Zoo Babies, Koko's Birthday and Sea Shepherd Emergency

I have just discovered the most wonderful web site.  The contributors are zoos and aquariums and what they do is post photos of all the baby animals that have recently been born at their respective zoos. It is so precious you simply cannot imagine. You have to go page 2 to look at the baby glossy black cockatoo chick. What a face… I want to give that baby a big smooch. You gotta love that face. There will be other photos added as more animals, some very rare, as babies are born and images are posted to the site.  Click here to go to go take a peek. You’ll have a big grin on your face in one second.

There is a list of zoos along the left side that will take you to each zoo.  It’s a great site. 

Speaking of zoos, I  have several zoos who use StarBird products for their animals.  I found out that the marmosets love to hide in the center of the Ring Around the Rainbow.  The anteater at the Denver Zoo loves to push the FootBall around and the serval cat carries the Fine Vine Swing everywhere he goes, even when he goes in to sleep.  Who knew?  I’ll be getting photos from the Denver and the San Diego Zoos of some of the animals playing with StarBird toys. I’ll post them on the StarBird web site and Facebook page.

Last blog we talked about Koko the gorilla. Well our beautiful girl just had a birthday on July 4^th, and she is now 40. I hear she had quite a celebration. Koko received an ultra realistic baby gorilla doll and has been spending a lot of time with it, carrying it in much the same way as most gorilla moms carry their newborns. Koko has asked to have a real baby gorilla, she will make a great mom.

This baby doll looks real doesn’t it?  Click here and you can see photos of Koko’s presents, her cake, her playhouse, and her meal of sushi and other Japanese birthday treats.  Koko was originally named "Hanabi-ko" which means Fireworks Child in Japanese. Koko also has lots of videos you can see here. Please visit the Gorilla Foundation and read the latest news about inter-species communication and the foundation’s goal to move to the Maui Ape Preserve.

On another note, Japan plans to return to the Ross Sea to brutally murder our precious Great Whales... again. The Steve Irwin, flagship of the Sea Shepherd fleet is being detained in the Shetland Islands.  A civil lawsuit was brought against Sea Shepherd by Maltese fishing company Fish and Fish Ltd. Sea Shepherd Society said: “we believe they were illegally caught after the season had closed, without an inspector onboard, or any paperwork documenting the legality of their catch”. Sea Shepherd cut loose 800 endangered blue fin tuna. They need all the help they can get to save the ship in order to stop the senseless and horrific slaughter of pilot whales in the Faeroe Islands, as well as return to the Antarctic to stop the tortuous murder of whales by Japan. This is very serious and Sea Shepherd needs all the help they can get to free the Steve Irwin.  Over a thousand lives are at stake here. Please pass that on.  They only have till August 20th or so to finish raising $1.4 million dollars.  Thank you. This is a matter of great urgency.  UPDATE August 4th:  The court reduced the bond and the Steve Irwin has been released and is on it's way to the Faeroes. But they still need money to refill the coffers.  Please help if you can.