 Webcam viewer raises rhino birth alert
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The rhino calf will share her
enclosure with her father and sister at the safari Park |
A webcam viewer in Cyprus alerted staff at a safari park in Scotland
that their pregnant rhino was about to give birth. The rhino calves are
usually born in the early hours of the morning.
When Dorothy, a
10-year-old southern white rhino, started to give birth around midday on
December 21 last year, keepers at Blair Drummond Safari Park were taken
by surprise.
Internet users around the world had been watching her 14-month
gestation on a webcam and it was a viewer in Cyprus who called to say
her waters had broken. Staff at the safari park rushed to check on
mother and daughter, although neither was ever in any danger.
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The teenager fought off the 6ft shark
by bashing it with her bodyboard |
Teenager fights off shark with board
A 14-year old New Zealand girl – Lydia Ward – fought off a shark with
her boogie board after it had bitten her. The shark bit Lydia on the hip
as she was standing in waist-deep water on a beach near the southern New
Zealand city of Invercargill on Monday.
She repeatedly hit the shark about the head until it let her go. “I
couldn’t believe the lack of fuss…there was no screaming,” praised her
mother Fiona Ward. “She was just standing there looking a bit shaky.”
Lydia, who was not seriously hurt in the attack, said it still didn’t
feel like it had actually happened. “I saw my brother’s face and turned
to the side and saw this large grey thing in the water so I just hit it
on the head with a boogie board,” said Lydia. The shark was estimated to
be 1.5 metres long.
Reuters
Chinese whales blow bubbles for New Year
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Beluga whales are known to be very
playful animals |
Two whales at an aquarium in China have been trained to blow bubbles
ahead of the country’s New Year celebrations. The Beluga whales, at
Polarland Aquarium in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, can blow rings and
even heart-shaped bubbles!
The animals’ trainers have worked with them for a year to perfect the
new trick. The pair will perform during Chinese New Year festivities
today. Beluga whales are highly sociable animals, with some pods
numbering in the hundreds.
- Sky news
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