Orphaned baby hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as mother
“The smells on the brush, which is used to sweep a yard, remind the hedgehogs of their natural habitat.”
AND … in surgery … doctors found a BULLET in his abdomen. His owners did not know he had ever been shot.
Miracle dog!
The pelicans were playing with a cell phone that a visitor had dropped in the pelican pool when, while no one was looking, one of the birds swallowed it. The pelican coughed it up later and no harm was done to the bird. No reports yet as to the state of the cell phone.
Adorable technology: A sea turtle that was rescued in Japan last year is getting a trial pair of plastic flippers that should allow her to be released into the wild when she recuperates from surgery.
A cell phone lost during a snorkeling expedition washed ashore four days later in Taipei “after floating past numerous towns and rocky outcroppings.”
The park lifeguard who found it recharged the battery, then called the owner’s wife, whom he found saved in the cell phone’s favorite contacts.
A baby rhino at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa …
An aardvark calf at the Omaha Zoo …
And a rare baby donkey at the Sedgwick Zoo in Kansas …
The first baby poitou donkey born in a North American zoo.
MAZEL TOV, UNUSUAL, ADORABLE BABY ZOO ANIMALS + FRIENDS!
SO ADORABLY BALD!
” ‘Whenever you come across a bird that’s bald, it’s a prominent characteristic,’ [Wild Conservation Society Assistant Director Peter] Clyne told LiveScience.”
From the desk of recklessly adorable endangerement: a seven-year-old in Utah steals his dad’s Dodge Intrepid and leads police on a 40-mph car chase.
“When the boy’s father later confronted him, the boy said he didn’t want to go to church. The boy is too young to prosecute and no citations were issued, although police did urge the father to make his car keys more inaccessible to children.”
