Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Type: Mammal Family: Felidae Habitat: Areas with expanses of land, dense brush, and abundant prey, such as grasslands, semi-desert prairies, and mountainous terrain Location: Primarily Africa (where 90% live on commercial farms), mostly the sub-Saharan region, but range once extended into ...
An elephant trumpets wildly, breaks a chain holding it to a tree, and flees to higher ground -- just before a massive tsunami crashes ashore, drowning hundreds of thousands of people. Did the elephant know the deadly wave was coming? That's the question explored by ...
The original five members of the Druid Peak pack -- #38 and #39, the alpha male and female, and female pups #40, #41, and #42 -- were captured near Fort St. John in British Columbia and relocated to Yellowstone's acclimation pens before being released in ...
In the increasingly industrial world of North American cattle production, organic farms are the exceptions. While other farmers send their calves off to crowded feedlots to be fattened on grain enriched with nutritional supplements, a new breed of alternative rancher is keeping their young animals ...
As a skier and martial artist, Arnaud Eboli showed discipline, grace, and considerable athletic skill. So his family was mystified, then horrified, when the French teenager began exhibiting fits of rage and then started stumbling around his home in the late 1990s. Soon, he couldn't ...
Web Resources: Animals and Earthquakes http://animalsandearthquakes.com Learn more about scientific studies on animal behavior preceding earthquakes. Read interviews with James Berkland and Motoji Ikeya, both featured in the film. Infrasound http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound Get the lowdown on low sounds from Wikipedia. Fauna Communications http://www.animalvoice.com/ Learn more about ...
In NATURE's Holy Cow, viewers meet John Webster, a British expert on cattle and animal welfare. Webster, a former president of the British Society for Animal Science, was one of the researchers asked by the British government to study the causes and consequences of mad ...
It's becoming a routine ritual on the crowded, colorful streets of Delhi, India: A small team of men surrounds a wandering cow, attempting to coax it on to a waiting truck for a trip to a suburban reserve. But the cow catchers need to be ...
Web Sites Breeds of Cattle http://www.cattle-today.com/ How to tell your Angus from your Zebus, from CATTLE TODAY. Cattle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow A basic introduction to this farming mainstay from Wikipedia Encyclopedia. Indian Cows: Blessed Bovines! http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa101800a.htm A brief introduction to Hindu beliefs about cows, from About Inc. ...
