Respect Animals more than Humans!

[imperialarms]

<p>Please LOve ur pets!!! they are better than humans.
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<p>Green Sea Turtles in the waters of Bora Bora, Tahiti are seen in this undated photograph from an exhibit titled "Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World," recently shown at the Peerless building in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. The exhibit showcased animals most threatened by global warming, such as green sea turtles. The gender of sea turtle eggs are determined by temperature, which means global warming would upset the natural gender balance. (Michele Westmorland)
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</div>A grizzly bear looks on at St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec September 24, 2008. Parks Canada estimates that up to 20,000 grizzly bears remain in western Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories and British Columbia. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada lists grizzly bear as a "Special Concern". (REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/world_animal_day.html#photo2">#</a>
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<p>A giant kangaroo rat is seen in this undated photo provided by the Nature Conservancy. When the San Joaquin Valley was an arid grassy plain, giant kangaroo rats were the seed-hording gardeners that helped propagate native plants. Now scientists are turning to satellite technology to determine how climate change and rainfall patterns are affecting the endangered species' remaining habitat. (AP Photo/University of California, Berkeley, John Roser) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/world_animal_day.html#photo8">#</a>
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<p>Polar bear cub "Wilbaer", left, plays with his mother Corinna in the outdoor enclosure at Stuttgart Zoo, Southern Germany, on Tuesday June 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Daniel Maurer) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/world_animal_day.html#photo14">#</a>
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</div>A baby Orangutan named Isalie is seen in her enclosure, beign held by her mother, Siti in the Munich Zoo on October 7, 2008. Isalie was born in the zoo in Hellabrunn on July 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Christof Stache) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/world_animal_day.html#photo29">#</a>
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<p>A lion cub named Mandisa (left), watches her brother Masamba chew on a limb as the two play at the NEW Zoo on Thursday. Oct. 9, 2008 in Suamico, Wisconsin. The pair were born on July 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Green Bay Press-Gazette, Corey Wilson) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/world_animal_day.html#photo30">#</a>
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</div>Keyah, a baby white rhino born on October 10, 2008 and weighing 30kg, stands by its mother on October 15, 2008 at the Cerza zoo in Hermival-les-Vaux, France. The birth in captivity of white rhinos are very rare, one to two per year in Europe. (MYCHELE DANIAU/AFP/Getty Images) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/world_animal_day.html#photo36">#</a>
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</div>Moyo, a 3-year-old male cheetah from South Africa, chases a lure during the Cheetah Dash event at the Animal Ark in Reno, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. Animal Ark runs the cheetahs regularly to keep them in good health. (AP Photo/Nevada Appeal, Kevin Clifford) <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/world_animal_day.html#photo37">#</a>
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[1sickpuppy]

I think that is only true because :

1. Humans are not in the endangered list

2. Animals don't mark your door green and come to kill/rape you in the middle of the nite just for the fun of it.

 

[Agoraphobic]

Story of a lost rhino.

I couldn't get the pictures on, however you can go to this site.

http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/index.cfm?uNewsID=147742


WWF News Centre
Rhino recovered from wanderlust

A tranquilized rhino is loaded on to a plate in India earlier this year
© WWF/Sujoy Banerjee
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13 Oct 2008
Assam, India: A young rhino that went on a 14-day trek across India, through villages as well as countryside, was finally persuaded to abandon its wanderlust by conservation specialists and return to where its journey began.

The five-year-old rhino, one of the two relocated earlier this year to Assam world heritage site Manas National Park had strayed as far as 68 kilometres away to Kalseni in Guwahati.

The animal had to be tranquilised and put back to its natural habitat before it could be harmed by curious onlookers and poachers. It is believed it was trying to find its way to its previous home in Pobitora wildlife sanctuary.

"The rhino was being tracked all the while with the help of the signals transmitted from his radio collar," said Sujoy Banerjee, Species Conservation Programme Director for WWF-India.

He said the radio signals were superimposed on a map of the area using global positioning system to pinpoint his exact location.

All through its journey the rhino had many curious onlookers, eager to catch a glimpse of it while some even wanted to touch its sacred horn. Others asked WWF personnel for its hair or a piece of its skin, both of which have religious significance in the region.

Not even its dung was left undisturbed! Since it is considered auspicious to keep rhino dung in the granaries, its dung just vanished.

Officials suspect that the animal might again go on a similar "adventure" and move eastward towards Pobitora wildlife sanctuary.

"There is sufficient food for the animal in the Manas park but still the rhino has been attempting to move out of the area,” Banerjee said.

The return of rhinos to Manas this year was an emotional moment for local residents, who lost their last rhinos a decade ago during a 20-year period of civil disturbance that wrecked infrastructure in the famed National Park and allowed poachers free reign.

Officials at the park have been asked to keep a constant vigil on the two male rhinos to ensure they settle down well in the region as it would take some time to subside the "homing instinct" in the animals, which were translocated under the Indian Rhino Vision 2020 programme.

As part of this ambitious project, the Assam government and conservation groups including WWF-India are working to translocate up to 20 rhinos to the park over the years from their homes in both Kaziranga National Park and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary.

 

[Bigfuck]

Animals are smaller problems to dictators.