A large group of a rarely sighted, mysterious species of whale has been seen off the coast of Antarctica.
Approximately 60 Arnoux’s beaked whales were seen and photographed frolicking on the surface in the Gerlache Strait.
Few sightings of this enigmatic species are made in the wild, and even less in waters near to shore…
Daily Archives: November 5, 2009
Farmers Agree To Set Aside Land For Wildlife
Farmers will be issued with leaflets on how to better protect wildlife as part of plans to bring back the environmental benefits of set-aside…
The Cat Who Got Swine Flu
A few days after two members of an Ames, Iowa, family came down with the flu, they noticed their 13-year-old cat wasn’t feeling too well either. The cat has since become the first documented case of a feline with the new H1N1 virus, commonly called swine flu…
Baldrick The Bald Hoglet
The rather aptly named Baldrick is a baby hedgehog with a difference – he is completely bald.
The four-month-old creature was abandoned by his mother and taken to an animal sanctuary where staff have come up with a rather cunning plan to treat the hedgehog’s baldness.
Experts at Foxy Lodge Wildlife Rescue centre in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk are giving Baldrick a daily massage with baby oil in a bid to get his spikes to grow…