Leopard Seal

Dolittle Doctor Dolittle of Croatia is a nickname we all love to call her, but that nickname makes her angry, too. Doctor Ingeborg Bata is a veterinarian at Zagreb Zoo. A woman who once had a leopard for a pet, an elephant for her best friend and cared for babies like little lions and little seals. In her life, there are no free days and no vacations. Her life is dedicated to those who need her most, to all kinds of animals. Treating animals with the same respect as humans is a life that…

environment’s and bodies. A scientific director at the Ocean Tracking Network, Sara Iverson, said “We’ve made tremendous advances by actually using animals to act as oceanographers for us.” Iverson and her team are using solar-powered GPS tags to follow seals under the water and also to study stork migration routes. The data gained in this use of technology not only provides information about the animals being tracked but also about the animals they interact with and their eco-system as a whole.…

statement of fur coats has brought death of nearly all jaguars, snow leopards, and various species of fur seals. For example “the Pribilof Island fur seals were hunted nearly into extinction in the late 1800s. The only thing stopping against the hunt was a treaty between the United States, Canada, and Russia established limits on killing the species in its remote northern Pacific island habitat, but even then thousands of seals have been slaughtered despite international…

the winter 's so much colder, makes my hands turn red. When I 'm shopping for one I wonder what it would be like living with you instead. How will I know it 's finally become real? Well, we will be swigging from the bottle watching the kelpies and seals. The only light is the bright, baby eyes of a boat at sea. Ten years down the line it would still be my favourite…

Early January, 2016, the Ocean Endevour crawls at a slow 2 knots pushing its way through heavy sea ice. Looking in every direction there is the same view; flat white ice, with dark jagged cracks of sea separating thousands of vast fragments. The sea ice floats around in level pieces ranging from 4 to 20 meters across. The ship meanders through it, parting the patches, trying to find an open area. After several hours of this, it is difficult to not think of early explorers like Shackleton and…

panda is very unique in the way of their family. Their name references that they are a close relative to the panda but, science has proven that wrong. Red pandas are more closely related to, Pinnipeds, raccoons, skunks and mustelids. Pinnipeds include, seal and walrus and mustelids include, weasels, otter, martens and…

It always seems to come down to this question, the “who am I?” An entire branch of philosophy devoted to how to approach the question and still, I have no definite answer, though there has been some great art to come out of it. Thankfully, I have a bit more… “specificity” to work with, limits have been put down, as well as the much easier “why” to scribe. All about the idea of nature. That laid out, it turns the question from “Who am I?” to why am I doing this? The question more manageable, it’s…

of those logging roads. A loss of biodiversity is a common problem caused by deforestation. The roads that have lead deeper into the forests made by logging companies results in overhunting of varies species such has the western lowland gorilla, leopard and elephant. This occurs because the roads are giving bush meat hunters more access to parts of the forest that were previously isolated , this sadly leads to extinction. The DRC Congo has been inhabited by humans for…

(I was also instructed, by one of the US Navy’s (1942) first recruits of black officers, my Grand Uncle, Sonny ‘Seal’ Green and learned fighting styles of farm animals we invented. Moreover, from the grand champion Sensei Thomas LaPuppet, I learned traditional weaponry {Kobudo} and became his ‘Fire-Tin House’-student, where he worked as a firefighter, and trained during his breaks.) Later (1979) I thought it ideal to go into professional Boxing but my parents sent me to Oneonta College…

mummification and the book of dead. Mummification was the process of embalming the dead body and preserving the body in order to protect the (ka). Practically, the vital organs were removed and placed in 4 canopic jars that had a different head as a seal on each jar, the heads represented the four protective spirits. The body was then stuffed with salt and linen to dry out before being wrapped in cloth. The ka was essential to be protected as it kept the body in tact for the…