driver accused of cruelty to animals and in a fine of USD 100 . He was caught carrying a goat in the trunk of his car

VIRGINIA A driver accused of cruelty to animals and in a fine of USD 100 . He was caught carrying a goat in the trunk of his car.Deputy sheriff kote Bedford, Virginia, United States (U.S.) found bound and the goat in the trunk of a car owned by Fiona Ann Enderby. When checked, it turns out she was also drunk driving. Thus reported the Associated Press, Sunday (22/08/2010).When asked the police, the woman was declared if the goats he bought from a farmer who will be given to someone else. We found the goat looked out of breath. When measured, the air in the trunk temparatur is approximately 94 degrees centigrade.

more than 60 whales were found dead on the Beach Kaitaia in New Zealand

60 whales died on a beach in New Zealand. Whale that died after it beached.This was disclosed by Carolyn Smith of the New Zealand Ministry of Nature Protection. Carolyn announced that more than 60 whales were found dead on the Beach Kaitaia in New Zealand. Whales can not be saved because rescuers could not save enough time for the whales.

Carolyn guessed it before the fish were stranded at first. He was stranded due to make sure they can not survive. Similarly as reported from all voices, Saturday, August 21, 2010.Carolyn adds there are actually about 73 whales that were stranded but there are some among the fish who saved themselves by returning to the sea.Ministry of Nature Protection explained the type of pilot whales were stranded since Thursday night.

Some volunteers are trying hard to restore the large fish in the sea. But, not easy to do so.whale on the beach of New Zealand is not this just happened the first time only. Last December, about 100 whale also beached in the country and then they can not survive presumed dead.

Hundreds of penguins that apparently starved to death are washing up on the beaches of Brazil

SAO PAULO Hundreds of penguins that apparently starved to death are washing up on the beaches of Brazil, worrying scientists who are still investigating what’s causing them to die.About 500 of the black-and-white birds have been found just in the last 10 days on Peruibe, Praia Grande and Itanhaem beaches in Sao Paulo state, said Thiago do Nascimento, a biologist at the Peruibe Aquarium.Most were Magellan penguins migrating north from Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands in search of food in warmer waters.

Many are not finding it: Autopsies done on several birds revealed their stomachs were entirely empty – indicating they likely starved to death, Nascimento said.Scientists are investigating whether strong currents and colder-than-normal waters have hurt populations of the species that make up the penguins’ diet, or whether human activity may be playing a role.”Overfishing may have made the fish and squid scarcer,” Nascimento said.Nascimento said it’s common for penguins to swim north this time of year. Inevitably, some get lost along the way or die from hunger or exhaustion, and end up on the Brazilian coast far from home.But not in such numbers – Nascimento said about 100 to 150 live penguins show up on the beach in an average year, and only 10 or so are dead.”What worries us this year,” he said, “is the absurdly high number of penguins that have appeared dead in a short period of time.”(AP)

Nadia Bloom. After missing four days, he was eventually found alive in a swamp in Winter Springs

WINTER SPRINGS  The Miracle of life really overshadow Nadia Bloom. After missing four days, he was eventually found alive in a swamp in Winter Springs, Florida, United States, Wednesday (14 / 4) then.Autistic woman was found in the mud bog that became very vicious crocodile habitat. Nadia the besieged dozens of vicious crocodile is reportedly for five days did not suffer serious injuries although severely dehydrated and mosquito bites.

The girl was found by a friend of Nadia’s father, when they wanted to keep track of these swamps. “God seemed to direct me to find Nadia,” explained King. Nadia missing Friday (9 / 4) while out cycling, making a video about nature.

Nadia’s father, Jeff Bloom, said she and the authorities have to find her son to use radar, helicopters, dive teams, volunteers until golden retriever. Since crowded as the swamp, the officers took 1.5 hours to lift the body of Nadia.11-year-old girl appeared calm. He admitted that he only slept for two hours during the sunset in the swamp. Nadia had seen some fierce snake, but his body was not touched by the crocodile.

Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China's

BEIJING Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China’s frigid northeast, state media said Friday.A manager at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province, however, said the animals had died of disease.Siberian tigers are one of the world’s rarest species, with just 300 believed remaining in the wild.

Liu Xiaoqiang, vice chief of the Shenyang Wild Animal Protection Station, a local animal protection agency, was quoted by the China Daily as saying 11 of the zoo’s tigers died of malnutrition in the last three months after subsisting on a meager diet of chicken bones.Two others were shot dead by police in November after the hungry animals attacked a zookeeper, the report said.The Liaoshen Evening Post, a local Shenyang newspaper, reported on its Web site that the company that owns the zoo was trying unsuccessfully to auction the zoo property, and many staffers complained they hadn’t been paid in 18 months.

Wu Xi, one of the managers of the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo Co. Ltd., told The Associated Press that “various kinds of diseases” had killed 11 tigers at the zoo over the past three months.Wu said the animals were kept in iron crates indoors because it was an unusually cold winter and the zoo had no heating. He refused to specify what diseases the animals had or respond to allegations they starved to death.The China Daily said the zoo was mainly privately owned, though the Shenyang municipal government holds a 15 percent stake.

Xie Yan, China director for the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, said many Chinese zoos and wildlife parks have more tigers than they can afford to keep. The animals are expensive to take care of because they require a lot of food and space to roam, and ticket sales generally aren’t enough to support them.Xie said Chinese zoos began breeding tigers in the 1980s and captive populations increased rapidly in the 1990s. There are now about 6,000 captive tigers of various species in China, she said, but it’s not clear how many of those are Siberian tigers.

“In the past two or three years, people have started to realize it’s become a problem,” she said, referring to zoos that have more animals than they can afford to keep. Xie said the government should do more to regulate zoos and enforce standards for animal care. She also said birth control is needed to keep the captive tiger population at manageable levels.Chris Chaplin, a spokesman for WWF International’s Beijing office, said the news was “a massive blow” to conservation efforts. WWF colleagues in Changchun, the capital of Jillin province, which neighbors Liaoning, had just began investigating the allegations, he said.(AP)

giant crocodiles from 100 million years

Rat Croc, Duck Croc and Pancake Croc. These are not the names of children’s cartoon characters, but giant crocodiles from 100 million years, ago, whose fossilised remains palaeontologists have unearthed in the Sahara.The crocodiles once ran and swam in present-day Niger and Morocco, when the region was covered by lush plains and broad rivers, as agile on land as they were in water.The palaeontologists say that the diverse array of fossils that they found offers important clues to why the ancestors of modern crocodiles survived while dinosaurs underwent mass extinction.The expedition, which began in 2000, found specimens of four new species, nicknamed Boar Croc, Pancake Croc, Duck Croc and Rat Croc. Many of the fossils were found lying on the surface of a remote, windswept stretch of rock and dunes.The discoveries, which are described today in the journal Zookeys, show that early crocodiles were much more varied in physique and behaviour than their modern ancestors.They were given nicknames by the scientists, based on their unusual physical features.

Boar Croc (Kaprosuchus saharicus) was a ferocious 20ft-long (6m) meat eater with an armoured snout for ramming and three sets of dagger-shaped fangs for slicing.Rat Croc (Araripesuchus rattoides) was 3ft long and used its bucktoothed lower jaw to dig for roots and grubs.Pancake Croc (Laganosuchus thaumastos) was a 20ft-long squat fish eater, with a 3ft-long flat head. It would have rested, motionless, for hours, waiting for prey to swim into its open jaws.

Duck Croc (Anatosuchus minor) was a 3ft upright species that ate fish, frogs and grubs. It had a broad, overhanging snout. Sensory areas on the snout helped it to root around shallow waters for prey.The team, led by Paul Sereno, of the University of Chicago, and Hans Larsson, of McGill University, Montreal, also found the most complete example of a previously discovered species, nicknamed Dog Croc. Dog Croc (Araripesuchus wegeneri) was a 3ft-long upright plant and grub eater with a soft, doglike forward-pointing nose.Yesterday Professor Sereno described Duck Croc as the “Pinocchio of crocs”, adding that its nose was more than just a physical flourish. Evidence of soft tissue in Duck Croc’s nose suggests that it had a highly advanced sense of smell.

Dr Larsson said: “We were surprised to discover so many species from the same time in the same place.”The fossils all date from about 100 million years ago, a time when dinosaurs still dominated the Earth.With the exception of the Pancake Croc, scientists believe all of the ancient species walked upright, like a land mammal, rather than with their limbs sprawled out to the sides and their bellies touching the ground.The animals would have been able to gallop on land, although scientists have not yet established how fast they were. Professor Sereno said: “We don’t think these animals were racehorses but they were pretty fast.“A human would have had a harder time outrunning them than they would a modern crocodile.”

Their skeletal remains suggest that the early crocodiles were already well-adapted swimmers, with agile tails and paddling claws.This early versatility may explain how crocodiles came to be the largest air-breathing survivors of the mass extinction event of about 65 million years ago that wiped out terrestrial dinosaurs. “Their amphibious talents in the past may be the key to understanding how they flourished in, and ultimately survived, the dinosaur era,” said Professor Sereno.Being semi-aquatic may have made it easier for them to scavenge from the carcasses of dead marine life. Modern crocodiles can live as scavengers and can survive for months without food.

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Light Shed on Mysteries of Deadly Jellyfish

Box jellyfish are odd creatures. Some species have 24 eyes. They mate in mass spawning, during which males and females never touch while they release sperm and eggs into the ocean and let nature take its course.Most interest to humans is the fact that box jellyfish can be deadly. But because jellyfish don’t make for good fossils, and few jellies exist in museum collections, little is known about their evolutionary history or the relationships between different species.Now scientists have gained new information about the distribution, relationships and evolution of these deadly sea creatures, findings that could eventually help researchers generate antivenom to save lives.

Who’s related to whom

Box jellies, also called sea wasps, stingers or fire jellies, live primarily in warm coastal waters around the world. They are particularly well known in Australia, the Philippines and the rest of southeast Asia, but they also occur in Hawaii and in waters off the United States Gulf and East Coasts. Some are harmless, others cause death to humans in just minutes.Named for their box or cube-shaped body, these animals are members of Cubozoa, the smallest class of Cnidaria, animals ranging from sea anemones and corals to Portuguese man of war and true jellyfish, all of which possess stinging capsules known as nematocysts.

Using DNA extracted from tissue samples, the researchers used a number of genetic tests and analytical techniques to trace the evolution of the various species and their toxicity and to sort out misidentified species. Among the findings: Box jellies may contain a unique family of proteins that, with further study, could help create antiserums.The Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), the largest box jellyfish species, is considered the most venomous marine animal and its sting can be fatal. Its close relative, Chironex yamaguchii, has caused deaths in Japan and the Philippines. A much smaller species, Carukia barnesi, is the first species known to cause Irukandji Syndrome. Symptoms include severe low back pain, nausea, headache and vomiting, and sometimes “an impending feeling of doom”, but the syndrome is usually not life-threatening. Other box jellyfish species are now known to cause the same symptoms.“Knowing who is related to whom among the box jellyfish will be very helpful in making predictions about species that are not well known,” said NOAA researcher Allen Collins. Its possible an antivenom that works for one species might work for another, he said.

Where they are

Other species of jellyfish are known to swarm and takeover parts of the oceans. Box jellies don’t seem to move around as much as some species, however. The study revealed several patterns in the global distribution of box jellyfish species. Some live exclusively in the Atlantic, others in the Pacific, and still others are found in the Indian Ocean.”Geography seems to isolate species and most don’t seem to cross open ocean habitats,” the researchers said in a statement. “A few are found in all three oceans and may live in tropical regions around the globe.”The study, funded by the National Science Foundation and the PADI Foundation, is detailed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.