Awesome Animal News!

Lotesse · 10-07-2007, 03:49 AM

Here we can post articles and pix of stories about animals in the news! And today's headlines belong with the wonderful Jack Hanna trying to get through an airport with his friends a baby leopard, a young flamingo and a mongoose. How I've always loved Jack Hanna... Oh - - And PLEASE, please post pix whenever possible, and even extinct animals are welcome, like the cool new dinosaur recently discovered in Utah, or whatever animal you have just heard about and would like to share with us.

Here:

(SOURCE

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/17/fla....ap/index.html

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Animal expert Jack Hanna and an 11-month-old flamingo became trapped while trying to squeeze through an airport security turnstile. It took firefighters to finally get the flamingo out.

Hanna, the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and a frequent guest on nationally televised talk shows, was returning from a zoo fundraiser with a mongoose, a small leopard and the flamingo. Three other people were with them.

The entourage arrived at the Ohio State University Airport just after midnight Sunday to find the terminal closed. The only way to leave the tarmac was through a 10-foot-tall metal turnstile with several horizontal bars -- not the easiest exit to squeeze through when you're traveling with boxed-up animals, Hanna said.

"I never thought about the crate being square and the turnstile being round," he said.

Hanna, 60, pushed the flamingo's 2-foot-by-3-foot compartment into the turnstile, then continued pushing while straddling the crate.

"I was stuck like a worm. My eyes were as big as grapefruits," he said. "I can't describe the feeling in my stomach. I can't move up or down. The bars are on your face."

Hanna said he eventually squirmed free, leaving the flamingo still wedged inside and everyone else trapped on the tarmac. He then walked to a nearby fire station for help. It took three firefighters to hoist the flamingo's crate up and out of the turnstile, he said.

Columbus fire department logs show the firefighters arrived at the airport at 12:30 a.m. for a "flamingo rescue," spokeswoman Kelly McGuire said.

Hanna joked that the next time he flies through the airport, the biggest animal he'll bring is a gerbil.

For a Flamingo Rescue!!!!

If that's not the bomb, I just don't know what is.

tolkienfan · 10-10-2007, 11:06 AM

Does it have to be in the news? I found this on YouTube, it is so cute! (despite the alarming name) http://youtube.com/watch?v=veVX_3fAqEM

Lotesse · 10-10-2007, 10:24 PM

Oh, YES, yes YouTube animal stuff is perfectly welcomed and happily enjoyed! Thanks so much for adding to the thread, TolkienFan! Thanks, baby - now I gotta check out the link -

Nautipus · 10-10-2007, 11:13 PM

This is youtube and it's not news, but I figured you guys might like it.
FUNNY

Lotesse · 10-10-2007, 11:17 PM

YES!! Hell yes, that was so awesome, Nautipus, thanks for the link!

BeardofPants · 10-10-2007, 11:25 PM

Also not news - it's a blog about a girl who has a pet anteater - I just LOVE some of the antics that critter gets up to!

http://taqmanduagirl.blogspot.com/

Nautipus · 10-11-2007, 07:51 AM

If you liked that, then you'll like this too.

It has mild profanity, but it's all about animals.

tolkienfan · 10-11-2007, 09:31 AM

I have a cat jump too! Notice that though the name says truck, the guy is actually on an elephant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDmr...elated&search=
This is amazing:Battle at Kruger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM I recommend watching until the end even though it's on the long side, you will not be disappointed.
NOTE: Neither of these videos is cute.

BeardofPants · 10-12-2007, 12:27 AM

Itty bitty kitty committee!
http://ittybittykittycommittee.blogspot.com/

Miss Cassandra · 10-12-2007, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nautipus

This is youtube and it's not news, but I figured you guys might like it.
FUNNY

HAHAHA! That is so funny!!! Loves it! I love the silly things kitties do.

I have awesome animal news!

I got a new baby kitty, and she is full bred, 100% white persian, with dual eyes green and white. We named her Coconut... Awe...

And I got four new duckies, they are Rouens and they are adjusting well to our other ducks, they are all making friends. And hopefully next season, some baby ducklings...

Miss Cassandra · 10-12-2007, 09:01 AM

Persian kittens

I dont know why but I like this vid, (probably because they all look like my cats)
Its cheezy though.

I love the persians! They look so funny!

***Jonathan*** · 10-12-2007, 11:38 AM

There are some really funny cat videos to be found on YouTube.

Here are some of them

Funny cats (my favourite)
More funny cats
Even more funny cats
Funny dogs... Oh, I mean cats

Nerdanel · 10-12-2007, 12:02 PM

.. and I guess you've all seen this. Not news, though.

Kiwi!

Lotesse · 10-12-2007, 12:52 PM

Thank you guys so much for all these great YouTube clips & animal news. It's wonderful to get all these great bits o cuteness & animal news, I love it! This is turning out to be a pretty cool thread I think...

Well, here's some really encouraging cheerful animal news -- About the South China tiger in the wild, a Chinese farmer saw the tiger walking around and napping way up in a hillside and he (the farmer) got out his camera and was able to take tons of pix of this wonderful tiger in the wild, they thought there were no more wild tigers at all around there for 30 years. This is Awesome Animal News, indeed!

Here is the article from Reuters UK -- http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienc...31461520071012

BeardofPants · 10-12-2007, 02:22 PM

Jon? You'll Nora the piano playing cat then.

Nice link Ner.

***Jonathan*** · 10-12-2007, 02:40 PM

Nora plays the piano better than I do

**Nurvingiel** · 10-13-2007, 09:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nautipus

This is youtube and it's not news, but I figured you guys might like it.
FUNNY

Bwahahaha!! Myself, my fiancé and his brother all laughed very loudly.

Lotesse, that's absolutely amazing news about the tiger! Good on that farmer for taking pictures. Usually farmers don't like predators.

Lotesse · 10-19-2007, 01:18 AM

O.K. this I had to share with someone! If this doesn't banish any blues you might have, or freeze your face into a giggling hard-core smile for the next five minutes or longer, then nothing could, I mean this is AWEsome animal news! It is Snowball the Dancing Parakeet, he is an amazingly gifted dancer, you will be blown away!

You will not be disappointed. This, you gotta see...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IZm...elated&search=

BeardofPants · 10-19-2007, 01:32 AM

LOL, saw that on CO - silly bird. Too bad about its terrrrrible taste in music.

Lotesse · 10-19-2007, 01:44 AM

Yes, silly 'cause of his musical taste, but a GENius dancer! God, cute-overload always manages to bring me some kind of smile or even outright laughing, every time I go there. But Snowball, he's just - check out the timing in his dance moves! It's brilliant, he seems to anticipate every part of the song, and the end? Snowball's finale, that hardcore headbanging move?? Oh, god, priceless!!

10-07-2007, 03:49 AM	#1
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Awesome Animal News! Here we can post articles and pix of stories about animals in the news! And today's headlines belong with the wonderful Jack Hanna trying to get through an airport with his friends a baby leopard, a young flamingo and a mongoose. How I've always loved Jack Hanna... Oh - - And PLEASE, please post pix whenever possible, and even extinct animals are welcome, like the cool new dinosaur recently discovered in Utah, or whatever animal you have just heard about and would like to share with us. Here: (SOURCE http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/17/fla....ap/index.html COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Animal expert Jack Hanna and an 11-month-old flamingo became trapped while trying to squeeze through an airport security turnstile. It took firefighters to finally get the flamingo out. Hanna, the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and a frequent guest on nationally televised talk shows, was returning from a zoo fundraiser with a mongoose, a small leopard and the flamingo. Three other people were with them. The entourage arrived at the Ohio State University Airport just after midnight Sunday to find the terminal closed. The only way to leave the tarmac was through a 10-foot-tall metal turnstile with several horizontal bars -- not the easiest exit to squeeze through when you're traveling with boxed-up animals, Hanna said. "I never thought about the crate being square and the turnstile being round," he said. Hanna, 60, pushed the flamingo's 2-foot-by-3-foot compartment into the turnstile, then continued pushing while straddling the crate. "I was stuck like a worm. My eyes were as big as grapefruits," he said. "I can't describe the feeling in my stomach. I can't move up or down. The bars are on your face." Hanna said he eventually squirmed free, leaving the flamingo still wedged inside and everyone else trapped on the tarmac. He then walked to a nearby fire station for help. It took three firefighters to hoist the flamingo's crate up and out of the turnstile, he said. Columbus fire department logs show the firefighters arrived at the airport at 12:30 a.m. for a "flamingo rescue," spokeswoman Kelly McGuire said. Hanna joked that the next time he flies through the airport, the biggest animal he'll bring is a gerbil. For a Flamingo Rescue!!!! If that's not the bomb, I just don't know what is. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last edited by Lotesse : 10-07-2007 at 03:51 AM.

10-10-2007, 11:06 AM	#2
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	Does it have to be in the news? I found this on YouTube, it is so cute! (despite the alarming name) http://youtube.com/watch?v=veVX_3fAqEM __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

10-10-2007, 10:24 PM	#3
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Oh, YES, yes YouTube animal stuff is perfectly welcomed and happily enjoyed! Thanks so much for adding to the thread, TolkienFan! Thanks, baby - now I gotta check out the link - __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-10-2007, 11:13 PM	#4
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	This is youtube and it's not news, but I figured you guys might like it. FUNNY __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

10-10-2007, 11:17 PM	#5
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	YES!! Hell yes, that was so awesome, Nautipus, thanks for the link! __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-10-2007, 11:25 PM	#6
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Also not news - it's a blog about a girl who has a pet anteater - I just LOVE some of the antics that critter gets up to! http://taqmanduagirl.blogspot.com/ __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-11-2007, 07:51 AM	#7
Nautipus Kraken King Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Under the sea Posts: 2,714	If you liked that, then you'll like this too. It has mild profanity, but it's all about animals. __________________ Being the King of these Beings, This is my Child One of my top ten favorite movies. "You ever try to flick a fly? "No." "It's a waste of time." "Can you see it?" "No." "It's right there!" "Where? "There!" "What is it?" "A crab." "A crab? I dont see any crab." "How?! It's right there!!" "Where?" "There!!!!" "Oh." -Excerpts from A Tale of Two Morons One of the best Global Warming Messages out there

10-11-2007, 09:31 AM	#8
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	I have a cat jump too! Notice that though the name says truck, the guy is actually on an elephant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDmr...elated&search= This is amazing:Battle at Kruger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM I recommend watching until the end even though it's on the long side, you will not be disappointed. NOTE: Neither of these videos is cute. __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

10-12-2007, 12:27 AM	#9
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Itty bitty kitty committee! http://ittybittykittycommittee.blogspot.com/ __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-12-2007, 09:01 AM	#11
Miss Cassandra Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Northwest USA Posts: 160	Persian kittens I dont know why but I like this vid, (probably because they all look like my cats) Its cheezy though. I love the persians! They look so funny! __________________ DIMMU BORGIR Antichristus Spiritualis

10-12-2007, 11:38 AM	#12
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	There are some really funny cat videos to be found on YouTube. Here are some of them Funny cats (my favourite) More funny cats Even more funny cats Funny dogs... Oh, I mean cats __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

10-12-2007, 12:02 PM	#13
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	.. and I guess you've all seen this. Not news, though. Kiwi! __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

10-12-2007, 12:52 PM	#14
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Endangered South China Tiger Seen in the Wild!!! Thank you guys so much for all these great YouTube clips & animal news. It's wonderful to get all these great bits o cuteness & animal news, I love it! This is turning out to be a pretty cool thread I think... Well, here's some really encouraging cheerful animal news -- About the South China tiger in the wild, a Chinese farmer saw the tiger walking around and napping way up in a hillside and he (the farmer) got out his camera and was able to take tons of pix of this wonderful tiger in the wild, they thought there were no more wild tigers at all around there for 30 years. This is Awesome Animal News, indeed! Here is the article from Reuters UK -- http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienc...31461520071012 __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last edited by Lotesse : 10-12-2007 at 12:53 PM.

10-12-2007, 02:22 PM	#15
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Jon? You'll Nora the piano playing cat then. Nice link Ner. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-12-2007, 02:40 PM	#16
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Nora plays the piano better than I do __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

10-19-2007, 01:18 AM	#18
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	O.K. this I had to share with someone! If this doesn't banish any blues you might have, or freeze your face into a giggling hard-core smile for the next five minutes or longer, then nothing could, I mean this is AWEsome animal news! It is Snowball the Dancing Parakeet, he is an amazingly gifted dancer, you will be blown away! You will not be disappointed. This, you gotta see... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IZm...elated&search= __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-19-2007, 01:32 AM	#19
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	LOL, saw that on CO - silly bird. Too bad about its terrrrrible taste in music. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-19-2007, 01:44 AM	#20
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Yes, silly 'cause of his musical taste, but a GENius dancer! God, cute-overload always manages to bring me some kind of smile or even outright laughing, every time I go there. But Snowball, he's just - check out the timing in his dance moves! It's brilliant, he seems to anticipate every part of the song, and the end? Snowball's finale, that hardcore headbanging move?? Oh, god, priceless!! __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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