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Animals
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New Monkey Species Discovered In Democratic Republic Of Congo
13 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the second time in 28 years Africa can say it has a new species of monkey – the lesula is found in remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Hero Dog Dies Saving Suicidal Owner From Oncoming Train
11 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
“Man’s best friend” takes on a whole new meaning after you read this amazing story. If you thought your dog was loyal, you’ve got nothing on this canine, who rescued his owner’s life – even though it would mean that he’d have to sacrifice his own.
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Massive Five Metre Python Hid Under Couple’s Car’s Bonnet At Kruger [PICS]
06 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
While recently holidaying in the Kruger National Park, a South African couple were caught off-guard, and were at a loss about what to do, when a giant five metre long python slithered up into their car’s bonnet and refused to budge!
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Hiker Photographs Bear Moments Before Grizzly Death
27 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The Denali National Park in Alaska has suffered its first deadly grizzly bear attack in the North American park’s 95 year history. 49 year-old Richard White of San Diego was attacked on Friday, but managed to snap up 26 photographs, which may provide vital insight into the minutes before his death.
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New App Tracks Great White Shark Activity
21 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Currently we rely heavily on Shark Spotters positioned at strategic points along the Cape Peninsula for shark warnings. What if there was an app for that, too?
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N2 Highway Memorial – 312 Dead Rhinos [VIDEO]
21 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The team over at Green Renaissance has started an activation along the N2 highway in Cape Town near the Cape Town International Airport. It will serve as a continual reminder of the epidemic that is rhino poaching in South Africa.
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SA And Vietnam To Sign Rhino Horn Education Deal
20 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
At last the South African government is taking a firm stance on educating countries in the Far East that rhino horn doesn’t cure ailments like erectile dysfunction.
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This New Loch Ness Monster Photo Is Apparently “The Best Ever” [PIC]
16 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Has the Loch Ness monster finally been caught on camera? Well, George Edwards from Scotland certainly thinks so! The monster hunter has spent the past 26 years searching for Nessie. He now claims to have taken the “best picture ever” of the beast, after dedicating 60 hours a week to his quest.
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Genius Gorillas Effortlessly Dismantle Poacher Snares
25 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Like so many of their human counterparts who have become fed-up with inadequate safety and security measures, mountain gorillas in Rwanda have taken matters into their own hands, literally. It recently came to light that juvenile gorillas had been seen dismantling complicated ensnarement devices, with their bare hands.
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In Mourning: Dolphin Carries Dead Baby For Days [VIDEO]
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A mourning ritual that is rarely seen, and even more rarely captured on camera, will raise further questions about whether dolphins understand the concept of death.
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Human Kleptoparasitism, Or, People Stealing Food From A Pride Of Hungry Lions [VIDEO]
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Have you ever been so hungry that you could steal food from a pride of 15 hungry lions? No? Me neither. But for a couple of chaps north of our border it’s common practice. Click through for the sweat-inducing how-to video.
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Bull Gores Runners During 2012 Pamplona Festival [GALLERY]
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A bull has gored two Britons and an American during the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona over the weekend. The three were among several people caught and attacked by the animal after he had had broken free from the pack.
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US Agency Has To Confirm Mermaids Are A Myth [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Incredibly, the US National Ocean Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had to issue a statement in the last week confirming the non-existence of mermaids after Animal Planet aired “Mermaids: The Body Found” and a whole bunch of Americans thought it was real.
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Local National Geographic Documentary Lures Baboons With Food [VIDEO]
03 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
The seaside town of Pringle Bay in the Western Cape is outraged at a National Geographic documentary that used food to lure baboons to a specially modified and fully furnished cottage in the area. The cottage is part of the Cape Hangklip Hotel, and the television series, Big Baboon House, raises ethical questions.
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American Student In Critical Condition After Brutal Chimp Attack In Nelspruit
02 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week, a young American graduate student who was leading a tour at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden, Nelspruit, was pulled into the chimps’ enclosure by two alpha males after entering a restricted area. He was brutally assaulted and suffered multiple injuries that left him in critical condition fighting for his life.
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SA Government Receives R25 Million Donation For Wildlife Crime Fighting
27 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Department of Environmental Affairs (read: the South African government) has welcomed (obviously?) the Council of the Global Environment Facility’s approval of R25 million worth of funding aimed at strengthening the current wildlife forensic capabilities in South Africa. The donation will help combat wildlife crimes like rhino poaching.
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Construction On The Kruger National Park’s First Luxury Hotel Set To Begin
25 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The issue of the construction of a luxury hotel development in the Kruger National Park was discussed at length on 2oceansVibe last year when the weighty issue of hotel development in the Kruger National Park became public knowledge. The first of these developments, to be built near the Malelane Gate, the most convenient entrance from Johannesburg and the airport in nearby Nelspruit, is finally about to get underway.
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Galapagos Island Tortoise, Lonesome George, Dies, Subspecies Now Extinct
25 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island subspecies of the giant tortoise, died, marking the total extinction of his subspecies. It’s a sad day, as Lonesome George became a symbol of other species on the brink of extinction, and an ambassador for Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.
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Shocking Rhino Poaching Documentary Debuts At Rio+20 [VIDEO]
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
“Rhinos Under Threat” is a new YouTube documentary aiming to raise public awareness of the current crisis faced by poaching. It launched at the Rio+20 Conference earlier this week. See the full 28-minute film inside, however be warned that it might be upsetting for sensitive viewers.
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Brakpan Couple And Their Pet Tiger Make International Headlines [PICS]
15 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Michael Jamison hails from Brakpan and has a girlfriend named Jackie. He also has a 200kg pet tiger named Enzo. They all get along pretty great. Check out this photo gallery of the threesome that appeared in Britain’s most prestigious newspaper yesterday, The Daily Mail.
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The Dingo Really Did Eat Her Baby
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
30 years later the famous case of baby Azaria Chamberlain being eaten by a dingo while on holiday has finally been put to rest. Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, long maintained that a dingo took her baby, even as she was sentenced to life in jail for her daughter’s murder, a conviction that was later quashed.
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PETA Finally Launches XXX Site, Doesn’t Have Any Porn
06 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In a rather feeble attempt to garner attention for the plight of abused animals everywhere, PETA has launched an adult content site peta.xxx [NSFW, sort of]. The site has been in the pipeline for a while now, and features porn stars like Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson. Although, to be honest, there is harder porn on late night E-tv.
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Leopard Mauls 13 People On 24-Hour Rampage In India [PICS]
04 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A wild leopard was shot dead yesterday at the Oil India Limited field headquarters campus at Duliajan, India. The leopard injured 13 people during a day-long rampage. See photos of the animal attacking a security guard after he tried to rescue his colleague – after the jump.
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Rhino Poacher Killed In Shootout At Kruger Park
11 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As the total number of rhino poached in the Kruger National Park reaches 130, it’s nice to read news like this. SANParks has reported that two suspects have been arrested, and one killed, in a shoot out in the Crocodile Bridge section of Kruger.
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BREAKING: R55 Million In Assets Seized From Dawie Groenewald And His Rhino Poaching Buddies [PICS]
09 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Hawks raided the home of one Dawie Groenwald this morning, in an “uncapped asset forfeiture” (read: repo raid) worth an estimated R55 million. This is part of one of South Africa’s biggest wildlife cases involving rhino poaching and trade in their horns, and we’ve got photos from the raid, and the police statement, after the jump!
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The BP Oil Spill Photos You Weren’t Supposed To See [PICS]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It has been two years since 4,9 million barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. In the midst of the disaster, BP and its contractors did everything they could to keep people from seeing the scale of the disaster. But new photos released today offer some new insight into just how horrific the Gulf became for sea life. See them inside.
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Japan’s “The Cove” Town Plans To Build A Dolphin Park In The Cove
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The town of Taiji in Japan, made infamous by award-winning documentary “The Cove”, plans to repair its reputation by building a sea life park in the self-same cove where annually hundreds of dolphins and whales are herded, captured and slaughtered by local fishermen. More on this seaside slaughter after the jump. Images might disturb some readers.
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Salome The Cheetah Gives Birth To Three Cubs
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Late yesterday afternoon, you may have been alerted to the fact that we had found out that Salome the cheetah from the Hoedpsruit Endangered Species Centre was due to give birth to her first litter of cubs at some point during the following 24 hours. Her first cub was born at approximately 19h20 last night. Click through for more.
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Lion Bone Trade On The Rise
02 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s next poaching epidemic could emanate out of the trade in lion body parts. Lion bones are being used as a replacement for tiger bones to concoct traditional Asian medicines like tiger brew wine because of the demise of the region’s tiger populations. Lion are already being poached in the northern section of the Kruger National Park.
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Cape Town To Hire More Spotters In Wake Of Fatal Shark Attack
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the wake of the tragic death of 20-year old Capetonian bodyboarder, David Lillienfeld last Thursday, the City of Cape Town has agreed to implement a shark spotting programme at Kogel Bay, where the young man lost his life.
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