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A wing span of 12 inches and unbelievable colors adorn this creature who only lives a short while.

Just recently, 9 Atlas moths, the largest moths in the world, were hatched at the Berkeley Castle Butterfly House which is located in Gloucestershire, England.

The castle is a medieval fortress from the eleventh century.. Along with it being the birth place of the moths, it has been  home to the Berkeley Family for 850 years.

Sadly, last year there were no Atlas Moths born at the castle.

The Atlas Moth is typically found in the Asia in the southeastern forest. They only live two weeks living off the left over fat they obtained while they were caterpillars.

So if you are interested in seeing these young moths at the Berkeley Castle, you had better go soon or you will miss them.

I would call first.

A moth’s only aim in life is to reproduce. That is...

In Austria, the Giant panda was giving birth. The zoo had set up cameras ahead of time to enable them to view the birth and be certain that the mother accepted the baby. There have been many times that a cub has not lived due to the mother not bonding with her baby.

The pictures of the baby being born show Yang Yang welcoming her baby and gently picking it up in her mouth as pandas do.

The cub weighs less then 2 ounces and is about 6 inches long.

Yang Yang and her cub are bonding just fine. The zoo keepers feel good about the acceptance and will close off the exhibit to allow Yang Yang some more special time with her baby before re-opening to the public.

“A lot of young pandas die in their first year so we are keeping a very close eye on this,” said a zoo spokesman.

Who would have ever thought of collecting bird poo and selling it?

Well it has been found that in the 19th century, bird poo was used as a fertilizer. With all the organic type farming and going green issues, using bird poo is making a return to the market.

The bird poo, which also is called guano is deposited by two different birds. One is the Peruvian Booby and the other is the Guanay Cormorant. Both of these birds are on the endangered list and are protected.

On Guanape Sur island which is just north of Peru, approximately 300 men live and work eight months of the year collecting the bird poo.

The poo is then sent to the organic farmers up in Peru’s mountains and to the jungle.

Peru is the number one country in the world to collect guano. The get 30,000 tonnes a year.

So they are actually earning money by harvesting...

In Kenya, the trees are being stripped of their bark by the elephants. The trees then die. The number of elephants are on the increase while the trees are decreasing.

There has been one type of tree found that the elephants are not destroying.

Scientist have researched to find the reason why this tree, that is growing in clay soil is not being eaten by the elephants, but the trees rooted in sandy soil are.

The Acacia tree is the only type of tree growing in the clay soil. In areas of sandy soil, there are many types of trees.

The reason this tree is thriving is because of it’s attraction with ants.

The tree gives the ants a home and food. The ants in return protect the tree from the elephants.

The ants will bite the the elephants on the soft part of their trunks and is very painful to them. Since the elephants...

The baby tiger is only 2 months old. It had been sedated to keep it quiet and placed amongst some stuffed toy tigers to hide it from authorities.

Last Sunday, Aug 22nd, 2010, the Thai lady was trying to board a plane to fly to Iran but was having a hard time with a big bag at the check in point.

They took x-rays of the bag. In the x-ray there appeared to be a live animal.

They called in the wild life officers who checked out the bag and found the baby cub.

The cub is now being taken care of at the rescue center of the dept of national parks.

They are not sure if the cub was wild and captured or was bred in captivity.

The little lamb is living on a Chinese farm. It was born with only 2 legs.

Cui Jinxiu, is raising the baby lamb. She said the lamb was a twin born on their farm 2 months ago.

She told how the first lamb was typical but she was amazed by the second lamb that was born.

“It looked normal but just lay on the grass and when I looked again I was amazed to see it had only two legs.”

Since a two legged lamb would have a difficult time surviving, Cui and her family decided to feed it with baby bottles. They wanted to give it a chance.

The morning after it was born, the astonishing lamb was able to stand alone. At first it had difficulty balancing itself, but with time it learned how. Now the lamb lifts it butt up high into the air and is able to stand...