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Linping is young panda bear. She is almost two years of age and lives in a zoo in Thailand.

A lot of effort was put out to get Linping. She was born at the Chiang Mai Zoo in the northern part of Thailand.

China loaned Thailand two pandas so they could mate and produce an off spring. The problem is that Pandas in captivity have a very low desire for sex.

After many tries of using artificial insemination, years of efforts, a baby panda was conceived.

Linings is a giant panda cub. Her name means ‘forest of ice’ in Chinese.

In Thailand, they have a channel set up 24 hours a day for residents to tune in and watch their favorite panda.

Linping’s notoriety has put her up there with Germans polar bear, Knut and the octopus, Paul, who amazed people when he predicted the winner of the world cup. Then sadly he passed away afterwards.

China may be taking Linping back from Thailand. The deal set was on her 2nd birthday, she would return to China.

Of course with her being such a success in Thailand, the people do not want to see her leave.

There is hope that they may actually be able to breed the Pandas again and get another off spring.  They would like to have more pandas then just Linping.

Linping has brought much business to the zoo. To loose her now, would be a great disappointment to those who watch her daily movements on their Television.

This video is dedicated to animals who are currently living, you can see them in the zoo. But they are terribly vulnerable and threatened with extinction. Lift your voice and comment against the extinction of animal species.

The Red Panda has been reported to be each nocturnal (most lively at night time) and crepuscular (most energetic at dawn and dusk), sleeping on tree branches or in tree hollows during the day and increasing its exercise solely in the late afternoon and early evening hours. It sleeps stretched out on a branch with legs dangling when it’s scorching, and curled up with its tail over its face when it’s cold. It is vitally warmth delicate, with an optimal “nicely-being” temperature between 17 and 25 °C (63 and seventy seven °F), and cannot tolerate

Koalas are territorial, and they exist in dense social communities where every member has a certain amount of trees inside its territory. When entrance toward these trees is chop off by modern roads, the koalas will still attempt to go across the road, and probability being crash into. Relocation of koalas is hardly ever doing well since their territorial and social routine are mainly misunderstood. Another important issue is predation by introduced species like as canines and foxes. Koalas are also subject to the illness chlamydia, that influences the koalas’ productiveness, and in the end brings to their fatality. At this time, there is no heal for this illness.

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 bird poo.

Roberto Cabrera was caught with 18 tiny monkeys in a girdle he was wearing beneath his t-shirt.

The officials noticed a very unusual shape protruding from the mans t-shirt area. Knowing he wasn’t pregnant, they decided to do a search to find out what the lump was.

He had just arrived at the Mexico City’s International airport. He had been on a commercial flight out of Lima.

While doing the body search, they found that Roberto was transporting 18 tiny monkeys in a girdle. They were in little pouches hooked onto the girdle. Two of the monkeys had died on the trip.

Roberto was then charged with trafficking endangered species. The little monkeys were only 6 inches long. He told the officials that he had been transporting them in a suitcase. He took them out of the suitcase and attached them to his girdle because he felt X-rays may hurt the monkeys.

Lady Bugs are becoming more scarce. Maybe even unable to be found.

Just 20 years ago the Lady Bug was very abundant. I can remember playing with them. Now I don’t remember the last time I saw one.

Scientist are asking for people’s help. Back in Oct of 2008, they asked people to take pictures of any Lady Bugs they saw and send the pictures to them. That way they could try and document where there may still be some Lady Bugs found.

One Lady Bug in particular they were searching for was the nine spotted and the two spotted type.

There are over 400 different Lady Bugs types in North America but many are becoming hard to find.

Farmers at one time depended on these bugs to help protect their crops from other insects. They are very important to our forest too.

If you see a Lady Bug, and have a camera, it is still possible they may be interested in receiving a picture of it. Be sure not to harm the bug. They have become very rare.

Oil spills are known to effect much wildlife of the ocean. The birds, the turtles and yes, the killer whale.

The killer whale has become endangered partly due to oil spills.

The oil is consumed or it can enter through the blow hole of the whale.

Killer whales will come up out of the water to get air, but a oil plugged blow hole will not allow them to take in air.

The whales also eat fish. If they eat a fish that is covered with oil from a spill, it will poison the whale. Then it will die.

A new Panda Centercost $8.8 million or 60 million yuan will be constructed at Sichuan province’s Du Jiang Yan Ciy, according to Zhang Zhihe, the head of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, reported by the official Xinhua News Agency. This new center will be used to train the giant pandas to survive in the wild.

The facility is expected to house three to five giant pandas when it is completed within five years. The center will take the area of 21.5 acres (8.7 hectares) from an experimental zone, along with 2,800 acres (1,128 hectares) of woodlands, where three to five pandas will be housed when it is completed within five years.

Zookeepers hope by training the pandas will help them to learn the life in wild, such as living in the caves in stead of cages, get the food etc. This program will help to reduce dependency of pandas on human. However, the pandas will still receive frequent checkups and participate in artificial breeding.

The golden monkey is an infant Phayre leaf monkey.

Baby Phayre’s are raised by the entire community of Phayre monkeys. They get lots of attention from all the other members of group. A group can consist of 40 mature monkeys. They all take turns looking after the infants.

If a threat enters the area the monkeys are in, the adult female monkeys gather up the infants and rush them to safety. The adult males stay to fend off the intruders. They shout at them hoping to scare them away.

As infants, all the Phayre leaf monkeys have this beautiful golden colored fur. It allows the adults to locate the infants quickly.

As the infant ages, usually starting at about 3 months of age, their fur starts to gradually change till it turns to a pale gray.

The Phayre leaf monkey are located in the tropical forest of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and other locations along the Indian Ocean in SE Asia.

They are considered endangered due to loosing habitat and hunting ground.

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