Page 21 - Monitor Lizard News Today

The labrador retriever, 120 years running. look at that. its an annual ranking most popular pups. german shep ashdz came in second. and beagles and golden retrievers. among the breed about the biggest popularity jump, the bulldog. and was that right? and cavalier king, spaniel liked leo who is a pup. some people prefer pets like a monitor lizard. that wasnt it. me, i guess. some guy found this in riverside california. animal control officers trying to track down the owner. it was so well behaved...

Told state side that this particular woman was put in a coffin and buried? >> we dont know where that information came from. from our point here, we dont know the disposition of the remains. the presumption of the family is that the body was taken to a mass grave. that would seem consistent with the way things are done now. >> the mass graves are just outside port-au-prince, two weeks after the quake, we thought we would find them cleaned up, covered over, but its much worse than that. the dead ...

Not only did the u.s. government do nothing to retrieve this american citizen body, they told our office in washington she had been buried in a coffin in the cemetery, and we went to the u.s. embassy for answers. do you know why we would have been told in the state department stateside that this particular woman was put in a coffin? >> i dont know. i dont know where that information came from. from our perspective here, we dont know disposition of the remain, and the presumption of the family as...

>> i dont feel like im preachy about it, but i do stand up for what i believe and at least you can respect that because i do stand up and unfortunately today society, not many athletes tend to do that. >> hes been open about his strong christian beliefs since he jumped on the scene for the university of florida. >> german man who stuffed dozens of liz arresteds into his underwear before boarding a flight is going to prison. he was caught in a new zealand airport with 44 geckos. >> look at the ge...

Stay in there. theyll go out and freeze and stop and freeze and thats it. >> reporter: the animals are no more used to this cold than people. zoos are doing what they can to provide creature comforts. space heaters for the parrots and the komodo dragons, boxes for the primates. this little guy shut his own door. dont ever say dumb animals. for beekeepers in tallahassee, where the temperature has been in the teens, the only hope -- save the queen. >> as long as the queen and some of the bees make...

Even with all that hair, bannie the orangutan wasted no time wrapping up against the cold at miamis metro zoo. her buddy, mango, sipped on a cup of hot chocolate, vet approved. the tortoises are not too swift with their feet or their brains. >> we have to take actually plywood and lock them in there because theyre not bright enough to know to stay in. theyll go out and freeze and thats it. >> reporter: in florida the animals are no more used to this kind of cold than people. zoos are doing what ...

Iguanas, well, check out what happens to the iguanas. >> reporter: just throw me a blanket, will you? even with all that hair, bonnie, the orangutan, waste nods time wrapping up against the cold at miamis metro zoo. her buddy, manago, sipped on a cup of hot chocolate. the tortoises, theyre not too swift with their feet or their brains. >> we have to take plywood and lock them in there because theyre not bright now have stay in there. theyll go out and freeze and thats it. >> reporter: in florida...

The mornings other big story is the extreme cold. were going to tell you what you need to know before you head out that door, or you may not even want to do that. and if you think its tough on us, wait until you see the deep freeze and what its doing to the animals out there, not just humans suffering, but look at the animals at the zoo and what theyre doing to try to stay warm. and already were talking about new toys for the tree next year. yes, weve got new generation of high-tech gadgets th...

Thats not protozoa under the microscope, there are manatees 300 of them. the heating system at the power plant were turned on for them. sea turtles are being rescued and brought to marine life sanctuaries, nearly 100 so far. now to be honest there are some animals here in florida that just dont get and wont get any love. so how do you feel about rats? maybe a foot long? theyre not crazy about the cold either. well, theyre scrambling and slithering and squeezing their way into nice warm homes. >>...

But actually animals as well. >> for example, did you know that when iguanas get cold they go into hibernation? and they drop out of trees. our john zarrella tells us how these exotic animals are staying warm in these cold times. >> reporter: just throw me a blanket, will you? even with all that hair, bonnie the orangutan wasted no time bundling up at the miami zoo. her buddy, mango, sipped on a cup of hot chocolate. vet approved. the tortoises are not too swift with their feet or brains. >> we ...