Tierra Unica

Bear Friends - Real Bear vs Teddy Bear!

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Floridapdf wrote ~ "This Brown Bear was born in Everland zoo in March.5 2009.  He can walk and run. He tries to jump to capture bread."  

Llama Overlooking Machu Picchu!

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Machu Picchu (Old Peak) is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is one of the most familiar symbols of the Inca Empire.

The llama's are the only residents left in Machu Picchu (the lost city).

Tiny Animals On Fingers!

REMEMBER THE LITTLE FINGERS, for they adore the wonders of nature.  If this doesn't remind you of a little kid, then you've never been around little kids.  It's a perfect test to determine that.

 

 
 
 
 

Pre-Mother's Day - Very Rare Jaguar Born In Captivity In Lima, Peru!

A very rare baby jaguar was born in the main zoo of Lima, Peru on April 14, 2009.  It is no ordinary jaguar, but a beauty Peruvian Amazonian Black Panther (Panthera onca).

A little black jaguar, locally known as “Otorongo” that was born in captivity in the Parque de las Leyendas, the biggest zoo in Lima, was presented to the public yesterday.   

Yesterday was the presentation of the "Cria" (baby animal) to the news media and general public.  A pre-Mother's Day celebration to all animal lovers.

Here are more pictures of the "Bebe Otorongo".

The best Video You'll See Today - Dolphin Bubbles!

We all know how smart, playful, and inventive dolphins can be — but it isn’t often that we get to see one of their actual inventions.  That’s what makes this video footage of the dolphins at Sea World, in Orlando, so remarkable.

These dolphins tip their heads and expel brief bursts of CO2 through their blowholes; internal forces break the bubbles’ centers open to create tightly structured, spinning rings.  The dolphins then flip the rings around, poke their noses through them, twirl them into different shapes — they even bite them in half.  It’s one of the best shows in Orlando today, and these aquatic impresarios thought it all up on their own.

Dolphin Bubbles!

Dolphin play bubble rings

From England - Read about dolphins blowing bubble rings.

Ocelot Kittens From Peru Introduced To The Seattle Zoo!

Ocelot kittens, Novia and Corisandra, and their Mother, Bella, from the Peruvian Amazon explore their exhibit during their introduction to the public at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo.
Moche Ocelot. 200 A.D. Larco Museum Collection Lima, Peru. The Moche people of ancient Peru worshiped animals and often depicted the Ocelot in their art. Salvatore Dali in 1965 with his Ocelot friend at St Regis.

Siberian Husky Mom Nurses Baby Amazonian Black Panther!

A momma panther from the Amazon, South America suffered great distress during the bombing of 1999. and since then she kills her cubs. Therefore, employees of Belgrade Zoo had to find surrogate mother. That was their husky female dog - Blacky.

Screen shot of the video below:

The little black panther was born in Belgrade Zoo, but his biological mother rejected him so they had to find another animal to be his mother, and this prize winning Husky accepted him like her own.

Bother A living Spider

Poke and prod the spider with your mouse -- tell me it's not alive!

Bother A Living Spider

Screen of Living Spider

Animals In Motion!

Pretty slick - Animals In Motion!