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Masters of disguise: The gecko that resembles a leaf and nature's other camouflage experts
By Wil Longbottom Updated: 07:29 GMT, 8 December 2011 Stare at these pictures for long enough and you might just spot some clever creatures playing the ultimate game of hide and seek. This Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko is barely visible against the leaves in the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar. These amazing animals are true masters at blending effortlessly into their environment as a means of survival in the natural world. Blending in: This Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko hides from predators in Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar, or is it just a leaf? Nothing to see here: A Bat-faced Toad hides among dead leaves in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia Barking up the wrong tree: It's nearly impossible to pick out this Lichen Spider at the Erawan National Park in Thailand From frogs to fish and bugs to birds, this collection of images shows the animal kingdom's outstanding camouflage ability. Animals use two basic methods of concealment in a bid to hide from predators and catch prey.
Austrian Kidnap Victim Natascha Kampusch Revisits Cellar
Seeing the cramped, windowless basement where Natascha Kampusch was locked up for 8½ years, it's almost impossible to believe that anyone could have survived the ordeal. Yet the Austrian kidnapping victim not only made it out of the dungeon where an engineer named Wolfgang Priklopil had imprisoned her as a child but also emerged a remarkably confident and self-assured young woman. In a powerful new documentary titled Natascha Kampusch: 3,096 Days' Imprisonment, which was broadcast on the German public television channel ARD on Monday night, Kampusch allowed cameras into the cellar where she had been locked up in the Vienna suburbs for the first time and revealed new harrowing details of her brutal captivity, which ended with her lucky escape in August 2006. "I have a stamp on my forehead which says victim of violence," Kampusch tells the TV crew who filmed the house that she now owns. "I will be ostracized for the rest of my life." The rest reads like a horror story.
Guépard
Antoine Lafeuille Bouchard Le guépard est jaune tacheté de noir, il a les 2 pattes arrières plus longues que celles d'avant. Il a des oreilles de forme ronde. Son poids est de près de 55 kg à l'âge adulte, et sa taille est d'à peu près 1,35 m. Les femelles ne possèdent habituellement pas de territoire. Seuls les jeunes guépards ont des prédateurs : ce sont les panthères, les lions et les lycaons.
Asiatic Cheetah
The Asiatic cheetah ("cheetah" from Hindi चीता cītā, derived from Sanskrit word chitraka meaning "speckled") (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) is now also known as the Iranian cheetah, as the world's last few are known to survive mostly in Iran. Although recently presumed to be extinct in India, it is also known as the Indian cheetah. During British colonial times in India it was famous by the name of hunting leopard,[3] a name derived from the ones that were kept in captivity in large numbers by the Indian royalty to use in hunting wild antelopes. The Asiatic cheetah separated from its African relative between 32,000 and 67,000 years ago.[8][9][10][11] Along with the Eurasian lynx and the Persian leopard, it is one of three remaining species of large cats in Iran today.[12] Anatomy and morphology[edit] Cheetah cubs with dog (India, 1897). During stress hyperthermia, there is high sympathetic nervous activity. Habitat and population estimates[edit] Prey[edit] Nawabs with their Asiatic cheetahs
Toddlers found wandering in West Jordan
WEST JORDAN -- Two young children, ages 2 and 3, are in state custody for now as the Division of Child and Family Services investigates why the young girls were wandering outside Monday night in the cold. West Jordan police got a call around 9:30 Monday night from a concerned citizen who saw the girls walking down the street near the busy intersection of 7800 South and the Old Bingham Highway. Officer Dan Roberts says they responded and found the girls inside a nearby Artic Circle Restaurant, where the staff had given them some ice cream and other treats until their parents could be found. "They seemed to be content," said Roberts. He also said the 3-year-old told police her age and name, but not much else. Police say the girls appeared to be cold and lost, but on a mission for the indoor playground. Roberts said, "They weren't wearing winter clothing and they appeared to be disheveled." It wasn't until Tuesday morning that their mother realized they were even gone.
Chez le guépard, animal terrestre le plus rapide au monde, freiner est la clé
Publiée dans la revue Nature, une étude britannique présente sous un nouveau jour le grand chasseur qu'est le guépard et revisite ses techniques. Même si l'animal est tenu comme le plus rapide mammifère sur terre, ses succès de traque seraient dus à sa capacité de freinage et la vivacité avec laquelle il accélère. Tous ceux qui ont tenté de faire la course avec un guépard vous le confirmeront, ce n'est pas la peine d'essayer de dépasser ou même de rattraper le félin. Cette vitesse fait ainsi du guépard un redoutable chasseur, qui prend la plupart du temps ses proies par surprise. Des performances impressionnantes Pour en savoir plus sur l'animal, Alan Wilson du Royal Veterinary College de Londres et son équipe ont décidé d'étudier l'activité physique du guépard en pleine nature (contrairement aux précédentes études) sur une période de 17 mois, soit 367 courses. Une technique de chasse redoutable Le guépard se nourrit de mammifères de moins de 50 kilos le plus souvent.
ZooBorns: Cheetah
Last Monday my ZooBorns' co-founder, Chris Eastland, and I (Andrew Bleiman) made a very special trip to Dallas Zoo to meet their twin Cheetah cubs, Kamau and Winspear. We also met their canine companion, a black Lab puppy named, Amani. It's extraordinarily rare that we get to interact, let alone romp, with real-live zoo-borns. However these special cubs are being raised as education animals so socialization with humans, even goofy ZooBorns guys, is part of their regular day. Their puppy friend, Amani, is a calming influence who will also help with these efforts. The cubs were born at Smithsonian's Front Royal Conservation Biology Institute on July 8th. The feline duo put on quite a display. With wild Cheetah populations hovering somewhere around 10,000, the species is considered vulnerable to extinction. Institutions like Dallas Zoo serve an invaluable role in building empathy and awareness for wildlife conservation. Special thanks to the Dallas Zoo staff that made our visit possible.
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Cheetah will run again in India
29 July 2010Last updated at 07:49 The vast majority of the 10,000 cheetahs left in the world are in Africa The cheetah, eradicated in India by hunting nearly a century ago, will run again in the country, as three sites are earmarked for its reintroduction. The government has approved wildlife groups' recommendations of two sanctuaries in Madhya Pradesh and an area in Rajasthan as potential homes. The government will spend 30m rupees ($0.6m; £0.4m) to restore these sites before the animals are imported. The plan is to import the cats from Africa, Iran and the Middle East. Kuno Palpur and Nauradehi wildlife sanctuaries in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and Shahgarh area in Jaisalmer, in the northern state of Rajasthan, have been selected as the sites to house the animals. Trophy hunters Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh said the reintroduction of the world's fastest land animal would "restore the grasslands" of India.
