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40 years of love,respect and devotion in his bear study ;
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Lynn Rogers is alive and kicking and his work continues. :D
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Recently in Africa
Enjoyment of life as a lesson for orphans


Boro-Boro is a little hippo with a sad fate: Men came to the river, clamorous men, who lifted their guns and shot around like madmen. Horrified all animals fled. Only not so Boro-Boro´s mother. She was lying dead in her own blood. Khalina the nature made to an orphan as her mother in the steppe fought the hopeless fight with a lion and sacrificed her life for that of her daughter. The youngster than strayed helplessly around desperately wailing. She would have died of hunger, because nature does not know mercy with weak ones.

But with Boro-Boro and Khalina fate meant well: there is hope in Kenia for orphans like them. In the shadow of Mount Kenya public authorities and white settlers made now a start with the initiative “LOVE” (Let Orphans Venture Earth]. In the whole country orphaned young animals shall be caught and brought here. “We know we touch the nature” LOVE chief Oboto Mambili confesses. “But we want to amend, what we cruel peoples did to the animal world.” At LOVE Boro-Boro and Khalina are cockered up now affectionately. “But we must not let them get used to us humans” Manbili says. “We want to give them back to nature”. Since two months the two orphans are at LOVE – and they became very close friends. Friends who would never find each other in the wilderness. But Boro-Boro and Khalina are like all children of the world. They don´t know the sentence: you are different! They find themselves while playing and teasing each other, because that is the language which cracks all tensions. If horrible things should be forgotten the nature knows mercy – at least with her most beloved creatures the children. Khalina and Boro-Boro will later go separate ways, but maybe they take the magic of memory to their early love with them.

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This is such an unusual and fascinating story about an Allen Huimmingbird Mum and her two chicks which jjop posted in the FFF and I think many more people should read about this wonder of nature, about "Hummmie" and her little family and the help of people concerned in Northern California:

A home for Hummingbirds
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This just disgusting!

Something is seriously wrong with us humans.
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From the wonderful author of the Allen's hummingbird "Hummie" in A home for hummingbirds I got these beautiful photos of another kind of hummingbird:

A photo of Sammie, a male Anna's hummingbird with the gorgeous reddish crow and gorget who sat in one of the geraniums pots for almost 3 months and did absolutely nothing but guard the feeder. He seems like a retired hummingbird. But lately, he has not been around because it started raining and getting cold. He was a real charmer and so attractive.

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Guarding the bird feeder:

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The story of an unusual friendship found it’s end:

Goodbye Mäuschen

Please scroll down a little bit for the English language part:
Everything for the cat – The story of an unusual friendship

VIDEO: Mäuschen and Muschi together with Thomas Dörflein…
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... and do you know what happened to the cat ?
Lovely story goodbye Maunchen
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macdoum wrote:... and do you know what happened to the cat ?
Lovely story goodbye Maunchen
That also was my first thought..... but until now I did not find out. I'll tell you as soon as I heare anything!
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macdoum wrote:... and do you know what happened to the cat ?
Lovely story goodbye Maunchen
In the meantime I learned, that the cat is allowed to stay there at the zoo. But I did not yet find out if anybody has seen here lately.....
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There are news about „Muschi“ the cat who lived together with the bear. Muschi is still there at the zoff and is being fed and ... got a boy friend! Every evening a tomcat is coming and happily eating the food which is served there for Muschi! :loveshower:
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Brit wrote:There are news about „Muschi“ the cat who lived together with the bear. Muschi is still there at the zoff and is being fed and ... got a boy friend! Every evening a tomcat is coming and happily eating the food which is served there for Muschi! :loveshower:
Ah,the happy life then. :loveshower:
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In this story a dog was rescued after following a sea lion out to sea.

"Luckily for Westie and his grateful owner, the rescuers continued the search on this occasion and found dog and sea lion playing happily out beyond the surf." -- They found the dog after an hour of searching, 4 kilometers out.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/westie-h ... rom=smh_sb
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alice44 wrote:In this story a dog was rescued after following a sea lion out to sea.

"Luckily for Westie and his grateful owner, the rescuers continued the search on this occasion and found dog and sea lion playing happily out beyond the surf." -- They found the dog after an hour of searching, 4 kilometers out.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/westie-h ... rom=smh_sb
Ahh the little devil,giving his owners 'heart-attacks' like that.. :D
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The school of the little wise guys
Sea otters are believed to be one of the most intelligent animals in the word – they eat their prey, know tools and prefer to smuggle measles …


Protectively the female is putting her paw around her pup. Rolled up warmly it is lying on her stomach, and while she is drifting on the waves of the Pacific the rhythm of the sea is dandling the pup into sleep. For about three minutes. Half an eternity in the computation of sea otter time – breaks are not foreseen in the life of martens. Finally there is always something to do – and for the youngster lesson no. 1 means on this day: let be chained and learn to drift ...



How this shall function is quickly explained: quite some air will be blown by Mum into the fur and a string of seaweed will be wound around the belly as an anchor. So the female can calmly dive – and her pup has learned something important: seaweed is a good thing. In a few weeks time it will find out, that with only few strings even fleeing crabs can be chained before they do a runner. Before this discovery quite some tricky tasks have to be done. To clear differentiate between eatable and not eatable objects. One lesson which is rather difficult for young sea otters: during their first dive sessions they are delighted to catch straw or old shoes – in the harbour of Monterey an extra zealous young animal was observed diving after old tires. Annoying errors, which, in the long run can be dangerous. Because sea otters are said to be the smallest sea mammals in the world – they spend their life mostly in the water. To keep their body temperature constantly at 38°C, their metabolism is working three times quicker than that of a mammal – therefore the animals have to take at least 100 g of food during one hour. That means 5 hours hunt daily – preferentially crimson sea urchins. From that the sea otters eat so much that their bones with the time adopt the violet colouring. Second best they like mussles – swimming on their back the animals put the prey on their bust and beat them open with a stone. This use of tools fascinate the biologists until today – keepers in the zoo have big problems with it, because sea otters are learning quickly. For example that measles also can be opened when they are dashed against the pane of armoured glass of the pond. Officially in all zoos around the world it is regarded to feed such titbits only in the safe enclosures. The sea otter does not care much: their skin is so loose, that there are uncountable secret pockets in which they can smuggle measles into the pond. After all also this is a lesson the sea otters learn very early: he who is most clever never gives it in.

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The school of the little wise guys
Sea otters are believed to be one of the most intelligent animals in the word – they eat their prey, know tools and prefer to smuggle measles …


Protectively the female is putting her paw around her pup. Rolled up warmly it is lying on her stomach, and while she is drifting on the waves of the Pacific the rhythm of the sea is dandling the pup into sleep. For about three minutes. Half an eternity in the computation of sea otter time – breaks are not foreseen in the life of martens. Finally there is always something to do – and for the youngster lesson no. 1 means on this day: let be chained and learn to drift ...

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How this shall function is quickly explained: quite some air will be blown by Mum into the fur and a string of seaweed will be wound around the belly as an anchor. So the female can calmly dive – and her pup has learned something important: seaweed is a good thing. In a few weeks time it will find out, that with only few strings even fleeing crabs can be chained before they do a runner. Before this discovery quite some tricky tasks have to be done. To clear differentiate between eatable and not eatable objects. One lesson which is rather difficult for young sea otters: during their first dive sessions they are delighted to catch straw or old shoes – in the harbour of Monterey an extra zealous young animal was observed diving after old tires. Annoying errors, which, in the long run can be dangerous. Because sea otters are said to be the smallest sea mammals in the world – they spend their life mostly in the water. To keep their body temperature constantly at 38°C, their metabolism is working three times quicker than that of a mammal – therefore the animals have to take at least 100 g of food during one hour. That means 5 hours hunt daily – preferentially crimson sea urchins. From that the sea otters eat so much that their bones with the time adopt the violet colouring. Second best they like measles – swimming on their back the animals put the prey on their bust and beat them open with a stone. This use of tools fascinate the biologists until today – keepers in the zoo have big problems with it, because sea otters are learning quickly. For example that measles also can be opened when they are dashed against the pane of armoured glass of the pond. Officially in all zoos around the world it is regarded to feed such titbits only in the safe enclosures. The sea otter does not care much: their skin is so loose, that there are uncountable secret pockets in which they can smuggle measles into the pond. After all also this is a lesson the sea otters learn very early: he who is most clever never gives it in.

Dorothee Teves

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Brit maybe you mean Mussels instead of measles :puzzled:
I have never seen an otter,only on film. Maybe one day ?
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macdoum wrote: Brit maybe you mean Mussels instead of measles :puzzled:
I have never seen an otter,only on film. Maybe one day ?
Thank you for the story. :D
Ghee ... :blush: , of course you are right ... verry sorry!!!
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They need our love
Jane Goodalls Heart beats for chimpanzees

Very carefully Jane Goodall put out her hand on which a delicious fruit was laying. She could not interpret the eyes of the old male chimpanzee, whom she named David Greybeard. Was it shy, was it curious or did the animal want to attack her? The chimpanzee was sitting in front of her and stared at her with his big eyes. He lifted the right arm, and took carefully the fruit out of her hand – and let the present fall down. Than he tenderly took the small hand of the strange woman and very softly was holding it in his own. The animal talked with Jane Goodall in a language, which is much older than all the words we humans know. “This gesture was supposed to tell me “I trust you”, the Englander remembered. “That was more touching than any declaration of love.”

This happened in 1960 and from this first encounter for Jane Goodall it became the liaison for her life. She lived for many years with the chimpanzees of Tanzania, she learned to act and to think like they do. With her 13 books she touts for understanding for our relatives in the nature. She brought into our mind, that they have the whole gamut of feelings. They can love, they can be in high spirits and deeply saddened. Faithfulness is as little unknown as cunning and mercy they know as well as revenge. They are the mirror image, which the nature presents to us humans. In her newest book “Reason for hope” the animal researcher takes stock of her familiar life with the chimpanzees – it is a plea. A plea to all of us, finally to deal responsible with the animals on our earth. “With our thoughtlessness and greed for profit even cruelty we are guilty towards our fellow creatures” Jane Goodell accuses. “It is time, that we start to work on reducing our tremendous guilt we have loaded on our shoulders toward the nature.

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They feel the same like human children
Our next relatives shall live


To hug each other feels good. Who wants to play with each other needs trust. Even when fate hits so early and hard as in the life of Mzee and Tumbo. Maybe the little chimpanzees felt by instinct what joined them: the death of their mothers, shot by poachers. In the same way as they, every day hundreds of monkey babies loose their parents in the African rainforests. The meat of great apes is a delicacy and brings lots of money. Staying back are the helpless orphans. Mostly they are sold off as toys and hardly survive the first year of their life.

But Mzee and Tumbo were lucky. They were bought free from Karl Ammann and found their new home with him in Kenia. Together with the organization “Save the rainforest” the Swiss photographer is fighting like nobody else against the slaughtering of great apes in Africa. Because the survival clock is standing at five to twelve. Corrupt governments, ruthless wood concerns and poachers brought them on the brink of extinction. “Great apes our next relatives” Ammann says. You just have to watch them for a short while to see, that they love and suffer, be happy and be sad the same as we!” – But only political pressure can make sure, that the governments in Africa respect the laws: All great apes are under species conservation. There are already little successes: As ‘tv Hören und Sehen’ reported about Ammanns life work the readers sent 30 000 signatures. We gave them to the minister of development aid, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul – and got here assurance to come through for the great apes. So we can only hope that the chimpanzees children in future will grow up together with their parents. And that with them a magnificent and unique species can survive. Only than Karl Ammann will finish his fight.

Christiane Zander

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"My words are like stars"
About the heritage of the world – admonishing thoughts of the Indian chief Seattle


The great chief in Washington sent message, that he wants to buy our land. But how can somebody buy the sky or the warmth of the earth? This imagination is strange to us. As we do not owe the freshness of the air and the sparkling of the water – how can you buy that from us? Every piece of this earth is holy for my people, every sandy beach, every fog in the dark woods. We know, that the white man does not understand our kind. Part of our country is the same for him as others, because he is a stranger who comes and takes what he needs. His hunger will devour the earth and will nothing else leave behind but desert.

Our kind is different than yours. The sight of your towns hurt us, because there is no silence. No place to hear the unfolding of the leaves in spring or the sound of the insects. But what else is there in life if you cannot hear the lonely cry of the goatsucker. My words are like stars, they do not get lost: the request to buy our land, we shall it think over, and when we decide to go for it only under one condition: teach your children what we are teaching our children: The earth is our mother, what happens to the mother also will happen to the sons of the earth. When the buffaloes are slaughtered, the wild horses are all tamed, the secret corners of the wood are heavy loaded with the smell of many peoples, that means the end of the life and the beginning of the survival.

God gave you the control over the animals, the woods and the red man out of a certain reason, but the reason is a mystery to us. Maybe we would be able to understand when we would know what the white man is dreaming about – which hope he is particularizing his children and which visions burning in their imaginations that they long for it. When we sell our land to you do love it as we did. Care about it as we cared stick to the memory of the land as it is, when you overtake. And with all your strength, your spirit, your heart, keep it for your children and love it – as God loves all of us. Because one thing we know: our God is the same as your God. This earth is holy to him. Maybe we after all are – brothers. We shall see.

Chief Seattle to the President of the USA, 1855

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