Animal of the Day - Giraffes!

Giraffe’s favourite food is the thorny acacia tree. The tree’s leaves could be completely eaten by the giraffe, however it releases a chemical called tannin, which is repelling in taste to the giraffe.

Not only does that tree, stop the giraffe from eating its own leaves, but releases a chemical warning nearby acacia trees to release tannin into their leaves.

The giraffe is one of the few animals born wiht horns. The horns lie flat against the skull when it is born and pop up during the giraffe's first week of life.

Otter Prayer

We do not kill for fur. for food. 

Meatless

Win Win!

THE LARGEST HORSE - a Shire gelding named Samson. in 1850, at the age of four, Samson measured 7 feet 2 inches high (at the shoulder).

THE HEAVIEST HORSE - Samson also won the record for the heaviest horse weighing 3,360 pounds.

THE SMALLEST PONY - Little Pumpkin stood only 14 inches tall and weighed only 20 pounds

THE OLDEST HORSE - Old Bill and english borge horse, he lived for 62 years while a horses' average lifespan is 25 years

THE LONGEST TAIL - Chinook an Amerian palomino had a tail length of 22 feet.

THE LONGEST MANE - 18 feet long and belonging to a California mare called Maude.

THE FASTEST PONY EXPRESS RIDE - lasted 7 days and 17 hours, while carrying President Lincoln's inaugural address.

Don't Buy, Adopt!

Adopt Don't Buy

I personally don't like the idea of buying animals from shops.

• these animals are bred. they may look cute but what about their parents?
• they are separated from their parents. how would you feel?
• bred in quantity and in horrible conditions
• RETURN policy?! WHAT?!
• purchasing a life for MONEY? is that how we work now?
• baby animals suffer psychological problems from being separated from their parents

Sniff Sniff

POLAR BEARS - can smell a seal on the ice 20 miles away. No wonder they're nicknamed "noses with legs."

ARCTIC HARES - can smell dwarf willow leaves beneath several feet of snow.

SQUIRRELS - can smell the tiny acorns they buried the previous autumn

DOGS - can smell one drop of urine in a swimming pool full of water.

Wolves - can smell prey more than a mile away if the wind is right. They can also smell the presence of an animal three days after it's left.

PIGS - can be trained to find truffles - prized edible fungi that grow underground. (Some police departments use pigs to sniff out drugs.)

COONHOUNDS - can smell when a raccoon's track was made, how fast it was traveling, and in what direction.

BLOODHOUNDS - can follow a scent that is four days old.

DOGS - can point out a sick catfish to fish farmers and even smell if there are termites in the house.