustelidae (Dragoo and Honeycutt 1997, Flynn et al., 2005). The Animal Diversity Web follows this revised classification.

Whales almost certainly arose from within the Artiodactyla (Matthee et al. 2001; Gingerich et al. 2001). The traditional subdivision of the Chiroptera into megabats and microbats may not accurately reflect evolutionary history (Teeling et al. 2002). Even more fundamentally, molecular evidence suggests that monotremes (Prototheria, egg-laying mammals) and marsupials (Metatheria) may be more closely related to each other than to placental mammals (Eutheria) (Janke et al. 1997), and placental mammals may be organized into larger groups.The malleus and incus are derived from bones present in the lower jaw of mammalian ancestors. Mammalian hair is present in all mammals at some point in their development. Hair has several functions, including insulation, color patterning, and aiding in the sense of touch. All female mammals produce milk from their mammary glands in order to nourish newborn offspring. Thus, female mammals invest a great deal of energy caring for each of their offspring, a situation which has important ramifications in many aspects of mammalian evolution, ecology, and behavior.

Although mammals share several features in common (see Physical Description and Systematics and Taxonomic History), Mammalia contains a vast diversity of forms.
The smallest mammals are found among the shrews and bats, and can weigh as little as 3 grams. The largest mammal, and indeed the largest animal to ever inhabit the planet, is the blue whale, which can weigh 160 metric tons (160,000 kg). Thus, there is a 53 million-fold difference in mass between the largest and smallest mammals! Mammals have evolved to exploit a large variety of ecological niches and life history strategies and, in concert, have evolved numerous adaptations to take advantage of different lifestyles. For example, mammals that fly, glide, swim, run, burrow, or jump have evolved morphologies that allow them to locomote efficiently; mammals have evolved a wide variety of forms to perform a wide variety of functions. All mammals share at least three characteristics not found in other animals: 3 middle ear bones, hair, and the production of milk by modified sweat glands called mammary glands. The three middle ear bones, the malleus, incus, and stapes (more commonly referred to as the hammer, anvil, and stirrup) function in the transmission of vibrations from the tympanic membrane (eardrum) to the inner ear.

Rare Animals

There are many beautiful animals on this great planet. Some are familiar to us because we’ve seen them in person, on one of the many television shows devoted to animals, or in school books or biology textbooks.  Other animals are rare.  So rare, in fact, that you may have never heard of them.  Or, you may have heard of them, and know that they are extremely rare because they are critically endangered.  Here are some of the rarest animals in the world.

The Red Wolf is a cousin to the Gray Wolf.  The Red Wolf was actually deemed extinct in the wild in 1980.  There were, luckily, some Red Wolves were still in captivity, twenty to be exact.  Wildlife conservationists increased the number of Red Wolves in captivity to 207, and today there are about 100 living in the wild.  A success story, yes, but the factors that caused the Red Wolf to become so endangered are still present today, in that their hunting ground has been severely depleted.  Luckily there are wildlife preserves that allow these wolves to live in their natural habitat, though protected from urban sprawl.

Tarsiers are found only in the islands of Southeast Asia. Since Southeast Asia encompasses a wide range of islands – Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and more, that might not seem like these little guys are so rare. When you think about the fact that they used to live in many more regions, it sort of puts in in perspective. They mostly live in Borneo. These little primates are only 4-6 inches tall, but their hind legs are twice the length of their torso. Additionally, their eyes are each the size of their brains. What else makes these adorable little primates so rare? They are the only primates who are completely carnivorous – insectivorous to be exact. They stalk bugs and jump at them. They also eat small animals like birds, bats, lizards, and snakes. Tarsiers are considered Critically Endangered and will likely be on that list for some time. They are, thus far, impossible to breed in captivity.

Is it a giraffe?  Is it a zebra?  Is it a ziraffe?  A gebra?  It’s an Okapi!  Ever heard of it?  Apparently, the Okapi’s history reaches back to ancient Egypt, where carvings have since been found.  In Europe and Africa, prior to the 20th century, there existed legends of an “African unicorn.”  Today, that animal is thought to be the Okapi.  In 1887, Henry Morton Stanley reported on a type of donkey in the Congo named an “Atti.”  Today, THAT animal is thought to be the Okapi as well.  Scientists, zoologists, and scholars know a lot more about the animal today.  For instance, the fact that it is related to the giraffe, despite it’s zebra-like markings, and the fact that the species Okapia johnstoni is considered a “living fossil,” a creature who seems to be the same species as it’s ancient fossils and has no close living relatives (I guess the giraffe is a VERY distant cousin).  There are about 10,000-20,000 alive in the wild, but since this dude is sooooo vintage, he goes on the list

The ROI

What’s the nature of the system? Then a leader must evaluate what kind of leadership skills are required to be successful when leading people in it. How will I engage those I require to move my efforts forward?Then, and only then, does it make sense to think about the tools and tactics you’ll use to inspire people to engage with your brand, movement, or cause. Because tactics and tools change. Especially in and around the social web. What should matter to you and I is finding those enduring templates that travel with us through the changing realities of our careers, our company’s strategic landscape, and the people who flow in and out of our leadership contexts.In my view, the deeper meaning that underpins all the treatises from social media “experts” is really a reframing of what leadership books and thought experts have studied for years.

What the study was interested in understanding (based on my reading – there are certainly more conclusions to make as Pink shows) is the value of social contracts. By removing the connection parents had with the people behind the center, and creating more of a pure transactional relationship, they’ve turned late pick-ups into acceptable behavior. They removed the social contract.I give a presentation called Leading in a Social World. In it I suggest that in order to grasp the significance of the social web, a leader (by leader I mean all of us – anyone involved in trying to inspire one or more people to do something) must value it first. What’s the asset or capital the social web brings to bear for me or my company?

Then a leader must understand what makes it tick. Permission, Thank You, Naked, Trust, fillintheblank-a-nomics…these are really just new concepts for building social capital. And social capital has long been an asset that any leader in any time has always had to concern themselves with.As an asset, social capital results in many tangible benefits. The value of a social contract, as the Israeli daycare centers learned, is one of them. So is the idea of a social license.

Most businesses need various licenses to operate: liquor, tax, BMI/ASCAP, water rights, mining. But they need social licenses too. Neighborhood buy-in for the nightclub. Community approval to divert water.Newmont mining knows this to be true. Their ability to operate in a stable environment and open new mines with greater efficiency depends on their deliberately-planned social license programs. (You can read more about social licenses in the natural resources industry here.) The result? Consistent growth in earnings, and the first gold mining company to be named to the Dow Jones Sustainability index. As for the rest of us, I use everybody’s-favorite-animal Erik Proulx and a remarkable redhead by the name of Erika Napoletano in my presentation as tangible, everyperson examples of leaders who understand how to build social capital, and the value it can bring.

Love Animals, Care Them

Animal lovers have long dreamed of the day when there will be no more homeless pets. Located in the Central Illinois town of Pekin and founded in 1958, TAPS is committed to providing a safe environment for homeless pets until they can be placed into permanent, loving homes. We take in and rehabilitate sick and injured pets that have nowhere else to go, and we provide education to pet owners to ensure happier, healthier lives for companion animals.

　　

Adoptions are made with the best interest of the pets in mind. We attempt to match the right person with the right pet. We ask each person surrendering an pet to provide detailed information about the pet. We are always happy to share what information we can about a pet and to help you find the right pet for your home. All pets placed for adoption receive a veterinary examination, their first set of shots, are dewormed and are spayed or neutered.

　　
Thanks to a generous grant from the Kenneth Scott Charitable Trust, we are reducing the cost of our cat and kitten adoptions. The $5000 gran Calico Picturet awarded to Friendship will help us cover the cost of spay/neuter for our companion cats and kittens.The cost to adopt a kitten is now only $80, adult cats are only $40, and senior cats are $20. We are trying to help more people who need our assistance with their cats during this struggling economy, so we need your help finding more homes. Please show your support and give one of our cats a new home for the holidays!

Wildlife SOS Rare Animal Rescued

The operation finally ended around 2am on Tuesday. Once it was pulled out, the porcupine was examined for injuries and then released in a nearby forest area. "Being a wild animal, the porcupine was obviously traumatized by its ordeal. It dashed for cover the moment we released it," said Abhishek, another member of the rescue team. Kamal was its third member.

Wildlife SOS had an unexpected assignment on Monday night when they were called in to save a porcupine from the under-construction Signature Bridge at Wazirabad in north Delhi. An endangered species, porcupines are protected under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.Kartick Satyanarayan, co-founder of Wildlife SOS, said, "We often don't realize the rich biodiversity that Delhi's habitat and forests comprise. Urbanization and loss of natural habitat endangers the very existence of species like porcupine. It is protected under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 and is an endangered animal."

Members of Wildlife SOS were told that workers at the construction site spotted the crested porcupine struggling to stay afloat in an 18m-deep well. They informed the police control room, which in turn contacted Wildlife SOS."It was a rare sight to see the porcupine in water. We saw it struggling to stay alive. The rescue operation took over two hours. The animal was tired and we had to gently manoeuvre it with nets and animal rescue equipment to bring it to the edge of the water. Tired of struggling to stay afloat, it would have drowned had we not rescued it on time," said Munish, one of the three rescue workers.

A List of endangered animals

Javan
 
One example of the rare animals was very few Javan. From ancient times, rhinos have dozens of different species, but only two of the remaining five species are found in the territory of Indonesia.
Javanese, the rarest species in comparison with the five types. The number of rhinos have been very few, it is estimated that only about 60 of the tail.

Java Leopard
 
One of the species are included in the list of endangered animals is the Leopard. There are also some people who call it him. population of animals is nothing more than 250 tail and is expected to continue to decline.
It was the largest in the State of the cat after the Tiger Java Java suffered extinction. Leopard beetles can be found in the area of West Java.

Bawean deer
 
In 2006, the population of bawean deer is nothing more than 300 of the tail, makes a unique animal went to the list of endangered animals in Indonesia. Habitat of the animal a deer on the island of Bawean in Gresik in East Java.
According to the IUCN, or to the International Union for conservation of nature’s bawean deer species classified in the category of highly endangered or critically endangered.

Javan. Hawk eagle
 
Of the many species of birds who live in Indonesia, there are some rare species are also began its existence. One of the birds in the list of endangered animal is the Eagle.
ASRTP in the forest bird is one of the birds of Predator/Prey, the rarest in the world. In Indonesia, it is for the national bird because of its resemblance to the bird garuda.

Couscous
 
Couscous is part of the marsupials or animals that the marsupial. Usually located on the island of Sulawesi, but their numbers continue to decline and begin a rare.
Couscous or often called the piece had a position that is not too large, the length of the body is only about 50-60 cm, a tail in the course of the 1950s this cm is typically used for clinging to the branches when climbing.

Anoa
 
One of the animals in Sulawesi, which also lists of the endangered animal’s anoa. They are also often referred to as Buffalo or cow, but their smaller body/the dwarf. The number of anoa Sulawesi continued to decline and in some places it has been the demise of the nature reserve.

It is part of the animals are entered in the list of endangered animals. In addition to the above mentioned animals is still a very rare species, and rarely found. It should be prevented, how soon before the animals are in fact occurs the demise and could disrupt the balance of the ecosystem.

Animals' SOS Wildlife

Wildlife SOS had an unexpected assignment on Monday night when they were called in to save a porcupine from the under-construction Signature Bridge at Wazirabad in north Delhi. An endangered species, porcupines are protected under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.

Members of Wildlife SOS were told that workers at the construction site spotted the crested porcupine struggling to stay afloat in an 18m-deep well. They informed the police control room, which in turn contacted Wildlife SOS.

"It was a rare sight to see the porcupine in water. We saw it struggling to stay alive. The rescue operation took over two hours. The animal was tired and we had to gently manoeuvre it with nets and animal rescue equipment to bring it to the edge of the water. Tired of struggling to stay afloat, it would have drowned had we not rescued it on time," said Munish, one of the three rescue workers.

The operation finally ended around 2am on Tuesday. Once it was pulled out, the porcupine was examined for injuries and then released in a nearby forest area. "Being a wild animal, the porcupine was obviously traumatized by its ordeal. It dashed for cover the moment we released it," said Abhishek, another member of the rescue team. Kamal was its third member.

Kartick Satyanarayan, co-founder of Wildlife SOS, said, "We often don't realize the rich biodiversity that Delhi's habitat and forests comprise. Urbanization and loss of natural habitat endangers the very existence of species like porcupine. It is protected under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 and is an endangered animal."

Names Of World Rare Animals 1

Our nature has a rich biodiversity of fauna species, many of them are still exist in our world, and also many of them are extinct from our world, and now worldmustbecrazy wanna take you to a tour to visit World's most rare animal. this animal are threatened to extinction. Let's preserve their species and keep them from their extinction. This is Most Rare Animal in the World
1. The Pinta Island tortoise

Lived in Pinta island, this tortoise are include into Giant Galapagos Turtoise species, which is the most rare in the world, because now only left 1 in the world, and cannot be multiply anymore..

2. Baiji (Yangtze River Dolphin)

Only left 10 of this animal in the world, and this animal only exist in Yangtze River

3. The Vancouver Island Marmot

Lived in Vancouver island, in British Columbia, now only left about 194 heads of this marmot

4. Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat

Lived in Madagascar, now there was not more than 100 Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat in this world.

5. Javan Rhino

A Javan Rhino, lived in java island indonesia, and in vietnam, this rhino are often hunted in Malaysia, India and also Sumatera island (Indonesia) for his horn.

The Likable Animals

　　

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　　lace-bird:
　　Baby Quail by andthatswhenIsnapped (back in UT!), on Flickr.
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　　burning fire | by KIARAsART
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　　D o g B U N N Y | by DusterAmaranth
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　　African Spurred Tortoise
　　Photograph by Glenn Nagel
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　　Jellyfish (by Siniša Jagarinec)
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　　jakeandcharlie:
　　Charlie and Jake: Kitty nap! on Flickr.
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Some The Disappear Animal In The World

1. Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat

Lived in Madagascar, now there was not more than 100 Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat in this world.

2. Javan Rhino

A Javan Rhino, lived in java island indonesia, and in vietnam, this rhino are often hunted in Malaysia, India and also Sumatera island (Indonesia) for his horn.

3. Hispid hare

Also Called as "Bristly Rabbit” that can be found in Himalaya Nepal, Bengal and Assam, now only left 110 hispid hare.. in this world

4. Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat

We don't know exactly what kind of animal is this, you can find it in New South Wales and Victoria in Australia, but unfortunately now you only can see this animal on National Park near Epping Forest Station in Queensland.. only left 113 heads of them

5. Tamaraw (Dwarf Water Buffalo)

Found in Philippines, firstly threatened to extinct in 2000, and now only left about 30-200 of them.

6. Iberian Lynx