Tag: Kangaroo

  • Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards: Laughing snake, other finalists will make your day

    Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards: Laughing snake, other finalists will make your day

    The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards shortlisted 42 images for its 2021 competition after receiving entries of over 7,000 photos from every corner of the world.

    The final 42 pictures include a laughing vine snake from India, a trio of strutting Gentoo penguins on the beaches of the Falkland Islands and a kangaroo performing a picture-perfect Pavarotti impersonation in Australia.

    Laughing snake by Aditya Kshirsagar, India
    Monday Morning Mood by Andrew Mayes, South Africa
    Directing penguin by Carol Taylor, UK
    Monkey riding a giraffe by Dirk-Jan Steehouwer, Netherlands
    The Green Stylist by Gurumoorthy K, India
    Operatic warm ups by Lea Scadden, Australia
    Did I say you could take my picture? By Patrick Dirlam, USA

    Co-founded in 2015 by professional photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam, aimed to create a competition that focused on the lighter side of wildlife photography and help promote wildlife conservation through humour.

    This year’s competition is supporting Save Wild Orangutans and is donating 10 per cent of its total net revenue to the charity.

  • Two kangaroos die at Lahore zoo

    Two kangaroos die at Lahore zoo

    A male and a female kangaroo died in Lahore Zoo on Thursday.

    As per reports, the male kangaroo died after suffering from a jaw infection while the female kangaroo was unwell for a long time.

    Both were provided medical assistance but couldn’t survive, the  officials said.

    Now13 adult kangaroos and three baby kangaroos are left at Lahore Zoo.

    Earlier, a lion died of ‘cardiac arrest’ in Karachi Zoo. The director of the zoo said the lion died because of its old age and that the average lifespan of a lion is 18 years normally.

    The Wild Life Department of Sindh with the help of District East officials captured the two lions in 2017 because they were transported into the city illegally. One of the two had died the later year of their fostering in the zoo, due to old age as well, the director claimed.

    According to the post-mortem report of the deceased lion, the cause of death was the cardiac arrest due to heavy fat deposits on its heart.