| How cute is a baby animal!!!!! | | Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 10:59:55 AM by Rose Martins | There is nothing as cute as a baby animal. Even the toughest, fiercest, scariest and most dangerous animal alive, is very cute as a baby. Most baby animals are guarded by their parents, who feed them and watch over them. 
Baby animals gain independence a lot quicker than human babies, especially baby animals in the wild. Baby animals born on a farm are the picture perfect example of the enticement of rustic life. One has an image of baby lambs during the springtime, bonny and bouncing with little black faces.
Or newborn baby calves being bottle fed by the farmer's children. A new horse foal is also a delight, wobbling for the first few minutes before gaining his balance.
Animal babies often have delightful names…………Spotty the new baby calf, Wooly the newborn baby lamb, Rambo the little labrador puppy and Princess, the new jet black foal. While animal babies born in the wild are just as cute, they're not nearly as cuddly or approachable.
Farm animals are tame to a point, and are used to being handled by humans. Animals in the wild live by instinct and instinct only, and will kill to protect their babies.
It is strongly advised not to approach a baby animal living in the wild, and even an animal baby living on a farm should be approached with caution.
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| | | Baby Vietnamese Leaf Turtle born in captivity | | Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:24:14 PM by Rose Martins |  A baby Vietnamese leaf turtle, the latest newcomer of a highly endangered species, is on display at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. It's diet consists of vitamin-dusted crickets, that are spiced up with an occasional nightcrawler. The turtle measures about an inch long and weighs approximately 1/6th of an ounce. Nobody's sure if it's a male of female yet. The baby's mother, was brought to the aquarium as part of a temporary exhibit called "Turtle Trek". Nobody knew she was pregnant. | |
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| | | Baby Giant Anteater born in captivity | | Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:22:24 PM by Rose Martins |  In a first for South East Asia, Singapore has bred a giant anteater baby in captivity. The giant anteater is a threatened species. Since it's birth, the baby has been riding on it's mother's back, coming down only to suckle. Singapore Night Safari is a zoo that specialised in breeding rare, endangered animals such as the giant anteater, the giant flying squirrel and the malayan flying fox. | |
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| | | Each child is made for a reason | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:46:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | The anniversary of Roe vs. Wade is once more upon us. This legalized murdering 4,400 babies a day in the United States because the mother has the "right" to choose for her baby. They selfishly guard their own goals and lifestyles, ignoring abortion causes great pain to God's creation. Ironically, many of the abortion rights supporters care about the environment, would never harm animals, protect seals, trees, etc. Many oppose the death penalty. Where are our priorities? .... | |
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| | | Horses get a ride to refuge | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:48:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | Farrier Vince Cavallini on Friday examines a hoof of one of the new arrivals at the Grace Foundation's rescue ranch south of El Dorado Hills. Foundation officials have been touched by the community support received since agreeing to take in more than two dozen malnourished horses from a Wilton ranch. Sacramento Bee/Carl Costas See additional images .... | |
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| | | Caring For Creatures Great And Small | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 2:48:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | ODESSA - Like a mother cradling her baby, Brenda Baughman held the sick and frightened wild raccoon in her arms, gently stroking the top of his head. "It's OK. I've got you, darlin'. Just calm down. No one is going to hurt you, sweetheart," she said softly, looking down at him. In a matter of seconds, the raccoon, which initially was fighting to get out of her grip, began to relax as he gazed up at Baughman's face. Seemingly mesmerized, the raccoon's fear just melted away. "You've heard of the dog whisperer? We think she's the raccoon whisperer," Marilyn Waldorf said of Baughman's knack for communicating with wild raccoons. Waldorf, a real estate agent from Pinellas County, is one of a handful of volunteers who helps Baughman and her husband run Wildlife Haven Rehab, a small, nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating injured, sick or orphaned wildlife and releasing them back into their natural habitat.... | |
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| | | AARP convention targets baby boomer generation | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 6:47:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Elton John, Bill Cosby, the Pillsbury Doughboy and a NASCAR driving simulator are among the highlights at this year's AARP convention and expo, rolling into the Anaheim Convention Center on Thursday. About 25,000 graying baby boomers and other oldsters are expected at the three-day event, which offers a blend of clinging to youth and preparing for death. Roaming the cavernous exhibit hall, conventioneers can alternately play Nintendo or plan their funerals, buy motorcycle insurance or soothe cracked cuticles, discuss space exploration with NASA or talk about enlarged prostates with the American Urological Association. Electric scooter and wheelchair rentals will be available, but that doesn't mean this is the stereotypical dentures-and-Metamucil crowd.... | |
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| | | Baby giraffes perish in Czech zoo stampede | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 10:46:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | HRADEC KRALOVE, Czech Republic, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Three baby giraffes were killed when restoration of a power outage caused a panic among animals at a Czech zoo. A power cut described as the worst in 15 years darkened large sections of the northern Czech Republic. A spokesman for the Hradec Kralove Zoo, east of Prague, said the baby giraffes died after the abrupt blaze of lights when power was restored sent the animals stampeding, Prague Radio reported Thursday. The blackout in Czech's eastern Bohemia region left about 180,000 homes without electricity, the radio said and the zoo spokesman said it caused about $18,000 worth of damage to the zoo. .... | |
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| | | Parasite in mothers' blood linked to sex of baby | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:46:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | Washington, Oct 12: While expecting mothers may hardly have any preferences for blue or pink researchers have now found that the presence of a particular parasite called Toxoplasma gondii can increase the likelihood of a woman having a baby boy.Women infected with dormant toxoplasmosis are more likely to give birth to boys than women who are Toxoplasma negative, according to research by S. Kankova and colleagues from the Departments of Parasitology, Microbiology and Zoology, Charles University; the Centre of Reproductive Medicine; and GynCentrum, in the Czech Republic. This is the first study published in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften this week, to suggest an effect of parasitic infection on the sex of a baby.Kankova and colleagues analysed the effect of latent (or dormant) toxoplasmosis [2] on the probability of the birth of a boy in humans.... | |
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| | | Police seize exotic animals from LaFollette home | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 2:46:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | LaFollette police have arrested a man on animal cruelty charges after discovering nearly a hundred pets in his yard. Officials describe the animals living conditions as deplorable Eighty-seven animals have been brought into the Campbell County Animal Shelter since Thursday including some fifty-five dogs and twenty-five exotic birds, including canaries, parrots and cockatiels. An african serval has also been confiscated. The cat is often called a mini cheetah and looks like a mix between a leopard and a bobcat. A baby wallabee is being cared for at a nearby animal rescue. The wallabee is in the kangaroo family. County officials had to look on the internet to find out what to feed it. "The feces the animals were standing in, the stagnated water, they were drinking.... | |
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| | | An Eye on the World | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:46:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | As guest of honor at The Nature of Wildworks Benefit held recently at the Beach Club, Terry Sheridan Matkins exhibited a sampling of her photographs from around the world and here at home as the official wildlife photographer for The Nature of Wildworks. The benefit sale raised $32,000 for the care of the animals and educational outreach. A longtime resident of Pacific Palisades, Terry enrolled in photography classes more than 30 years ago in order to take better pictures of her children. Then she began traveling, learning from some of the best photographers around, constantly honing her craft and meeting people. In 1998 she joined the Grosvenor Council, which supports The National Geographic Society. Being a member of the Council allowed her to indulge her two passions, traveling and photography.... | |
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| | | Research Aims For More Efficiency In Harvest And Handling | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:46:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kevin Shinners wants farmers to put less energy into harvesting and handling biofuel crops - less fuel, less time and less labor. As a field machinery specialist, Shinners has worked to improve the efficiency of harvesting forage for animals. Harvesting biomass crops poses similar challenges, he says. .... | |
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| | | CREATURES FROM WILD, ONCE PETS, NOW SAVED | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 2:46:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | The great horned owl had clipped wings, was deathly thin and very aggressive toward humans when it was rescued by the Wildlife Center of the Silicon Valley. An American crow had been fed Arby's roast beef sandwiches and crackers for months before someone finally brought it in. But that wasn't as bad as the albino crow that had broken wings and was completely socialized around humans when it was surrendered. Or the red-tailed hawk that had been cooped up in a tiny cage. Every year, the center rescues from six to nearly a dozen wild critters that people have tried to turn into pets. And for every one that's rescued, wildlife officials know there are many more that perish or remain captive in cramped cages in people's homes. Most of the animals are picked up in the spring when some babies fall out of their nests or their parents abandon them.... | |
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