In the Center of Natural Sciences, Prato, in Italy an unique Roe deer was bred one year before and named as- “UNICORN“. A deer with one horn is a fantasy. Now this fantasy becomes reality told Gilberto Tozzi, director of this institute.
A young deer with a single horn in the center of its head is drawing hundreds of visitors to the nature reserve in Tuscany, Italy.
Although it is first time in captivity, such anomalies among deer may have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
Generally the horn would be on one side rather than being at the center. This is a unique case among deers. The central position of the horn may be due some accident at the early stages of this animal. And also This anomaly may be due to genetic flaw because his twins has two horns.
Unicorn, a horse-like creature with magical powers, has been noticed in stories and legends throughout history, from ancient and modern adventures of Harry Potter. The myth of unicorn is also centered towards other mammals like NARWHAL, a whale with a long, spiralling tusk.
May be in some other day, the horn in the center of the deer may get mutated to form a spiralling tusk at the center of head. Who knows? It’s all science…
The rare footage of the world’s more rarest rhino have been captured by the hidden cameras in the Jungles of Indonesia’s Java island. This rare rhino is inhabitated only in two places in the world viz. 50 of them in the Ujung Kulon National Park in Java and eight of them in Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam.
Specially designed video cameras have been installed in Ujung Kulon to capture the pictures of these rare rhinos. Fortunately the team led by the campaign group WWF able to capture the footage of these rare Javan rhinos at the cost of the expensive cameras. The mother rhino became a little overexcited and charged the camera, sending it flying.
Adhi Rachmat Hariyadi, who leads WWF-Indonesia’s project is very much excited to note the presence of this rarest rhino in their project area. The footage is a big boon in wild life conservation to save the species. Hariyadi told that this footage gives new information on the rhinos’ health as well as vital insights into their breeding habits.
Malaria, the dreadful disease of mammals created awareness program among our ancestors- Chimpanzees. Chimpanzees in Uganda is taking a mouthful of dirt to :self medicate” against malaria. Read the rest of this entry »
“We will miss her dearly“- these were the words delivered by Fanny Lai, group chief executive of Wildlife Reserves Singapore about the death of the death of Ah Meng. Ah Meng is no other than the Singapore Zoo’s celebrity orangutan. Read the rest of this entry »
I am really amazed to hear that foresters in the western parts of India are making use of ring tones of roosters crowing, goats bleating and cows mooing to attract the leopards that intruded into the human inhabitation. Read the rest of this entry »
Do you think socially learned cultural behavior is unique to humans? NO…you’re wrong. A study revealed that our good old ancestors-Chimpanzees show cultural differences.
A team of international scientists did a research on chimpanzees behavior and found that chimps build their ‘cultures’ just like that of humans. Although it is confirmed that behavioral differences between colonies of chimpanzees are due to genetic variability, the variety is mainly due to migration of apes to other places.
Can you believe that a bull-sized mouse roamed in this world four million years ago? Yes… Scientists discovered a fossil of 1-1.4 tonnes weight in a broken bolder on the coast of Rio de La Plata in Uruguay.
The scientists of Minnesota University reported success in creating a beating rat heart in laboratory. “You can make any organ” has become as a new notion. Scientists created limbs, fingers, etc in the past confirmed that the dream of creating human heart may be achieved within 10 years.
Today I came to know about an interesting behavioral pattern of the California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi) and rock squirrels (Spermophilus variegates).
Actually young squirrels are the favorite dish for rattlesnakes. In order to suppress their odor from rattlesnakes, these tiny creatures chew on old snake skin and smear it on their fur. This behavioral pattern was noticed by Barbara Clucas, a graduate student in animal behavior at the University of California, Davis.
This act of application of sloughed-off snake skin is considered to be a perfect defensive package of squirrels against rattlesnakes. The snakes get persuaded that another snake, not squirrel, is in the area.
Rattlers and other snakes usually prey the pups (Squirrel young one) and females while they fall asleep in the night. Mostly the adult squirrel won’t get affected by the snake poison as the blood proteins of them contains immunity against snake venom.
Another study confirms that squirrels are not only limited to the use of snake skin, they get used to take the snake odor from surfaces (tree branches, tree hole, etc) and soil, where the snakes have been resting.
So, the squirrels are turning the tables on the snakes. How wise they are…
It was really a surprise for the San Francisco Zoo officials about the kill of a Siberian tiger that managed to escape from its high walled enclosure. They are also suspecting whether miscreants helped the big cat to come out on its own.
This Siberian tiger (Tatiana) killed a person and mauled two more brothers who visited the Zoo on December-26, the day after Christmas rampage.
They could manage the tiger to rest on peace only after shooting at a short range(This is a big blow to wildlife conservation). This tiger managed to escape from an enclosure, which is surrounded by 18-foot wall and 20-foot moat.
The same tiger pulled the flesh off a woman zoo keeper while feeding her through bars just before Christmas a year ago.
Police is still investigating on this issue- is there any carelessness involved in the escape of this big cat. Some times the unlocked door may predisposing factor for the escape of this wild cat.
Wildlife expert- Jack Hanna opined that it is virtually impossible for a tiger to leap a such a wide distance, even with a running start.
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