news.turtleconservancy.org

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: January 2013

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2013_01_01_archive.html

Sunday, January 27, 2013. Nat Geo 2012 Nature Photos. We were pretty blow away by what National Geographic selected for finalists in their 2012 photo contest under the category of nature. Here's a gallery of what was selected by the judges - photos that are dramatic, inspiring, thoughtful and funny; often all at once. Friday, January 11, 2013. At 40,000 species, admiring one a day would take you over a 109 years. Photograph by Maneesh Kaul. My Shot @ National Geographic. Tuesday, January 8, 2013. And und...

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: March 2012

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2012_03_01_archive.html

Monday, March 26, 2012. Who's ya baby's daddy? You're lucky if you are a female Owl Monkey (genus Aotus). A Night Monkey Pop takes as much care of the young as Momma does. When the babies aren't breast feeding, they can be spotted with Dad. Now that's some parental investment. Check out a video and some recent research here:. Http:/ video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/animals-news/argentina-owl-monkey-parenting-vin/. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Frogs that fly and such! Tuesday, March 6, 2012.

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: April 2012

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2012_04_01_archive.html

Thursday, April 5, 2012. Whoever said cockroach's could survive a nuclear bomb, has obviously not heard of the tiny little Jewel wasp! This Jewel wasp beauty Ampulex compressa. To a burrow where the wasp lays her larva on the wasps abdomen and then exits the burrow filling it in with pebbles. Horrific? Yes And that's not the end of it. Three days later the larva hatches and start to chew into the abdomen of the poor little cockroach. For eight days (that's 192 hours of being eaten alive!

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: October 2012

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2012_10_01_archive.html

Thursday, October 18, 2012. Avatar of the Pheasant World. Temminck's Tragopan Tragopan temminckii. Is a gorgeous pheasant in the genus Tragopan. They are distributed in northern South Asia, in northern China, India, Tibet and Viet Nam. The chicken better watch out, after seeing this guy dance! Check out their courtship displays here:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Wednesday, October 10, 2012. The featherless mother hen. Monday, October 8, 2012. C G P Grey. Thursday, October 4, 2012. Rodents sometimes get...

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: May 2012

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2012_05_01_archive.html

Monday, May 21, 2012. I look at my guide, whose face has gone peculiarly pale under the pink and silver flower umbrella he's been carting around all day to ward off the sun. 'Come. We go now, quickly.' he says and I am reluctantly walking after him- I wanted to get to the bottom of that mystery dammit! When he says 'Cobra with nest. It's a warning sound.' ACK! Now I really want to go explore that dark corner! Anyone have an answer to this question? Where's a snake charmer when you need one. X: yup, wont ...

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: Nat Geo 2012 Nature Photos

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2013/01/nat-geo-2012-nature-photos.html

Sunday, January 27, 2013. Nat Geo 2012 Nature Photos. We were pretty blow away by what National Geographic selected for finalists in their 2012 photo contest under the category of nature. Here's a gallery of what was selected by the judges - photos that are dramatic, inspiring, thoughtful and funny; often all at once. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Nat Geo 2012 Nature Photos. Watermark template. Template images by mskowronek.

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: Our friend + Sir David Attenborough

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2012/11/our-friend-sir-david-attenborough.html

Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Our friend Sir David Attenborough. Our good friend Dan Challender was recently a part of BBC1's Attenborough's Ark. Check out the video below- he is awesome and so are his study subjects: the humble and adorable Pangolin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Two girls who work in the field of conservation who like talking about animals. In particular, the things that make you sit up and say 'that's crazy'- the good, the bad and the ugly. View my complete profile.

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: February 2012

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2012_02_01_archive.html

Tuesday, February 21, 2012. The Yeti is REAL! That is the Yeti Footed Crab (Kiwa hirsuta). To be exact. It was discovered recently in 2005 in the South Pacific ocean. This little guy is a decapod ("ten footed") and usually around 6 inches long. Most notably the species has silky setae (bristle like hair structures) giving the Yeti Footed Crab its awesome name. Sunday, February 19, 2012. Nat Geo POD 2-20-2012. Wednesday, February 15, 2012. Look at this little guy! Apparently they play around in leaf litte...

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: Trophy Hunter

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2013/01/trophy-hunter.html

Tuesday, January 8, 2013. Its been a while, Happy New Year. To start off the 2013 blog posts we are sharing a press release and video, The Trophy Hunter. NEW YORK, New York—January 7, 2013—On the first day of 2013 a. All five of the world’s rhino species are on the verge of extinction because of this trade, based on superstition, which offers profits as great as the drug trade but with virtually none of the risk to the perpetrators. It sounds unbelievable, but it’s real. On the same day as the.

creaturecuriosity.com

Creature Curiosity: Conservation in the Headlines

http://www.creaturecuriosity.com/2012/12/conservation-in-headlines.html

Friday, December 7, 2012. Conservation in the Headlines. Tune in on Sunday December 9th at 7pm to watch CBS's 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl featuring a segment on Eric Goode of the Turtle Conservancy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Two girls who work in the field of conservation who like talking about animals. In particular, the things that make you sit up and say 'that's crazy'- the good, the bad and the ugly. View my complete profile. Conservation in the Headlines.