Vampire bats in Latin America are turning to cattle for their staple diet of blood, due to deforestation of their natural prays habitat. Most forest clearing in South and Central America is for cattle grazing, and as a result, bats numbers have grown to take advantage of the larger prey. Scientists have said said studies in area of deforestation where there are few or now farms say bat number have stayed the same, but in [...]

The infamous big cats of Buckinghamshire and Bexleyheath have been spotted again this summer. The Beast of Bucks was seen around 5pm on the 2nd August 2007 by Richard Skipp and a work colleague while driving home near Beldlow Ridge, just north of West Wycombe. “It was a puma-like creature. It wasn’t panicked by us, it just went through the hedge and slinked off.” said Mr Skipp. The Bexleyheath big-cat was seen earlier this summer [...]

This sounds very nasty indeed. Apparently an Australian woman has been killed by her pet camel after it tried to have sex with her! This has to be a Fortean moment if ever I have heard of one. It’s just a shame that it is such an unfortunate story and my feeling are with the woman’s family, friends and loved ones. Pet related deaths are nothing new and range from the not surprised pet Crocodile, [...]

I think the below says it all… The Yangtze River dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), an obligate freshwater odontocete known only from the middle-lower Yangtze River system and neighbouring Qiantang River in eastern China, has long been recognized as one of the world’s rarest and most threatened mammal species. The status of the baiji has not been investigated since the late 1990s, when the surviving population was estimated to be as low as 13 individuals. [...]