Mei Huan dances while the Lun's play -by DoxieMom!

2013-12-10 Mei Huan Dances while the Lun's Play

http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?%2Fvideo%2Fworld%2F2013%2F12%2F15%2Fpkg-watson-china-panda-breeding-center.cnn&hpt=hp_t3&from_homepage=yes&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F#/video/world/2013/12/15/pkg-watson-china-panda-breeding-center.cnn

Loved it...and so true!  Thanks!

                        Veronica!

Thanks for posting Kris , it's so much fun watching these girls.

You're welcome, Carla!  I love watching them too! So cute and always busy!

Mei Lun atop the hammock structure!


2013-12-15 Mei Lun Atop the Hammock Structure!!

The girls have fun with the water drinker!

2013-12-15 Mei Huan Atop the Drinker!!

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/at/face-off4-2076338

Should be cool, I love Vultures!! BARF!!!  

The link doesn't work for me-says the page may have moved or is no longer available.

I saw my first and only Carolina Wren this past spring when we were in GA.  Neat that you have one and at this time of the year!  They're pretty birds-love their tails!

Hard to believe these little guys take such a trip... while I find it enough to walk across the room to retrieve the zapper...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25274483

Amazing!

Oh boy!  No girls!!!!!   

Officials at Zoo Atlanta have received surprising news regarding giant pandas Po, Mei Lun and Mei Huan. DNA testing has confirmed that all three bears are female.

All three giant pandas were originally sexed as male by colleagues from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, but it is not unusual for young giant pandas to be sexed incorrectly. Prior to the time they are at least 3 years old, there are no obvious external cues as to their sex.

There are no plans to change Po’s, Mei Lun’s or Mei Huan’s names, and the news that they are female will have no impact on their care or their future importance to the world’s population of captive giant pandas.

Po, 3, is the third offspring of Lun Lun and Yang Yang. Mei Lun and Mei Huan, 4 months old, are the only twin giant pandas in the U.S.

  Nice!  2 Snowys!

I sent my 3 emails also, hope it works!!

                    I hope it works too!  Sign the petition too...they only need about 130 more signatures!

127 signatures now needed!

       
           

I sent my 3 emails also, hope it works!!

                    I hope it works too!  Sign the petition too...they only need about 130 more signatures!

I e-mailed all three.....

Dear People,

Please stop using the rat poison, which could ultimately kill the hawks, they also kill rats and eat poisoned rats.  Work on getting garbage cans covered and not overflowing.  Use rodent-repellent trash bags.  THIS SPECIES IS LEGALLY PROTECTED in Canada, US, and Mexico by the International Migratory Bird Treaty Act.  It's illegal for anyone to keep these hawks, hunt them, disturb nests or eggs, or even collect feathers, but it's ok to poison them?

Please think about this and thank you,
Nora.....

Thanks, Nora!  I sent 3 emails out this AM.  They just don't get that the Hawks are year-round residents but maybe we'll wake them up to the fact.  It worked when a bunch of us blitzed them last year with calls/emails when rat poison was found around Pale Male's territory and several RTH's died of secondary rodenticide poisoning. We'll see....

Here's a petition that people can sign too:

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-murder-of-our-red-tailed-hawks-in-washington-square-park