Bigfoot Sighting in Kentucky on Film
September 9, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Exotic Animal Newsflash:
A Kentucky man, Kenny Mahoney, has a motion sensor hunting camera in his backyard, which often picks up images of rabbits, turkeys and deer.
What he found was an unidentified mysterious animal (UMA) on the photo raiding his garden. Check out this video:
Skeptical that it could be bigfoot, but unable to rule it out completely, the investigation moves on in the woods of Kentucky for bigfoot.
They say the figure looked to be six Read more
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News of a Fanged Frog and Other New Species in Papua New Guinea
September 9, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Exotic Animal Newsflash:
Flag of Papua New Guinea
Scientists from the United States, Great Britain and Papua New Guinea stumbled upon one of the greatest wildlife discoveries ever.
They identified 40 new species of animal never before scientifically recorded in a 1 km deep volcanic crater on Mt. Bosavi in Papua New Guinea.
Among these amazing finds were a species of fanged frog, possibly the largest rat species in the world (Bosavi woolly rat) that had absolutely no fear of humans, the Henamo grunter (a grunting fish that makes noises from it’s swim bladder), a new bat, 2 other fish species, and 15 other frog species.
Animals of the world’s rain forests are proving to be Read more
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Whale Sharks in Australia
August 4, 2009 by Kimberly · 2 Comments
What do I know about sharks?
Well, I know a little bit about sharks. I’ve swam with them, I’ve seen them, and I’ve surfed with them.
Yeah, I know them a little bit!
I traveled around Australia back in 1995 for a few months backpacking my way through the center of Aussie, hitting the Northern Territory and going West back down the coast all the way back to Perth, Western Australia.
On my journey, I stopped in Exmouth, Western Australia where I had the amazing opportunity to swim with whale sharks out past the reef.
A helicopter would relay the coordinates of the whale sharks they spotted to our diving boat and we’d get there as quickly as possible to be dropped off right in front of their path.
They typically swim slow enough for you to be able to keep up with them for a while, then they’ll Read more
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Global Warming is a Real and Imminent Danger
June 17, 2009 by Kimberly · 2 Comments
Alright people…
…Let’s be real about things – GLOBAL WARMING is REAL!!!
…And the consequences of global warming are REAL!!!
Take a look around you and the happenings going on. Use your own common sense instead of listening to every political person that disputes this fact.
It’s about money – They don’t want you to know it’s real. Why? Because it would cost businesses umpteen millions of dollars to change business practices to actually reduce emissions and other pollutants that contribute to this serious planetary issue.
What’s more important? A wallet-full of money or our precious planet and it’s most precious inhabitants – including us as humans?
The thing is, even if there’s a chance that this is going on, it’s more than worthy of addressing the issue and combating what causes global warming…It’s only to our benefit in the end regardless!
Right now, more than anything, we’re seeing the areas of the planet that are coldest reaping serious consequences from this global warming.
Polar bears can’t get far enough out to sea on the ice sheets to capture enough food to eat (seals that come up through holes in the ice for air), which is unfortunate…These hunting seasons keep them alive the rest of the year.
Without enough food, they won’t have enough energy in fat stores to last the other months…
Desperate for food, these bears are needing to venture further and further out on the ice sheets where earlier and earlier each year, the ice breaks up – often leaving these polar bears too far from land to be able to swim back, especially if the ice breaks and drifts without them being aware of it.
This past spring/summer in Antarctica, on the opposite pole of the world, the ice shelf has shrunken drastically and actually, a huge chunk broke off this past year and every year it shrinks more and more…
It’s the only place on the planet where Emperor Penguins live!!!
Also, as more temperate, tropical waters are heating up more and more around the equator, more of the marine animals are moving towards the poles where they’re more comfortable and adept to feeding on fish in the waters and living in newly warmed environments.
This means more and more competition for the arctic and antarctic whales and porpoises too.
Please, do your part by first of all admitting there is a dire problem with a serious need to address it and combat global warming.
Then, reduce your waste, reuse materials and recycle what you can’t reuse. Car pool and reduce your carbon footprint. Everyone can make a difference!
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I hope you take heed to this Environment post on Exotic Animal Lover! Until next time…
Live Exotically,
Kimberly Edwards 
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Basking Shark Mystery Migration Solved
May 10, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Exotic Animal Newsflash:
Scientists have finally discovered where the heck those basking sharks go during the winter months.
Previously thought to be a cold water fish, this shark will migrate from New England in the Western Atlantic all the way down to the Bahamas!
They even recorded one of the sharks they tracked hanging out for 1 month at the mouth of the Amazon River.
Animals are just full of surprises, arent’ they?
What was most intriguing about basking sharks is that no one has ever seen a baby or a pregnant female or a basking shark giving birth.
They measure up to 35 m long and are the 2nd Read more
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This is Why I Want to Save Exotic Animals!
April 10, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
I was looking at some of our photos we have taken of animals over the years yesterday, and it hit me…
…I wanted to cry that these animals may not be here when my children go to see them on their adventures…
…They may never get to see them in their wildest state – in nature!
For many of you who have been an ExoticAnimalLover.com fan for some time, you’ll remember this photo, as it was the photo used in the header for the last theme we used for the site.
This is actually one of our own photos…but it sparked me…
“This is Why I Want To Save Exotic Animals!”
Today, I was looking around Vista Print to get some car magnets for some business stuff, and I was compelled to create this photo magnet:
This will go on my refrigerator door so it will remind me over and over of the reason I want to save animals…
…For the next generations of this world to experience the beauty and splendor – just knowing they are there making our planet extraordinary!
Imagine: If there were no more gorillas like this one on our planet! What a tragedy that would be!
Anyway, Vista Print also has a lot of other amazing ways to remind you of animals…
They have templates you can use with animals or you can upload your own photos, as I’ve done here!
You can even make save the date magnets – which are calendars you can create on a large magnet!
They’re really cool, and I think I could use one of those while I’m at it…
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I hope you enjoyed this Animals of the World post on Exotic Animal Lover! Until next time…
Live Exotically,
Kimberly Edwards
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Please Stand Up To Save Sun Bears!
April 4, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Have you ever heard about the plight of the sun bear, in particular, but some other species of bear as well?
They are put in a cage where they cannot move, their bile is continually drained from their stomachs through a permanent wound for their entire lives.
Often, each paw is harvested, while they are still alive, as a bear paw soup is ordered in many Asian restaurants.
So, they have the wound in their tummy with their bile being drained, and their paws are cut off one by one as they suffer in their cage that they can’t even move in…Are you kidding me???
Is that okay with you?
It’s NOT with me…Every time I think about this it makes me want to cry!
Please, help by donating and spread the word to save these animals from their awful plight!
What’s worse? The sun bear is vulnerably endangered species…
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Kimberly Edwards
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Outraged at Ignorant People Who Are Blind to See the Destruction
February 25, 2009 by Kimberly · 12 Comments
I have a rant today…
The Reason?
I joined a group on Facebook today called “Stop the Massacre of Dolphins & Whales”.
If you go there, you’ll see a photo of a whale, bloodied, being pulled out of the ocean, upside down up to a large ship (shown here to the right). You’ll also see a great write-up about the massacre.
It’s disturbing because we really don’t need to harvest them for anything!!!
I left a comment on the group page, @ 1:41 pm today, that said:
“This is so very horrendous to have to look at…even more horrendous that it is actually happening…
It’s not a movie with serious graphics…It is really happening…Thousands of whales are being slaughtered, most of which are endangered, critically endangered or threatened…
Unbelievable!!!
Kimberly @ ExoticAnimalLover.com”
No word of a lie…@ 3:22 pm, I was rudely emailed by an angry person, which I won’t name here, that said,
“tha whales that are endangered are protected. it is illegal to hunt them. also Humans have also brought tha population of Gray whales back from endangered to a healthy population. Dont come to conclusions after hearing one persons biased side of tha story. As Humans, yes we kill animals, but we protect them more then anything. which is more than I can say for tha whales. do you think that if tha whales were running out of food they would start to conserve? do you think that if whales noticed a population dying, they would care? 100% not. they would wait to realize and die slowly anyways. they should be thanking us for our protection considering they are to inferior to do so themselves.”
How Did I Respond?
Honestly, this is the wrong week to feed me lines of rudeness and ignorance…I’ve had enough, in many areas that I’m passionate about.
I guess, I’ve been pushed to the brink of “I Can’t Take Stupidity Any Longer”!
Here’s what I wrote back:
“Wow…you sound like an angry person…
Take a Read more
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Cassowary of the Great Barrier Reef
February 20, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
A Cassowary is a flightless Australian bird, and is native to the tropical forests of New Guinea.
It’s funny because Australia has another flightless bird, the emu, making it and the cassowary the 2nd and 3rd largest flightless birds in the world, behind Africa’s ostrich.
Females are larger than males and are more vividly colored, and may reach up to 2 meters tall! That’s a big bird!
Known to be a timid bird, it can inflict serious injury to human adults, and fatal injury to dogs and children. They have 3 toes and extremely sharp talons/claws.
Check out this great, but short, video showing a wild Cassowary on an island of the Great Barrier Reef:
They are omnivorous, but mostly eat fruits, shoots, grass seeds, as well as fungi. However, it will also make a quick meal of invertebrates and small vertebrates alike.
2 of the species produce a very low Read more
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Dugongs Are an Extremely Vulnerable Species
February 3, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Dugongs are large marine mammals in the same order as manatees, and are often called “sea cows” as a nickname.
The majority of them live in Northern Australian waters…
I’ve had the amazing opportunity to see them out in the wild in Shark Bay off of Western Australia. Fantastic creatures! What an awesome blessing! (I know the video below is of dugongs in Shark Bay, but it will still tell you a lot about them and how they live…)
Dugong bodies are fusiform, which means they are wide in the middle and taper off at both ends.
Their Read more
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