Animal Facts you didn't know about

Female Mice Avoid Mates That Remind Them of Their Dads

In the mouse world, courtship involves ultrasonic songs (a squeak that’s inaudible to humans) sent from aroused males to females. But a recent study found that a female mouse—if she grew up fami

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013

Highlights include an incredible shot of a hunting bear, beautiful baby gorillas and a tiny harvest mouse.

Specially commended: 'Sockeye catch' by Valter Bernardeschi. Each year between July and September, mi

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Animal Magic

• Totally ’80s Toad
Inspired by the Trapper Keeper, this Costa Rican variable harlequin toad (Atelopus varius) is all dressed up for ’80s night every night (and days, too). Maybe that’s why the species is known by some as the clown frog. Or maybe it’

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10 Little-Known Animal Facts

10 Little-Known Animal Facts

• Healthy Living Editors
• August 30, 2013

From the brainiac honey bee to the real color of a lobster, this list has it all. Read on to collect some entertaining, but seldom talked about animal facts!

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Glow in the dark rabbits created by scientists

Glow in the dark rabbits created by scientists

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/glow-dark-rabbits-created-scientists-112949244.html
ITN
Scientists use jellyfish DNA to create glow in the dark rabbits. .

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/glow-dark-rabbit

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Woolly creature named new species

Woolly creature named new species
Press Association

Press Association - Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), the first New World carnivore species to be discovered in the 35 years.

A creature looking like a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear has

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Gift Giving Dolphin Delivers Fresh Dinner to Family

Gift Giving Dolphin Delivers Fresh Dinner to Family
Posted: 11 Aug 2013 10:22 PM PDT

From the dailymail.co.uk

Lucy Watkins, 14, was admiring the dolphin with her family in Devon

Mammal jumped out of the water and placed fish near to the teenager A

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Monarch Butterfly - Wonders of Life - Episode 5 Preview - BBC Two & Incredible Journey of Monarch Butterflies - Mariposas Monarcas

Monarch Butterfly - Wonders of Life - Episode 5 Preview - BBC Two

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Published on 18 Feb 2013
More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012qczg These remarkable creatures are able to accurately orientate

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Johnny Morris

Johnny Morris and the boisterous gorilla

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BBC Animal Magic intro 70s Johnny Morris

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Johnny Morris (1916-1999)

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Uploaded on 8 Dec 2009

Johnny Morris OBE (20t

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Dog's Purpose: from a 6-year-old---

Dog's Purpose: from a 6-year-old---

Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog's owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were h

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Baby Elephant Navann's Outing

Baby Elephant Navann's Outing

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Baby elephant Navann plays in the mud pit and takes a dip in the river with his mother and nanny at Elephant Nature Park in Mae Tang, Chiang Mai, northern Thailand.

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5 Incredible Things Dogs Sense About You

5 Incredible Things Dogs Sense About You
• Katie Waldeck - March 16, 2013

For centuries, people have been turning to their beloved pooches for affection and companionship. And for good reason — dogs are incredibly perceptive and intelligent creatur

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Perfectly Timed Animal Shots

Perfectly Timed Animal Shots
By Donna Calvin

You have to see these guys caught on camera!

To read more from Donna, check out her Watchwoman on the Wall blog on Beliefnet.

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Animal heroes: The cat who killed 'Mao Tse Tung', the pigeon who saved 1,000 lives and other incredible stories

Animal heroes: The cat who killed 'Mao Tse Tung', the pigeon who saved 1,000 lives and other incredible stories

The PDSA Dickin Medal - regarded as the animals' Victoria Cross - has been awarded to just 63 animals. Here are five heart-warming tal

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What Animal Matches Your Personality?

What Animal Matches Your Personality?
• Healthy Living Editors - October 21, 2012

Do you know your Myers-Briggs personality type? Based on Carl Jung’s theories on personality, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment explores preferences in how

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It's behind you! Diver's unforgettable swim with mammoth 41ft whale shark

It's behind you! Diver's unforgettable swim with mammoth 41ft whale shark

The experienced photographer happened to be in the right place at the right time

Yahoo! News UK

• Yahoo! News - Photographer Reinhard Dirscherl took this extraordinary sna

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Wild Dolphin "Asks" Divers to Help Free Itself from Hook

Wild Dolphin "Asks" Divers to Help Free Itself from Hook

http://youtu.be/wL9I4BxuryY
Published on 22 Jan 2013

Dolphins may be one of the planet's smartest creatures, but one thing they lack are opposable thumbs. However, they are clever enough t

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7 Things About Wild Killer Whales You'll Never Learn at SeaWorld

7 Things About Wild Killer Whales You'll Never Learn at SeaWorld

Orcas are among the most intelligent species in the world, making them particularly unsuitable to captivity.

Orcas in the Open Ocean

Life for killer whales in the ocean is infinitel

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World's Biggest Ant Hill Amazing Cement Structure

World's Biggest Ant Hill Amazing Cement Structure

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a squid

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a squid
By Harumi Ozawa

AFP/Hokkaido University/AFP/File - Image taken by Kouta Muramatsu of Hokkaido University on July 25, 2011 shows the oceanic squid flying in the air in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It pr

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