Pandas are becoming endangered even in zoos, because it’shard to get them interested in sex. A Chinese zoo showedfemale panda Hua Meipanda porn inorder to get her interested in mating–and it worked. Shejust gave birth to twins.
Li Wei, of the Wolong Panda Conservation Center, says, "Weare all very excited. The cubs are in good condition."
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We’ve written recently about animals that are missing orturning up in the wrong places due to global warming and thepole shift. A recent “bug splat” test in the U.K. found manyfewer insects that expected. And all over the world,scientists are finding hyperactive fish, stupid frogs,fearless mice and seagulls that fall over?all due topollution.
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A giant 62-mile-long colony of ants from Argentina hasinvaded Melbourne, Australia. In their native country, theyform smaller groups, but in Australia, they’ve merged intoone huge super colony, killing off native insects.
Biologist Elissa Suhr says, “In Argentina, their nativehomeland, ant colonies?are genetically diverse and highlyaggressive towards one another, so population numbers neverexplode and they are no threat to other plants and animals.When they arrived in Australia, in 1939, a change in theirstructure occurred, changing their behavior so that they arenot aggressive towards one another. This has resulted in thecolonies becoming one super colony.
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A group of scientists are collecting the tissues ofendangered animals and freezing them, so they will be ableto create clones later on, if the animals become extinct.
Zoologist Phil Rainbow says, “Natural catastrophes apart,the current rate of animal loss is the greatest in thehistory of the earth and the fate of animal species isdesperate.”
The first creatures to join the “ark” are thescimitar-horned oryx from North Africa, the socorro dovefrom Mexico, the mountain chicken (which is actually a frog)from the Caribbean, the banggai cardinal, a fish found inIndonesia, the yellow sea horse from China, the SeychellesFregate beetle, the British field cricket, and Polynesiantree snails.
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