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Live Tiger found in check-in baggage
Source: TRAFFIC
Bangkok, Thailand, 26th August 2010 — A two-month old tiger cub was found sedated and hidden among stuffed-tiger toys in the luggage of a woman at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Sunday. The 31 year old Thai national was scheduled to board a Mahan Air flight destined for Iran when she had trouble checking in her oversized bag.
Airports of Thailand (AOT) staff suspected something amiss when they scanned the bag and x-ray images showed an item resembling a real cat. Officers from the Livestock Development Department and the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department were then called in to open the bag for inspection and discovered the tranquilized cub. Investigations are underway to determine if the cub was wild caught or captive-bred, where it came from and the suspect’s intended final destination... Click Here To View The Entire Article |
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Talented octopus dupes predators by impersonating fish
Source: BBC News By: Pamela Rutherford
The Indonesian mimic octopus has the extraordinary ability to pass itself off as many of the toxic fishes or sea snakes that share its habitat. A new study of its DNA suggests why these abilities evolved. Instead of blending into the background, the animal impersonator often uses a daredevil strategy of making itself more conspicuous to predators. Scientists believe the behaviour evolved to scare other animals.
First described by scientists in 1998, the Indonesian mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) is able to pass itself off as a number of its near neighbours. By flattening its head and arms, using a bold brown and white colour display and adopting an undulating swimming technique T. mimicus can fool predators that it is, in fact, a poisonous flatfish rather than a tasty meal. Because this high risk defence strategy is quite rare, scientists from the California Academy of Sciences and Conservation International Indonesia were keen to understand how its abilities evolved and why they are used... Click Here To Read The Article In Full, Includes Video |
Uganda's Lions Hanging by a Thread
Source: Bush Warriors
The results of Uganda's first ever carnivore survey are alarming, only 415 lions remain in the nation's network of National Parks. The study carried out by a team of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) researchers last year confirms Uganda's lion population has declined by almost 40% in less than ten years. The team found only 132 of the big cats are left in the Murchison Falls National Park, the largest park in Uganda. The study focused on lions within National Parks, because animals typically do not live outside these protected areas, as they often end up killed by humans.
These recent findings are of great concern to Uganda's ecotourism-based economy. A 2006 survey carried out by WCS found that, second only to gorillas, lions were the most popular attraction among tourists. Based on the results of this study, researchers were able to determine that economic worth of the country's lions. They calculated each and every lion in Queen Elizabeth National Park to be worth $14,800 per year to the ecotourism industry. "The loss of lions in Queen Elizabeth Park in particular could have a significant impact on the tourism industry, Uganda's largest foreign currency earner," explains the director of the WCS Albertine Rift Program, Andy Plumptre... Click Here To Read Bush Warriors Full Article Click Here For More Info At Wildlife Conservation Society |
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