A southern pudú, the world’s smallest species of deer, was born at the Queens Zoo in New York City on May 12. He weighed about one pound at birth.
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I saw this on the Fascinating Pictures Twitter feed:
Bodyguards protecting one of the last six remaining Northern White Rhinos on earth. pic.twitter.com/IZ1Vi4Y626
— Fascinating Pictures (@Fascinatingpics) November 11, 2014
There really are only six northern white rhinos left, after a 34 year-old male died on October 17, 2014. He was one of only two surviving males, meaning the species has very grim prospects for survival (and yes, I’m trying to avoid sounding defeatist.) Only four of them are actually in Africa, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The other two are at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California. I saw one of them back in 2011:
The northern white rhinos in Kenya have been under 24-hour armed guard for a while, as reported by the Telegraph back in 2012. Even with the guards, though, poachers have continued to pick the rhinos off: Continue reading
The Houston Zoo has an exhibit that I absolutely will not be seeing, entitled “Extreme Bugs!” The exhibit will apparently include this giant spider, from a picture posted to the zoo’s Facebook page:
They can call this exhibit whatever they want, but I’m gonna call it “NOPE!” (via Facebook)
The exhibit opens Memorial Day weekend, so you have a few weeks to plan a trip to Houston or get the hell off of this planet, whichever suits your fancy.
Aside from the years of nightmares that picture alone is likely to cause, something else jumped out at me about this exhibit. I noticed the following on the zoo’s website: Continue reading