HIPPO- Species Spotlight
The hippopotamus is simply awesome to see in person. It truly humbles you to be near such a giant. The two species of hippo still remaining are the Eastern African hippo and the pygmy hippo (not in this video.) There are only an estimated 125000 to 150000 hippos left throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. They are threatened by illegal poaching, and by habitat loss and hippos are legally culled (killed) by some governments and their meat and ivory teeth are sold. They are also hunted by trophy …
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WHITE RHINO- Species Spotlight
The Rhino is one Africa’s Big Five.
The white rhino is the largest of the remaining 5 species of rhinoceros.
They are divided into the southern and northern white rhinos. It is thought the northern rhino is extinct in the wild due to poaching, and only a handful remain in captivity.
Some research shows the southern wild population numbers around 11,000, but the IUCN red list list shows over 17,000.
At any rate, even though the white rhino has the largest numbers of any of the rhino species, it still is endangered and needs our help.
(On a side note-the IUCN recently took the Asian greater one horned rhino of the endangered red list, but I along with others feel it is still needs the protection given by that status)
There are over 700 white rhinos in captivity world wide. The rhino is one of the few larger animals that can be introduced into the wild. Meaning a captive born white or black rhino could make its way to Africa. Recently in October 2008, a white rhino was born via artificial insemination at the Budapest Zoo.
Even with protection they can still be legally trophy hunted in areas of South Africa. I find this to be counter productive with all the time and money going into increasing their numbers. I think we have to get it into our mind set that ALL rhinos need not to be killed. *They can also be green hunted in which a tranquilizer gun is used to and the hunter gets a picture next to their “kill.” These are less expensive, but not as popular as a regular hunt.
The rhino horn is still found on the billion dollar animal black market which is driven mostly by China and the US.
Please visit the following web sites for ways you can help save the rhino.
http://www.savetherhino.org
http://www.sosrhino.org
http://www.rhinos-irf.org
*All footage taken by me at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, Africa
(A great place for rhinos!)
http://www.lewa.org
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WEIRD, STRANGE, ANIMALS INHABIT OHIO COUNTRYSIDE PIEBALD
“White Ghosts,” the weird, strange animals that inhabit an Ohio countryside.
Action shots in a natural setting of wild, white (piebald) Virginia Whitetails. These rare, unusual animals were photographed in the wild.
At least 6 white deer were seen at different times in the same area. One was pure white, about a foot taller than the other deer, and had a huge rack. Another deer had a large band or belt of white fur around its middle like a Poland China hog. Its twin was white, but the only time I filmed the white twin was in a split second as it jumped behind a tree (it had been standing by the banded deer and their mother). A white fawn was seen once. Around 30 years ago, many area people saw a white deer with a black spot. A sixth white deer was seen and photographed along our river valley (Alum Creek, in Ohio).
The piebald deer also had a sort of Roman nose — one with an enlargement in the front of the face - that some of the deer in the area had. The wooly deer had a whiteish face with white eyebrows. It also seemed to also have an unusually long tail.
In this video, as many as 3 piebald deer were photographed together-a very rare occurrence. A number of other piebald deer were seen on the farm, as shown in other videos.
Piebald, albino, “white,” and “black” whitetail deer are very rare. In Bolder Junction, Wis., a man once photographed 3 albino deer standing together. The odds of doing this in wild deer have been calculated as astronomical — 1 in 79 billion. Such calculations are based on assumptions. For example, the odds of finding an albino deer are often calculated as 1 in 30,000. Less than 1 % of whitetail deer are piebald. However seeing either a wild piebald or an albino deer is considered a once in a lifetime experience.
Black or Melanistic whitetails are very, very rare, and much rarer than either white piebald or albino deer. A person can recognize a melanistic deer because they produce too much of the pigment known as melanin and this makes them much darker than a typical whitetail. Of the millions of deer taken each year only a very few with melanism have been reported. Most people don’t know they even exist because of their extreme rarity. A melonistic buck is a true trophy. Some melanistic whitetails are very dark and some are even pure black. Only 1 has, so far, been photographed here as shown below:
Additional views of wild deer on the farm include:
LARGE BUCK FIGHT-LOCK ANTLERS, ENTANGLED, CLOSE WHITETAIL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Steezj61Dsk
Monster Non-Typical Moose-Sized Buck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCaXqf-FPTI
WHITE DEER - ACTION SHOTS RARE WHITE WILD WHITETAIL BUCK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tArW4yW4WE
Other views of this white deer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJmzjgclqk
Another white deer on the farm — the banded one & sibling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wilKE77tNCA
A white deer being stalked by coyotes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJmzjgclqk
Several strange deer on the farm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKMF7wZW_0
Three deer fighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKethdqSHXg
Big bucks run and jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKY825zkWtI
Big bucks fighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbvO0x_UCxU
STANDOFF COYOTES VS. SIX DEER-POUNCE ATTACK KILL PLAY
Pt 2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjsIW3UgeQ
MONSTER BUCKS ~20 TINE ANTLER SHED & HUGE BUCK IN RUT, CHASE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KvqVzMYyag
BLACK DEER-RAREST OF ALL, BLACK OR MELANISTIC BUCK WHITETAIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1LKzrgm9w8
White deer and white buffalo figure prominently in the legends of people throughout the world. Sometimes these animals are considered ghosts and at other times presage an omen. The Chickasaw, Seneca, Apache, Aztec, Cheyenne, Lenca, Cherokee, Pawnee, Sioux, Shasta, Algonquin, Pawnee, Sioux, Lakota and many other groups have legends about white deer. Such animals are so strange in appearance that they immediately capture interest and make people watch for them. (These were wild deer on our farm taped by Scott and extracted from longer films.)
** Some of the world’s largest bucks live in Ohio. Some of its world champion bucks have Boone and Crockett scores of over 300 points. Ohio’s Beatty Buck may be the (or among the) largest ever taken by a hunter. That title of the largest whitetail, ever, in the record books belongs to the “Missouri Monarch,” a 333-7/8 buck found dead on the side of a road in 1982 near St. Louis. In second place is the legendary “Hole in the Horn,” found dead in Ohio in 1940, however, many whitetail experts think that it is actually the largest set of whitetail deer antlers in history. It may be the most famous whitetail known.
Deer have an amazing assortment of communicative signs. Approximately 100 different vocalizations have been recorded, such as tending grunts, dominant grunts, bleats, and many others. They make extensive use of sign language.
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