LATEST NEWS ABOUT ANIMALSS

sea sharks
1.Millions of doses of the H1N1/09 vaccine contain a substance called squalene, which is extracted from the livers of rare deep-sea sharks caught in the wild, conservationists say.

mountain gorillas

2. Male silverback mountain gorillas gain their distinctive silver tinge at about 13 years old, when they reach adulthood.

There are roughly 700 mountain gorillas remaining on Earth, and nearly half live in the forests of the Virunga mountains in centra

Asian lions

3.Only 200 or so Asian lions exist in the wild. A former royal reserve, India's Gir Forest, is the last home of this lion subspecies.
Photograph by Mattias Klu