Robert Irwin’s drone capturing a dramatic bird’s-eye view depicting the destruction wreaked by a bushfire in Northern Australia wins the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award 2020. Robert Irwin, son of the late conservation activist Steve Irwin is a wildlife photographer and children’s TV personality, whose drone image was taken in Cape York,…
The Rajasthan Government ordered the removal of 20 medically unfit elephants from tourist rides at Amer Fort in Jaipur, the pink city. Three elephants have tested positive for tuberculosis, while 11 elephants have impaired vision, along with other ailments. Their medical tests were conducted in July 2020, as 4 elephants have already died at Amer…
Two tiny lizards, one male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon a body of just 13.5mm, with its length from top to tail only 22mm, the other female 29mm were discovered by a German-Madagascan expedition team in Madagascar. This makes the smallest of about 11, 500 known species of reptiles according to the Bavarian State Collection of…
Three-month-old cub during an early morning grooming session in the Masai Mara in Kenya. Mark Boyd, the director of the conservation group Safari Collection Footprint Foundation took these photos at Sala’s Camp.
A wild elephant who had roamed around the Masinagudi village for eight months searching for food and water had died after a tyre set on fire got caught on its ear. The villagers set fire to a rubber tyre and hurled it at the elephant in an effort to chase it away form their…
The pictures emerging from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 372 miles ( 600km) above the planet’s surface could allow up to 5, 000 km² of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day. All the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning – a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety…
Alfie, a dog relentlessly savaged a red deer who had to be put down, in London’s Richmond Park, A warning has been issued by Royal Parks Police and urging dog owners to keep dogs on leads, as cases of pets worrying deep in London’s eight royal parks have shot up during the pandemic lockdown. On…
Midwestern Pet Foods, based in Indiana, in the US, has recalled its Sportmix brand and other labels following the death of over 70 dogs and illness in another 80. Tests showed the food had potentially unsafe levels of aflatoxins, a by-product of mould that grows on corn and other grains. The US Food and Drug…
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John Gray’s Feline Philosophy, is a collection of quotes from great thinkers about their furry companions. `Gray agrees with honourable tradition of philosophers who are paradoxically suspicious of philosophical thoughts. Some consider philosophy is a symptom of mental disorder. The best philosophy is one that cures itself, leaving nothing to philosophise about and the world…