Archive for the 'Wild Animals' Category

an odd couple, a kitty and a bear, BFF

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

This awesome story and pictures were found here.

The Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany has an odd couple in the midst.  Muschi the cat and Mausi the bear are best friends!  One day in 2000 Muschi wandered into Mausi’s enclosure.  They’ve been best friends ever since!  In October, Mausi was moved to a cage while her enclosure was being increased.  Muschi the kitty searched the zoo for her friend and sat outside her cage until the zoo keepers decided to let her back in!

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Muschi and Mausi enjoy sharing meals together.

chillaxin

and just hanging out!

smiles

Mausi is so happy! Cheesin for the camera perhaps.

sleeping

Naps are nice too :)

good kitty

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

goodkitty

u did all ur homeworks?  what a good kitty!

dog adopts tigers cubs!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Originally posted here, this loving dog adopts tiger cubs who were abandoned by their mother.  The caption on the website calls the mommy dog, Isabella, a yellow lab, but doesn’t she look more like a golden retriever?  I think so because of the longer fur around her feeties!  See examples below!

Adopted Tigers

Isabella, a yellow Lab at the Safari Zoological Park, east of Caney, Kan. nurses Wednesday, July 30, 2008, three white tiger cubs she adopted after they were abandoned by their mother at the park. The cubs were born on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Daily Reporter, Rob Morgan)

golden_retriever

A golden retriever

yellowlab

A yellow lab

sea otters!

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

otters

cute little otters playing on some rocks

otter

play over there, this is adult swim!

homage to hedgehogs

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Strange but adorable, here are some cute pictures of little hedgehogs!

tinyhedgehog

one little hedgehog curled up in a ball

3babyhedgehogs

3 itty bitty baby hedgehogs!

baby zoo animals on ABC News

Monday, July 14th, 2008

ABC News has a GREAT slide show up of cute baby zoo animals!  Click here to see it on ABC News.  I’ve picked out my favorite ones!  The captions and and photos are all from the slide show.  Enjoy >.<

BabyWhiteLions

Three white lion cubs play at a wildlife zoo in Schloss-Holte Stukenbrock, Germany, July 14, 2008. The park’s two rare white lionesses gave birth simultaneously to a total of seven cubs on June 30. Three of the cubs are being hand-fed after their mother rejected them.
(Alex Grimm/Reuters)

red panda babies!

Red panda twins Tai and Pip sleep in the hands of Sandy Helliker, an animal health technologist at the Edmonton Valley Zoo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Thursday, June 19, 2008. The pandas were born on May 26 and receive round-the-clock care from Helliker. They were taken from their mother after she showed aggression toward one of the babies.
(Jason Scott/The Canadian Press/AP Photo)

sea lions

A little sea lion cub hides behind an adult lion at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, on June 13, 2008. The sea lion cub was born in the zoo on May 26, 2008.
(Christof Stache/AP Photo)

piggyinboots

Cinderella, a British piglet, won’t walk through mud unless she is wearing her specially adapted Wellington boots. The little piggy lives with owners and pig farmers Debbie and Andrew Keeble.
(Ross Parry Agency )

baby beluga in the deep blue sea

Vancouver Aquarium’s newest addition, a minutes-old beluga whale, swims around in its tank in Vancouver, Canada on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. The calf and its mother, Qila, were doing fine after a nearly three-hour labor.
(Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press/AP Photo)

tigercubs

In this photo provided by the Saint Louis Zoo, five critically endangered Amur tigers are seen May 19, 2008 at the zoo. The five cubs, two males and three females, were born April 28 and are with their mother, Kalista, in a maternity den at the zoo.
(Saint Louis Zoo/AP Photo)

capybara

A capybara mother and her young investigate each other in their enclosure at a zoo in Hanover, Germany. The capybara is the largest living rodent in the world and is mainly found in South America.
(NIGEL TREBLIN/AFP/Getty Images)

babyhedgehog

This is one of three hedgehogs born May 7, 2008, a month before their due date. The momma hedgehog gave birth to the triplets a day after she was found starving underneath a shed in Britain.
(Steven Haywood/SWNS.COM)

flocke

A handout picture shows polar bear cub Flocke (snowflake) for the first time in her new outside enclosure, at the zoo in Nuremberg April 8, 2008. Flocke was separated from her mother Vera after officials at the Nuremberg zoo became concerned she might harm the cub.
(Tiergarten Nuernberg/Stadt Nuernberg/Reuters)

meerkats

Three baby meerkats cuddle in the cold at Bristol Zoo, April 4, 2008, in Bristol, England. The 4-week-old new arrivals — two boys and a girl — are being well looked after by four adult meerkats and are already proving a hit with visitors who can see them out in their enclosure more as the weather gets warmer. Meerkats are quite lively and sociable animals, carnivores and belong to the family of mongooses, but can only be found in Southern Africa.
( Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

the teeniest lion

A 1-day-old lion cub rests beside its mother at the Roncali International Circus installed in the National Agricultural Fair in San Salvador, Feb. 26, 2008. Four lion cubs were born Monday in captivity in the circus. The Roncali Circus breeds its animals including hippopotamus.
(Jose Cabezas/AFP/ Getty Images )

miniature giraffe

Baby giraffe Niek stands with his mother, Oranya, in Animal Park Artis in Amsterdam on Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. Niek was born the previous Friday evening.
(Koen van Weel, AFP/Getty Images)

panda bear

New photos of 5-month-old male panda cub Fu Long (Lucky Dragon) show him settling into his surroundings at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. Here, Fu Long explores his enclosure Jan. 29, 2008.
(Schoenbrunn Zoo/AP Photo)

lion family

A lioness showed off her two cubs to the public for the first time since their Oct. 4 birth in a zoo in West Germany. Malai-ka played with her 3-month-old cubs, Aketi, left, and Aru in the new lions enclosure at the zoo of Wuppertal, Germany, Jan. 8, 2008.
(Frank Augstein/AP Photo)

teeny tiger babies

Three tiger babies are shown to journalists in the Leipzig Zoo, eastern Germany. The tiger triplets were born June 30, 2007.
(Eckehard Schulz/AP Photo)

foxy

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

foxy

a tiny baby fox looking super cute!  he’s glowing!

what’s a serval?

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Yesterday animal control workers in Georgia caught a serval after a chase down some busy streets.  The owner may be getting into trouble because it is illegal for him to keep a serval as a  pet in Georgia (read the article).  Until today, I had never even heard of servals.  According to my extensive reseach (According to wikipedia), servals are medium-sized African wild cats that live mainly in the savanna or mountainous areas.  (Read about them here!)  So why would someone want to keep a dangerous wild animal as a pet?  probably cause they’re so freaking cute!

Serval kitten

An itty bitty serval kitten.  his ears are still floppy!

serval

what a precious little face!!!!

serval4

it can be belly scratches time??

female_serval_cub

my what big ears you have! my what pretty eyes you have!

the better for looking cute, my dear

the littlest squirrel

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

thelittlestsquirrel

This little squirrel is soooo small and sooooo fuzzy.  He still has his little baby furs!

baby chimp having some noms

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

babychimp

This cute baby chimp is having some noms!  That apple looks pretty tasty!

lovey elephants

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Lovie Elephants!

This sihouette of two elephants is adorable!  Their trunks form the shape of a heart.  How cute!!  They must love each other very much.  I like to think the one with tusks is the boy :)