This is just a disaster waiting to happen. I don’t know what is stranger… a zoo that allows you kiss a lion, or humans that have no fear of getting licked by a bear. The Lujan Zoo, in Argentina provides crazy ass zoogoers the opportunity to bottle feed a bear, cuddle a tiger, rub noses
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It’s Beau – The Baby Orphaned Puggle
Once again, it’s that time of the day for….’Awh, I want one!’ Say hello to Beau, an orphaned 30-day-old Short-Beaked Echidna…or as I like to call them ‘puggle’. Baby Beau was brought to the Taronga Zoo after it was found helpless on a hiking trail near Sydney, Australia. TIL…Female Echindas do not have teats, but rather
Just a Baby Aardvark
Congrats to mom ‘Izzy’ and dad ‘Frizz’ on their adorable health baby. The cute little Aardvark, who has yet to be named, was born at Busch Gardens and weighs about 4.8 pounds and is expected to grow to more than 120 lbs. within its first year. There are fewer than 40 aardvarks in zoos in
Samantha the Gorilla and her BFF Panda the Rabbit
Why didn’t someone think of this sooner…an obvious natural pairing of a 47-year old female gorilla and a tiny little twitchy nosed boy rabbit? Say hello to a beautiful friendship… Samantha and Panda, the gorilla and the Dutch rabbit. So why the odd pairing? Poor old Samantha has been alone ever since her beau Rudy,
A Nice Warm Coat
Let it snow…Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Snow started pelting down just as photographer Bobby McLeod took a snapshot of this itty bitty little tiger.
Bald Bears Mystery Conditioned Solved
So what ever became of those poor bears that suddenly lost all their hair while living at a zoo in Leipzig, Germany a few years back? Vets were left baffled by the condition of the bespectacled bear, like sweet ol’ Dolores, who had lost all of her body hair…left with just a few clumps around
Cute and Cuddly Ambassador for Wildlife
This yet to be named, six-week-old marmoset was abandoned when her mother could no longer produce enough milk. Now fed and cared for around the clock by a caregiver at Western Sydney’s Wild Animal Encounters…the tiny marmoset has turned adversity into education after becoming an ambassador for wildlife. She will visit schools, shopping centres and
Overly Romantic Tortoise Loses Balance
Wanting to get a little action on a Friday afternoon, this lusty African spurred Tortoise got down to business with a wrinkled hottie in front of a large crowd at the Kiev Zoo in Ukraine. As the crowd looked on, the stud let out a cry of satisfaction – before losing its balance and falling
Some of the Weirdest Looking Creatures on the Verge of Extinction
Based on recent estimates there are approximately 30-50 million species on Earth… These are some of the weirdest looking creatures on the planet – and the most threatened. They may not win any beauty contests anytime soon, but the weird wonders of the animal world are infinitely more interesting than any mundane and adorable little
Now we know where Man’s Instinct comes from
Sometimes I wish I were a monkey. The chimp pulls away at his keeper’s green top to take a closer look, but he was caught in the act by snapper Cyril Ruoso who took the photo at Padrillus Drill Sanctuary in Nigeria. Girls, now you know where a man’s instinct comes from… We can’t help
