The run up to Christmas can now officially start after John Lewis released their seasonal advert – and yes it’s a tear jerker! Last year we had a bear in the woods backed by a Lily Allen tune. This time we have Monty the Penguin in search of true love. Those guys at John Lewis certainly know how to tug at the old heart strings. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Brazilian wild marmosets have never watched a movie or seen a television show in their jungle homes until very recently. A scientist showed a group of wild marmosets a short flick of one of their compatriots opening a box in order to eat a slice of banana. The study found that wild marmosets were likely to mimic the behavior they saw in the video and open the box themselves.
This is the funniest video we’ve seen in a while. You may remember Miley Cyrus causing quite a stir with her twerking at the MTV awards with Robin Thicke. Well how about a turtle that loves a twerk? Just add water! Cowabunga dudes!
According to the results of a new study undertaken by WWF and ZSL, it is estimated that the total number of fish, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians fell by an astonishing 52 per cent between 1970 and 2010. To reiterate that’s 52% of wildlife lost in the last 40 years.
The obvious question to ask is what caused such a massive decline? It may not surprise you that the main culprits are humans. Through hunting, fishing, deforestation, pollution and other types of habitat destruction we have contributed a major part to this loss of wildlife.
Leopards that prowl around rural India have an interesting favourite food: dogs
These large felines seem to prefer eating domestic dogs even in areas where there are goats, cows and other farm animals according to the results of a new study.
Conservationists took a close look at leopard poop to reconstruct their diets. A team of scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society looked at 85 leopard fecal samples in Western Maharashtra India. When they took the specimens back to the lab, they were looking for claws, hair, hoofs or other indigestible parts of prey.
If you are a shark lover then there is some good news, beginning September 14th, new international laws came into effect that added to protection for five different species of shark that have been threatened by overfishing.
Special permits are now required to export live sharks as well as fins, gills and meat of these five species as well as all species of manta ray. The new regulations were adopted last year at a meeting in Bangkok of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as CITES.
Have you ever sat in a meeting and looked at a colleague yawning, then had the uncontrollable urge to yawn yourself. We can’t tell you how many times that has happened to us, fortunately most of the time we manage to control it or yawn without the boss seeing! A new study suggests that just as with humans when a wolf sees one of its compatriots yawn it will yawn as well.
We at udopt are split with some loving marmite on toast and others finding it hard to understand how anyone could like it! But have you ever wondered whether big cats like Marmite? If not why not?! Check out this video from Big Cat Rescue to see the marmite effect.
A new study suggests that the elephant population in Africa has reached a tipping point with more being killed every year than being born. According to the research since 2010, the average number of elephants killed annually on the continent was 35,000.
Recently it was International Orangutan Day which came shortly after it was revealed there may be a discovery of a new species of the ape.
Dr. Michael Krutzen of Zurich University who has spent a lot of time studying the southern most population known as Batang Toru orangutans which are located in the Tapanuli region of northern Sumatra said:
“From a genetics point of view we were taken by surprise to see these stark differences compared to other Sumatran orangutan populations further north. Our findings highlight the urgent need for special conservation status for the Batang Toru forests.”
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