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Puffin caught on camera (IMAGE)
This greedy puffin was caught on camera stuffing himself with more fish than he could fit in his mouth. Amateur photographer Mike Meysner captured the portly puffin mid-snack as he snapped the birds. He said: ‘The puffin shots were taken on the Farne Islands, a 20 minute boat ride from the Northumberland coast. I’ve taken lots of pictures of puffins, and I know they are all roughly the same size, but this shot did make me laugh because he looks huge.
Picture: Mike Meysner/Caters
Ecuador’s thirst for oil threatens wildlife (Video)
Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park park is a refuge to more than twenty types of endangered mammals, and a single hectare of forest is home to more than 100,000 species of insects. More amazingly, an estimated eighty percent of the species living in there are still unknown to scientists. But now, the threat of oil extraction means those species could be destroyed before they are even discovered. Al Jazeera’s David Mercer reports from the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.
Documentary: Super Pride Africas Largest Lion Pride (Video)
Lions are the only big cats to live in groups, called prides. Prides are close family groups. They work together to defend territory and hunt.
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Documentary: Africa The Serengeti (Video)
And there is no creature on the earth or bird that flies with wings except [that they are] communities like you (Qur’an 6:38).
“The beasts of all kinds that He scatters throughout the earth … are signs for a people who are wise” (2:164), and even the smallest gnat is a parable through which God communicates with humankind (2:26).