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16 – There are 52 Orcas in captivity all over the world
Killer whales, more properly known as orcas, have been kept in captivity since 1961, helpless victims of a blatantly commercial experiment which has seen dozens of wild orcas plucked from their families and forced to live in artificial social groupings which bear scant resemblance to their natural order.
As of August 2014, there were fifty-two killer whales held in captivity in eight countries. Twenty-eight of them were in the United States. Of these killer whales, eighteen were captured from the wild and thirty-four were born and raised in captivity.17 – In the wild, they can live between 50 and 80 years.
One female orca even lived to 103 ! In captivity, however, orcas’ life expectancies are cut short. In captivity, they tend to die young – in their 30s.18 – They can control the flow of blood to their organs
Indeed, Orcas are able to control the flow of blood to their hearts and brains, which keeps them from suffering from a lack of oxygen when they are deep underwater.19 – They spend most of their time looking for food
Orcas spend 60% of their time foraging for food. They do not migrate, but they have been known to travel hundreds of miles to find fresh food that is in “season”20 – They are very fast swimmers
Orcas are among the fastest swimming marine mammals. They can swim as fast as 48 kph (30 mph), but they usually cruise at much slower speeds, about 3-10 kph (2-6 mph)!
Orca aka Killer Whale
Budgerigar or Budgie are also called Parakeets in the USA and also known as the English Parakeet.
None are native to UK and are only kept as pets or in wildlife parks/zoos. Interestingly the Ringneck Parakeet was either released or escaped into the wilds of London and there is now quite a flock who live there and expanding. Although they are not native to UK they are certainly thriving.
Budgerigars are native to Australia.
The Canadian Garter Snake have came out of hibernation in what is called a mating ball.
These balls contain as many as 20 thousand snakes per ball with 100 or more males for every female.
This phenomenon has become a major tourist attraction in Manitoba..
Transparent fish
Cyanogaster
Discovered only a few years ago, this blue-bellied fish is only a few millimeters long. It lives in Rio Negro, the largest tributary of the Amazon River.
A snapping turtle emerges from weeks of sleeping beneath a muddy lake that had dried up.
In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months a year. Their hearts stop beating, their blood no longer flows and their glucose levels sky rocket. When finally the weather gets warmer, they thaw and hop away.
Please do NOT throw away your mascara wands. Instead, clean JUST THE WAND with dawn soap, place them in a ziploc bag and mail them to a Wildlife Refuge accepting donations. These little wands are able to be upcycled to clean away oil, larvae, fly eggs, mites, infections, mud and other contaminants from wildlife. Works great for medical care and wound treatment
Pick your refuge to mail to:
Appalachian Wild
P.O. Box 1211
Skyland NC 28776
OR
Wildlife Wands
P.O. Box 1586
Southwick, MA 01077
There is an animal 🦇 that works 6 months every year to protect you, your family and your pets. ☝🏻 He does this until he is 15, every night.
He eats over 1000 ❗️ mosquitoes during a night flight. 1000 mosquitoes that can be dangerous to you, your family and your dog.
1000 mosquitoes that can spread West Nile fever, Usutu virus, skin worms and heart worms to humans and animals.
1000 mosquitoes every night for 6 months. That’s 180,000 mosquitoes a year that can bite you or your pets and transmit disease. Because the bat lives 15 years, it destroys over 2,700,000 mosquitoes in its lifetime, and that’s just one bat!!!
If you count a median colony and 2 x offspring per year, that number is over 12,555,000,000 mosquitoes destroyed, which is just over 12 tons. All they ask is that we preserve their habitat and nesting opportunities, and where they are destroyed
Many people don’t like them, even though they do much more for us than we do for them.
Live with nature, nature lives for you too.
\A man and his wife traveled to the zoo. They found a monkey that played passionately with his female Monkey.
The wife told to her husband: ” Look, what a romance.”
Then they found a lion and his lioness separated from each other; the lion was silent and alone in his corner as if the lioness did not exist.
Again the wife told her husband: “what a sad scene without love.”
the husband then told his wife: ” Throw a stone at the lioness and watch.”
When the wife threw the stone at the lioness, the lion leaped roaring to defend his lioness.
Now they did the same with monkey and when the wife threw stone at the female monkey ;The monkey ran and jumped at a tree and abandoned his female in the fear of stone
Now the husband told his wife: “do not be fooled by what you see as romanticism , many times it is a deceptive appearance that hides an empty heart; there are others on the contrary who do not show love, but their hearts are full of sincere love and care “.
Unfortunately today we have so many monkeys and so few lions.”
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