Archive for ‘F & F’
Ask The Vet: Traveling With Pets
January 20th, 2008
Carol Erickson talks to Dr. Jerry Geffen about transporting your family pets.
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A polar bear cub named “Flocke”
January 19th, 2008
Nuremberg zoo received over 50.000 name suggestions sent from around the world for the five-week-old polar bear cub that was taken from her moth Vera after keepers feared that it might come to harm. (The mother was seen walking around her compound with the live cub in her mouth, dropping it on the…
Popularity: 4%
Meet Alfred! L.A. Zoo Adopts Blind Seal
January 18th, 2008
Rescuers found Alfred on a New Jersey Beach last year.
Popularity: 5%
German polar bear cub gets the name Flocke
January 18th, 2008
A female polar bear cub that has become Germany’s latest animal attraction has been named Flocke, or “flake” as in snow flake, officials in the southern city of Nuremberg Friday.
Popularity: 5%
Hybrid research to go ahead
January 17th, 2008
Regulators have given scientists the green light to create human-animal embryos for research.
Popularity: 3%
What Fido Is Really Trying To Tell You?
January 17th, 2008
A new computer can reportedly translate a dog’s bark into words.
Popularity: 3%
At least 20 turtles die in Bangladesh
January 16th, 2008
At least 20 endangered sea turtles have washed up dead along the southern Bangladesh coast over the last week, an official said Wednesday.
Popularity: 3%
Attack of the Clones, At A Butcher Near You
January 16th, 2008
Meat from cloned animals will be hitting shelves in the next few years.
Popularity: 3%
Japan’s speediest rodent
January 15th, 2008
The mice competed in a rodent run at a Japan zoo to celebrate the year of the Rat.
Popularity: 3%
Kanga-huahuas? Puppies Born Without Front Legs
January 15th, 2008
These three chihuahua puppies born without front legs have learned to walk on their hind legs…when they aren’t “behind the wheel.”
Popularity: 4%
Baby Polar Bear Gets Check-up
January 14th, 2008
The four-week-old polar bear cub who was taken from his mother at the Nuremburg zoo in Germany is being hand-fed and given check-ups regularly as it is raised by humans.
Popularity: 6%
Santa Barbara’s Crooked-Necked Giraffe Dies
January 12th, 2008
Gemina was 21 and had to be euthanized this week after she stopped eating.
Popularity: 4%
Near Escapes At SF Zoo Raise Safety Questions
January 12th, 2008
Reports of two other animals who nearly escaped at the San Francisco Zoo after last month’s tiger mauling is raising questions about the zoo’s safety.
Popularity: 3%
Grey seal baby boom
January 12th, 2008
Grey seals returned to the North Sea island in the late 1980s. They are now thriving thanks to a plentiful supply of fish and no natural predators. The Heligoland seal pups are being tagged to track their movements and better understand their behaviour. Scientists think female grey seals return to…
Popularity: 3%
Papers May Link SF Tiger Survivors To Taunting
January 11th, 2008
Court papers released by the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office may link the brothers who survived the fatal tiger attack to possible drug use and taunting.
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