She looks at you crazy, but don’t take it personally! She’s just a little confused with all the attention she has been getting recently. Meet Heidi the cross-eyed Opossum, a magnificent marsupial creature who has recently been taken in at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany.
Rhino’s have been in the news a lot lately so it feels like a good time to give you all a heads up with what the gossip is! Disturbingly the news is not too positive.
2010 was our first full year up and running as CrazyCreatures.Org and it was certainly filled with lots of good stuff. This is a brief posting reviewing what we’ve been up to this past year and what we hope to be getting up to in 2011. This is also a big welcome to our new readers and a big thank you to our existing readers.
It has been a while since we sent news from the Ol Pejeta Conservancy and the northern white rhinos. We decided that, instead of reporting on the same thing every two weeks, we would wait until there was some significant news to share with you. And we are happy to say that there are some encouraging signs coming from our northern white rhinos.
A new species of carnivorous mammal has been discovered in Madagascar. The mongoose-like creature has been called Durrell’s vontsira (Salanoia durrelli) in honour of conservationist Gerald Durrell. Scientists found the creature in the wetlands of Lake Alaotra, the largest lake in Madagascar. Read more about this at the BBC website >
Hi Crazy Creatures fans! The site is going to be a bit of a mess the coming days while we do some house keeping. We appreciate your patience. The Crazy Creatures Team.
Here is an update from the guys at Last Chance To Survive, where they are reintroducing 4 of the remaining 8 or so members of the Northern White Rhino species to the wild inKenya. The Northern White Rhino is extinct in the wild, and as they very rarely breed in captivity, 4 of the captive Rhino’s, Sudan, Suni, Najin and Fatu, are being released in to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
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