Past Warm and Fuzzy Stories

A woman in Columbia found a lion cub who was wounded and hungry. The woman took him home and raised him until he was too big to keep at home. She then brought him to the local zoo, but continues to visit him everyday. Take a look at how he greets her: 



Tetley the PigA tiny piglet has been named Tetley at a Devon farm as he's no bigger than a cup of tea. Tetley was the smallest of a litter of eight Pennywell miniatures born to his mother, Poppy Two Socks, at Pennywell Farm, near Buckfastleigh in Devon.

Pennywell owner Chris Murray said "Tetley is the star of the farmyard." Staff had to get through several false pregnancies before the brood came along - but are overjoyed with their 3in-high, 5in-long mini star of the pig pen.

Old English strains are used to breed the Pennywell miniature pigs, which never grow beyond the size of a cocker spaniel. Most of the litter will be sold as pets with the rest being kept for future breeding.

The above story was taken from Ananova.com 
Alex the parrot
He knew his colours and shapes. He could identify over 50 objects, count up to 6, had a concept of zero, and had a vocabulary of over 100 English words. Accomplishments enough to get him a seat in the kindergarten class!

But Alex the African grey parrot had been in school for three decades, tutored by a special tutor and her team. And what a student he was! His amazing learning capabilities not only established him as the world's most famous talking bird, it also made his teacher, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, associate professor of psychology at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, acknowledged authority on avian learning.

In 1977, she bought Alex. The grey parrot is known for his human like vocalizations - more so than any other breed of parrot. In a matter of years, the teacher and pupil together shattered the concept that parrots simply mimicked what they heard. By using new teaching techniques, Alex eventually learned how to express his emotions and string together short sentences. An important off shoot of the Alex experiments has been that the methods used to teach him numbers are now being successfully modified to teach children with learning disabilities.

On Thursday September 6th, Dr Pepperberg put Alex in his cage for the night. He looked at her and said. "you be good, see you tomorrow. I love you." He passed away that night at the age of 31. The Alex Foundation is a non-profit foundation that strives to protect parrots in captivity, and preserve those in the wild.