TIL that kangaroos can pause their pregnancy by up to a year if the conditions aren’t right. Did you know this? And gestation is only 3 or 4 weeks! Healesville Sanctuary is terrific. Here’s Bernice, the black-breasted buzzard after using a rock to crack open an emu egg.
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A large raptor on the ground with her wings open, her trainer behind, picking up the remnants of a broken shell from a green lawn.
This "giant fox" with deer-like legs isn't a fox or wolf at all, it's the maned wolf, South America's largest wild canid, and half its diet is fruit.
Part of what makes the bald eagle a perfect national bird is that they have a reputation as fierce predators who kill at will and rule the skies unchallenged but mostly make a living stealing fish and other meals from smaller raptors
104-year-old gopher tortoise, Gus, resides in the Museum of Natural History in Halifax. He’s received hundreds of letters, get-well cards, pieces of art, and thousands of social media messages since it was announced he is to undergo surgery for a bladder stone. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
