Zoology

A lonely whale, dubbed 52, has caused many to empathize. The creature has roamed the world in search for a companion but never gets an answer to its sounds. The solitary whale has been named 52 due to the 52-hert frequency of its mating calls that have been picked up by navy sonar detectives.

German research, led by Dr. Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, has found that white storks are changing their migratory behavior. In the past, they were known to breed from Europe to north-west Africa and western Asia. Now, however, the birds are flocking to rubbish dumps where junk food can easily be found.

A young girl has been sentenced to 25 years in jail because she did not know - or was not able - to tie the umbilical cord of the baby she secretly gave birth to at home. She was sentenced for causing the baby's death. 

Two men have been sentenced to two-and-a-half-months in prison after making barking sounds at a woman feeding stray dogs in the Aegean province of ?zmir. 

Massive shark teeth washed up on eastern North Carolina beaches after recent storms unearthed them from beneath the ocean. Some of the teeth were about the size of an adult’s hand.

The fossilized teeth found  in North Topsail Beach and in Surf City and it is believed that comes from a giant ancient shark the Megalodon which lived 15 million years ago.

A female wolf that had sneaked out of her cage in the zoo in Blagoevgrad, in southwestern Bulgaria, has been located inside the zoo, Nova TV reported on Monday.

The eight-month old cub escaped on Sunday when the zoo was full of visitors. Police and teams of firefighters sealed off the area and the visitors left it.

The media and internet sensation of the moment in Australia is a sheep that has not been sheared for over 5 years and its wool is estimated to weigh around 25 kilos! The animal has grabbed the attention of the media outlets ‘down under’ and in other countries too, with animal welfare societies warning of potential health risks.

Sweating, or so the theory goes, is good for the skin, supposedly unclogging the pores, as well as revitalizing the circulatory system.

When sweating meets … social media, however, in the form of shapely young women posting photographs of their workouts, of even… post-workout images, well, then we have a “viral phenomenon”.

Human beings have been migrating since the dawn of time. Be it in search of food, more hospitable environments, to escape wars or conflicts, people have always been on the move. It is very difficult to know what happened on earth thousands of years before anyone started recording history in any way.

The adorable dog Uggie, famous for his role in the academy award-winning film "The Artist," had to be put down due to a tumor, celebrity website TMZ reported.
 
The brown and white Jack Russel Terrier won over audiences with his stage tricks and cute demeanor in the film alongside Jean Dujardin.