Birds of the same Feather, Needs to be Together

On Thursday, May 1,2013, me and my family went to a swimming trip to a resort in Bulacan. It was very hot and we didn't knew that in that day it was the hottest day in the country. When we finally arrived, there were lots of people in the cashier and the others are already outside falling in line. It was so hot that I wished I would've worn my shorts. My mom went to fall in line and I followed her while the others waited at the car. People were crowding the hole lobby and my mom managed to get through. I waited outside and looked around. The place was also named as a "Ranch and Resort" so I thought that there would be a mini zoo inside. My mom finally got the tickets and called us to let the guards check our bags. While we wait for our turn I noticed a red bird on a plant, but it doesn't look like a plant for it does not have leaves just its branches or a stick. It looked like it was dancing moving up and down but it stayed on it's place. Then I noticed that its feet were wired to the stick and it's dancing was really it tying to break free. I was so sad to see it and I wanted to ask the guard to please make the bird more comfortable if they are planning to keep it.  When we entered no sign says "Zoo This  Way" or "Ranch This Way" but I only saw 2 cubicle like cages where there were monkeys. They didn't seem to be happy or fun for children and they look so helpless. Then I saw a "Myna" that was also caged displayed in a store. When we finally finished our swimming we went back to where the car was parked and I noticed a small ranch. Then I noticed there was a adult horse in there for it looks huge and there is another horse or another animal. When we arrived I thought it was just a cow but it was a horse and a horse needs to be outside and free. I don't support zoos for wild animals need to be free not to be some kind of entertainment. And to the resort, they must treat the animals right not like trash.

Kodama - "Protectors of the Forest"

To those who have watched Princess Mononoke,made by a Hayao Miyazaki, you may have seen a creature that appeared to be small, white humanoids with a heads similar to bobble heads. Those are called "Kodama" in Japanese folklore.

Kodama is an old Japanese belief of a spirit that lives in trees. It also called as "protectors of the forest" for whoever cuts down the trees they live in will gain a curse. If trees reached 100 years old it is said to form into a kodama itself. They may  be close to another Japanese folkore called "Yokai",a supernatural monster which brings good fortune to those who encounters them. They are said to produce sounds as the deed of this kind of spirit.

It may be just a myth or a folklore,but the lesson here is that cutting trees can harm others. It may not be the kodamas but it maybe the animals that lives in it or those who benefits from it or it also harms us humans for we need it the same way they do.

"Holy Cow"

A calf has stunned his owners after being born with a white marking on his forehead in the shape of a cross.

Moses, who has been hailed as a "holy cow", was born last week at a dairy farm in Sterling, Connecticut, a small rustic town on the Rhode Island border.

The mostly brown calf is half Jersey, half Holstein. Local children gave him his Biblical name.

His owner, Brad Davis, told WFSB-TV he thought the marking may be a message from above, though he is still trying to worl out what that message might be.

Ric Grummer, the chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Dairy Science, told the Norwich Bulletin newspaper it is not unusual for a Holstein cow to have a white marking on its head.

But Mr Grummer said the cross shape is unique.

source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Underwater Crop Circles

 

Underwater Crop Circles

The unexpected artist of this sand circle was found to be a tiny male puffer fish. It spent days and nights to make the circle using only a flapping fin to attract a mate. After completing the circle the fish actually decorated it with broken pieces of shells. Females who mated with the male laid their eggs in the center of the circle. As for the seashells, they, too, may be more than just decoration. It’s possible they provide nutrients to the young puffer fish as the eggs hatch.

-SomeAmazingFacts

Giant Snake Alert!!

DID YOU KNOW?
That A Giant Albino Python was filmed while it was opening a door by itself.

People who suffer from a fear of snakes may want to give this one a miss - one giant albino python has found a way to deal with the usually impenetrable barrier that a door represents by rising up and leaning against the handle until it opens. Footage of the incident has been circulating online with debate raging over whether its genuine or if the incident was staged.

A recent study determined that lizards can exhibit intelligent behavior such as solving puzzles to help them find food. Regarded to be as intelligent as some vertebrates, it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility that a snake could figure out how to open a door.

-Scientist

here's a link to the footage:

http://youtu.be/AhS08LjFXP8

It really creeped me out!

Nature's bath mat!

             This is a picture of a walrus reaction when the zoo staff gave him a fish cake. So cute!!

Oscar the therapy cat

In July 2007 David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, in the New England Journal of Medicine features an article of Oscar, he started to gain attention. Dr. Dosa never had any intention to  give the people negative thoughts of the cat but just to share the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat. Oscar was adopted and raised in the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The hospital is known as a "pet-friendly" facility because there lived six cats including Oscar. But before Oscar became the therapy cat there was also a pet who became the first therapy cat and named Henry(named after Henry J. Steere). Oscar is just an ordinary cat who was gifted with a talent to sense which patient will die.

He was raised to be a therapy cat and it was a success after the staffs noticed that Oscar would curl up to patients who are next to die because Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre is a hospital who treats patients with diseases and illness' which are on the final stages of life. Some explanations say that he observes from the lack of movement of patients or that the cat smells ketones which is the biochemicals released by dying cells. He would make his own rounds like a real doctor, he would sniff the patients and curl up and sleep with them. To whoever he sleep with the staffs would call the patient's family members because of the sign that the patient would die soon. And as predicted, the patient will die for about an hour or so, but im not sure if ever time he does that the patient would really die. Even when he is removed at the patients bed he would stay at the door and meow for protest wanting to get inside and sleep with the patient.Many animal experts and veterinarians say that Oscar may have the smelled the patient or observe the patients lack of movement. But there are also many claims that Oscar has any weird skills. But we don't know what the cat really is. Many thinks that Oscar is the grim reaper or the angel of death but some of the patient's families that Oscar for giving them time to comfort their loved ones in their last hours.No more further studies was researched about Oscar's abilities.

What do you think about Oscar?Is he a miracle or just a big joke? 
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The Black Dragon Rose

A Cause of Bird Deaths

Endangered Bird's stomach full of plastic trash. If you don't pick it up they will.

Image by The Endangered Wildlife Trusts
Copywriter: Jared Osmond
Photographer: Chris Jordan

According to Engineering Curious Cat Blog, none of the plastic trash (photo) was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. The image depict the untouched stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.
In a rare island many birds made their nests there. The plastics that was thrown into the sea surfaced into their island's shore in where they think it is a food so they eat it. As time goes by the plastic clogs their system and they cannot eat causing them death. If you won't put your trash into the right place they will. Take care of mother nature for all of us shares it.