Category Archives: Endangered Species
Wolves Desperately Need Our Help
This post is cross posted here from our sister site Bleeding Earth. Since the readers of Fluffyfeet are great fans of wolves, I thought it was important you get a chance to help them. Please note this petition is time sensitive.;
In the State of Idaho we are about to see another round of wolf hunting. It could start as soon as the next storm coming in now has cleared the area. This time they will use the radio collars humans put on the wolves to locate them. Unfair advantage, yes. But no matter they say, let the wolf hunting begin!
Once the snow falls then the hunters from the USDA in their helicopters will take to the air. They will use the radio collars that the wolves wear to zero in on the location of the packs. Then while the wolves are bogged down in the snow they can shoot them from the air.
Like the hunting of the grizzly bear in Alaska this is supposedly to stem predation on a natural prey animal. In this case it is elk.
Of course, man blames the wolf for elk losses, not himself.No one in Idaho is asking if habitat change or over hunting by man could be the source of dwindling elk in the area. Maybe instead of executing the wolf we could call a halt to the elk hunting season for a few years?
Time is short on this issue if it is to be halted. You can learn more and sign a petition to halt this action by visiting our friends at The Center for Biological Diversity.
Thanks in advance for your time and support.
Squeeeel!, Baby Leopards
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. From Wikimedia Commons Photo by Nancy Vandermey of EFBC"s Feline Conservation Center, Rosamond CA http://www.wildcatzoo.org
Big cats have very possibly the cutest babies of all in the animal kingdom. However, baby wolves, polar bears, all other bears, all other canines….Well, you get it. They are really all cute.
I don’t know, it is just something with the big cats that intrigues me and makes me squeeeel. The little guys in the video below aren’t doing anything but sleeping. They still turn me to mush. These baby leopards are completely huggable and kissable. They are almost too cute for humans to see.
Man, I know these are not pets and shouldn’t be, but I would really love to be around them anyway. Then again, wouldn’t everybody?
Here is the description from the video;
2-month-old clouded leopard cubs Taji and Sumalee take a nap after their morning feed. These cubs were born June 14, 2011 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, WA.
Here’s the video.
Now tell me you didn’t get a warm and fuzzy feeling watching these guys. The other great thing is they are increasing the number of this endangered species, so its a twofer.
Wild Mountain Gorilla Encounter
What would you give to meet Wild Mountain Gorillas up close? I know I would be thrilled and probably very afraid if these incredible animals were actually grooming me. A Mountain Gorilla is a strong animal and if the Mountain Gorilla decides I am a threat, that is pretty much all she wrote.
Just imagine being so close to them that you could smell them and feel their fingers pull through your hair. Watch this video and ask yourself would I or could I be as calm as this gentleman was?
Wow, just wow. I think he was thinking don’t touch back and definitely do NOT make eye contact because they will think it is a challenge.
No matter what you or I or the gentleman in the video would or did think, this would be the experience of a lifetime. It could even be life altering. What a great gift from these primates to this man. All the rest of us can only imagine the thrill he felt at this encounter.