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Filmmaker Lucy Cooke's full length hour-long documentary "Too Cute! Baby Sloths" premiers this Saturday, December 17th at 8pm EST on Animal Planet. The film (and trailer below) features lots of baby Sloths, the residents of The Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica, the world's only Sloth sanctuary. Most are orphans whose mothers have been killed by power lines or cars. These orphans have a new, if slightly unconventional mom in celebrated Sloth whisperer Judy Arroyo.
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Here's proof that firemen and rescue workers do have soft spots in their hearts. The title says it all, and it's worth the look: 27 Heartwarming Photos Of Animals Being Rescued
Here's proof that firemen and rescue workers do have soft spots in their hearts. The title says it all, and it's worth the look: 27 Heartwarming Photos Of Animals Being Rescued
Pet Paradise Resort, an upscale pet boarding, daycare and grooming resort, will start collecting and donating pet hair clippings from all 13 of their resort locations to help with the oil spill cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico. Pet Paradise will be working with Matter of Trust, who creates the hair booms to soak up the oil.
Matter of Trust has about a dozen locations along the Gulf Coast where the hair, along with used nylon stockings, is made into booms which help soak up spilled oil. It is estimated that one pound of dog hair can soak up one quart of oil in one minute. On average there is about 2600 oil spills a year.
“We saw what was occurring in our backyard (the Gulf) and knew we had to do something to help,” explains Fred Goldsmith CEO Pet Paradise Resort. “We are thrilled to assist in this current oil spill cleanup effort, just by shipping off our pet hair clippings we collect in our grooming salons. Companywide we collect over 100 pounds of hair a week, so we know we will be able to make a tremendous impact on this effort and future efforts to clean up oil spills.”
Pet Paradise Resort will start shipping collected pet hair to Matter of Trust’s warehouses located along the Gulf of Mexico and in San Francisco. The company has grooming salons in all 13 resorts located in Texas, Louisiana, Florida and North Carolina.
About Pet Paradise
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Pet Paradise was formed in 2002 and currently has 13 facilities in operation of which nine are located throughout Florida; two are in Houston, and one each in New Orleans and Charlotte.
The Pet Paradise facilities include spacious dog and cat boarding suites as well as day care and grooming services. All facilities are Hurricane Category 3 safety rated and serve as pet evacuation sites in the event of mandatory hurricane evacuations.
Awww... who doesn't love a slide show of baby wildlife. National Geographic Society provides a glimpse–like this Lynx and cub pictured above. See the photo gallery here.
This baby sea otter has so much faith in its mother's ability to keep him safe that it is taking a nap curled on her stomach as she swims across an Alaskan bay.
Photographer Steven Kazlowski, 40, snapped the otters drifting across Saw Mill Bay, in Prince William Sound, off the south coast of Alaska. The sound has more than 3,000 miles of shoreline and is home to around 70,000 sea otters. Read More.
The Arctic tern is an elegant flyer performing an annual long-distance
migration between the Arctic and the Antarctica. When added up over a
lifetime, the total journey for the bird is the equivalent of three
trips to the moon and back.
The study showed that the Arctic tern travels an average of around 44,000 miles round trip from Greenland to the Weddell Sea, on the shores of Antarctica, and back to the breeding grounds in Greenland — nearly twice the distance generally cited for tern's annual migration.
(August 24, 2009) – Aquarists at SeaWorld
Orlando are providing round-the-clock care for three endangered
loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings this week. Park rangers in Cape
Canaveral, FL transported the reptilian refugees to SeaWorld after
rough seas caused by Hurricane Bill prevented the week-old trio
from trekking from their nest to the waters off the Cape Canaveral
National Seashore. Once the seas calm, SeaWorld Orlando’s Animal Rescue
and Rehabilitation Team will return the turtles to the wild off the
coast of Juno Beach in Jupiter, Florida.
Loggerheads are listed as threatened by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Every year hatchlings face many “human” obstacles during their journey from their nest on the beach to the shoreline. Artificial lighting, noise and beach activity can confuse causing them to head away from the ocean and toward parking lots and city streets. To discover more about loggerheads, go to www.seaworld.org Photo by SeaWorld.
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