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Rhino To Be A Dad
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NWHS Member Newsletter #23
Welcome members of National Wildlife Humane Society (NWHS) to your weekly wildlife E-Newsletter.
National Wildlife Humane Society's wildlife sanctuary, Top Of The Rock, suffered damage to two animal enclosure roofs during recent snowstorms. The weight of unusually heavy snowfall, accumulating on these wood framed roofs caused integral supports to break and now need to be rebuilt. The animals are in no danger, but the roofs do cover partial areas of the enclosures providing dry and shady areas. One roof needs to be completely replaced and another needs partial re-framing. If you are able to assist, please use the donation button on the left side of this newsletter, or visit our website support page NWHS Support.
These are harsh economic times for everyone (especially smaller nonprofits) so if you are unable to assist at this time, we totally understand.
If you would like to assist NWHS in the expansion of our membership, it's free, and easy. Simply use the "send this to a friend" link at the top right of the newsletter, or just forward this newsletter to email address book friends who care about wildlife and nature and they can click this link Join NWHS. Together, we can build a true "wildlife conservation movement".
Patrick D. Webb
President - National Wildlife Humane Society
Founder/Director - Top Of The Rock Wildlife Sanctuary
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Great white sharks now outnumbered by tigers
Source: TimesOnline By:Mark Henderson
The great white shark has become so threatened that it is now outnumbered by the tiger, a leading marine scientist claimed yesterday.
New research has suggested that population numbers for the ocean’s most feared predator have been overestimated because many great whites have been double-counted, according to Ronald O’Dor, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, the senior scientist at the Census of Marine Life project.
“I recently heard a report from the team that’s been tagging great white sharks,” he said. “The estimated total population of great white sharks in the world’s oceans is actually less than the number of tigers...
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Note: NWHS wants Great Whites moved from Threatened to Endangered list
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Rare wolf found safe in New Brighton
Source: StarTribune - By BOB VON STERNBERG, BRETT AKAGI and ABBY SIMONS
Wildlife officials and police caught the animal next to a freeway in New Brighton. It had been missing from its locked cage since Monday.
After three nights on the run, a rare wolf mysteriously sprung from a cage at a wildlife center in Forest Lake was captured safely Thursday in New Brighton. "She's going to be fine, thank heavens," said Peggy Callahan, executive director of the Wildlife Science Center, who had the animal wrapped in a blanket in the back of an SUV.
Acting on a tip from citizens, police and wildlife officials cornered the female Mexican gray wolf, one of fewer than 150 worldwide, against a chain-link fence near Long Lake Road and Interstate 694 as traffic zoomed by. They got nets around the animal, allowing a wildlife official to inject it with a tranquilizer.
The wolf disappeared Monday after someone broke a lock on its cage at the center. Its two sisters stayed behind. Officials plan to someday reintroduce the wolves to the wild...
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Note: Several very interesting videos to view in above link
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Cincinnati Zoo Rhino Soon To Be A Dad
Source: WildAid - By:WKRC Cincinnati
Andalas, the Cincinnati Zoo's first Sumatran rhino calf has produced the first Sumatran rhino pregnancy in Southeast Asia for the global captive breeding program.
Andalas and his mate, Ratu, both eight-years-old, are expecting a calf in May of 2011. Both are living at the Sumatran Rhine Sanctuary in Indonesia. Andalas was born in 2001, the first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in 112 years. Ratu, a native Indonesian, wandered into a village just outside the Way Kambas Park and was brought to the Sanctuary to keep her safe. The two rhinos will remain at the 250-acre complex built and supported by the International Rhino Foundation.
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