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Zoo News Digest 1st - 6th February 2011 (Zoo News 723)
Canis aureus
Photo by Jonas Livet
Peter Dickinson
Dear Colleagues,
The troubles in Egypt are tending to dominate the news right now. Easy for some to dismiss as somewhere far away but Zoo News Digest is International and has a number of Egyptian subscribers. I am sure that I am not alone in wondering how the animals in Giza Zoo are faring. I have been trying to dig out news items. There isn't any. Well just one which states " For example, at the Egypt Zoo (or Zoo at Giza), the animals haven't been fed for eight days. The animals are starving." Not good news for the Orangutans presented by the Al Ain Wildlife Park and Resort or any of the other animals living in the zoo. Is anything being done to assist by the general zoo world? Eight days is a long time. It must be ten days by now.
'Big Cat Rescue Entertainment'. Now there's a contradictory title if ever there was. I am all with PETA and Carol Baskin on this one. This irresponsible place needs closing down.
The news that the Egyptian Jackal is actually a Wolf came as a bit of a surprise. It is now Canis lupus lupaster and Canis aureus lupaster is no more.
I never cease to be amazed at how quickly Google is at indexing some of the posts I make. This last week they actually had indexed in under a minute. Whereas the search facility on the Zoo News Digest Blog is pretty good I find it quicker to use the Google search engine and type in 'Zoo News Digest + elephant' You could replace 'elephant' with 'ant' or 'baboon', 'orangutan' or whatever. It works well.
I note that the issue of culling in zoos has arisen once again. It is a good thing too. It needs to be raised time and again until people realise that it is not cruel or unkind but a necessary tool in the long term maintenance of captive species. It is going to be a long uphill battle however judging by some (not all) of the blinkered babble on internet groups such as Zoo Chat.
So I reach the end of another week wondering how many people I have upset. It is a few I fear. Take care.
Don't forget to check out the vacancies and meeting pages (see below).
The troubles in Egypt are tending to dominate the news right now. Easy for some to dismiss as somewhere far away but Zoo News Digest is International and has a number of Egyptian subscribers. I am sure that I am not alone in wondering how the animals in Giza Zoo are faring. I have been trying to dig out news items. There isn't any. Well just one which states " For example, at the Egypt Zoo (or Zoo at Giza), the animals haven't been fed for eight days. The animals are starving." Not good news for the Orangutans presented by the Al Ain Wildlife Park and Resort or any of the other animals living in the zoo. Is anything being done to assist by the general zoo world? Eight days is a long time. It must be ten days by now.
'Big Cat Rescue Entertainment'. Now there's a contradictory title if ever there was. I am all with PETA and Carol Baskin on this one. This irresponsible place needs closing down.
The news that the Egyptian Jackal is actually a Wolf came as a bit of a surprise. It is now Canis lupus lupaster and Canis aureus lupaster is no more.
I never cease to be amazed at how quickly Google is at indexing some of the posts I make. This last week they actually had indexed in under a minute. Whereas the search facility on the Zoo News Digest Blog is pretty good I find it quicker to use the Google search engine and type in 'Zoo News Digest + elephant' You could replace 'elephant' with 'ant' or 'baboon', 'orangutan' or whatever. It works well.
I note that the issue of culling in zoos has arisen once again. It is a good thing too. It needs to be raised time and again until people realise that it is not cruel or unkind but a necessary tool in the long term maintenance of captive species. It is going to be a long uphill battle however judging by some (not all) of the blinkered babble on internet groups such as Zoo Chat.
So I reach the end of another week wondering how many people I have upset. It is a few I fear. Take care.
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On with links:Anger at delay in Lion Man case
A lawyer is annoyed at what he calls an "inexplicable delay" by the Employment Relations Authority to release its determination in a case involving Lion Man Craig Busch.
Auckland-based Steve Barter is representing Zion Wildlife Gardens, which is seeking more than $200,000 in lost income from Mr Busch through a counterclaim.
The ERA's determination has been pending for more than a year.
After Mr Busch was sacked from the park, he filed a claim with the ERA for unfair dismissal but later withdrew his application. While ERA member Yvonne Oldfield heard arguments on his application, she also invited submissions on two counterclaims.
The first counterclaim by Zion was for Mr Busch to return tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment he took from the park after being sacked.
He was subsequently ordered in November 2009 to
'Big Cat' Fight
The name sounds familiar, because they have promoted their cause in public forums around the country.
After encountering protestors and alleged PETA investigations, Big Cat Rescue Entertainment is under the microscope.
There is speculation from both parties; however it is still unclear where exactly this animosity stems from.
Representatives acting on behalf of 'Big Cat Rescue' in Florida actively protest the presence of 'Big Cat Rescue Entertainment' in communities, nationwide.
After encountering endless scrutiny, the traveling show's owner maintains that he's just in it for the animals.
G.W. Exotic, owner and operators of Big Cat Rescue Entertainment, are a USDA registered zoo.
Their mission is to raise environmental awareness through hands on education.
"People really care more if they are hands on, learning about something that they have never touched before," said Joe Schreibvogel of G.W. Exotic.
However arguments from another organization, bearing a similar name, say this practice is unethical.
"He's breeding these animals, when there are already so many big cats with no place to go," said Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue. "Using them for a four week period of time that he can make a lot of money of them and then they disappear into these zoos."
"If they're over bred, I wouldn't have a waiting list for zoos," Schreibvogel said.
"The kind of back yard breeders, the hoarders and collectors that might pay him for the animals are not the kind of places these animals belong," Baskin replied.
"They have always went to USDA licensed facilities," Schreibvogel said. "They can offer a better facility then I can."
There are varying accusations against G.W. Exotic, involving details from a public USDA report.
"Last year [...] it came out that 23 cubs had died," Baskin said. "That's just the ones they found out about. If you think about, the USDA inspector shows up maybe once a year?"
"That's why I have 187 cats, because I don't pawn my cats off on anybody else that doesn't ask for one and we have a no kill policy," Schreibvogel said.
Video surfaces on PETA's website, an alleged undercover investigation.
While Schreibvogel admits to catching PETA 'spies', he maintains the video is fabrication.
"Because I have the largest privately owned facility in the United States, and they can make money off of me," Schreibvogel said.
PETA Director Debbie Leahy issues a statement saying there is 'a lack of basic needs', and that cubs should stay with their mothers.
"Don't dictate to me what is too young because the government is the one that says we have to use them between the time that we're born and 12 weeks old," said Schreibvogel.
The two organizations go toe to toe in allegations, but there are no standing USDA violations against Big Cat Rescue Entertainment, or Big Cat Rescue sanctuary
Zoo wants animal remains, so won't cremate its dead
In a bid to add to its animal exhibition, the Delhi Zoo has decided that instead of cremating dead animals, the bigger ones will be buried so that their bones can be dug out after the flesh has decomposed.
Under the plan, bodies of animals like tigers, jaguars and antelopes will be buried and dug out after three to five months.
Last year, the zoo started the exhibition of animal remains at the Education Centre, next to the Lion Tailed Macaque enclosure. Antlers of six deer species and preserved bodies of five baby animals are on display here.
"Visitors can learn more about the animals by looking at them closely. By October, we expect to increase our collection, since we will be starting another exhibition then to commemorate Wildlife Week that is held between October 1 and 7," said R A Khan, Curator (Education), Delhi Zoo.
The zoo now wants to add animal parts such as teeth, claws, skeleton and hooves to the exhibition. According to a zoo official
Animal performances still going on even with implemented ban
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development have issued a regulation last year stepping up management of zoos and implemented a three month ban on animal performances. But the regulation have expired last week and local zoos and parks turned a blind eye on animal performances.
However in the past three months since animal performances were still popular at the Shenzhen Safari Park and Xiaomeisha Sea World. Animal performance were staged every day at the park, and each performance involved birds, lions, tigers and dolphins. Both parks said the didn't receive any notice from local government departments that banned the animal performances. Park employees claimed that the animals were not tortured in any ways when they were trained or forced to perform beyond their capabilities.
A representative from the Animals Asia Foundation said that its against animal nature to perform since they are born not to be show animal. Yet a lot of people are still not aware that many of this animal performance is a torment to them. Also before the three month banned was implemented an investigation by the State Forestry Bureau discovered that animals from 50 zoos are suffering from abuse.
A tourist said that its boring to just watch animals in
New African wolf species identified
U.K. scientists say genetic evidence revealed the mysterious "Egyptian jackal" is not a jackal at all but a new sub-species of gray wolf.
Researchers at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit say gray wolves reached Africa about 3 million years ago and spread from there throughout the Northern Hemisphere, ScienceDaily.com reported Monday.
The newly designated wolf, often confused with the golden jackal, is a relative of the Holarctic gray wolf, the Indian wolf and the Himalayan wolf, they say.
"We could hardly believe our own eyes when we found wolf DNA that did not match anything in GenBank," study co-author Eli Rueness of the University of Oslo said.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature does not consider golden jackals as threatened but the newly discovered African
Howletts staff hail success of elephant mother and calf
Keepers at a Kent wild animal park have said it is a "great success" an elephant has survived after giving birth to twins.
Staff at Howletts, near Canterbury, said the birth of twins in the wild would often result in the death of both mother and calves.
The African elephant, called Masa, gave birth last week to an as-yet-unnamed male following a 22-month pregnancy.
However, his twin did not survive.
Charlotte Jones, of Howletts, said: "Twin elephants are incredibly rare, estimated to occur in less than 2% of cases.
"For both mother and one of the calves to have survived is a great success.
"The mother is doing fine and didn't
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An Indian elephant, which died recently in a zoo in the country, inspires El Salvador to seek closer ties with India.
SOME stories begin with no indication of the end. The story of Manjula is one such. This Asian elephant, who began her voyage to El Salvador, the smallest Central American country, in 1955 and became a national icon ever since she made the country's national zoo her home, died of ill health in September 2010. The emotions her death evoked among El Salvadorians have been a huge revelation.
"Manjula [or Man-hew-la as Salvadorians pronounce the name] is an emotional issue in El Salvador. She was the first elephant we saw in our lives. We have no elephants there. The day she died hundreds of people gathered to see her last rites. And the nation declared it a day of mourning," said Ruben Ignacio Zamora Rivas, El Salvador's Ambassador to India. It was a pleasant winter morning, and the Ambassador, sipping coffee at the embassy in the upmarket Vasant Vihar in New Delhi, reminisced about the only elephant his country had housed. What the story brings home is the fact that Manjula was not just another elephant: she was brought from India, and the people of El Salvador became
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Victory - No More Elephants In El Salvador Zoo
IDA's campaign to end the display of elephants at the Parque Zoológico Nacional in El Salvador is a success! The Ministry of Culture has announced that the zoo will not acquire another Asian elephant to replace Manyula, who died last September.
IDA applauds the government of El Salvador for its progressive decision to no longer keep elephants at the zoo, sparing another elephant from a lifetime of loneliness and suffering. Manyula, who was taken from India as a calf, lived alone in a tiny enclosure at the zoo for more than 55 years. Though deprived of all that was natural to her, she was a national icon and hundreds of people turned out for her burial. Shortly after her death, there were calls to replace Manyula with another elephant, but fortunately the government did the right thing and permanently closed the elephant exhibit.
Thanks to everyone who took action and sent messages to Salvadoran officials. Please e-mail messages of thanks to El Salvador Secretary of Culture Dr. Hectór Samour and Georgina Hernández, Director of
Animal activists doubt logic of translocating elephants
Wildlife activists in the state are raising questions over the decision to translocate Deepa, the six-year-old rescued female elephant who died during her translocation to Manas National Park on Sunday, after they came to know that she was dropped from a similar exercise in 2008 because of her health condition.
Deepa was part of a group of six jumbos who were to be moved to Manas from the Bokakhat-based Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC). She, however, died after being sedated to be loaded on a truck meant to take her for reintegration with a wild herd at the national park.
Veterinarians, who conducted a postmortem on Deepa, declared congestive heart failure as the cause of her death. However, samples were sent to Guwahati Veterinary College for further confirmation.
Meanwhile, the state forest department has ordered an inquiry into the death of the elephant. The inquiry, which will be headed by chief conservator of forests (wildlife) S P Singh, has been directed to submit a report within a week.
Wildlife activists are raising doubts over the soundness of the decision for including Deepa in the translocation program because International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said she was dropped from an earlier translocation programme in 2008 on health grounds. In 2008, eight elephants were translocated from CWRC to Manas. IFAW said though Deepa was scheduled to be released at Manas in 2008, she was dropped from the plan to be reintegrated into the wild due to detection of "problems" during her health screening then.
"I do not understand the logic of making Deepa a part of the translocation programme if she was dropped from a similar plan on health grounds in 2008. I think the decision to include her in the latest translocation programme reflects on the fact that the entire exercise was hurriedly done. It raises the question whether proper health check-ups were done. Deepa should not have been given permission for translocation. Her death is very unfortunate," said Dr Kushal K Sarma, an wildlife expert who specializes in elephant health.
IFAW, however, said that Deepa's recent veterinary report showed her health condition was stable and she qualified for the Sunday translocation.
Project Elephant director A N Prasad said he was not aware of her death. "I have no information about the death of the elephant. I think releasing of rescued elephants into the wild is a logical step. It is not for the first time such a release programme has been undertaken. It has been done earlier as well," Prasad said.
The six jumbos were to be translocated on Sunday from CWRC to Manas under a collaborative project of the Wildlife Trust of India-IFAW, state forest department and Bodoland Territorial Council. However, the animal died after being sedated in order to be put on a truck meant for carrying the elephants.
Following Deepa's death, the remaining five jumbos were moved to Manas on Monday. All the six elephants including Deepa were orphaned calves rescued by CWRC after they became detached from their natal herds either due to human-elephant conflic
Phylogeography, genetic structure and populationdivergence time of cheetahs in Africa and Asia: evidencefor long-term geographic isolates
Record visitors but lower income at Brookfield Zoo
Investing in infrastructure a main strategy for future
Despite record attendance of 2.2 million people in 2010, Brookfield Zoo fell nearly $3 million below its projected revenue estimate, said Stuart Strahl, president and CEO of the Chicago Zoological Society, which operates Brookfield Zoo.
Last week Museums Work for Chicago, a partnership of 14 Chicago area museums and zoos, announced that overall attendance at those local institutions decreased about 3 percent in 2010. However, Brookfield Zoo was one of just a few that experienced increased attendance in 2010, with 2 percent more visitors over 2009.
But the increase was not enough for the zoo to hit its revenue targets, said Strahl. While the zoo also sold a record number of annual memberships, it sold about 50,000 fewer individual daily tickets.
"We had a record number of members come, but we also had a record number of free passes," Strahl said. The zoo saw increased free visits by community groups as part of the zoo's outreach campaign, he added.
The fall off in individual ticket sales affected parking income and "people are spending less inside the park on special attractions" like dolphin shows and the Hamill Family Play Zoo and on souvenirs and food.
"It added up to about two and three-quarter million dollars below our projections on a $55 million budget," Strahl said.
The zoo has not planned any increases in admission, parking or membership fees in 2011, Strahl said.
The zoo also experienced less in the way of gifts from foundations and grant money was also lower, he said.
That's not to say the zoo didn't turn a profit in 2010. While its 2010 tax returns have not yet been filed with the state of Illinois, in 2009 the Chicago Zoological Society saw operating revenues outpace expenditures by more then $5.5 million. Of that number, $4.1 million was transferred to its capital projects fund and other transfers resulted in the operating fund showing a net loss of $70,000.
The zoo also funds capital improvements through philanthropic gifts and government grants, though the latter can sometimes be an iffy proposition.
In 2009, the state of Illinois earmarked $71.1 million for infrastructure improvements at the zoo as part of that year's much-ballyhooed capital bill. To date, said Strahl, Brookfield Zoo has received about 33 percent of that money. There's no guarantee the institution will receive the rest it was promised.
The zoo's policy of transferring operating profits into its
Lawmakers aim to ban aquarium fish collecting
State senators have introduced legislation that would impose a statewide ban on collecting reef fish for sale in the aquarium trade.
The Maui News reports the bill would prohibit the of sale aquatic life taken from state waters for aquarium purposes. Violators would face fines or possible jail time.
The legislation would allow exceptions for animals collected for subsistence or traditional or cultural use, human consumption, scientific research or public display.
The bill hasn't been scheduled for a hearing yet, which is an essential step if it is to become law.
Democratic Senate President Shan Tsutsui of Wailuku-Kahului, Democrat
Infant bonobo Teco offers rare opportunity
Today, Des Moines bonobo Teco celebrates eight months of life as scientists revel in the hope he will unlock new realms in ape communication and maybe even treatments for autism.
Teco was born at Great Ape Trust on June 1, marking the Des Moines research and conservation center's first ape birth. He's already playing baby games on a scientist's iPad and showing interest in the abstract symbols his cover-boy father, Kanzi, uses to communicate with people.
And he's caused some drama.
Ape trust scientists planned all along to do genetic research on Teco and his parents. That work became even more important when they discovered that Teco's eye movements and behaviors suggested he has autism.
That makes even more significant the trust's research into how the apes' genetic makeup plays into their physical appearance and behaviors, said William Fields, director of scientific research at the center.
Eventually, trust scientists may be able to find a way doctors can diagnose autism among human infants in the first month or so and treat it more effectively. They
Now, info on animals not caged in zoo
In a step that is likely to expand the ambit of RTI usage, the Delhi high court on Wednesday permitted an animal welfare organization based in the capital to seek information under the RTI Act on welfare of two elephants scheduled to be sent to Germany in an exchange programme in return for two cheetahs.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said the organization — Animal and Birds Charitable Trust — had the right to access periodical reports from Germany about the health conditions of the two pachyderms from the "Centre, Central Zoo Authority and the Animal Welfare Board under the RTI Act."
HC's permission came during the hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the Trust challenging the government's exchange programme on the ground that the proposed zoo in Germany does not provide a conducive atmosphere for the two elephants as some elephants have died there earlier. The PIL sought quashing of plans to send the elephants to Leipzig Zoo in Germany in exchange for the cheetahs.
While HC refused to stay the exchange it asked the Centre and the Central Zoo Authority to ensure "conducive" atmosphere for the pair of elephants to be sent from Karnataka's Bannarghatta Sanctuary. "Ensure that the elephants live in a conducive atmosphere in Germany," the bench added after the counsel for the Centre and the CZA assured it that the prescribed guidelines under the Wildlife Protection Act for the exchange of animals between the zoos would be adhered to.
"The atmosphere and climatic conditions near Leipzig Zoo in Germany are conducive for Asiatic animals," the government said.
"We are only inclined to direct that transportation or transfer of the elephants should be done in terms of the guidelines and it would be obligatory (upon the Centre) to get updates on health conditions of the elephants and the petitioner (trust) will also be provided with the details under the RTI," the bench then noted.
The PIL, filed through advocates Mohit Chaudhary and Rashi Bansal, said the animal exchange programme has been chalked out between the German zoo and the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, Mysore. According to the programme, a pair of Indian elephants would be transported to Germany in exchange for two pairs of cheetahs, the PIL said pleading that the Centre be restrained from going ahead with it.
"The habitat in India is totally different from the environment in Germany. Indian elephants will be totally unprepared for such a cold weather, which may pose risks to their health and lead to unacceptable periods of confinement indoors," the petition said.
It also provided a chart of comparative temperatures of
White lions coming to Dreamworld
TWO rare white lions are preparing to call the Gold Coast home.
It is understood Dreamworld will babysit the 200kg animals while the National Zoo in Canberra undergoes renovations.
Jake and Mishka, who are sister and brother, will be temporarily shifted from their home to the Gold Coast in the coming months.
While the logistics are still being sorted and finalised, it is understood the lions will be housed in a temporary enclosure within the park.
Dreamworld would not confirm the deal was officially done, but the team at the National Zoo said Jake and Mishka were heading north.
"We can confirm that we are currently in planning for a new enclosure here at Dreamworld that would have the capacity to house various animals, including exotic species, and one of those that we are currently looking into is the white lion," said Al Mucci, Dreamworld General Manager of Life Science.
It is expected the plan will be completed by the middle to end of February.
Dreamworld said they were unable to provide further
White Lion Breeding is not Conservation
Three little pigs face chop in breeding row
BOSSES at Edinburgh Zoo have admitted they might have to cull three endangered piglets, just months after two others were killed because there was a "surplus" of the species.
The trio of baby Red River Hog piglets, named Ellis, Nelson and Moses, will follow in the footsteps of brother Sammi and sister Becca if a worldwide breeding programme orders them to be put to sleep.
The zoo works closely with the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP), which recommends that animals be culled rather than rehomed if the species does not have a breeding recommendation.
Today, campaigners called for zoo bosses to search for any possible alternative to culling, and said the issue raised questions about the real value of the breeding programme.
The Evening News revealed that Sammi and Becca were culled last year because they were "surplus to requirement", despite being the first pair of Red River Hogs born in the zoo's history.
In 2009, when the pair were born, it had been recommended to Edinburgh Zoo that it did not breed the Red River Hogs. It is unknown as to whether the same recommendation was made last June when Ellis, Moses and Nelson arrived.
One zoo insider said: "I wouldn't be surprised if they were culled. Many zoos and animal organisations around
Zoo piglets' bacon saved after protest
A CAMPAIGN to save three endangered red river hog piglets has proven to be one of the shortest in history after Edinburgh Zoo bosses said they would do their "utmost" to find a new home for the trio.
Bosses said they would do everything they could to relocate Ellis, Moses and Nelson after the Evening News yesterday revealed they were under threat because there was a "surplus" of the species.
The zoo previously claimed it had to carry out cullings recommended by a worldwide breeding programme.
Previously, two piglets, Sammi and Becca, were put to sleep after they were deemed "surplus to requirement".
The announcement that the latest litter might be culled left charities and residents furious, sparking a national campaign.
Thousands of people joined the Save The Hogs internet campaign.
One insider said: "I'm glad the zoo are rehoming them. Saying that, they tried and failed to rehome the
Complacency over deforestation pushes orang-utan closer to extinction
Illegal logging and hunting continues despite legal protection, so the WWF is raising awareness to help save the orang-utan
The destruction of the world's rainforests continues at an alarming rate. Where I'm from in Borneo, illegal logging, coupled with hunting, is driving species such as the orang-utan ever closer towards extinction.
There are three subspecies of orangutan in Borneo and we only have about 2,000 orangutans left in the wild in West Kalimantan province, and through deforestation and hunting their numbers continue to fall. Just last month I heard from villagers that some people are still killing and eating them even though they're supposed to be protected by law.
I've just been travelling around the region in this part of Indonesia as I've been running a series of summer schools as part of a WWF awareness campaign to highlight the problems facing the orang-utan.
Over the past two years, the main focus for the campaign has been children because we've found it very difficult to change the minds and attitudes of older generations. We invite the kids to come along to these camps from nearby villages and at the last one more than 200 kids turned up. We do many different activities from drawing to tug-of-war competitions but the over-arching aim is to touch their hearts with stories about this wonderful creature and the rainforests in which they live. We want to leave them with the understanding that these unique creatures need protecting.
We're also starting to join forces with local government officials and religious leaders to spread the message to communities that live in traditional longhouses. We tell them about a recent success story that acts as a warning against killing orang-utans. One trader in Pontianak, where I'm based, was recently jailed for two years for trading orang-utans.
Such discussion also helps us talk about their habitats and the need to protect them too. In West Kalimantan from 1995, large-scale illegal logging cut through a forest corridor that linked two national parks where one of three subspecies of orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) lives. This meant they couldn't
US-based group launches study on tarsiers in South Cotabato's Mt. Matutum
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has cleared a group of United States-based experts to conduct a one-year study on tarsiers, the world's smallest primate, that is endemic to Mt. Matutum in South Cotabato.
Alfredo Pascual, DENR Region 12 director, said a Wildlife Gratuitous Permit was issued recently to Endangered Species International, a California-based conservation group.
"The permit would allow the group to conduct research for the possible conservation of the tarsiers (which have been monitored to live in Mt. Matutum)," Pascual said.
Biologist Pierre Fidenci, Endangered Species president, said their study aims to assess the tarsiers' distribution, population size and density, habitat association, and status in Mt. Matutum, a recognized protected landscape.
Fidenci said they plan to establish a core conservation center at Sitio Bagong Silang in Barangay Linan, Tupi town in South Cotabato "to better protect their habitat and to prevent the tarsiers from total extinction."
Rolly Visaya, Tupi town information officer, said residents have been reporting about the presence of tarsiers
Physicians, veterinarians learn from each other at first-ever 'Zoobiquity' conference
UCLA, UC Davis, L.A. Zoo foster species-spanning approach to medicine
A second grader and a Shih Tzu dog can both experience separation anxiety when their caregivers leave. A dangerous brain tumor manifests itself similarly in an alpaca and a school principal. West Nile virus attacks a flamingo in the same way it assails a nursing-home resident.
Behind the skin, fur and feathers, humans and animals are profoundly alike; they carry vastly similar genetics and have tremendous overlap in their health and disease. Yet while veterinary and human medicine come together periodically to address topics such as food safety and emerging infections, the two fields mostly operate separately. But because they are often confronted with similar clinical challenges, experts say both fields will benefit from more cross-disciplinary interaction.
To that end, Zoobiquity, one of the first conferences of its kind, brought together 200 physicians and veterinarians to give each a better understanding of the global and species-spanning nature of illness and to help forge ways that both fields can work together to further medicine, science and research.
The one-day synergistic effort, which took place Jan. 29, was organized by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, and the One Health Center of the UC Global Health Institute.
"Whether examining shared molecular structures or
Taronga Zoo elephant diagnosed with TB
One of the stars of Sydney's Taronga Zoo, an 18-year-old Asian elephant, has been diagnosed with Tuberculosis.
The Asian elephant, named Pak Boon, has been diagnosed with the illness which keepers believe she bought with her when she came from Thailand four years ago.
She was tested for the bug when she came to Australia, but tests at the time came up negative.
Pak Boon gave birth three months ago to a female calf, Tuka.
Her handlers say the pregnancy almost certainly brought on the illness, which the zoo's vet says can be quite common in elephants and can lie dormant in their system for years.
The baby has tested negative for TB, as
New inspection confirms problems at Chattanooga Zoo
A Jan. 26-27 federal inspection at the Chattanooga Zoo confirms problems that could have contributed to at least four of 10 recent animal deaths there, according to documents released Friday.
Inspector Susanne Brunkhorst, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, focused much of her three-page inspection report on two marmosets that died after being without food for at least two days and the snow leopard that lost two cubs while locked out of shelter in bad weather.
She also noted feeding problems that she saw herself. The inspection came after USDA received an anonymous complaint and at the invitation of Zoo Director Darde Long after Hank the chimp became the seventh animal to die in a month.
"During the inspection of the petting zoo area, it was noted that the goats and miniature horses were all very busy eating some hay that had just been placed in the hay rack. It was also noted that there was only one small square bale of hay in the loft," Brunkhorst wrote.
"In addition to the 11 goats and 2 minihorses, the camel and the
Zoo Officials Respond to USDA Inspection
Hundreds came out to the Chattanooga Zoo this weekend to celebrate the life of Hank the Chimp. But among the celebrations zoo officials are responding to the results of a federal inspection. A complaint was filed with the USDA just after Hank's death.
The inspect report revealed improper handling of animals, listing a pregnant snow leopard left in 20-degree temperatures.
There was also improper feeding after a miscommunication led to two animals going unfed.
The zoo director says they have hired an additional
35 animals freeze to death at zoo in northern Mexico as frigid weather grips region
Thirty-five animals at a zoo in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua have frozen to death during the region's coldest weather in six decades.
Serengeti Zoo owner Alberto Hernandez says 14 parrots, 13 serpents, five iguanas, two crocodiles and a capuchin monkey died. He said Saturday that power failures cut off electrical heating at the zoo in the town of Aldama.
Temperatures have dropped to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 Celsius) in the area, the coldest weather in 60 years.
Power outages have affected much of northern
Trunk road underpass: How elephant herds were reunited
Zebra crossings are easy but how does an elephant get from one side of the road to another? Answer: it simply walks underneath.
At least, they can now, thanks to Africa's first dedicated elephant underpass –a new solution to the increasing problem of animal-human conflict in Africa.
It was 6.47pm when a gleaming set of white tusks poked through the end of the newly built underpass. A second set of tusks appeared, then a third. Moving cautiously, the three young males climbed a bank of dirt, made a sharp left turn and crashed into the forest.
The £150,000 tunnel – built with donated money – has connected two wilderness areas, Mount Kenya's highlands and the lower forests and plains, and brought together two distinct elephant populations separated for years by the road. Some 2,000 elephants live on Mount Kenya, with 5,000 occupying the lower plain.
Africa's wildlife is coming under increasing pressure from human development. Villages are being built and crops raised in areas that for centuries were the sole preserve of wild animals. The elephant underpass
Rescued tiger lands in SA
A tiger rescued from a zoo in Jordan has arrived at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Saturday.
The male tiger was approximately nine-months-old when its was rescued from a zoo. Its health had deteriorated and it was offered a new home at the Lionsrock Sanctuary in Bethlehem.
Princess Alia of Jordan arrived with the wild cat and will witness its release into the sanctuary.
The tiger was placed in
Central Florida Zoo's Maude the elephant moving to Miami
Maude, the Asian elephant at the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens, will be moving this month to Zoo Miami, where she'll join a herd.
It was a difficult decision to make to move Maude, zoo officials said. The elephant had been with them for three decades. Ultimately, officials say, it was in Maude's best interest to move her to Miami.
"We have every reason to believe Maude will enjoy her new home at Zoo Miami and the companionship of their two elephants," said Bonnie Breitbeil, director of Animal Collections, in a news release.
Maude's pachyderm companion, Mary, died in March. Maude, who had moved to Sanford from Tampa's Busch Gardens, was about 10 years old when she met Mary. Because elephants travel in herds in the wild, zoos need to have at least two of them.
Zoo officials are planning a big send
Quinn blocks hike in Brookfield Zoo admission
Gov. Quinn on Friday spared visitors to the Brookfield Zoo from higher ticket prices by signing legislation that prevented the village from imposing admission increases.
Zoo officials said the proposed 25-cent increase would have cost the zoo as much as $500,000 in revenue. If allowed, revenue
It's a stampede! Birth of 100 sea horses caught on video
A curator at Tennessee Aquarium captures speedy delivery on cell phone
A teeny cavalry has burst onto the scene at the Tennessee Aquarium, where one of the resident lined sea horses recently gave birth to more than 100 babies.
Captured on video, the little sea horses can be seen popping out of a hole in their father's belly. (In the sea horse world, it is the males who carry the young and give birth.)
Carol Haley, the aquarium's assistant curator of fishes, captured the speedy delivery on video with her cell phone in the last week of January.
"There was a male that was starting his abdominal crunches – that's exactly what it looks like," Haley said. "He was either going into convulsions or getting ready to have his babies."
Although lined sea horses, a particular species of sea horse, produce offspring at the Tennessee Aquarium every few weeks, it's hard to predict the event's exact time. Haley said
Larry Vogelnest awarded a public service medal
WHEN Collette, the baby humpback whale was stranded in Sydney's Pittwater last August, Taronga Zoo chief veterinarian Larry Vogelnest was there to help the distressed animal.
And when anaesthetising 400kg leopard seals on floating chunks of ice in Antartica, the Cobbity resident's expert advice was invaluable.
He may be the king of the animals, but the human species has taken notice - he was awarded a Public Service Medal for his contribution to the Taronga Conservation Society yesterday.
Dr Vogelnest, who has been working with animals for more than 20 years, was overwhelmed that he was awarded the medal - granted for outstanding public service.
"I have no idea who nominated me, but it's something that came
Modern cage for white tigers in zoo
To ensure that space crunch for white tigers will not affect its captive breeding programme, the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur has begun constructing a modern cage for the big cats.
On Thursday, workers were busy with the construction process that began a few days ago. The concrete floor and pillars have already been built. "The new structure, which will be linked to the existing one, is being built at an estimated Rs two lakh and is expected to be completed in a few weeks. The zoo sees around 4,000 visitors during weekdays while the figure doubles during holidays and weekends," zoo director KSSVP Reddy, who is also chief conservator of forests, told The Times Of India.
The new cage, which includes a sloping roof, will be 43.29 feet (13 mts) tall at its highest point and 11 metres (36.63 ft) wide — enough for four adult tigers at a time. It will have separate entries for animal keeper K Chelliah and the big cats. Solar-power lights will illuminate it and it will have good ventilation.
According to officials, the enclosure for a pair of fully grown adult
Read more: Modern cage for white tigers in zoo - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Modern-cage-for-white-tigers-in-zoo/articleshow/7421524.cms#ixzz1D9sBRdMs
White Tiger Breeding is Not Conservation
Exotic fish with odd name causes problems at aquarium
An exotic Hawaiian triggerfish with an unpronounceable name has been causing problems for staff at a Hastings aquarium.
The Humuhumunukunukuapua'a fish, which can be found across the Pacific Ocean, has proved popular with visitors to the Blue Reef Aquarium.
But staff there have been struggling to pronounce its name when asked and have resorted to calling it a wedge tail triggerfish.
Kate Buss, who works at the East Sussex aquarium, said: "He's a beautiful-looking fish but none of us have got the faintest idea how to pronounce his name.
"It's proving a little embarrassing when we do our public talks and feeding demonstrations as he's the one fish in the toxic reef display that everyone always asks us about.
"We got someone
Python missing for 2 years is found
The owner of a Florida aquarium said a 14-foot Burmese python that disappeared two years ago was caught by police in an apartment complex.
Scott Konger, owner of the Tarpon Springs Aquarium, said he never expected to see Cleo the python again after she disappeared two years ago when someone broke into her outdoor enclosure, WFTS-TV, Tampa, Fla., reported Wednesday.
He said his hopes were raised when he heard about the Burmese python caught near Riverside Apartment Homes last week. A microchip implanted in the reptile identified it as belonging
Two crocodiles hatch from single egg
A wildlife park in far north Queensland is celebrating a rare event - the birth of twin crocodiles.
The two reptiles were hatched from a single odd-shaped egg.
A senior wildlife keeper, Clay Mitchell, says they were among a clutch of 63 crocodiles to hatch at the park, north of Cairns.
"It's actually quite a rare event - there has been eggs seen like this but none have made it right the way through term of incubation and actually
Experts confirm cause of rhino's death at Cat Tien National Park
Experts looking into the death of a rare (possibly the last in Vietnam) Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) at Cat Tien National Park (NP) have confirmed it died from gunshot wounds, not natural causes. A rhinoceros can live to around 40 years of age in the wild, but this one is believed to have lived for only 15-25 years.
The conclusion was reached by a team of experts from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Cat Tien NP, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Freeland Foundation (an international non-governmental organization working in Asia for environmental conservation and human rights), together with two veterinarians, one a pathology expert
Feeder fears fate of grow-op bears after hibernation
The B.C. man accused of taming two dozen bears found at a marijuana grow-op says he fears the animals will be killed after they awake from hibernation.
Christina Lake resident Allen Piche appeared in court this week to face charges of feeding dangerous wildlife and marijuana production – but says his legal woes are less important than the fate of the bears.
"My concern has really been about the bears all the time," he told CTV News.
The bears, which were discovered during a police raid last August, are believed to be hibernating in the hills above Christina Lake. In a few months, they will begin waking up – and could head right back to Piche's property.
If they cause any trouble in the community, they will be deemed dangerously habituated to humans and
Wildlife Middle East News Vol 5 Issue 3
December 2010
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Distribution & abundance of greater flamingo in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Status and ecology of brown bears in Iran
Distribution update of the Arabian wolf from Saudi Arabia
Oman trains Yemeni conservationists in leopard research
Raptor trade in Kuwait bird market
Rhodococcus equi infection in Blanford's foxes infected with distemper virus
News and reviews
Using drop nets to capture free ranging wildlife
News and reviews
Diseases and medical management of houbara bustards and other otididae
12th conservation workshop on the fauna of Arabia, first announcement
Feline infectious peritonitis in cheetahs in the UAE
Narrating the correlation of elephants as related to their import, groupings, breeding and transfers, along with other elephant related topics.
Persian Leopard Newsletter (PLN) No 5.
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Chivas Vs Barca
Oh Yeah…My lil Goats played well and didn't lose to the MONEY club called Barca. Good game and I'm
glad this result gets some Mexican haters mad, since the MLS teams all lost.. Mexico still has a better league and teams.
Chivas played with no mexican internationals, and whats funnier is Chivas is struggling in the League for the past few years…
I know Barca is a Better team, and many starters were on the pine, but they are Europe's best, even a reserve can be a starter on any given team or league… so no excuses
Being a Mexican of Basque blood who supports Athletic Bilbao, "who lost in the Copa del Rey this year to Barca" makes this even sweeter..
Watching Barca's other Mexican was nice too, lets see if Jonny Dos Santos will surpass his bro Gio.

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Here's a place we can all recap the Australian TV show The Biggest Loser Australia, that airs from February 13th for five nights a week, over 8 weeks.
The finalist wins a grand prize of $200,000 and a home fitness studio.
Please feel free to chat about which contestant you'd like to see win this competition and even discuss any weight loss you might be encountering whilst following the show.
THE CONTESTANTS - http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=4018
The Biggest Loser Diet (taken from the book the biggest loser)
Your Daily Calories:
Calculate your calories by taking your present bodyweight (in lbs) and multiplying it by 7.
Here's a kilogram to pounds converter to help - http://www.manuelsweb.com/kg_lbs.htm
Here's an online calculator - http://www.calculateforfree.com/
The 4-3-2-1 Pyramid
4. You must eat 4 servings daily of fruits and vegetables (you should have 2 from fruits and 2 from veg)
1 fruit serving size = 1 cup, 1 medium piece, or 8 ounces
1 vegetable serving size = 1 cup, or 8 ounces
3. You must eat 3 servings of protein daily. You can choose between animal, vegetarian, or low-fat dairy protein.
1 protein serving size = 1 cup, or eight ounces (about the size of your palm)
2. You must eat 2 servings of whole grain.
Serving sizes:
2 slices of bread. Choose a brand with around 45cal per slice.
1 Wholegrain bun or roll
1 cup of cooked barley, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, oat bran, rolled oats, etc
1. The Extras
These are the foods that don't fit into the other groups eg, fats, oils, spreads, sugar-free desserts, reduced-fat foods, condiments, and sauces
You can have up to 200 calories of these each day.


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I love these summer holidays.....cook-outs, sunshine, friends, children......just so much fun:) Just look at all the flowers starting to bloom.
Even the birdies need a beachy little place to raise their babies:)
Simple and cute! Just paint a preformed birdhouse and hot glue some shells on it!
Should have followed the advice of Jane of Artfully Graced and wore a little sunscreen:)
Owell.....it isn't very often that we actually get to see the sun here in Indiana.
Ok...probably not realistic. But hey a girl's gotta dream, right!?!?!?
All in all......we had ourselves one fabulous day!
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." unknown


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Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Secretary of State for Veterans.
The members of the Merchant Marine who took part in Canada's war effort have long complained that National Defence and Veterans Affairs do not consider their concerns to be a priority. They are calling for the benefits available to other veterans to be available to them as well, without any discrimination.
Can the minister indicate what his government's position is on this matter, and will he commit to providing Merchant Marine veterans with the same benefits as those provided to military veterans?


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Kitchen Connections: A guide to dine-in cinema equipment suppliers
More and more theatres and circuits are upping their game by offering deluxe dine-in options requiring a fully equipped kitchen area. To accompany our report on modern cinema cuisine, we present our first directory of companies that supply ovens, refrigerators, bars, sinks, freezers, warmers, grills, fryers and so much more for exhibitors looking to serve up hot, delectable premium meals and beverages.
(802) 658-6600
Leading manufacturer of commercial ovens.
(800) 833-3003
From once offering a single product, the Camtray, 60 years ago, today Cambro offers a wide range of trays, table service and display items, storage, shelving, merchandising and insulated transport products, as well as innovative ware-washing systems.
(847) 362-5500
A leading manufacturer of commercial foodservice equipment, Carter-Hoffmann specializes in the latest holding and transporting technology.
Continental Refrigerator
(800) 523-7138
Established in 1989 and now among the leaders in commercial foodservice refrigeration equipment, Continental Refrigerator's full line of reach-in refrigerators, freezers and warmers has been refined and expanded to include over 2,500 models.
Eagle Group
(800) 441-8440
Founded in 1947, Eagle Group is America's largest broadline manufacturer of commercial foodservice equipment, including shelving, sinks and tables.
Edlund Company
(800) 772-2126
For 90 years, Edlund has been on the cutting edge of kitchen equipment—providing foodservice and food-processing customers worldwide with quality solutions.
EnviroPure Systems
(888) 324-7265
Follett Ice
(800) 523-9361
Since 1948, Follett has led the industry in manufacturing high-quality, innovative ice storage bins, ice machines, ice and water dispensers, ice and beverage dispensers and medical-grade refrigerators and freezers for the global foodservice and healthcare industries.
Foodservice Equipment & Supplies
(800) 630-4168
Senior Sales Director: Carol McAdam
Connects equipment and supply manufacturers and service providers with the full distribution channel, including foodservice operators, E&S dealers and facility design consultants.
Franke Coffee Systems
(877) 379-3769
Satisfy your customers with top-quality drinks with any of Franke Coffee Systems' super automatic espresso machines. Every machine uses fresh beans, fresh milk and custom flavors to make each customer a made-to-order espresso-based beverage, all with the touch of a button.
Franke Foodservice
(877) 379-3769
One of the world's leading providers of comprehensive systems, services and solutions for the foodservice, beverage and water management industries.
Frymaster (Welbilt)
(318) 865-1711
Leading supplier of commercial fryers, frying systems, water-bath rethermalizers, pasta cookers and equipment related to these technologies.
Globe Food Equipment
(800) 347-5423
National Sales Manager: Justin Fox
Globe offers broad slicer and mixer selections and an expanded line of countertop grills, fryers, cookers and scales.
Groen (Unified Brands)
(888) 994-7636
Whether it's space restrictions, product aesthetics or simple cleanability that drives your commercial cooking equipment needs, Groen offers a comprehensive selection of well-built, cost-effective designs—each one carefully crafted from industrial-grade materials like corrosion-resistant 316 stainless steel. Groen's line of braising pans, steam kettles, steamers and combi-ovens feature precision controls, advanced ergonomics and a variety of available power sources and mounting configurations.
(800) 558-0607
Since 1950, Hatco has been a leader in creating innovative ideas for the foodservice industry: bold innovations in equipment that improve efficiency, reliability and profits.
(800) 438-6087
Hoshizaki is s world leader in manufacturing a wide range of products for the foodservice industry including ice machines, refrigeration and dispensers.
(800) 558-5700
For over 75 years, InSinkErator has been making foodservice operations more productive with equipment solutions designed specifically for restaurants, stores, stadiums and more. From food-waste disposers and reduction systems to hot-water dispensers and water-saving systems, InSinkErator has a foodservice equipment solution to enhance your day-to-day operations.
ITV Ice Makers
(786) 369-7480
Produces ice makers with worldwide distribution to in excess of 100 countries.
(800) 935-2766
From the rim of the Grand Canyon, beyond Trafalgar Square, to the Australian Outback, Kason hardware is an essential part of refrigeration, foodservice, step van and industrial equipment.
Legacy Companies
(954) 202-7419
The Legacy Companies is a leading foodservice and consumer products company that designs, manufactures and markets, nationally and internationally, a diverse portfolio of products including such brands as Bevles®, Blakeslee®, Chef'sChoice®, EdgeCraft®, Excalibur®, General®, Greenfield WorldTrade, Kold-Draft®, Legion®, Maxximum®, Nautilus®, Omega®, Orien, Vinturi®, West Bend®, Yonanas® and Zeroll®.
Marra Forni
(888) 239-0575
Sales Manager: Jeff Calwell
A family-owned company that takes pride in the art of crafting personalized and innovative wood-fired ovens.
Multiplex (Welbilt)
(800) 367-4233
multiplexbeverage.comLeading manufacturer of high-capacity beverage dispensing systems for soda and beer.
(800) 955-5253
Since 1947, Nor-Lake has been a leader in the design and manufacture of quality refrigeration products to serve a wide range of customer needs.
(800) 558-5592
Family-owned since 1917 and headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, Perlick Corporation provides innovative, quality customizable food and beverage storage and serving solutions. Perlick is a national manufacturing leader in commercial bar and beverage systems, residential under-counter refrigeration and brewery fittings.
Polar King International
(877) 224-8674
Top manufacturer of outdoor fiberglass walk-in freezers and walk-in coolers.
Server Products
(800) 558-8722
The Server Products ConserveWell™ Utensil Holder is an eco-friendly replacement for continuous-flow dipper wells.
(919) 762-1000
Southbend, a division of the Middleby Corporation, is a global leader in heavy-duty, commercial cooking equipment. Southbend constantly innovates in the areas of energy savings, cooking speed, automation and safety.
Southern Pride
(731) 696-3175
Southern Pride handcrafts a line of fully automatic, wood-burning, gas-fired or electric smokers with 10 different models to choose from. Each model is an outgrowth of meticulous research and development through decades of serving all segments of the foodservice industry.
(800) 647-7074
Sales Supervisor: Melissa Harrison
Thermo-Kool's walk-ins are designed for maximum customization, durability and performance.
(866) 875-6868
Thunderbird Food Machinery has more than 30 years of experience in providing durable and cost-effective mixers and other foodservice equipment.
(888) 686-1425
Traulsen provides professional expertise and high-quality refrigeration equipment for savvy foodservice customers who know how important temperature control is—and want peace of mind that their equipment will keep doing its job.
(636) 240-2400
For 70 years, True has provided a wide range of American-made commercial refrigeration products that exceed industry quality standards at competitive prices.
Turbo Air
(800) 627-0032
National Account Representatives: Mike Andrus, Rick Blinson, D.J. Kourie
Turbo Air's mission is to be the most respected company in the refrigeration industry by consistently providing the highest-quality products and superior service in the most environmentally friendly manner.
(800) 437-4654
Manufacturer of an exceptional high-performance blender, the choice of professional chefs worldwide.
(800) 814-2028
Vulcan is among the world's largest manufacturers of commercial cooking equipment, with worldwide distribution of the broadest lines of gas and electric equipment.
(877) 375-9300
Welbilt provides the world's top chefs and premier chain operators or growing independents with industry-leading equipment and solutions.
(973) 916-9958
Established in 1992, DWL Industries Co., known as Winco, is a manufacturer and worldwide importer of kitchenware and tableware.
+34 961 301 251
Leader in juice extraction technology in more than 100 countries.


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I wanted to change gears a bit and share with everyone the memorial site i created for my sister who passed away from cancer a while ago. She was my inspiration for starting this health blog and over the course of time i have received a lot of feedback from people who found this site useful and informative.
Sometimes, it is easy to get wrapped up in our daily endeavors and forget the things that are truly important. I received a condolence from one of my sister's friends today. As I sat back to read it and watch the memorial site, tears came to my eyes. Times like this give me the courage to continue the fight to help and serve others who are in need of help, especially in the areas of health, finances and relationships. Here is my sister's site should anyone want to see it. God bless.


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September 25, 2006
Friday's children...
Friday- Wine
Pig, Duck, Beef, Armagnac… the end of the work 'Week in Gascony' leads to Saturday's market and later that evening to an FCI/all cooks/all out jammin' in the French Kitchen. So in anticipation and to give ourselves a respite from the competition style eating we've been doing, I plan a day of leisurely swilling and sipping chez two friends of mine, 2 Sisters in Aquitaine. Isabelle and Catherine Orliac's Chateau la Bastide perches above my beloved Garonne River valley near Valance d'Agen. We came looking for good red wine for Saturday's dinner, what we encountered was a deliciously dark "family secret."
I first met Isabelle years ago high atop the Garonne vineyards tending delicately made Bordeaux-style wines in the Buzet appellation. Returning to her ancestral home to join her sister, Catherine, they delved deep into the Orliac Family coffers for photographs and artifacts to place in a charmingly personal 'musee de vin' on the property. What they discovered set off a historic romp through the annals of Bordeaux wines and resulted in the tell-tale gossip of great-great-great aïeul whose river boat sunk in a Garonne flood in the late 1700's causing bankruptcy and problems for the talented winemaker. From his soon-to-be last home at Versailles, Louis the Sixteen himself pardoned Jean Orliac in the summer of 1780 allowing him to continue to trade and produce his goodly and medicinally prized wines. It is one of his recipes that inspired the newest Orliac venture, a red-fruit flavored aperitif wine, not-so sweet/not so strong, that is aptly called 'le Secret de Famille'. Deep ruby, framboise-scented, tinted with tannins of green walnut and other woodsy flavors, it is my own personal newest favorite thing to drink!
Making wines based on the Cote de Bruilhois appellation standard- Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and the characteristic Tannat grapes, Catherine and Isabelle shared their other family wine making secrets with us on a pre-lunch visit. Care, attention, passion and pride marry the exceptional terroir of their 24 acre Roman site at Clermont-Soubiran. A love for the land that is bio-diverse and yields a forager's delight of wild leeks and tulips, flowers and truffle oaks as well as carefully managed vines underscores a savvy and talented vintner's nose. Dropping in during the middle of their working day, we are greeted by this fairy-tale pair of two sisters—one blonde and one dark, who conjure up magic on their limestone bluff somewhere in Aquitaine.
The FCI-Four departed with cases of a robust 2000, a softer 2002, and a 3-liter bag-in-a-box of the Family Secret. Saturday night's dinner will be well lubricated and full of FCI gossip!
Stayed tuned for Saturday's feast as four FCI alumni prove that their can't be too many cooks in the French Kitchen.
September 18, 2006
Thursday- Armagnac
This is terroir on a plate. The deep golden ochre of a small patch of land down the hill from a stone building the same color called 'le Rey' is the quintessential definition of terroir. This is what makes armagnac--Armagnac. And this is what makes Guy Arrouy's spectacular armagnac a magical mouthful of honey-colored scents and flavors- the taste of Gascony.
On Day Four of the French Culinary Institute's "Week in Gascony", we drive the slow hills south into the Gers and into the heart of Armagnac production near Eauze. Here the Teneraze and the Bas-Armagnac regions nestle side by side producing both highly perfumed and full flavored eau-de-vies. Guy's land straddles the geological divide and so his output of both exceptional Cotes de Gascogne white wines and a bold and memorable brandy profit from this marriage. It's in the land, boys and girls.
Our 'tour' is in response to my love of this proud winemaker. Guy Arrouy knows I dote on his clean palate and fresh-mouthed wines. His Cote de Gascogne starts with a complex citrusy juice that he draws off the outside vats for us to taste. Sauvignon Blanc, picked and pressed yesterday, is sweet, fresh and hold the promise of a complex little wine. Next, we enter the stock room to taste last year's finished product- a Sauviginon/Colombard blend. But Guy's own pride is a 100% Gros Manseng wine that recalls the late harvest sweet wines of the Jurancon- this is a dry-finished Gascon cousin. With more patience than most American's allow, and only after we have sipped and swirled and swallowed approving the post-breakfast libation, do I dare reveal my dark ulterior motive. Dark as aged brandy, dark as a dimly lit cave, dark and smooth and soft as only a 36 year old armagnac can be.
By definition, brandy produced within the terroir-defined appellation is only called armagnac after ageing three years in oak barrels. When Guy invites us (ok, I begged) to enter the quiet unpretentious chai tucked behind a dozen large cement vats I began to whisper. This is hallowed ground; underscoring the resting spirits there is a zen-like attention to this private reserve. Don't show up and expect to buy any of this! Guy Arrouy only bottles on demand and the large 400 liter casks of resting 1970 and 1972 vintages continue to evolve in rustic tranquility.
With a long clear tube he siphons off generous tastes of his prized vintages. 1970."This is what they sell at Maxim's in Paris." 1982. "Someone in Washington imported this for a diplomat." 1990. "This is the last of what I make. The youngest but not too young." It is as delicious and seductive as only a 16 year-old farm girl can be. With a little bit of cajoling and a lot of gratitude, Guy finds an empty unmarked bottle and fills it by the siphoning tube. It is the color of deep caramel; the color of a slow-burning flame; the color of over 5000 sunsets that have warmed these stone walls cradling it's evolution. It smells of pruneaux- cooked plums and pear. It tastes of cocoa and vanilla and bay. It is smooth in the mouth leaving a lovely long souvenir in the mouth. It is Gascony in a bottle. This is a cook's brandy.
Thursday lunch at Chez Simone in Montreal-du-Gers finished with armagnac. Dinner back at the French Kitchen that night was splashed with armagnac- in sauces and used for deglazing pans. But the moment of glory came when we could sit around the vast round cask-bottom table sated from another day of discovery and good food. Passing the bottle of Guy Arrouy's 'Domaine de Rey' from hand to hand was the finishing taste of just another day in a Week in Gascony.
Thursday's Child. Guy Arrouy- distiller and wine maker
Domaine de Rey, Gondrin, Southwest France
September 15, 2006
Wednsesday's child is full of woe...
Wednesday- BEEF plus
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Wednesday Morning
The weekly Marché at Agen's Place du Pin (tucked behind the MacDo's now) waits for no sleepy heads, and after last night's Duck Fest, the troopeaux are a little slow to move. Promise of a café au lait at the village bar rouses the FCI Four and we are out the door and shopping! Crayon colored umbrellas make neat rows across the parking area and under the covered structure.
Look at what we find and buy:
raw beets with their greens
coco beans in their pods
fresh shallots, onions and garlic tied in ribboned bouquets
mild red, yellow and orange peppers
savory/sweet Muscat grapes
extra virgin honey in its waxy comb
late harvest strawberries- Mara des Bois
home-made vanilla and coffee yoghurts
a sampling of excellent goat cheeses
Our baskets strain with the kilo weights and heavy plastic bags cut into fingers but where's the beef?
We abandoned the vegetable and fruit stalls and artisan producers for a cross-town jaunt to the Marché couvert or covered hall just off the main drag in Agen. The Pineau Butcher brothers greet us in tidy, green pinstriped shirts and those sexy one-shouldered aprons. In this glass-front refrigerated case hang half-carcasses of veal, beef and lamb. I consider veal tendrons or veal bacon (les parisiennes we call them) to cook with onions and those colorful peppers. Maybe some saucisse d'Agenaise- their special 80% beef and 20% pork sausages to grill rosy until medium rare. Turning to my chicks, I notice everyone is at the other end of the counter.
In that glass-front refrigerated case hang half-carcasses of another four-legged animal. Big. Large muscled. Dark meated. Lean. Erik was the instigator. "Can we buy chevaline?"
Gulp. If you're thinking Cold War and secret British missiles, go to the back of the butchery class. Think Chivalry, Chevalier and finally Cheval itself. Horse. Never before has a group of foodies, let alone a dedicated, educated group of FCI alumni requested horseflesh. Pourquoi pas?
Horsemeat. Steeped in culinary lore and mythology (a quick look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevaline dispels the notion that only the French eat horse!) horse meat is, in fact, high in protein and iron, low in fat and, in France, just as expensive as prime beef. No one in France eats horse because it is a cheap substitute. Instead it is a deliberate decision based on taste or health issues. Chevaline has long been fed to invalids to speed recovery, either raw as in tartare or cooked in a soup to enrich the broth. But here in Gascony, I always just hear about how good it tastes. By law, a French butcher must separately seperately from beef and chevaline shops were often topped with a statue or picture of the horse's head so as not to be led astray.
Ok, before I get too embroiled in a potentially sensitive issue, let me say that we purchased a sort of skirt steak that begged to be grilled for the pure education of it all. I, who have eaten snake, scarab bugs, grasshoppers, ants and caviar, was going to balk at a little horse steak? No way!
Salted, peppered and thrown over hot coals, Gary grilled and I served everyone a modest 2-inch slice. it got quiet before the usual yummy noises escalated to a happy hum. There was also the braised veal tendrons with meltingly sweet onions and red peppers; a grated raw beet salad made with walnuts, garlic and parsley; Magic coco beans cooked with the beet greens and lardons; Muscat grapes with goat's cheese and honey; a very American strawberry shortcake.
The cheval would just be an experiment, a gustatory amusement, a fleeting taste of the wicked and wild. WRONG. It was delicious. Utterly, meltingly delicious. A taste was not enough. everyone wished for more. Not a morsel left. A smattering of vinaigrette-soaked shallots married with the juices were mopped up with slices of good bread. Thank God for Erik's CoCo beans that melted in our mouths in garlicky creaminess fullness and sated the tongue as well as the belly. And although Wednesday was for BEEF, it became memorable in our "Week in Gascony" for a little bit of Mr. Ed.
Earlier in the day, our afternoon visit to the Sabadini farm at the corner (my neighborhood "grocery store") yielded a basket of eggs for a crème anglaise that never materialized (too much food!) and sweet plums destined for confiture des prunes. The working Blondes of Aquitaine (http://www.blondecattle.org/ for more info in English) were gathered around a muscular bull like so many filles in a harem pasture; a few long-legged calves tottered on new pins; the handsome young son of prize-winning Naomi, Apollon, eyed his future happiness through the barn pen. Chickens strutted, geese and ducks danced around the willow tree and the daily life of a contemporary French family farm lay exposed before us as simply as a board game.
Roll a pair of hens and move two steps forward, gather eggs; score a seven, miss a turn and clean the pig pens; a winning roll and a new calf is born with no help; score double noughts and it's back to cleaning- the chicken coop this time, the rabbit pens next; wait a turn and harvest the three rows of grapes for daily wine; fix the Massey-Ferguson tractor and only then, when the game's day is over, slide out of your boots, into your slippers and sit at the kitchen table for a meal of your own making. Like most farmers, the Sabadini's eat the small bits- pork, chicken, rabbit, duck, saving the tender tasty Beef as their cash crop. The work is never ever done in this daily game of Family Farm, but we all win. Good food created by caring people in the Field to Plate, Farm to Table, Full-Circle Life of my Gascon neighbors, the people who turn dirt into food.
Thank YOU!
September 13, 2006
Tuesday's child is full of grace
Tuesday- DUCK
So when the FCI Four announced their intention to consume as much foie gras as possible in this "Week in Gascony", they didn't realize how easy it would be in Southwest France to have duck, duck, or goose at every meal. Best of all here, in the heart of Gascony, small artisan poultry farms pepper the patchwork landscape from the Garonne River to the Pyrenees; to steep oneself in the foie gras culture we need only go down road and over the river to Vianne and Patricia Lamarouche's farm, Puymartin.
We arrived at Puymartin just after the plucking and clean-up of a dozen fat tête rouge or Muscovy ducks. Prized for their flavorful fatted liver and beef-like meat, one duck would provide us with a menu of different recipes.
A déclinaison of DUCK:
grilled magret stuffed with foie gras
a wine-rich civet de canard
cœur de canard en brochette
foie gras en terrine
duck fat
grilled demoiselles or duck ribs
In her white tiled workshop, Patricia wields a sharp narrow knife like an extra digit and shows how the gutted carcass is divested of its manteau or cloak. The meaty breasts with legs and wings still attached are carved expertly off the rib cage in one piece. Then with surgical precision, she separates the back from front, trims the duck steaks (magrets), arranges the cuisses or legs, dices the fat and skin for rendering and presents us with a completed butchered duck in less time than it took me to write this paragraph.
Next, we choose from a tray of wrapped livers a small fresh foie gras to slip between the skin and the meat of the breasts before grilling and a jar of foie gras entire to serve on thick slabs of toasted bread. Rillettes, terrines, dried sausage, even duck chorizo are seasoned by Patricia's expert hand. Her unerring palate is the reason there is always a line at the Lavardac market under her green umbrella. By 11:30 on a brisk market morning, the rabbits, ducks, and chickens that fill her refrigerated market case have all jumped into waiting baskets to join the farm fresh produce and fruit that completes a Gascon menu. No "Week in Gascony" is complete without this Tuesday's child so full of grace. Merci, Patricia!
Guillaume DILHAN et Patricia LAMAROUCHE.
September 12, 2006
Monday's child is fair of face...
A Week in Gascony: Monday- PIG
I must have been too old to wear them or too young to remember; I'm not sure I even owned any but the image sprang to mind this week as Eric, Claire, Gary and David (all alumni's of the French Culinary Institute) joined Vetou, Dupont and me for a "Week in Gascony—French Kitchen Adventures."
During the week we shared a laundry basket of gastronomic colors. If as a group we wore our colors with pride, there is also no shame in sharing what we ate and what we cooked. This is Gascony—the great Southwest France. Here, business, life and love revolve around the table. And especially at the floating table of Camont. Join us for a week of good food and friendly neighbors in my Long Village- a floating table in France.
Monday - PIG
This is what we bought, cooked and ate:
Boudin noir
Saucisse seche
Paté a la tete
Pied de porc
A van load of pig parts. An appetite whetted by the salty parfum of sausage and hanging hams. And a hunger to follow the field to table trail. Sunflower fields, their heavy-seeded heads hanging in anticipation of the harvesters, line the narrow French roads. The plate-sized heads are fat with seeds pressed for oil or used for animal feed. Here at Baradieu, near Mezin in the Lot-et-Garonne, one family has adapted a new version of the family farm into a better working model. Come join us for a tour of what the 4th Little Pig would have build against the big bad economic Wolf at the Door.
Along with corn, barley, wheat, and oats that they grow, the sunflowers feed an artisan level pork production at the Chapolard Family farm. Not just another French Impressionist landscape, the bright sunny faces have now become two-faced. First the sunflower seed pulp milled with the other grains to feed growing piglets then, in an economic tour de force, the oil pressed from the tournesol fields fuels Jacques' Peugeot 505.
On this family farm, every few weeks, 5-6 sows throw a litter of 12-15 piglets that Bruno will care for and feed, then together with his brothers- Jacques, Dominique and Marc will bring to slaughter. Each Monday morning the brothers are joined by their wives and a few helpers to first butcher and then transform the succulent meat into delicious lardons, ventrêche, boudin, saucissons, saucisses, jambons, paupiettes, pates, terrines…
Tuesdays and Saturdays at Casteljaloux, Wednesdays at Lavardac and Saturday at Nerac a line snakes down the crowded market alleys as loyal customers line up to buy the high-quality selections of 'L'Art du Cochon'.
"We are selling more than pork", Dominique confides to us as we stand in the narrow white tiled laboratoire in our plastic booties, "we are selling confidence."
"We notice our customers are younger, with young families, and that they rely on us for help: how long to cook a pork shoulder roast; how much Saucisse de Toulouse to buy; how best to store the smoked bacon; when to eat rillettes…"
"We sell a relationship, not just meat."
September 02, 2006
T is Terre, Terroir, je suis une Terroirista.
The sum of these ingredients is a recipe for terroir.
This week I begin a week of being a terroirista as I welcome a group of French Culinary Institute Alumni to my French Kitchen in Gascony. Gascon this and Gascon that, the Cooking of Southwest France, local, neighbors, corner farm, blah, blah, blah. They'll be sick of hearing me spout off about how good, how delicious, how fresh, how does this even work still...
Pigs, Ducks, Cows, Fowl, Wine, Fruit, Armagnac... It's a compressed week of 20 years of living here in France's hidden garden slapped on the my floating table every night. They'll get dirty, they'll get tired, they'll get drunk- then cook. Jambon, pied de porc, magret, demoiselles, tete de veau, boeuf a la mode, pintade a l'armagnac, poule au pot, pruneaux au vin, peche de vigne, chasselas...
Stay tuned and be prepared to be hungry. This French Mother Earth has her apron on!


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Archive for August, 2009
The magic age of 7
Having been fairly autonomous in our HE journey so far, it has at times been fairly nerve wracking, wondering whether we were really doing the right thing, when we saw all our sons school going peers producing their "handwriting" and reading words (slowly but surely) and our son just not showing any interest in "learning". However now we have hit that magic age of 7 - the age that Steiner thought that children were ready to learn, it has all paid off. Within the last 6 months our son has suddenly picked everything up - seemingly without trying.
He is now reading all the time - including HUGE words that I cant believe that he knows, his writing is coming on a dream, he is choosing to draw pictures, and he is swimming amazingly (having turned round one day and stated he didnt need his float jacket anymore, jumped in the pool and was off like a fish)
Hopefully this means that I will be a lot more relaxed as babe grows up!
So to all those people that are having a nervous wobble (yep we all have them) then have faith, they do seem to suddenly pick it up and run with it.


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Version control is a serious issue to contend with when working as a developer on a team. Git is what is known as a Distributed Version Control System [DVCS/DCS]. The basic idea behind Git is that you need a way to control software versions when multiple developers are working on a project, otherwise each developer's changes will overwrite the other team member's code changes. A more relatable example would be saving a shared Microsoft Word document by selecting the "overwrite" option in lieu of the "merge changes" option. Git is unique in that it boasts industry standard features while remaining free and open source.
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Super Bowl Food Menu
I know nothing about football nor does it peek my interest one bit, but I'm all about the camaraderie of hanging out with friends, sipping on delightful drinks and snacking on some delicious food. But the true party for me is halftime, especially when performers like Beyonce is performing. Boy, do I wish they'd give Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake another chance at performing next year. Now that would be a party! Anyhow, had I not been going to someone else's place this year, here are some favorite snacks and food I'd be cooking up.
1. Add a little spice to your game day with this spicy margarita.
2. This is one perfect mouth watering game day recipe that will go a long way feeding a crowd. I've referenced this recipe twice already, because it's that ingeniously good.
3. Just because it's Super Bowl Sunday, doesn't mean that you shouldn't eat healthy. And of course, a well-rounded meal always has to have some kind of vegetable and what better way to do that than with this colorful cole slaw.
4. A recent favorite added to the mix is this good-for-you oven baked sweet potato truffle fries with spicy mayo dipping sauce. hmmm hmmm hmmmm hmmm hmmm!
5. No perfect meal is ever left without a sweet finish and these go-to favorite salty caramel and chocolate pecan squares will soften the blow to being broken-hearted if your team loses.
PS. Here are other recipe suggestions below:
* 5 simple super bowl Sunday recipes
* Last year Super Bowl cocktail of choice
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Thousand Fog Drops
Thousand Fog Drops on green leaves
Thousand Fog Drops on green leaves
View of Hay Lake south side from our rowing boat in a sunny day.
View from the Spruce Bog Trail in Algonquin over the lake and trees.
Mapple Tree New Red Leaves growing into the Algonquin Forest in the Hardwoord Lookout Trail.
Roots and Mapple Trees in the Algonquin Forest, in the Hardwood Lookout Trail
Landscape of Algonquin Forest in the Hardwood Lookout Trail.


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Musings of a dyer and fiber artist from Lord of the Rings and Narnia country, the South Island of New Zealand.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Quilting malfunction
When I lay the quilt top out to photograph it, the sides rippled like a stingray swimming. Oh dear. It was clear I had a serious case of Wavy Borders, something I have only experienced once before, many moons ago, and (due to lack of internet in those days to provide solutions) fixed with tediously cunning quilting on the borders.
I won't bore you with the details of unpicking both borders, measuring, trimming the corners, remeasuring, nipping and tucking and re-doing just the outer border. Oh sorry, I just did. The border fitted, they're the correct width, but still look slightly wavy in the photo.
13 comments:
- Nancy J said...
I so like the pattern and the analogy of a swimming stingray!!The colours have gone so well, perfect combination. Unpicking, what a chore, but I guess it just had to be done.Still struggling with the FMQ feathers!!! Cheers from Jean.
- 9:50 am
- Lisa said...
Funny, I've just been involved in a group quilt and the corner blocks were made like this... never seen it before!
Isn't unpicking and re sewing the most annoying thing?
The colours and fabrics worked well. You must be pleased.
- 10:42 pm
- Libby said...
Just wanted to say I really enjoy this quilt! The colors and fabrics are gorgeous and the slightly wavy borders do not detract in the least. I've been enjoying your blog!
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- Lorraine said...
Goodness, been there, done that, bought the t-shirt... I have learned to change the pattern if they use bias on the edges. NOT FUN to fix. Kudos to you for solving it!
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Glasgow, 1492. Gilbert Cunningham's plans for completing his legal training and becoming a priest and notary like his uncle, Canon David Cunningham, are interrupted when he meets two women, quick and dead.
Bess Stewart, wife of local landowner John Semphill, has escaped his brutality for the love of an itinerant blind Irish musician, a harper named Aenghus. No one objects much, especially not Semphill, who's quickly taken up with beautiful Lady Euphemia Campbell, whose taste runs to brutality and expensive gowns. But when the traveling musicians return to Glasgow, Semphill urgently requests a meeting with Bess—a meeting from which she does not return. Gil finds the woman's body stabbed to death on a construction site on St. Mungo's land, a site that makes the investigation his responsibility and that of Master Pierre, the observant French mason supervising the construction. They are supported by the mason's daughter, Alys, an intelligent young woman who is making Gil's plans for the priesthood most unappealing. Gil must travel to the island of Bute, track down intricate inheritances and family relationships, dodge a handful of Campbells, learn about odd Irish customs, and witness the offhand murder of an Italian caught in the middle before a medieval Scottish courtroom scene reveals the true perp.
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