Animal magic: the wildlife discoveries of 2009 (BBC)

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By Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News

From a new species of giant rat to ants that took over the world, 2009 was a good year for new animal discoveries.

It was a year for all creatures great, with the mating ritual of the humpback whale filmed for the first time and the unearthing of a colossal sea monster.

And for the small, with one of the world's tiniest parrots caught on camera, as was a polar bear cub hitching a ride on its mother's back.

It was also a year where many species headed ever closer to extinction.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8426000/8426977.stm




Giant rats and the "smell of death"? :afraid: OK, it gets better after that. :)

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1. Recommend-- this planet is a wonderful place. Nt

[MuseRider]

2. Thank you.

How can we not protect such wonderful diversity? Such amazing creatures we share the planet with.

[Laura902]

3. We need to save

the beautiful and strange species of this planet, who shaped by evolution just like us, deserve their place in this world just as much as we do-if not more, only because they do not destroy the natural world as we do