Animals Evolved

Do you have the guts to keep eleven ferocious furry felines as pets? In South Africa, Ms Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen rears 4 cheetahs, 5 lions and 2 tigers plus 2 jack russel terrier for pets. These creatures are allowed to roam freely about the house.

In fact, Ms Riana set up a non-profit Fiela Funds Cheetah Breeding Project as the cheetahs are at high risk of being endangered. There’s only a thousand of cheetahs left in Africa.

Source: MailOnline, John Liebenberg

With advancing technology, now the cows can choose when it wants to be milked and the number of times it should be milked. While this sounds far-fetched, it is soon becoming a reality in Australia’s dairy farms.

Specially-built milking units featuring robotic arms sense a voluntary cow that is to be milked. This adavanced system would solve the problem of shortage of workers in the farm and increase the dairy’s productivity. The next time you grab a bottle of milk, be grateful to the cow who has ‘donated’ its milk, willingly.

Source: The Age

At Mount Hope Cemetry, on every memorial day, small American flags would be placed next to graves stones. The next day, wooden poles that holds the flag remains unmoved but the flags were all removed. The phenomenon was a mystery until one of the cemetry staff, Ron Ceglarek, noticed the thief in action.

Interestingly, the squirrels had ’stolen’ the flags and used it as a bedding for their nests.

Source: The Times Herald

A Mistle Thrush has displayed her strong maternal instincts for her young by puffing herself up to dedicated herself to prevent her chicks from drowning. The thrush has built her nest in a downpipe, hence during rain, its nest would be flooded and her chicks would possibly be drowned.

The female thrush has entrusted herself with duty to protect her young, so much so that she puffed herself up to twice the size of the male thrush to act as a dam in the downpipe. In her peseverance, the duty of feeding the young was left to the father.

Source: Telegraph