Visitors to the Asa Wright Nature Centre in Trinidad's Arima Valley are used to seeing hummingbirds darting between flowers on the estate's famous verandah. But one recent visitor needed a very different kind of encounter — a tiny Tufted Coquette so exhausted it could barely stay upright, until staff at the centre stepped in to help it recover. Photographer Linda Mason … [Read more...] about Trinidad’s Smallest Bird Needed a Rescue — Here’s How Asa Wright Nature Centre Revived an Exhausted Hummingbird
Wildlife & Nature
Ancient Protectors: The Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab and its Vital Role in Modern Medicine
Imagine a creature that predates the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years, yet plays a critical role in safeguarding human health today. Meet the horseshoe crab — a "living fossil" whose blood has quietly underpinned modern medicine for the past 50 years. An Ancient Body With an Unusual Blood Type These helmet-shaped arthropods, with their spiky tails and five pairs … [Read more...] about Ancient Protectors: The Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab and its Vital Role in Modern Medicine
Why Frogs Never Need to Take a Sip — Their Skin Does It All
Set a bowl of water in front of a frog on a hot day, and it won't do what you might expect. Instead of lapping it up, the frog is more likely to simply sit down in it — and within moments, its body will pull in all the moisture it needs without a single swallow. That's exactly what one Reddit user, going by FootLoosePickleJuice, captured on video: a pet frog settling into a … [Read more...] about Why Frogs Never Need to Take a Sip — Their Skin Does It All
Kitten was dyed with toxic blue paint and left in the rain — rescuers help her make a stunning transformation
A tiny kitten in a Brazilian neighborhood was so thickly coated in blue oil paint that she could barely move. Without a stranger who happened to notice her, she might not have survived the day. A Kitten Found in Manaus The kitten had been lost in a neighborhood in Manaus, Brazil, when activist and electrical engineer Amauri Gomes came across her by chance. According to … [Read more...] about Kitten was dyed with toxic blue paint and left in the rain — rescuers help her make a stunning transformation
Elephant finally rescued after over 80 years in shackles – finally lays down and rest
Most newly rescued elephants take weeks to trust their surroundings enough to lie down. Grandma Somboon, who spent more than eight decades working for humans, did it almost at once. A Lifetime of Work Somboon is an Asian elephant estimated to be 87 years old. According to Save Elephant Foundation and Elephant Nature Park in Thailand, she was taken from the forest as a … [Read more...] about Elephant finally rescued after over 80 years in shackles – finally lays down and rest