In The Cheetah Orphans, filmmaker Simon King and the team of wildlife professionals at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, took on the challenge of raising two orphaned cheetah cubs, Toki and Sambu, after the cubs' mother was killed by a lion. To successfully raise the cheetahs ...
A cheetah cub and its mom are an inseparable pair for the first six weeks of the vulnerable baby cheetah's life, when the cub is completely dependent on its mother for food, protection, warmth, and shelter. The mother is so important to teaching and protecting ...
Spanish sailors called them the "whale killers." The Haida of British Columbia knew them as the "killing demons." To the Japanese, they were "fish tigers." Whatever the name, seafarers have long been awed by the hunting prowess of the large black-and-white dolphins known as orcas, ...
When Danielle Clode was a teenager, she came face to face with a killer. A killer whale, that is. Actually -- the skeleton of a killer whale. In the early 1980s, Clode -- who is featured in NATURE's Killers in Eden -- was sailing along ...
The rich, shallow waters of Australia's Twofold Bay -- featured in NATURE's Killers in Eden -- are a whale's dream. The bay, which lies along the migration path of baleen whales such as humpbacks, has plenty of food and protection from heavy coastal currents. But ...
WEB SITES Killers of Eden http://www.killersofeden.com/index.htm A detailed site devoted to the orcas and history of Twofold Bay. Orca Fact Sheet http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/KillerWhale.htm Learn more about killer whales -- from their mating behavior to their current population status. Eden, New South Wales http://www.marinews.com/fishing_details.php?recordid=388 Journalist Rod Clarke ...
To the actress Meg Ryan, an encounter with one is the culmination of a lifelong dream. NATURE gets a rare glimpse of the unique pachyderm in White Elephants of Thailand with Meg Ryan.
Web Sites The Royal White Elephants http://www.mahidol.ac.th/thailand/elephant.html Detailed information about Thailand's esteemed -- and highly coveted -- white elephant. Thai Scientists Plan to Clone Rare White Elephant http://exn.ca/Stories/1999/01/04/57.asp Article from Discovery Canada about Thai scientists trying to a clone white elephant that lived more than ...
