Dugongs were once on the menu for fishermen in Abu Dhabi
By Vesela Todorova
MIRFA // The dugongs that live in the waters around the UAE enjoy a protected life, with harsh punishments for anyone caught hunting the gentle mammals.
In the past, the animals, which can weigh up to 300 kilograms, had been an important source of protein for fishermen.
“Dugong meat was still on sale in Abu Dhabi fish market until, I think, the late 1970s,” said Dr Mark Beech, head of coastal heritage and palaeontology at Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority …
The National – June 28, 2015 at 05:51 PM
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The Bronx Zoo’s loneliest elephant
By TRACY TULLIS
NEW YORK – On a gray day in mid-June, at the edge of a leafy enclosure in the Bronx Zoo’s Wild Asia habitat, an elephant named Happy stood very still, gazing over the fence. There were a few logs scattered around, some grass and shrubs, and a concrete-lined pool. A green ball was marooned at the water’s edge …
For close to a decade Happy has lived alone, separated from the zoo’s two other elephants. Her solitary existence is quite unlike the life of a wild elephant. In nature, elephants live in closely bonded matriarchal families, which cooperate to raise their young. Females never leave the herd, forming lifelong attachments with siblings, cousins and aunts as well as with their mothers …
Honolulu Star-Advertiser – POSTED: 2:16 a.m. HST, June 28, 2015
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