April 26th
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giraffe-in-a-tree: Baby Anteater (8-5-07)-9 by dcmandrill on Flickr.

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Baby Anteater (8-5-07)-9 by dcmandrill on Flickr.

#animals      #giant anteater      #anteater      #mammal     
March 30th
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Bear Saves Man From Mountain Lion Attack In California

Robert Biggs, 69, of Paradise California was taking his daily hike, he came across a familiar black bear mother with her two cubs.

When he turned from the family of bears  a mountain lion pounced on his back. He hit the cat with a rock pick, but it only grew mad. Biggs was pinned by the puma when all of a sudden a huge blur of force and speed flew past his left shoulder and knocked the cat off of him.

He heard growls and shrieks, and when he got to his feet, he saw the cat far off and the mother bear regrouping with her cubs.

#bear      #black bear      #california      #mountain lion      #black bears      #cubs      #animal      #mammal     
October 11th
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animals-animals-animals: Stoat (Juvenile) (by Hilary Chambers)

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Stoat (Juvenile) (by Hilary Chambers)

#Stoat      #Animal      #Mammal      #Animals      #Baby Animal      #Ermine      #Weasel     
October 7th
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rhamphotheca: Why Do Egg Laying Mammals Still Exist? The reason that odd, egg-laying mammals still exist today may be because their ancestors took to the water, scientists now suggest. The egg-laying mammals — the monotremes, including the platypus and spiny anteaters — are eccentric relatives to the rest of mammals, which bear live young. In addition to laying eggs, other quirks make them seem more like reptiles than our kin. They have a reptilian gait with legs on the sides rather than underneath the body, for instance, and a single duct for urine, feces and sex instead of multiple openings. These oddities are often considered primitive “living fossils” that shed light on what our distant ancestors might have looked like… (read more: Live Science)

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Why Do Egg Laying Mammals Still Exist?

The reason that odd, egg-laying mammals still exist today may be because their ancestors took to the water, scientists now suggest.

The egg-laying mammals — the monotremes, including the platypus and spiny anteaters — are eccentric relatives to the rest of mammals, which bear live young. In addition to laying eggs, other quirks make them seem more like reptiles than our kin. They have a reptilian gait with legs on the sides rather than underneath the body, for instance, and a single duct for urine, feces and sex instead of multiple openings.

These oddities are often considered primitive “living fossils” that shed light on what our distant ancestors might have looked like…

(read more: Live Science)

#platypus      #monotreme      #mammal      #australia      #evolution     
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rhamphotheca: Discoveries from the Foja Mountains of Indonesian New Guinea… Long - beaked echidnas :  Some of the creatures the scientists came into contact with were remarkably unafraid of  humans. Long-beaked echidnas, primitive  egg-laying mammals, were happy to be  picked up. (Image: Stephen Richards) (read more: EyePod)

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Discoveries from the Foja Mountains of Indonesian New Guinea…

Long - beaked echidnas :  Some of the creatures the scientists came into contact with were remarkably unafraid of  humans. Long-beaked echidnas, primitive  egg-laying mammals, were happy to be  picked up. (Image: Stephen Richards)

(read more: EyePod)

#echidna      #monotreme      #papua new guinea      #mammal     
October 3rd
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A baby Sperm Whale learns to swim alone while its mother hunts deep below.

(via: National Geo)

#sperm whale      #whale      #cetacean      #ocean      #mammal      #video     
September 1st
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rhamphotheca: EFBC’s Feline Conservation Center:  Aztec the Jaguarundi Aztec the Jaguarundi doing a yoga stretch. Jaguarundis are still occasionally sighted in the southernmost United States, but are often mistaken for otters or a member of the weasel family (although they are obviously a wild cat species, upon close inspection). (photo/text via: EFBC) 

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EFBC’s Feline Conservation Center:  Aztec the Jaguarundi

Aztec the Jaguarundi doing a yoga stretch. Jaguarundis are still occasionally sighted in the southernmost United States, but are often mistaken for otters or a member of the weasel family (although they are obviously a wild cat species, upon close inspection).

(photo/text via: EFBC) 

#jaguarundi      #felid      #mammal      #central america      #south america      #north america     
August 29th
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rhamphotheca: National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center:  Babies!!! The USFWS’ National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center (FCC), located in northern Colorado, houses 60-70% of all captive black-footed ferrets (BFF). The FCC serves as the hub for everything related to BFF recovery. Together with our partners we produce as many BFF kits as possible for reintroduction efforts & to maintain the captive population while minimizing the loss of genetic diversity. For more info about endangered Black-footed Ferrets, and to help them out: http://www.blackfootedferret.org

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National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center:  Babies!!!

The USFWS’ National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center (FCC), located in northern Colorado, houses 60-70% of all captive black-footed ferrets (BFF). The FCC serves as the hub for everything related to BFF recovery. Together with our partners we produce as many BFF kits as possible for reintroduction efforts & to maintain the captive population while minimizing the loss of genetic diversity.

For more info about endangered Black-footed Ferrets, and to help them out:

http://www.blackfootedferret.org

#ferret      #mustelid      #endangered      #mammal      #north america