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Dogs Are Not Quite Colour Blind

Despite what you may have heard in the past, the vision of a dog is not simply black and white. In fact dogs just like their human owners have multi coloured vision. The only difference is they cannot see as many different colours as their handlers. The reason for this is because the retina of a dog has only two types of colour detecting cells (cones).

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Chimps Love Indian And African Music

If you are ever in a record store and you come across a group of chimpanzees you may well find them huddles around the Classical Indian section according to a study which tested the musical taste of mankind’s cousin.

The study found that whilst chimpanzees preferred to avoid the strong beats that are associated with western music they did like Akan tunes from West Africa and Indian ragas.

The study co author Frans de Wall of Emory University said the objective was not to find a preference for different cultures’ music however the researchers used music from Japan India and Africa to see the response of primates to specific acoustic characteristics.

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The Weird Mating Habits of The Koala Bear

Koalas live a pretty idyllic life and spend up to 22 hours a day sleeping, so the obvious question becomes how on earth do they reproduce?
Koalas are solitary animals that can be found throughout the eucalypt woodlands of Australia. Each bear sets up home in an area that can range to just a few acres or in some cases hundreds of acres. Koala bears rarely run in to each other and on the odd occasion when two territorial males cross each other’s pass things can get kind of ugly.

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Rhino Killed In Nepal Ending Record of No Poaching

Just a couple of months ago, back in March, the WWF was pleased to celebrate the fact that no tigers, elephants, or rhino’s had been poached in Nepal for an entire year. That made it the second year of no poaching in Nepal with the first taking place in 2011.

No poaching was an extremely remarkable achievement for Nepal particularly since it came at a time when the level of poaching species such as rhino is rising globally.

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Howletts Welcomes The Arrival Of Dhole Litter

Last month Howletts Wild Animal Park welcomed the arrival of an adorable litter of 12 dhole pups. The pups made their debut in May just in time for half term and are proving to be amongst the most popular tourist attractions at the park.

The pups are now nine weeks old and recently took advantage of the warm weather to take their first steps with keepers reporting that all the pups are having a jolly good time in their enclosure.

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