"Prehistoric" Shark Seen Attacking Deep Bait

National Geographic Channel
July 22, 2010


A sixgill shark—a species often referred to as prehistoric because of its resemblance to sharks living hundreds of millions of years ago.


The shark is seen biting on bait at a camera trap deep off Australia.


It's part of a project to learn more about deep-sea creatures and possible correlations with human sight and brain development.

Monkeys, Rats and Me

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In 2005, the building of the Oxford animal lab (in England - Oxford uni) brought about a battle between the animal rights activits who wanted to shut the place down vs the scientists who do medical research with animals other than humans.


Scientists in the area fear to speak about their research because of violent acts from a minority of animal rights activists. Mel Broughton, leader of Speak dedicates all his time to animal rights and vows to shut that lab down. But Laurie Pycroft, the founder of a movement called Pro-Test stands up to Speak, campaigning for the medical experimentation. He was sick of the anti-vivisectionists dominating the debate in the public forum.


The director of this documentary aims to hear out both sides of the debate, in order to decide if the experiments are effective and ethical.

World's Fastest of all Land Mammals

Sarah, the Cincinnati Zoos eight-year-old female cheetah, is now the world's fastest of all land mammals. Sarah earned her spot in the record book when she crossed the finish line in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 6.16 seconds in her very first attempt, breaking the previous mark of 6.19 seconds set by a male South African cheetah named Nyana in 2001. Then, in her second attempt she broke her own record with a time of 6.13 seconds. (For comparison, the Fastest Human on Earth, Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt, recently posted a 9.58 in the 100-meter dash.)




Cheetahs are endangered and their population worldwide has shrunk from about 100,000 in 1900 to an estimated 9,000 12,000 cheetahs today. The Cincinnati Zoo has been dubbed The Cheetah Capital of the World because of its conservation efforts through education, public interpretation, and the captive cheetah breeding program. The Zoos Regional Cheetah Breeding Center is one of only four similar facilities in the United States managed by the Species Survival Plan. Since 2007, four out of only eight cheetah cub litters born in North America were born in Cincinnati, more than anywhere else in the world. In total, there have been 37 cheetah cubs born in Cincinnati.



Since 1980 the Cincinnati Zoos Cat Ambassador Program has taken African cheetahs to schools and programs around the U.S, Canada, and Central America to spread the word that cheetahs are running for their lives. In addition, each summer the Zoo takes 22 school teachers to the Cheetah Conservation Funds headquarters in Namibia for a two-week conservation field study. Since 1990 the Cincinnati Zoos Angel Fund has directly supported cheetah conservation in Africa. From South African & Namibia in the south, up through Kenya & Tanzania in East Africa, The Angel Fund has contributed more than $1 million in support for cheetahs in the wild.

Animal Cannibalism: Lion Commits Infanticid

*** Violent footage, viewers discretion is requested:

Lion infanticide part 1
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Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual from the species as food.

Cannibalism is not only a consequence of starvation or extrem natural conditions, it may also occurs because of needs of domination or battle over a female, like the cruel story in the video.

Lion can commit infanticid and even devour the bones of his victim to achieve the strategy of domination of a female, and hide for good his crime.

This is one of the wildest and merciless laws of nature.

SOS Rethink the Shark

For too long sharks have been exploited and have unjustly earned the reputation of being man-eaters when it is in fact us who feed on them.

Up to 100 million sharks are being killed worldwide, mostly for their fins, while only four people were killed by sharks worldwide last year.

People have more chance of being killed by faulty toasters, flying kites or simply by falling off chairs than ever being killed by a shark.


Source: The Save Our Seas Foundation

Stop Cruelty Against Animals

At number one is a business with a truly global reach. Covance is a contract testing company that tests everything from drugs to industrial chemicals to cosmetics ingredients for client companies.

Covance's deadly work includes dripping chemicals into animals' eyes; applying substances to their raw, abraded skin; forcing animals to ingest or inhale deadly toxins; and intentionally inducing cancer in animals.

PETA US' undercover investigation at a Virginia Covance laboratory documented that employees were hitting and screaming at monkeys.

Covance also has animal facilities in the UK and other European countries, including Germany, where the abuse of monkeys was exposed in an undercover investigation.


Source: Peta.org0uk