Here are some interesting news articles I found about animals

What are Japanese training/feeding/etc. birds these days?

image credit: www.alalam.ir

Nagareyama, Japan. In the outskirts of Japan, a poor little parrot named Yosuke got lost and what does a parrot do when he gets lost? He recites its name and address! This African grey parrot was rescued by police and transferred to a close by veterinary hospital. Apparently, while the police were trying to figure out the owner, he started to speak, “I’m Mr. Yosuke Nakamura”. Yosuke also gave out his address as well. Case solved!

Even the pandas are shaken by the earthquake.

image credit: www.motherjones.com

Eight pandas, which are going to be sent to Beijing later in this week to go on display for the Olympics, are in severe shock for the terrible disaster. According to officials from the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve, which the pandas are from, are saying some of the pandas are still quite nervous. Poor pandas.

Australia…saving wildlife by killing it?

image credit: www.hartz.com.au, animals.nationalgeographic.com

Tasmania, the only place Tasmanian devils exist in the wild, has just reclassified the Tasmanian devils from vulnerable to endangered. This is mostly due to a contagious cancer epidemic among the animals which reduced its population by 60 percent. At the other end of the spectrum, kangaroos are in abundance and are actually threatening their own survival, according to scientists. So the Tasmanian government has begun administering lethal injects of 400 kangaroos…does any one else find this a bit weird? I mean, although scientists say this and that, it just doesn’t seem right. This has caused quite a stir with the Aboriginals, which view the eastern gray kangaroo as a sacred symbol. Both the Tasmanian devil and kangaroo are the country’s most iconic and beloved animals.

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