Archive for February, 2012
The hippopotamus must qualify for the weirdest looking mammal on the planet. Like the rhinoceros and crocodile, it looks positively prehistoric. Their name comes from the Greek for ‘water horse’, looking at its face front-on you can kind of understand why. The hippo looks like a lumbering, slow kind of animal, however its speed on [ READ MORE ]
The guinea pig (or cavy) makes an excellent pet for the young and not so young. Although timid at first, with gentle and regular handling they become very tame and respond to your voice with enthusiastic squeaking and ‘chirruping’. Housing a guinea pig is quite easy, they need to kept out of extreme cold and [ READ MORE ]