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Giant lizard discovery underscores threats to Philippine forests
Source: Christian Science Monitor By: Stephen Kurczy
Researchers say a new species of giant lizard discovered in the Philippines is a reminder of the biological richness of a vanishing jungle. Rapid deforestation in the country is dimming hopes for uncovering other animals still undocumented, scientists note.
The new species was discovered last summer on the main island of Luzon, when US researchers on a field trip purchased a unique-looking lizard carcass from a Philippine hunter for a few pesos.
"The hunter had caught it accidentally in a snare for wild pigs. We saw he had it and we were able to bargain with him for it," says Luke Welton, one of the authors of an article published today in the peer-reviewed Royal Society journal Biology Letters announcing the finding...
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Canadian wildcat makes 2,000 kilometre trek home
Source: Montreal Gazette By: Randy Boswell
It's not called the Canada lynx for nothing. Wildlife experts are describing as "incredible" the 2,000 kilometre journey home of a tuft-eared wildcat that was captured as a young adult in British Columbia in 2003 and transported to Colorado for a landmark lynx reintroduction program where it sired at least six offspring before being trapped this winter in Alberta.
That's right, the cat came back. And its homeward-bound, cross-border odyssey to Canada, culminating with its death on a trap line north of Banff National Park in January, is the longest ever recorded for the species by far.
The journey of the nine year old lynx, known to scientists in Canada and the United States as specimen BC-03-M-02, is bound to become a classic case study for the continent's biologists, says University of Alberta lynx researcher Gabby Yates...
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Diving with giants: Photos that capture the gentleness of nature's largest predator Source: MailOnline
These incredible pictures shows the gentleness of giant sperm whales as they play near the surface. Taken in Dominica in the Caribbean, the pod even allows snorkellers to touch and interact with them. Hunted for their oil and demonised as savage brutes in fiction such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick, these pictures show a gentler side to one of the planet's largest mammals.
They were taken by Dr Peter G Allinson, from Florida, who specialises in Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine who travels to Dominica on a regular basis to highlight these magnificent creatures.
Dr Allinson said, "When they interact with us they approach us very closely, rolling over again and again, trying to get us to rub their abdomens and bodies. When you start getting close to them you feel nervous, intimidated and then as they interact with you pleasure, you realise they are intelligent"...
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