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This koala is incredibly rare because although he has white fur instead of the usual grey/brown, he has the normal black eyes and nose.

The creature, nicknamed Mick, was found blind and suffering from a variety of illnesses by a forest ranger and taken to the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, north of Sydney.

He was immediately given round-the-clock security protection in case anyone tried to steal him and sell him to a collector for his novelty value.

After an operation on his eyes, he was put on antibiotics and gradually returned to full health.

Mick has just been released back into the Bush after months of treatment - although his precise location remains a secret.

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Honey bees can smother their enemies to death by swarming them, researchers report.

The discovery means that bees have three ways of dispatching their enemies: by stinging, which for a bee means suicide; by raising the other creature's body temperature, or thermo-balling; and by asphyxiation.

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Artist Steve Manning of topiary art designs makes custom and bespoke feature topiaries and stainless steel topiary frames for gardens designers, landscapers, theme parks, civic amenities, exhibitions, garden shows and event promotions.

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A research team led by professor Masayuki Sumida at Hiroshima University’s Institute for Amphibian Biology has created a type of transparent frog whose internal organs are visible through its skin. The researchers say the see-through frogs can help in the study of diseases and in the development of medical treatments by allowing laboratory scientists to check the status of internal organs and blood vessels while the frogs are alive and without having to dissect them.

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Greg Solberg, Firmware Engineer at Tesla Motors, and his girlfriend Lisa built a pair of giant motorized bunny slippers that they could drive. They are 7.5-feet long and can scoot along at a top speed of about 15 mph. Both feet (yes, there is a left and a right) are covered with plush pink Flokati rugs the exact color of cotton candy.




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Big Head Fred Treat Canister
I'm Big Head Fred so fill me with treats 'cause every good dog deserves good eats! Big Head Fred's mouth rolls back to reveal tasty treats and is made of metal. Holds 18 oz.

Bush Biskit Dog Treats

Maybe it's time to sit your puppy down and have a serious talk about the facts. It's time you found out if your little bundle of unconditional love is a conservative, a liberal or a new fandangled progressive. Maybe you need to think twice about leaving Fido home alone to answer the never-ending stream of political phone surveys during the day!

Kitty For All Seasons
Celebrate the seasons with this 12-pc. kitty and outfit set. Hand-painted polyresin cat comes complete with wardrobe for Christmas, Easter, 4th of July and Halloween.

This seven-week-old panda cub has become one of San Diego Zoo's most famous babes, though she is yet to be named.

In accordance with Chinese tradition, she will have to wait until November, when she is 100 days old, to receive her name.

San Diego Zoo's giant panda breeding project has been one of the most successful in the world. The zoo has the largest population of giant pandas outside China.

Giant pandas are one of the world's most endangered species, with only about 2000 living in the wild.

This unusual species of flying fox was recently discovered in the Philippines not long after it was deemed not to exist.

Jake Esselstyn, a biologist with the University of Kansas, was among a team of researchers that found the animal, a type of fruit bat, last year while surveying forest life on the island of Mindoro.

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"ucumari" is the Flickr account name for Valerie who is a volunteer at the NC Zoo. She loves to travel to other zoos and take some excellent animal photos.

"Just me and my Mommie!"

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Just in case you were wondering - here's how the use of cat litter began.

2 very cute little baby bunnies

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criceto rosicchia popcorn sdraiato sui tasti del pianoforte.. gustoso!

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A male elk was killed during mating season in Sweden after he attacked a car for disturbing him while he was courting a female elk.

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A newborn 238 pound female African elephant calf stays close to her mother Umoya just hours after her birth at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park on September 19, 2007 at 12:23 a.m. This is the fourth African elephant calf to be born at the Wild Animal Park since 2003. Another calf is expected by early 2008.

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Pig Paradise Farm is also the home of the spectacular 'Curly Coated' Breed, first in UK for 34 years.

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Art Market Watch reports that George Rodrigue's 2000 Blue Dog painting The Path of the Candles, estimated to sell for $80,000, went for $115,000 at Sotheby's "Contemporary Art Mid-Season" sale in New York on Sept. 12, 2007.

A lone dolphin is making friends with sailors and lifeboat crews around the south-west of England.

The dolphin, named Findol after a children's book character, was pictured playing with the Penlee lifeboat crew this week off the Cornish coast.

It is believed to be the same creature that was seen playing among boats in Plymouth Sound earlier this month.

Dolphins usually travel in large "pods" but Findol seems to have been rejected and is swimming alone.

A 20-year-old man and 18-year-old woman are accused of stealing a tiny baby marmoset from the Zoo of Acadiana, LA.

Neither said why they took the tiny animal, which was still nursing and weighs less than an egg.

The monkey has been reunited with its mother.

Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding.

Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district.

Scientists are baffled. Possible explanations include a unknown virus or a fungus in the pond.

"You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding," German conservationist Werner Smolnik told AFP news agency.

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A man in Oregon nearly died after a pet rattlesnake that he put in his mouth while drinking with some friends bit him inside his throat.

Matt Wilkinson said when he put his eastern diamondback rattlesnake down his throat, he immediately noticed a shot-like sensation.

Wilkinson, who nearly died from the incident, is still recovering from the bite.

"They said I had enough venom in me to kill between 12 and 15 people," Wilkinson said. "I still love snakes but I will take a little more care in handling them," Wilkinson said. "It is kind of my own stupid fault."

Really - Duh!

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The makers of Greenies, one of the nation's best-selling dog treats, have settled a class-action lawsuit claiming the teeth-cleaning product injured or killed close to a dozen dogs.

U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner on Monday agreed with a joint request to dismiss the case.

Alan Sash, who represented 10 dog owners against Kansas City-based manufacturer S&M NuTec, said the case was settled but the terms were confidential.

In their lawsuit, Sash's clients claimed S&M NuTec, the company that invented the treats, knew of the dangers Greenies posed for dogs but refused to adequately warn consumers or pull the treats from the shelves.

The company repeatedly said Greenies were safe when used as directed, which included buying dogs the correct size of treat and making sure the animal adequately chewed it and didn't gulp it down.

Still, the company changed the packaging of Greenies to make its warnings more visible and came out with a new formula late last year that it said was more digestible and designed to break down into smaller pieces during chewing.

Oh, Yummy, Yummy!

Freda's human companion found real, genuine, USA rawhide treats for her enjoyment!

Yup, they bought them from i-pets.com.

i-pets.com purchases all of their USA rawhide treats from Pet Factory. Pet Factory, located in Mundelein, Illinois, is one of the very few remaining rawhide manufacturers in the United States. They use all USA raised beef hides to make their treats - without chemicals or additives.

Because i-pets.com ships their USA rawhide treats right from the manufacturer, the treats are always absolutely the freshest. Because they're made 100% in the USA with USA materials, the treats are always absolutely the safest.

Bone apetit, Freda!

You obviously know a good thing when you see - - smell - - taste it!

Did you know?

Today is "Speak like a pirate day."

ACWORTH, Ga. -- Construction workers at a high school were shocked to find a small kitten trapped inside poured concrete on Friday.

The small kitten almost became a permanent part of a school under construction when it got trapped beneath concrete that was being poured to secure a set of stairs.

Michael Vinson is the construction worker who found the kitten. Vinson said he has decided to take the kitten home and name it 'Stone.'

A female shorebird was recently found to have flown 7,145 miles (11,500 kilometers) nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand—without taking a break for food or drink.

It's the longest nonstop bird migration ever measured, according to biologists who tracked the flight using satellite tags.

The bird, a wader called a bar-tailed godwit, completed the journey in nine days.

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The stench is nauseating. The moans, belches and groans are deafening.

But all that doesn't stop the crowds of gawkers who come each day to take in the sight of hundreds - sometimes thousands - of elephant seals at Piedras Blancas, a beach on the Pacific coast about 320 kilometres south of San Francisco.

The elephant seal symphony is reminiscent of non-stop human belching, with some added grunts, snorts, bleats, whimpers, squeaks, squeals and trumpet sounds. A stockyard-like smell assaults viewers.

This rookery along the coastal highway at the southern end of Big Sur is especially noisy during breeding season from late November through late January. Males bellow threats, pups squawk for food and females squabble over prime location.

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Four-toed jerboa is a small jumping desert rodent that resembles a rat with rabbit ears and can jump distances of greater than one meter.

Yes, you, too, can make an adorable little outfit like this one for your own adorable little yorkie!



Here are the instructions.

Guess you'll have to buy a yorkie now. You wouldn't do this to your cat, would you?

If you would do this to your cat, send us the picture : pet.blog@gmail.com.

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Animal expert Jack Hanna and an 11-month-old flamingo became trapped while trying to squeeze through an airport security turnstile. It took firefighters to finally get the flamingo out.

Hanna, the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and a frequent guest on nationally televised talk shows, was returning from a zoo fundraiser with a mongoose, a small leopard and the flamingo.

Because the terminal was closed, the only way to leave the tarmac was through a 10-foot-tall metal turnstile with several horizontal bars. When Hanna stepped in toting the flamingo in a 2-foot-wide crate, the pair got stuck.

At first glance, the scene appears normal: a Chihuahua mother appearing to cuddle with her pups as they nurse.

A closer look at the days-old babies reveals they aren't canines, but four tiny squirrels.

Although Mimi's last litter was born four years ago, the dog is still able to make enough milk to keep the baby squirrels full. Mimi doesn't venture far from her new little ones.

Water spiders survive below the surface thanks to a rudimentary "scuba tank" they spin from their own silk.

Scientists at the University of Bern, Switzerland, determined that spiders use these scuba tanks, called air bells, as reservoirs, monitoring and replenishing oxygen levels to enable the animals to live underwater.

Found in ponds throughout northern and central Europe, the water spider is the only spider that spends its entire life underwater.

The Living Coasts in Torquay, Devon, is home to a colony of 80 African penguins which regularly uses a public thoroughfare during feeding time. The crossing has been put down to show visitors where the penguins cross the public walkway and to emphasize the need to take care.



The penguins have now learned to use the crossing and are a regular sight waddling across the road in line as they make their way from Penguin Beach to meet a keeper.



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Trevor, just three days old, was born with 'scrunched-up' toes, which made it difficult to walk.

The traditional method of dealing with a problem like this is to apply a small wooden splint to straighten the toes.

They tried that with Trevor, but it wasn't effective, so they had to come up with something else.

In the end, the solution turned out to be creating false webbed feet by using board and surgical tape.

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The owner of a holiday cabin near Bergen had to call for help after an estimated 100,000 bees took over his property.

A bee expert had to tear through the walls of this cabin in western Norway, to remove the thousands of bees that had moved in.

Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.

The findings in the ruins of the city of Rehov this summer include 30 intact hives dating to around 900 B.C.

The beehives, made of straw and unbaked clay, have a hole at one end to allow the bees in and out and a lid on the other end to allow beekeepers access to the honeycombs inside. They were found in orderly rows, three high, in a room that could have accommodated around 100 hives.

Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.

The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.

"The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights," said Raju K.C., a senior airline official, without explaining what the problem had been.

Wow, what a drummer!

A great ad for Cadbury.

Ahhh - it's not fair to call them "creepy" animals. I'm sure some of them just took a bad photo. You know, like that picture on your driver's license?

Puffins, which resemble half-pint penguins except that they can fly, were heavily hunted along the Maine coast for their meat and feathers, and by 1901 only one pair remained.

In 1973, with backing from the National Audubon Society and help from the Canadian Wildlife Service, Stephen Kress began transplanting 2-week-old puffin chicks from Great Island off Newfoundland, 1,000 miles to the northeast.

These days there are 90 nesting pairs on Eastern Egg, among more than 700 nesting pairs on four Maine islands, Kress said.

Puffins are often confused with penguins. They have similar colors, and both swim under water using their wings as fins, but they are not related and live at opposite polar ends of the world. Each puffin pair raises one chick in a burrow under big boulders, taking turns feeding their offspring fish.

Farm scientists warned on Monday that hardy breeds of livestock vital for world food supplies were dying out across developing countries, especially in Africa, and called for the creation of regional gene banks to save them.

The experts said tough and adaptable animals were being ousted by others from richer countries that were more productive in the short-term but posed a longer-term risk for farm output.

"In many cases we will not even know the true value of an existing breed until it has already gone," declared Carlos Sere, Director-General of the Nairobi-based body which focuses on livestock research for development.

A boy shows off a bag of locusts he caught near Radaa city in Yemen. Locusts - which are being caught for food or to sell - have swept farmland in the worst plague to hit the country since 1993.

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After years of mild winters, one of Britain's most colorful and striking spiders is on the march.



Originally from the Mediterranean, they were discovered in England in 1922 where the climate was just warm enough for them to survive.

For decades they clung to the sunnier South Coast but in recent years have been seen as far north as Cambridge.

Many conservationists believe their move northwards is linked to our warmer climate since the 1970s.

A group of sunbathers first spotted the shark Saturday morning when it splashed out of the surf near Beach 109th St in New York.

Rather than flee, the beachgoers pushed the shark back into the ocean. For several hours, the 5-foot thresher shark could be seen swimming just offshore.

Hans Walters, a shark researcher and supervisor at the New York Aquarium, said he was impressed by the way New Yorkers responded to the shark sighting.

"Sharks get a lot of bad press," he said. "But the public that was at the beach said, 'Hey, we gotta help this animal,' rather than, 'Hey, it's a shark. Let's kill it.'"

"It's just sad the shark didn't live." (The dead shark washed ashore around 6 a.m. near Beach 113th St. on Sunday.)

S-shaped monkey hooks

This set of S-shaped hooks disguised as monkeys can hang anywhere. Sold in sets of 3, these little monkeys will hold any items you wish them too, especially bananas in the kitchen but we think they would be great for kids bedrooms as well. Made of brushed stainless steel.