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| Chat - Tuesday, March 20, 2012; Today marks the Vernal Equinox | |
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| KLJinOz | Mar 20 2012, 02:16 PM Post #31 |
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Trying to join the mile-high club? Fluffing....  G'day Peeps, my Wednesday, sunny, cloudy, sunny, cloudy, weather cant make up its mind.... Our Autumn Equinox was yesterday at 4pm... Autumn in Oz brings lots of native fauna... here is one of my favorites, Grevillea genu 
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 20 2012, 02:24 PM Post #32 |
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 WCV admits another bear cub   On March 19, a yearling Black Bear cub was admitted to the Wildlife Center. Upon admission, Dr. Miranda performed a physical examination of the cub and found it to be in very poor body condition. Weighing in at 4.53 kg, this Black Bear is only a little larger than Black Bear #12-0073, admitted in early February. The March 19 cub — a male — had a large, infected puncture wound on his left side, and additional skin wounds were also present around the area. Dr. Miranda anesthetized the cub for radiographs and found that five ribs on the left side of the bear’s body are fractured, though have already started to heal. Blood work was performed and confirmed that the bear is emaciated, as well as anemic. While it’s difficult to know what the history of the bear’s situation was, it is clear that the young bear sustained some sort of traumatic injury a few weeks ago. The veterinary team carefully cleaned the bear’s wounds and provided a course of antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, pain medication, subcutaneous fluids, and an iron injection. Because the bear is emaciated, Dr. Miranda calculated the amount of a special tube-feeding diet that the bear requires. The vet staff will offer this highly digestible omnivore diet twice a day until the bear’s blood work begins to show signs of improvement. |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 20 2012, 02:29 PM Post #33 |
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OMG !!! That is scary hysterical...hits a little too close to home though 
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| Naturegal | Mar 20 2012, 02:55 PM Post #34 |
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Things have been very quiet on the pond but Mom Sandhill is taking very good care of her 2 eggs.   
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| Naturegal | Mar 20 2012, 02:59 PM Post #35 |
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Penny - Thanks for all the WCV updates, hope both cubbies do well  Great NBG photos, what a scenario that nest is and I really do appreciate all your updates, thanks! 
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| KLJinOz | Mar 20 2012, 03:00 PM Post #36 |
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ditto, poor little cubbie...
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 20 2012, 03:17 PM Post #37 |
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Pa and #4 back home again just chilling after a strenuous day      Stay tuned for tomorrow's happenings in the continuing saga of 'As the Nest Turns'. |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 20 2012, 03:28 PM Post #38 |
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One last  performance by Pa before nightfall  He must be tired after so many performances and   deliveries today !!!
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| jillers | Mar 20 2012, 08:27 PM Post #39 |
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An orphan baby raccoon- http://www.wimp.com/orphanraccoon/ Based on all current estimates of its sales volume, Martin Aircraft Company is targeting an initial sales price of only $100,000 for the recreational version of the aircraft. Watch the Martin Jetpack perform- http://martinjetpack.com/video-gallery.aspx |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 20 2012, 09:19 PM Post #40 |
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Lily the Black Bear – UPDATE March 20, 2012 Falling farther behind  Beautiful 12-year-old Donna with her distinctively marked face - March 20, 2012 With the tales of yesterday not yet told, we are in from the field late again with new stories yet to tell. Also, we want to answer your questions about the size and weights of the fecal plugs from Jewel and now Jo (from yesterday). Today, was more checking dens to see what bears are doing in this record warm period. Donna and her yearlings were tucked in as usual in their dry den under a big boulder (a “glacial erratic”) perched on top of a hill. It’s likely still cool in their den. Donna looked at us with calm interest but didn’t seem to have the energy to come out and let us put her collar back on her and take her heart rate. Even though she has 3 yearlings with her, the trail cam outside her den is still intact—unlike the one we put at Jo’s den! Hopefully the cam pictures will give us a better idea of the activities of Donna’s family.  's  Braveheart's den..................Cedar tree stripped of bark for bedding near Braveheart's den - March 20, 2012 On to Braveheart and her yearlings. Their den was under the roots of a fallen clump of cedars in a beautiful cedar grove. Braveheart is typically hard to approach. She has the habit of eluding us and slipping away without a glimpse or a sound. She and the yearlings did that today after we walked a mile and a quarter to her den. She left her collar in the den—minus the GPS unit that neither of us could find after sifting through the mounds of bedding. Being in a cedar swamp meant the den was wet, and there was a puddle in the bottom of their bed, which is probably why they were resting snuggled together in a bed outside the den. We say “resting snuggled together” from the warmth still in the bed and the size of the warm area. We called and called but she didn’t show.  's  Herbie with Fern behind..............................Fern climbs on Herbie - March 18, 2012 Slipping away like that is typical of Braveheart. She doesn’t believe “It’s me, bear” until she has had time to slip around behind us, check our back trail, and have time for it to sink in that it’s the old researchers again. Then she is calm as ever. The picture of Lynn sitting working on the collar of a big calm bear is with Braveheart after homing in on her radio signals for over an hour as she circled. Other times she’s gone up trees until she recognized us. Then she comes down and is her usual calm self. Walking with her, once she knows who it is, is interesting. The same bear that can be so elusive before identifying us can be so calm that when Lynn lost her in a dense raspberry patch and was scanning all over for her, he didn’t know she was standing quietly next to him until she took a step. Today, with her collar in the den, we didn’t know which way to go to find her, and she didn’t come to us. After a half hour, we had to leave to get out of the woods by dark. We picked off our first tick today and heard our first spring peepers this evening. Thank you for all you do. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 20 2012, 09:28 PM Post #41 |
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Not so sure how I feel about the baby raccoon in that video because wild animals do not make 'good' pets. Obviously this one couldn't go back to the wild which is a shame  After what happened here last night they need to be far away from peopled places
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| circlescribe | Mar 21 2012, 12:53 AM Post #42 |
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No, Racoons don't make good pets. Lori's Dad had a young one back in the 1970s. "Joaquin" went everywhere with him but once he began to mature his cuddly personality faded and his natural wildness became way too much to handle. Fortunately he was able to be released into a neighborhood Racoon family in a woodsy area of Carmel, California, but he wreaked havoc in my ex's home before it came to that.  Hopefully this little orphan can be placed in a sanctuary with a somewhat natural life. (Didn't watch the video  )I never made it back last night but glad to see the drama at NBG settled down, and hope it stays that way.
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