The flightless parrot

The heaviest parrot in the world The kakapo is a bird endemic to New Zealand. It’s name in Māori means night parrot, a fitting name for a mostly nocturnal bird. Because of the lack of predators on the island, the kakapo lost the use of it’s wings and cannot fly, they spend most of their

A duck ?A beaver? No ! A platypus !

An mammal but an exception to the rules. The platypus is a mammal commonly found on the east part of Australia. It’s unusual appearance might bring some doubt about their origin and when first discovered it was believed to be an hoax! To add even more confusion they are also one of the few mammals

A saber toothed deer ?

The musk deer, an atypical deer or is it ? The musk deer can actually refer to any of seven species of musk deers, for simplification, the Siberian musk deer will be used for this article. The very first thing that one will notice is those vampire fangs that the males possess. They are used

The rarest panther in the world.

The Amur leopard, king of the mountains. Normally people think of leopard as living in the savannah in Africa, the Amur leopard is actually a subspecies who evolved to survives in the mountains and forest of Russia and China. They are solitary by nature, though uncommonly there has been sighting of male and female staying

Fancy a cup of expensive coffee ? The Asian palm civet can help you.

A feline creature despite not being one The palm civet, sometime called cat civet, is actually not a feline but a viverrid (the same family as the mongoose ). They come in a variety of colors such as brown, grey, black or orange coats. Commonly found in south and east parts of Asia, they live

Have you ever seen a dwarf Giraffe ?

Now you have, and it’s no photoshop. The Giraffe Conservation Foundation researchers recently spotted 2 giraffes with what seems to be dwarfisms in Namibia and Uganda. Those little guys seems to have much shorter legs despite being well into adulthood, a tinier tail and slightly shorter necks. Not much is known on the specifics on

Hope for a turtle on the brink of extinction

The Yangtze giant softshell turtle species had no expectation to come back from disappearing forever. Or so we thought, when the last 100 years old female died at Suzhou zoo in china after a failed insemination. Leaving the 80 years male to be the last of its kind, that is until an individual was found

Introduction to the blog ( and me )

If you have no interest to know about me, you may skip this. I am not the main focus of my blog, the animal kingdom is way more interesting. 😉 Hi ! This post is only but a short on the blog itself, a little bit of myself and why you might enjoy it. So

What the hell is a pangolin ? Did it cause the covid-19 virus ?

A very much unique family . There is 8 distinct species of pangolins. Four in Africa ( white-bellied pangolin, black-bellied pangolin, ground pangolin, giant pangolin) and four in Asia ( Chinese pangolin, Sunda pangolin, Indian pangolin and Palawan pangolin). All these species are part of a family of mammals of their own called Manidae. All