Some interesting animal stories of late that beg a trip to the public library:
- Silent Knight, a blinded California Sea Lion, was brought to his new home at San Francisco Zoo on May 6, with buddy Henry, also blind. Silent Knight was shot in the head with buckshot and found at Swede’s Beach in Sausalito during the Christmas Season. Silent Knight is seven feet long and weighs 350 pounds. Henry and Silent Knight seem happy in their new environment (mercurynews.com). Check out Sea Lions by Caroline Arnold.
- San Francisco Zoo will be getting a Siberian Tiger from the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska in June. Martha, this 9½ year old female, will be the first Siberian at the Zoo since the fatal attack in December 2007. Zoo Director Tanya Peterson says the Doorly Zoo “has made a decision to start paring down their (big cat) collection.” Martha will live in the tiger exhibit with walls 22 feet high (sfgate). Check out Big Cats by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent.
- Underground for 13 years, cicadas have emerged in the states of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. They are big, loud, and in your face but other than that, cicadas are harmless according to Belmont University entomologist Steve Murphree, also a member of the Tennessee Entomological Society (The Tennessean). Check out Cicadas! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle.
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