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Heartbreaking footage has revealed how sloths are captured before they are hauled off into the wildlife selfie trade. The undercover video was taken in Iquitos, Peru, and it shows illegal loggers cutting down a tree in order to capture a sloth, all so tourists can take selfies with it.
Male sloths normally stay in the same tree for their entire life, whilst female sloths move after giving birth, leaving the tree for their offspring. 
After being removed from the tree, the sloth was then taken to Belén market to be sold, surprisingly it was sold at $13.
World Animal Protection released the video, Take a look make action when possible

Facebook photos of the giant kangaroo have gone viral, the beast is 6 feet 5 inches and weighing 100 kilograms (220 pounds), it's the kangaroo of your nightmares.
Jackson Vincent from Western Australia, came across this henchest kangaroo when he paid his grandmother a visit at Margaret River. He saw it bathing in Boodjidup Creek he was scared by its look for a sec
“His claws were really big – they were as long as my hand,That for me was even scarier than his muscles, they looked nasty.” he said
"I am pretty confident around animals but the moment when he started to come out of the water my heart definitely jumped and I decided to take a few steps back.”
Jackson Vincent/Cater News
Beyonce on Gucci Mink coat

By 2018 Gucci will go fur-free and they are planning to auction off all its remaining animal fur items, the Italian fashion house CEO Marco Bizzarri just announced during a talk at the London College of Fashion.
 “our absolute commitment to making sustainability an intrinsic part of our business.In selecting a new creative director I wanted to find someone who shared a belief in the importance of the same values,I sensed that immediately on meeting Alessandro for the first time.” Alessandro is the creative director, who was appointed in 2015 is the one who came up with that approach.


A charity auction of Gucci remaining animal fur items will be conducted, with the fund going to the animal rights organisations Humane Society International and LAV.
Kitty Block, president of Humane Society International said “Gucci going fur-free is a huge game-changer,For this Italian powerhouse to end the use of fur because of the cruelty involved will have a huge ripple effect throughout the world of fashion.”
By doing so, Gucci will be part of the Fur Free Alliance, an international group which campaigns on animal welfare and promotes alternatives to fur in the clothing industry.

A giant python took a bite on a man’s arm before he successfully killed it. This 7 meters (23 feet) python was found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
According to reports, Robert Nababan, 37, was on his way home when he saw two pedestrians blocked from crossing a road by the giant python. He bravely stepped in and became locked into a bloody battle with the snake, Surprisingly the Pedestrians looked as he wrestled in the middle of the road in Riau Province. It bit the man’s arm, and coiled itself around him so he couldn’t escape
Ultimately, with the help of others, the python lost the fight so Robert was rushed to hospital for his wounds to be treated. Finally was consumed piece by piece by people with a penchant for vertebrate Parseltongue speakers.
robert Recovering



There's a great number of people that is convinced that a huge humanoid ape like creature is roaming in the woods during night in some places in America. A man  with his nephew were on their way fishing when they found something really strange on the way. They saw a large hand imprints on the ground kind of resembling a bipedal creature hand structure with long fingers. What could it be?


According to National Geographic, recently there was a freaky goat in a village in Assam, India. It has a rare condition called cyclopia (named after the cyclops of ancient lore) which occurs when the developing brain doesn't separate into two hemispheres thus one eye socket forms, and you end up with a huge,eye in the middle of the head. Cyclopia is often caused when there are too many toxins present in the womb, but it can also happen if there's just some genetic wonk in the mix.

Because of other deformities that cyclopia causes, like malformed nostrils, animals with the condition don't usually live very long. That's what the owner of our little friend in India was told by local veterinarians. But the goat has proved everyone wrong and seems to be chugging along just fine.




In Indian-Hindu culture, animals, especially those with some unique features, are sacred in some ways. According to its owner, Mukhuri Das, the goat is good luck,  some people they're flocking to the goat in droves. Das said he's gotten dozens of daily visitors who want to see for the miracle kid for themselves. Das told National Geographic he believes the goat will "bring luck to his home." Here's hoping the little goat lives a longer life

Conservation Rangers were left stunned after seeing an extremely rare white giraffe and her calf at  Ishaqbini conservation in Garissa County, Kenya.
A ranger said: "While observing the magnificent long necked animal looking at us, I could not help but see the fading reticulates on their skin. It was evident that the coloration, especially on the mother giraffe, was not as conspicuous as the baby."
Experts have explained that the condition, known as leucism, which is a condition in which there is partial loss of pigmentation in an animal resulting in white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales or cuticle, but not the eyes. Unlike albinism, it is caused by a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin.
Credit: Caters


Texas farmer Gary noticed his seven-month-old chicken started laying very large eggs that contain something quite odd. 
A tiny, fully formed egg was found inside of a regular-sized egg of that seven month old chicken. This particularly rare, miniscule egg inside an egg was also caused by a counter-peristalsis contraction. However, in this case the oocyte that was released in the first egg was tiny because the ovary had released an oocyte out of order. Usually hens ovulate daily in order of size – laying the largest, most developed oocyte first. The hen’s ovary is simultaneously preparing smaller oocytes for release at a later time. 


Image sourced from BBC
 A 43 year old man has been arrested after he was filmed killing a wounded kangaroo, the clip got shared widely on Chinese messaging app WeChat.He basically grabed its tail and steps on its back, before repeatedly cutting its throat with a large hunting knife until the kangaroo stops moving – an unnecessary and brutal act.The man was charged with destroying protected wildlife, said authorities in the state of Victoria. Officers also seized knives and firearms from his home, they said.
If convicted under Victorian law, the man faces up to two years in jail and a fine of A$38,056 (£23,000; $30,000).
"We take all alleged cases of animal cruelty very seriously," said Glenn Sharp, a spokesman for Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.
"The wildlife offences captured in this video are particularly abhorrent."
He thanked members of the public for coming forward with information.


A pair of male lions has been caught attempting to mate at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in the north of England. The pair is amongst of the 13 lions that are placed at the English animal reserve.Homosexuality?It is not unusual for lions to behave that way, Homosexual behavior in lions, especially in male lions, is actually fairly common
Amateur wildlife photographer Russ Bridges snapped the pictures on August 19. Bridges captured one of the male lions moving towards the other male and started pinning him down. After a while, they apparently began to mate. The lioness appears to have a very dispassionate look on her face. According to the photographer, "she’s not really interested in them. Every time either male approached her she would snarl at them and smack their faces with her paw.
“Usually they lay asleep doing nothing when I go to photograph them, but this time they were up and about. My favourite shot is the one where he appears to be sticking his tongue out,” Bridges told The Independent.
“I've never seen a shot of two males on top of one another with one sticking his tongue out before – it's like he's showing some pride in what he's doing.”
Obviously it’s not just about mating. Courtship rituals like affectionate nuzzling, caressing, and head rubs, as well as playful rolling around, have all been witnessed. Male pairs bond for several days before they actually mount each other. Experts estimate that 8 percent of all mounting occurs with other males.


Scientists have just discovered a new species of purple frog Deep in the Western Ghats mountain range of India, which they have called the Bhupathy's purple frog, it’s certainly not pretty.
They describe the amphibian as characterized by its smooth grayish skin with purple marbling, its small beady eyes, and its rather strange pig-like snout. The frog is only known to live in just three seasonal streams within the stunning Western Ghats mountains that are found along the western coast of India. Most of its time is spent living underground in shallow little burrows, which is probably why it pretty much looks like an amphibious mole.
Its lifecycle is like of that normal frog, it starts life as squiggling little tadpoles. Unlike the rather shy adults, the tadpoles of this newly described species are found in the lively cascades that flow during monsoon seasons. As reported, the tadpoles actually latch onto the rock face behind the waterfall like a suckerfish.


This lioness was on the hunt for some food in Maasai Mara plains, Kenya, when she spotted a hippopotamus.
Take a look at the surprising footage below.

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Xenotransplantation, is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another.The increasing demand for organs, tissues, and cells for purposes of clinical transplantation, and the relative lack of improvement in the number of deceased human organs that become available each year, have increased interest in the possibility of using organs and cells from an animal species.
With the advent of genetic engineering and cloning technologies, pigs are currently available with a number of different manipulations that protect their tissues from the human immune response, resulting in increasing pig graft survival in nonhuman primate models. 
IS IT SAFE? 
CRISPR Scientists have for the first time removed a dangerous type of virus found in live pigs that could make it safe for potential organ transplants from pigs into humans.Genetically modified pigs offer hope of a limitless supply of organs and cells for more than 117,000 people in the United States who are on a waiting list for an organ, as of now more than 22 people dying each day waiting for a transplant.
The pig genome contains porcine endogenous retroviruses or PERVs. These dangerous viruses can be passed on to humans during a transplant, which has been the main obstacle in using animals to grow organs for us humans. Thanks to CRISPR gene editing technique as Pig cells in the lab had already been freed of PERVs but this is the first time it has been shown in living animals.
Pigs have long been thought to be excellent candidates for transplants due to similar sizes between their organs and ours. This process, xenotransplantation, has risks due to viruses from such animals. Some could be treated with medicines or vaccines but some has no way around that without gene editing.
The team discovered 25 locations in the pig’s fibroblast cells genome that led to the activation of PERVs. To inactivate these locations, they used CRISPR, a revolutionary gene editing technique that allows researchers to slice bits of DNA precisely. This approach led to having cells that were 90 percent free of PERVs, and by adding additional substances related to DNA repair they reached the amazing 100 percent free goal.
"This is the first publication to report on PERV-free pig production," said Dr Luhan Yang, co-founder and chief scientific officer at eGenesis in a statement. "This research represents an important advance in addressing safety concerns about cross-species viral transmission. Our team will further engineer the PERV-free pig strain to deliver safe and effective xenotransplantation."

A plant thought to have gone extinct for more than 66 million years,during the age of the dinosaurs has recently been found growing on modern Earth, in what has been heralded as a pretty striking discovery.
Known as Lychnothamnus barbatus, this large green algae  was discovered by a team of scientists led by Drexel University in Philadelphia. Although native to other parts of the world, it was thought to have died out in North America long ago.
Its rediscovery, however, suggests one of two things. Either it has been brought here accidentally by incoming ships. Or, more interestingly, it may never have gone extinct in North America at all. The findings are described in the American Journal of Botany.





When eight baby hedgehogs lost their mother after being run over by a car, newly born and in desperate need of milk and affection hedgehogs, their future looked very uncertain. Fortunately after a little hunting around at Sadgorod Zoo in the Russian city of Vladivostok, the hoglets found an unlikely wet-nurse in Musya the cat, who could be seen feeding the babies, Thursday.
Prior to their adoption, the baby hedgehogs refused to be fed from a bottle or syringe and still blind, and were beginning to starve. The zoo was left with no other suitable choice but to try putting the mammals together with a new mother. Musya the cat still had milk left after taking care of several foster kittens, and luckily, the babies took to her very quick.
Musya not only feeds both the hoglets during day time and her babies at night. For the most part, the standby mum and the hedgehogs get on well. 

People in Paris were surprised earlier this week, after a "stranded whale" showed up on the side of the river Seine (777-kilometre-long river). Pedestrians were greeted by what appeared to be a dead sperm whale, cordoned off from the public. There were even "forensic scientists" gathered around the "whale" to study it. 
It was a pretty strange sight.
So what's really going on? Did a sperm whale make it all the way down the Seine and get stranded somehow?
Well, whilst the whale is extremely realistic-looking and quite convincing...
... it is, in fact, an art installation. The 17-meter (55-foot) "whale" was constructed overnight by Captain Boomer Collective. The team of Belgian artists placed the whale there to raise awareness about humans destroying the environment.
The team even went as far as to simulate the smells of a dead whale.
"We place the statue on the beach during the night and prepare bleeding and smell," they wrote on their website. "In the morning the carcass is fenced, to keep people at a distance. We create of circle of about seven meters around the statue. Within this perimeter, the beaching is a true fact. The actors within the fence never drop their cover. They are scientific and official figures of a fictitious organization, the North Sea Whale Association."
The project appears to be convincing, with the Mirror reporting that several people believed the whale to be real.
"It makes me very sad because for an animal like this to leave the Atlantic to end up here means that there is a problem [...] I think it might be our fault," one Paris resident apparently told the paper.
The project aims to raise awareness of our impact on the environment in general, as well as our direct impact on whales in particular. Sperm whales are classified as a vulnerable species, after their numbers declined due to commercial whaling.
Whilst a whale making its way up the Seine is extremely unlikely, sperm whales are regularly found beached in the North Sea.
The UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme project manager Rob Deaville told IFLScience that during a normal year there would be around two to five sperm whale strandings in the UK alone, with more taking place around the North Sea. Last year, there was a mass-stranding event, where dozens of sperm whales washed up in the UK in one month.
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