Renana, a three-week-old sand kitten, is seen in her enclosure in the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv. The kitten is the first of the sand cat species, considered extinct in Israel, to be born at the safari park.
The infant gorilla's name is certainly appropriate – Ihirwe in the African language of Kinyarwanda, which translates to luck in English.
Rwandan authorities rescued the year-old primate Sunday night as poachers tried to smuggle her into Rwanda from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday.
Mountain gorillas are critically endangered with fewer than 800 remaining in the wild in the mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.
I had replies written to everybody. Lost them. Sometimes computers suck. Too tired to redo them. Loved all the pics. Hinge, what kinda bird is that? Love dat wolf face.
I love this picture:
