Tiny Puppet Monkeys from the Amazon - Pygmy Marmosets

Here’s a few photos of your favorite monkey from the Amazon. These little dwarfs or pygmies must drink lots of fresh espresso in their native Brazil/Peru because they are very alert, bouncing around on the trees, looking around, chirping and running. Apparently they don’t like people very much. A lot of zoos have a few [...]

Baby Animals in Time for Spring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Endangered Kittens Produced by In Vitro Fertilization

 

Scientist hoping to help along endangered species have had luck breeding kittens for African black-footed cats. The sperm was taken from a male in 2003 and then an egg was fertilized in 2005 but then the embryo was kept frozen until just recently when it was placed in a surrogate mother who gave birth successfully [...]

Animals Coping With The Winter Wonderland

This has been a tough winter for some people already as the storms are just beginning to roll through. Some animals are better suited than others to live in the cold. Some, even though well suited, may still starve when conditions are especially bad.

 

 

 

Snowshoe Hare

 

Bull Elk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yunnan Black Snub-nosed Monkey Family

 

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