Tag: zoo
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Baby pygmy hippos are trending. Their species is disappearing.
He doesn’t have teeth. He just discovered his tongue. And somehow, he’s become the face of a species teetering on the edge of extinction. In the last year, baby pygmy hippos have gone viral around the world. One calf named Moo Deng, born at Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo in July 2024, became such a
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Crocodile astonishes scientists with self-pregnancy at Costa Rica zoo
The discovery of a crocodile at a Costa Rican zoo that self-impregnated without male involvement left scientists amazed. This natural wonder resulted from parthenogenesis, where an egg evolves into an embryo without fertilization. The genetic structure of the fetus revealed a 99.9% match with its mother’s DNA. According to scientists, this fact validates the hypothesis
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All that fur makes the Pallas’s cat look like an absolute unit
The Pallas’s cat is a cute little furball. Pallas’s cats are about the same size as domestic cats — they measure up to 26 inches in length and weigh around 10 pounds. But their body hair is twice as long as the hair on their head, so they appear much larger than they are. The fluffiest cats
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Where do Attenborough fan-throated lizards live?
Attenborough’s fan-throated lizard (Sitana attenboroughii) is a species of fan-throated lizard that lives in southwestern India, initially discovered in the coastal state of Kerala. A team of Indian researchers uncovered the striking lizard in open ground patches in 2018, subsequently publishing their findings in January 2018’s issue of Zootaxa. They named the lizard after natural