Come See The Chacoan Peccaries on display at the L.A. Zoo
The Los Angeles Zoo is proud to announce that, in less than one week, four Chacoan peccaries were born at the Los Angeles Zoo. This marks the first time Chacoan peccaries have ever been born at the L.A. Zoo! The first peccary was born on Thursday, September 11 and the litter of three followed suit five days later on Tuesday, September 16, 2008.
This post was submitted as part of the Pet ‘Net Adoption Event 2008 to heighten awareness about animal shelter adoption.Please visit your local shelter, or Human Society location and ADOPT A PET if you can. Your continued support is essential to enhancing the quality of life for all animals and there are several ways you can help, besides adoption, which includes donations, fostering, volunteering, etc. Here’s HOW YOU CAN HELP support my local Winnipeg Humane Society. Thank-You. // HART
On May 12, 2008 the “2008 Sichuan earthquake” (or Great Wenchuan Earthquake) reached 7.9 on the richter scale with a death count about 70,000, injured about 350,000 people and left about 4.8 million people homeless. In the middle of the earthquake are is the Wolong National Nature Reserve, which houses about 150 highly endangered Giant Pandas. There was at least one death of a giant panda (nine-year-old Mao Mao, a mother of five at the breeding centre, was discovered crushed by a wall in her enclosure). You may follow updates over at the Wolong Panda Club
Birdwatching is one of America’s most popular outdoor activities. Those of us who love birds, have watched birds, in our back yards or at the local parks, raise and support their families. But every so often we have the urge to escape beyond these confinements and go out into the wild to watch birds in their native habitats.
If you haven’t been on a bird watching outing before, the following tips will give you a good basic foundation of necessities you will need in order to best enjoy your time in the outdoors.
Here is a Press Release forwarded to me by Vasuda Wildlife S.O.S., an organization found on PetLvr’s Pet Rescue Links page. If your organization has a press release that you wish to be posted here, please send it to me .. at .. hart (at) PetLvr (dot) com with the subject “Please pass on my Press Release” (I pretty much ignore all other emails that just mention Press Release in the subject line) ..// HART (1-800-HART)
Here is a video of a friend from Blog Catalog … the YouTube description goes like this:
These two are pretty good friends but of course when I wanted to show that they started to play a little rough. I should say NO ANIMALS where hurt in making this video! These two really are pals and do hang out together a lot! You can see more on goats, bunnies, and other things on my blog at bricoreandfamily.blogspot.com/
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