SNN (ScrollingNetworkNews) ✿ ✿ Our Mel and Sydney returned to their nesting box with plenty of bonding occurring..but after 2.5 months of Sydney in the box from Dec 2013 to mid Feb 2014, the lack of prey gifts from Mel ( perhaps due to the severe and historic drought underway in California)and they have forgone the nesting process this year as many other raptors ✿ Compared to other owls of similar size, the Barn Owl has a much higher metabolic rate, requiring relatively more food. Pound for pound, Barn Owls consume more rodents – often regarded as pests by humans – than possibly any other creature. ✿ We remind viewers that sometimes owlets may not survive - the parents will dispose of things in "The Owl Way" -viewer discretion is advised, this is nature and the "Owl way". ✿ ~ ✿ “Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.” ― Gary Kowalski, The Souls of Animals ✿ Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius." ~ E.O. Wilson

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Black Lion Facebook Hoax

Q: A friend today placed on his facebook page a picture of a black lion, is there really such a rare animal? I have seen white tigers, and even a white wallaby.
But is there such an animal as a black lion?
 

This image of a black lion has been widely reposted on Facebook, typically accompanied by messages imploring viewers to "Like" the large feline (e.g., "How many likes for him?").

The picture is a nothing more than a digital fabrication which was originally posted to the deviantART web site back in March of 2012, however — a manipulated image of a white lion.