Female giant panda Taotao celebrates her 35th birthday at Jinan Zoo, in eastern China’s Shandong province on Sunday (Oct 28).
Taotao is the eldest giant panda bred in captivity in China. The average life span of giant panda is about 25 years old; zoologists say Taotao’s age is equal to that of a 100-year-old human being. [Cri]
A group of pigs had caused traffic congestion in Hampshire when the sow decided to feed her hungry piglets at the middle of the road…
An octopus with nine arms was spotted at the Marusan Seafood Shop in Marugame, Japan (Kagawa prefecture) on October 26, one day after it was caught in the Seto Inland Sea.
Masa Koita, the 60-year-old shop manager, noticed the abnormal Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) after he had boiled it in preparation for market. [Pinktentacle]
Octopus has 8 arms in case you don’t know… in fact the word Octopus is derived from Greek word which literally translate to ‘eight-legs’.
People often referred to the arms as tentacles, but it is not a biological correct term. Octopuses don’t have tenctacles, squids do.
A fisherman from Grand Cayman recently landed a small fish that had swallowed a much bigger fish that is 4 times bigger than its size.
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An amazing picture of more than 10,000 king penguins standing shoulder to shoulder at St Andrew’s bay on the island of South Georgia (near Antarctica), preparing to breed.
The king penguins lay their eggs in late November, with a peak around mid-December. They don’t build nests - instead the male and female of each mating couple take it in turns to incubate a single egg on their feet over the course of two months.
A 250-pound bear stranded under a bridge near Lake Tahoe was saved by an army of rescuers, a tranquilizer dart and a nylon net bought at an Army surplus store.
This is how baby elephant is produced… (NSFW)
A panda named “YouYou” (友友) celebrated her one-year birthday last week (Sep 5) at Chongqing Zoo, China. The zoo prepared a butter cake for “YouYou” for celebration.
