Favorite Creatures

dolphins and wolves....elephants, penguins, dogs, horses, heck, all of 'em!

anything fuzzy, including guys...*smile*

Oh...and eagles and peregrine falcons...and the little bird O'O brought home one stormy night in his hat...

how sweet!

Gotta tell you about it. It was pouring and very dark and gloomy outside and it was dusk. Ray came in soaking wet and put his hat down on the counter and walked away. I grabbed his hat to shape it over a container so it would dry right and this very loud and indignant PEEP!!! came out of it. I opened the edges very carefully, and in there was a tiny white-eye (a tiny greenish yellow bird with a white eye-ring)chick staring back at me. I quickly closed the brim again and as I wondered what to do with t, the white-eyes outside heard it and clamored around my screen porch. I took the little one in the hat out there and carefully opened the door to the outside, then opened the brim and placed the little one down on the ground. They got together around it and helped it to the safety of a nearby palm thatch. It was ssssooooooooooooo cute!!!!

mama bird outside, huh? wow!

Sometimes mama birds don't take babies back once they have human smell on them. It's nice this one did.

He had rescued this one abandoned on a bench in downtown Hilo's Ho'olulu Park pavillion. He knew something would eat it if he left it there all wet and shivering, so he brought it home. We were astounded and delighted the way our resident white-eyes adopted the little one right away! I was careful not to touch him and so was Ray when he scooped him up in his hat. Perhaps that coupled with all the rain made our smell insignificant.

Nice story.

He's a nice guy...! It was so cute - we were just remembering it in the kitchen. We live off Haihai Street just below the Waiakea Uka, so we are about 5 miles from down town - or more! I shoulda told the whole story the first go-round.

One of the wholphins (part dolphin, part killer whale) at Sea Life park died today. They are an amazing hybrid. Now there's only one. The only one known in the world.

Wow, did not know that one of our wholphins died - I know one was doing poorly...How sad!

Wow, that's tragic. If there is only one wholphin left the poor creature it is seriously extinct. I didn't even know they existed.

i've never heard of hybrid wholphins. you guys knew that killer whales and dolphins are related, right?

Indeed! Yes they are, or there would not have been a wholphin! Interbreeding with unlike species is most rare...

now gimme a link for a pic, because even in all my watching of discovery channel documentaries on sea mammals, they've never mentioned this creature. and was the interspecies breeding their idea or researchers?

I'll look and see if there is a link.

Kekaimalu, born 1985 (still living) Sea Life Park, Honolulu half dolphin, half false killer whale Pseudorca x Tursiops

If you wish to see it: http://www.womenonwallst.com/pp/Y/Yorimoto/slp.htm

slight mistake on previous URL. It is: http://www.womenonwallstreet.com/pp/Y/Yorimoto/slp.htm

thanks for the url. what can i say? wow!!

The one that died was Kekaimalu's baby, a 3/4 dolphin, 1/4 false killer whale. Kekaimalu came as an accident. Her parents were in the same tank, but the marine biologists had no reason to believe that they could reproduce, and were shocked when she was able to as well, since most hybrids are sterile.

i thought they were. so her parents were hybrids as well. wow. is there an info site where we can learn more about why they're doing this hybridizing?

Have you tried the Sea Life Park link on the picture site? I don't believe it was purposeful crossbreeding. They were just being kept in the same tank as part of the park's performance training academy "Splash University." Frankly, I don't like the idea of circus animals. I don't think these magnificent creatures were put here to amuse humans, but I have paid my money to see the wholphins, since there is no other place to do so.

not necessarily my fave creature but here's a great story... in today's news WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana (AP) -- A tent-hating grizzly bear that had been living on borrowed time is off death row and heading for a wildlife shelter in Southern California. The 180-pound, 3-year-old bear was captured Aug. 22 after squashing, ripping or bouncing on one too many tents -- his eighth or ninth, the counts vary -- in Yellowstone National Park. Repeated efforts to catch the grizzly failed until rangers found the right bait: a tent. The bear, nicknamed Kelty after a brand of tents, was scheduled to be killed because a suitable home could not be found. But Christopher Servheen of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service kept putting off the execution. The Wildlife Way Station at Sylmar, California, eventually agreed to accept the bear. "This is an unusual case. We probably won't do it again," Servheen said Monday.

cool stor!

cool story!

Gawd, the finger-fuckers from outer space are at it again...

*giggle*

How you doing, my friend?

Just great! Answer comes a bit late...In the last time I loose survey in Spring, because work is harrassing me... Why is everybody so eager to tell you what you've done wrong in their eyes - nobody sees what good one might have done or how much work is behind things... and why do people always have to yell? Best thing is not answering the phone today, heard enough crap for one week! Sorry, no better news today!

Oh, sorry I forgot to ask: How are you? Hope you're better than me!

BTW, I just looked up the last 500 responses... Where are you, Riette????!!!!

Here!!! You mean you couldn't see me??? JIPPPEEEE!!! I'm thin again!!! Oh ... oops - no, I wasn't here! I'm sorry work was tough for you. Is it better now? I didn't come, because I was preoccupied with stuff surrounding my studies for next year; it's frustrating, because I've just found out that in order to make Bars the rules have been slightly changed, so that I now have to study a part-time course on top of the course I'm doing next year - which will be more than full-time studying. And I've got 2 little kids and a couple of commissions to complete early in the new year. It's dark....

*HUGS* all the way around the world for you two. Life should not have such stuff involved in it...not fair!!!

Hi Riette! Hi Marcia! Work knows no end...Got to hurry again!! See ya!

Drunken Elephants Rampage, Killing Four in Indian Village GAUHATI, India (AP) - Wild elephants broke into a cluster of thatched huts, guzzled rice beer fermenting in casks and then tore the village apart in a drunken rampage, trampling four people to death and injuring six, a wildlife official said Thursday. The herd of 15 elephants descended Wednesday on the village of Prajapatibosti, 180 miles east of Gauhati, state capital of northeastern Assam, elephant expert Kushal Konwar Sharma said. The elephants broke into the thatched huts with their trunks and then began drinking rice beer from casks, Sharma said in a telephone interview from Golaghat. "After drinking the beer the elephant herd became intoxicated and went on a rampage, trampling to death four members of a family," he said. The animals trampled rice paddies and more huts before leaving the area Thursday morning. At least 100 people have been killed in elephant attacks during the past year in Assam, where 5,000 wild elephants are estimated to be living. Human encroachment and a shrinking forest habitat have been the main causes of the problem, Sharma said. Copyright 1999 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Is it okay to giggle?

Look out for the drunken rice-paddy-trampling elephants!!!! HA-HAAAAAA!!!!

I thought it was funny, and I am delighted you laughed...I refrained so I did not insult any more lurkers on Spring since 4 were killed - I do not need anymore email resulting from some imagined sin I committed...!

see why you should never drink and drive? *grin* guys, i'm lurking for the most part today. but will be back soon! oh, and i have some great pictures for you when i get back to my scanner! miss you guys *hugs*

Oooh, we're all eagerness and anticipation. Sonmehow I cannot imagine you in your Hummer plowing wantonly through a rice paddy...*hugs*

Wanna bet?? ha-ha! Can't wait to see yer pics, Wolfie!