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First a strawberry-blonde leopard and now a cheetah sans spots? The big cats of the world must have decided to revamp their wardrobes. According to The (U.K.) Guardian, wildlife photographer Guy Combes snapped a picture of the animal after days of searching for the infamous creature. RELATED: Play the Who's Cutest game now! Combes had heard rumors about this spotless wonder in Kenya and decided to go to the source. After endless hours of searching for the shy cheetah, Combes almost gave up, packing up his things and heading to Nairobi. While there, Combes received word that the elusive animal had been spotted again, so the photographer raced back to the area. See more big cats: ...
Burrard-Lucas Paging Lisa Frank! This delightful pink hippopotamus was spotted recently at the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, Africa. Photographers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas were enjoying a picnic when they saw the whimsically hued hippo and started snapping, according to Fox News. The hippo is probably leucistic, a condition similar to albinism, but characterized by a lack of all types of skin pigmentation instead of only melanin. We'd like the hippo to make friends with that pink dolphin from the Amazon, but it's probably just wishful thinking. Instead, we're planning a trip to Masai Mara to look for green, yellow, and orange hippos that we can put together with this one. Then ...
godsmac, Flickr Scientists in Africa have embarked on two ambitious projects to keep dwindling colonies of wild chimpanzees from dying out. In Guinea, West Africa, just 13 chimpanzees remain in a virtual island of trees near the Bossou village, an Oxford University zoologist told USA Today. Zoologist Dora Biro explained that the fading colony is just three-and-a-half miles from a mountain range "full of chimpanzees" that could provide a continuous influx of new residents. The problem is, the groups are separated by a wide stretch of savanna that makes the journey too dangerous. So since 1997, the Japanese biologists who established Bossou as one of the world's six sites for the long-term ...
Sheba, a lion cub, cuddles up with caracal kittens Jack and Jill. Photo: Miller and Maclean / Splash News Does it get any cuter than a picture of furry babies from different species showing each other some love? Actually, it does. The story of how this trio of unlikely pals came together -- living at South Africa's Pumba Private Game Reserve Rehabilitation Center -- will warm your heart. The lion cub, Sheba, was the first of the three animals to arrive at Pumba. Her mother had birthed a litter of three, but two of the newborns died, and the lioness abandoned her only surviving cub, Sheba. A call went out to the Pumba reserve, asking if they would bring Sheba into their Rehabilitation ...