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Four of the twelve 8-month old cubs at Appalachian Bear Rescue. They are eating to prepare for hibernation (hyperphagia).
All photos by Ken LaValley.
Leading conservation charity World Animal Protection has renewed its plea for the tourism industry to put an end to abusive elephant rides and shows, calling on leading travel brands to join the growing list of companies who are opposed to the practice.
Making the call on World Animal Day, the charity says 63 travel companies have now signed up to its elephant-friendly tourism pledge, signifying a major shift in attitude in the industry. (read rest here)
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Urban bird: Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) at the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area in Phoenix, Arizona.
Volunteers working with the Rio Salado Audubon Center have constructed over 200 artificial burrows throughout the park. The owls normally occupy and re-purpose burrows dug by small mammals like ground squirrels.
So very, very endangered, it is always an amazing moment when you see wild dogs! These guys were in the Sabi Sands in South Africa.
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A good part of wildlife photography has to do with being in the right place at the right time. Whether it’s from an educated hypothesis or random luck, photographer, David Lazar, sure has timing on his side. Though Lazar is based in Australia, the…
Scientists are calling for an immediate ban on live salamander imports in the U.S. to try to prevent the spread of a fungal disease that could potentially devastate wild North American salamanders.
Almost half of the world’s known salamander species live in North America, and many are already threatened or endangered. Salamanders may be inconspicuous, but they’re important to the ecosystem — they eat disease-carrying insects, are a key link between the aquatic and terrestrial food webs, and may even aid the global carbon cycle. Some species produce antimicrobial compounds, and others are being studied to learn how humans might someday regrow limbs.
They’re also in danger from the chytrid fungus. When the Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus, or Bd, was discovered in 1998 in parts of Australia and Central America, scientists could only watch as species after species of frogs and salamanders disappeared in what has become a worldwide die-off. Vance Vredenburg, a biologist at San Francisco State University, has seen firsthand what chytrid can do to amphibians. He calls it “absolute decimation.”
Photo credit: Courtesy of Tiffany Yap
A five-day-old seal became separated from its mother and stranded in a field of cows at an RSPB sanctuary on the banks of The Wash in Lincolnshire. She was saved by a birdwatcher who spotted her plight and took her to a local nature reserve where she will be released back into the wild once she has recovered from her ordeal.
Picture: SWNS Group (via Pictures of the day: 21 July 2015 - Telegraph)
Thousands of Kittiwake chicks are literally living life on the edge, as they nest perched on the small ledges of the granite towers of the the Tyne Bridge - which during the months of June and July is host to the world’s largest inland seabird colony.
Picture: Paul Kingston/NNP (via Animal pictures of the week: 3 July 2015 - Telegraph)
Terrapins take a break and rest on the back of a hippo in Kruger National Park, South Africa
Picture: Stephen Earle / Barcroft Media (via Animal pictures of the week: 3 July 2015 - Telegraph)
A rat that has been trained to detect mines is given a piece of banana as a reward after successfully identifying a mine in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Picture: Taylor Weidman/Getty Images (via Animal pictures of the week: 3 July 2015 - Telegraph)
A caracal kitten explores its enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic
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A gull tosses a herring in the air after it stole it from a delivery truck in Rockland, Maine
Picture: AP (via Animal pictures of the week: 10 July 2015 - Telegraph)
A lazy damselfly uses a swimming grass snake as a perch as the reptile swims across a pond at Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Picture: David Offord/Anglia Press Agency (via Animal pictures of the week: 3 July 2015 - Telegraph)
Taiga forest, Eastern Finland
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It looks like an optical illusion but this chestnut foal was born with his own perfect white shadow. The unique marking is the profile of another horse which runs up his left flank and neck. It then merges seamlessly from white to black into his mane.
Photo: Ross Parry (via Daily Mail)