Animals

Recently, Britain was hit with a heavy snowfall, due to which a zoo in Belfast was closed. In order not to make the guests sad, a short video featuring Gugas the gorilla was added to the closure announcement posted on social media.
In the video, the monkey collects snow with his right paw and puts it in his left paw. And Gugas himself is squatting, apparently to avoid touching the frozen ground.

The video got thousands of likes and immediately went viral on social networks. Internet users were surprised and jokingly suggested that Gugas was probably trying to mould a snow gorilla. According to the zoo staff, they too did not expect such behaviour and are quite intrigued by it.

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As experts from the University of Wisconsin Vet School in Madison observed, past work has shown that dogs are interested in following motion on TV screens, so they allowed that the attention of man’s four-legged friends can be held long enough to assess their visual functions.

The researchers conducted a questionnaire among dog owners, in which they were asked to shed light on what their animals like to watch on TV. They were asked to answer a total of 41 questions, which included direct information about the animals, as well as data on what kind of screen was being used, what was being watched, and exactly how the dogs behaved while doing so. A total of 1,200 dog owners from the US, Britain and other nations participated in the survey. More than half of the animals were purebred, the ratio of females and males was approximately equal, and the average age was estimated at 4 years.

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According to researchers, a catastrophic spike in deaths among baby sea elephants took place last November. It is noted that their young are born between September and November and remain with their mother for the next three weeks.

Scientists obtained data from three zones on the territory of the Valdes Peninsula, which includes about 500 kilometres of coastline. The specialists found that 96 per cent of the cubs of this species in the areas studied died. According to scientists, about 18,000 new individuals were born in 2022, indicating that almost the entire young population has been lost.

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Several previously unknown colonies of the emperor penguin have been discovered by scientists on fresh satellite images. This is an important discovery, given that this bird species is threatened with extinction.
Emperor penguins breed on separate patches of sea ice. If the ice melts before the chicks fledge, most of the offspring will die. Global warming is exacerbating the melting of the ice, and many penguins are forced to migrate to other areas. In particular, a colony near Hallie Bay has moved about 30 kilometres to the east.

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The girl attempts to exchange her own ID card for a piece of paper from an animal. But it does not react to the woman’s efforts and tears the document right in front of her. The traveller is puzzled by the actions of the monkey, and at that moment she is frightened by another primate, who crept up behind her on the metal fence.

Internet users expressed sympathy for the traveller, who had arrived in Bali from Portugal, with one saying the video would be her proof when leaving the country.

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