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We all get wonderful pet and wild animal photos and stories
sent to us, and we at CenterSinaiAnimalHospital.com decided
it would be fun to share with our visitors the ones that
strike us as worth a look. Enjoy!
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Talk about
heartwarming! There is a whole set of photos of Anjara, the
chimp who has been mothering a series of abandoned felines,
as reported in the UK's The Sun. Click the photo or link
below to see them all, along with the story.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1793356.ece
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Here's
new one to catch. Heartwarming photos from the Daily
Mail in the UK, telling the tale of an abandoned kid
adopted by a dog at an animal shelter. Mama goat rejected
the young one to care for the two stronger kids. Sometimes
survival of the fittest is hard to take, no?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-521777/Paternal-dog-Billy-takes-unusual-kid.html |
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And
one more! This one is about a very smart kitten
and what she does with sneakers.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7184817739112624074
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Dolphin Rings -- a real
wow!
Text and Link Courtesy Ralph Waters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCf7SNUb-Q
This is quite amazing. These dolphins are clearly smarter than many
humans I've met.
The attached video is of dolphins playing with silver colored 'air-rings'
which they have the ability to make under water to play
with. It isn't known how they learn this, or if it's an
inbred ability.
As if by magic the dolphin does a quick flip of its head and a silver ring
appears in front of its pointed beak. The ring is a solid,
donut shaped bubble about 2-ft across, yet it doesn't rise
to the surface of the water! It stands upright in the water
like a magic doorway to an unseen dimension. The dolphin then
pulls a small silver donut from the larger one. Looking at
the twisting ring for one last time a bite is taken from it,
causing the small ring to collapse into a thousands of tiny
bubbles which head upward towards the water's surface. After
a few moments the dolphin creates another ring to play
with. There also seems to be a separate mechanism for
producing small rings, which a dolphin can accomplish by a
quick flip of its head.
An explanation of how dolphins make these silver rings is that they are
"air-core vortex rings." Invisible, spinning vortices in
the water are generated from the tip of a dolphin's dorsal
fin when it is moving rapidly and turning. When dolphins
break the line, the ends are drawn together into a closed
ring. The higher velocity fluid around the core of the
vortex is at a lower pressure than the fluid circulating
farther away. Air is injected into the rings via bubbles
released from the dolphin's blow hole. The energy of the
water vortex is enough to keep the bubbles from rising for a
reasonably few seconds of play time.
NOTE: If you haven't seen this one, we urge you to check it
out. It's truly fun and almost other-worldly.
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THE BEARS AND I
Black bears typically have two cubs, rarely one or three. In
2007, in northern New
Hampshire, a black bear sow gave birth to five healthy
young. There were two or three reports of sows with as many
as four cubs but five was, and is, extraordinary. I learned
of them shortly after they emerged from their den and set
myself a goal of photographing all five cubs with their mom,
no matter how much time and effort was involved. I knew the
trail they followed on a fairly regular basis, usually
shortly before dark. After spending nearly four hours a day,
seven days a week, for six weeks I had that once in a
lifetime opportunity and photographed them in the shadows
and dull lighting of the evening. Due to these conditions
the photograph is a bit noisy as I had to use the equivalent
of a very fast film speed on my digital camera. The print is
properly focused and well exposed with all six bears posing
as if they were in a studio for a family portrait.
(Read on….)

I
stayed in touch with other people who saw the bears during
the summer and into the fall hunting season. All six bears
continued to thrive. As time for hibernation approached, I
found still more folks who had seen them and everything
remained OK. I stayed away from the bears as I was concerned
that they might become habituated to me, or to people in
general, as approachable friends. This could be dangerous
for both man and animal. After Halloween I received no
further reports and could only hope the bears survived until
they hibernated.
This
spring, before the snow disappeared, all six bears came out
of their den and wandered the same familiar territory they
trekked in the spring of 2007. I saw them before mid April
and dreamed nightly of taking another family portrait, an
improbable second once in a lifetime photograph. On April
25, 2008 I achieved my dream. (Read on …)

When
something as magical as this happens between man and animal
Native Americans say, “We have walked together in the shadow
of a rainbow.”
And
so it is with humility and great pleasure that I share these
photos with you.
Sincerely, Tom Sears
Story and photos
©
by Tom Sears,
published in
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/, Travis Barrett,
in
http://surreyphotographyclub.ca
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Burlington, Iowa Humane Society -- Extraordinary Mothers
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQhPMwMlm_w |
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The British Best Friend, Gin the Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kKnNyJvRAY
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Incredible Family Reunion -- Lions and their Rescuers. This
one may make you cry.
http://v.blog.sohu.com/u/vw/1437596 |
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