I just had to share 2 photos of a polar bear devouring a watermelon with gusto: For more photos, click . Bear hugs, Frankie Are You Polar Bear Aware? Polar bear Cartoons If you want to know what you can do to protect polar bears and other endangered species, contact The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) at National Wildlife Federation (NWF) [...]
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DAY1: Airport Travel: The rules have changed drastically for passengers since my last trip. Here are some of the new things I had to do: I didn’t have to do a strip search but I did feel like I was stripping for them. You now have to take off the following an place into a plastic [...]
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Here’s a fun, free and easy way to help save the Dancing Bears of India. You don’t even have to open your wallet! First, here’s a picture of one of the rescued bear cubs on Kartick Satyanarayan’s, WSOS’s director, back: The SquidActivists October Challenge for Animals (http://www.squidoo.com/activist-animal-contest) on Squidoo.com has issued a challenge to encourage people [...]
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Day 1: Setting Out: I left Fort Bragg (CA) at 6:00 A.M. for a 3-1/2 hour drive to Arcata Airport. It was a beautiful drive surrounded by at least a dozen State forests and wildlife sanctuaries including Avenue of the Giants and Humboldt Redwoods State Park; Grizzly Creek State Park; Headwaters Forest Preserve and [...]
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Here's a closeup of a polar bear paw that I took at the Alaska Zoo last week. Come back to see more great shots like this one. I'll also have photos I took of Price William Sound.
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Thomas Doerflein, the Berlin zookeeper who hand-raised Knut after his mother abandoned him, was found dead in his apartment on Monday. An autopsy was done on Tuesday and concluded that he died from a heart attack. Doerflein, 44 years old, gained worldwide attention as Cute Knut’s “Dad”. The bond between Knut and Doerflein was very [...]
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Kartick Satyanarayan aka Bear Man of India, has started a mini-blog on Twitter. On it you can see his latest posting, whether it be about dealing with poachers, saving a dancing bear, or dealing with the latest flooding disaster. See (very briefly) the types of things he does day in and day out in [...]
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I’m off to see live polar bears at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage this morning. It’s going to be a long day — up at 5:45 AM, on the road at 6:30 AM, then a 4 hour drive to Arcata/Eureka Airport (California). The plane leaves at noon, and I won’t arrive in Anchorage until 8 [...]
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Just had to share this funny picture with you. Add your own caption… Polar bear at the Detroit Zoo. Credit: Maia C; via Flickr. Licensed under Creative Commons terms: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. Bear hugs, Frankie Are You Polar Bear Aware? Polar bear Cartoons If you want to know what you can do to protect polar bears and other [...]
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Lun Lun, a giant panda at the Atlanta Zoo gave birth on August 31 to a single cub which is the 1st giant panda born in the US this year. It is Lun Lun’s second cub since the US zoo started a panda breeding program in 1999. No photos are available of the new cub [...]
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