Facts And Myths Of My Favorite Reptile

Here you will read something about the reptile who became my favorite since the first documentary I saw showing this big Lizard.

Komodo Dragons have a hard life until they're 4 or 5 years old, but since then, they can live as the strongest predators mainly in that island.
These reptiles can weigh up to around 90 kilograms and grow up to 3.0 meters; they have a tail as long as the body, short but strong arms and legs, and about 60 serrated teeth that can measure up to about 2.5 centimeters.
Their bite, it was discovered not long ago, is lethal for any of their preys but only because of the venom glands that they use just like some Snakes and other Lizards.

Once upon a time, a princess of the world of spirits lived on Komodo Island. Her name was Epa or Dragon Princess. She was married to a human named Majo.
By tradition of the village, childbirth should not be through the normal process but through a 'surgery operation' by using the blade of bamboo skin by a midwife.
She conceived and gave birth to an egg she kept in a cave. A Komodo Dragon hatched out of the egg and was given the name Ora. A child, Gerong, was born at the same time.
When they were kids, the twins lived peacefully under the care of their parents.
But, as time went by, Ora was growing up and slowly showed her aggressive and malignant characters. Her appetite also changed. She did not want any longer to eat ‘rampi’, a rice dish made of the fruits of cabbage palm tree that was then the staple food of people on Komodo Island. Instead, she started to prey cattle of the local villagers.
The villagers could not accept Ora’s behavior. They finally agreed to cast her out of the village. Ora went away and lived in the jungle. Despite being in exile, Ora still visits her hometown once in a while to see her twin brother Gerong.
The story continued. It was told that Gerong as a youth often hunted Deer in the jungle. One day, when he was about to take a Deer he had killed, a big Lizard appeared from the bush and ate his Deer. Taken by surprise, Gerong immediately grabbed his spear to kill the giant Lizard. But suddenly, her mother, Dragon Princess came, preventing Gerong from killing the Lizard. She told him that the Lizard was Ora, Gerong’s sibling. Gerong calmed down and behaved kindly toward Ora.

Locals on Komodo Island believe the story above dates back to time immemorial.
Based on it, the residents of Komodo Island believe that they are the descendants of Gerong, while the Komodo Dragons living also on the island are those of Ora. That is why local people can live peacefully together with these animals and treat them humanely. They have emotional ties.
They feed aged Komodos who are no longer capable of stalking prey, while the youngsters are free to chase Deer and other animals in the forest.
For a similar reason, most of rangers at the Komodo National Park have been recruited from the native tribe of the island, Ata Modo. There is a myth that the tribe can communicate with the ancient Dragon.
The cave where Ora is said to have hatched is called Loang Atawini. There, the grave of Majo is also highly venerated. The Dragon Princess herself has no burial place, because locals feel certain that she is immortal and comes back when necessary to protect the island.

Until now, the relationship between Komodo Dragons and locals still feels intimate and emotionally very close to them.
Such a familiar feeling like this is almost perceived by outsiders or people who visited the village.
Komodo Dragons can come in and roam freely in the village and sleep under villagers’ traditional, house on stilts without being disturbed by the hustle and bustle of the local residents. Locals also never feel disturbed or concerned of the existence of the ancient animal in their midst.
Considered the original inhabitants of Komodo, for them Dragons are ancestors.
Even to show respect to their ancestor, Ata Modo people hold a special ritual every year called ‘aru gele’, a traditional ceremony of pounding the fruits of cabbage palm tree. The rite was a symbol in a memory of the parents of Ora and Gerong who fed their children with cabbage palm fruits a long time ago.

Feral Children of Many Times

When Animals Come To Save Our Young

We saw many pictures of women nursing newborn or orphaned animals. We know about feral children... But, how much?
These are the stories that I found up to this day to make my new entry.

Bears: Atalanta, Ancient Greece. Paris, on the slopes of Mount Ida.
A boy in Lithuania, 1661. Orson, in Middle Age in France. Another boy also in Lithuania, in 1694.
A third in Poland. Five-year-old Goranka Cuculic in Yugoslavia, in 1971.
A 16-month-old toddler in Iran, October 2001, Joseph, Denmark, 17th century.
Other Lithuanian Bear-Children were captured in 1661 and 1694. A girl in 1767 in lower Hungary. A girl in a forest in Jalpaiguri in 1892.
Goongi, a 14-year-old Wild Girl in the jungle near Naini Lal, Uttar Pradesh, in July 1914. A girl in Turkey, who lived with Bears for many years.

Cows: Rahul (Boy) in India, November 2002. The Bamberg Boy in Deutschland, 1680.

Dogs: Kunu Masela, six, round the Kenyan town of Machakos, between 1977 and 1983. An 11-year-old boy called Alex Rivas in a cave near the southern Chilean port of Talcahuano (2001).
Traian Caldarar in the Brasov region of Transylvania, Romania, in early February 2002. Oxana Malaya in Ukraine, 1991. Andrei Tolstyk in Siberia, 2004.
Other Children nurtured by Dogs in the Philippines (1982), Germany (1988), Oklahoma (1989), England (1992), Hungary (1994), Romania (1994), Italy (1994) and Retova, west of Moscow.

Gazelles: Gazelle Boy, found in 1960 in Spanish Sahara. A Wild Boy caught in the desert straddling Transjordan, Syria and Iraq, 1946. Gazelle Child in Mauritania.

Goats: Aegisthus, Greece. A child for eight years in the Peruvian Andes in 1990.

Jackals: A girl was found with them.

But the most interesting cases -for my and for my entry-, are these. They come to tell us how the fiercest creatures can have compassion to us instead of easily share the body among their own family members. The picture at the end of my entry is based in a porcelain piece from the Arabic art in Spain, sold by "El Buen Retiro",

Nursed by big Cats: A prince in the country of Chu -8th century B. C.- married a princess of Yun. A son was born to them and was named Tou Po-Pi. The father died and the widow returned to Yun, where Tou Po-Pi, in his youth, had an intrigue with a princess who bore him a son. The grandmother ordered the infant to be carried away and deserted in a marsh, but a Tigress came to suckle the child.
Naga Baba in India, breastfed by a Tigress.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W8U-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=l0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2088,844766&dq=nursed+by+tigress&hl=en
A girl in South Africa -November 1921-, found by two bushmen at the Crocodile river's bank, being suckled with two cubs by a Lioness.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19211115&id=aoYWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4427,311376
The ancient Turko-Mongol ancestor Alp Kara Aslan (Heroic Black Lion) was suckled by a Lioness.
Maeon (also Meion), king of Lydia and Phyrgia. He and his wife Dindyme are the possible parents of Cybele. He had his daughter exposed at Mount Cybelus, but she was suckled by Leopards and Lions.
Two children associated with Lions. The 1st Leopard Child (...). The 2nd Leopard Child.
Indian Panther child (1920). Leopard boy of Dihungi (India, 1915). The boy was stolen from his parents by a Leopardess in the North Cachar Hills near Assam in about 1912, and three years later recovered and identified.
A Tiger child found in India. A wild girl aged about two found in a forest south of Jhansi in north central India in 1986, nursed by a Panther.

Monkeys / Apes: Tissa from Sri Lanka, 1973. Burundi Monkey Boy, 1973. Robert of Uganda, 1982. John Ssebunya of Uganda, 1991. Casamance Boy in Guinea-Bissau, 1930.
Bello of Nigeria, 1996, adopted by Chimpanzees. A Monkey Girl mentioned by Sir. R. G. Burton.
Lucas, Baboon Child in South Africa (maybe Saturday Mifune). Ape Child of Teheran in 1961. Baby Hospital in Sierra Leone in 1984.

Ostriches: Sidi Mohamed in 1945, in North Africa.

Sheep: Irish Sheep-Boy in 1672. Sheep-Boy -for four years- near Trikkala in Greece in 1891.

Sows: Pig Children. Swine Girl in Salzburg, 1830.
Others in Germany, and in Overdyke, Holland. In 1984, a girl in Liaoning province. Clemens, in Overdyke.

Wolves: At least 21 cases; fourteen Wolf-Children were found in India between 1841 and 1895. Misha Defonseca, a Jewish orphan, for 4 years. A twelve year old boy in Wetteraw, 1544.
Ardenne Wolf Boy in France, c1500. Wolf Girl who roamed the banks of the Devil’s River near Del Rio in south-west Texas, seen for the 1st time in 1845. Marcos Pantoja, Sierra Morena.
Wolf Boy of Hesse in 1544, for 4 years. Wolf Child of Kronstadt. Another Wolf Boy in Lucknow.
Kamala and Amala, India. Ramu the Wolf Boy. Dina Sanichar, found in Bulandshahr, in 1867.
Pascal, India, forest of Musafirkhana, 1972. Wolf Boy from Shahjehanjur. Wolf Boy -Djuma- in 1962, aged about seven in a desert region of Turkmenistan.
Elmira Godayatova, aged 6, in Azerbaijan, 1970. Another Azerbaijani girl, Mekhriban Ibragimov, 1978.

There are many more stories, of course, but they're mentioned only as "the Wild Boy of (name of city or region)" or "the Stuttgart -for example- child". And in many cases they tell only about isolated children in rooms like Genie, the girl from USA.

All this feral boys and girls were rescued... However, with very little or no success at all. Had they stayed in their environment, at least they would have survived with their own natural weapons and skills, just like some modern naturalists try to do when making a wild life documentary.

One question to consider is, that in the case of being doomed to live alone in a jungle, the best chances are to be adopted by Wolves, Bears or big Cats... Predators, in other words, who know how to deffend themselves.
The second, that it was much better for them to have been adopted by wild animals than being locked in a room for months or years.

Here, a hunter is afraid of this wild animal,

but the Leopardess is feeding an infant in his crib.

"Governments, Do Something Soon!"

http://youtu.be/k4VZWppoTCc

http://youtu.be/t3hnIJx0-UM


Modern tribes... Not the urban ones.

The members of these tribes must believe that by killing they can obtain a good place for themselves in their town or their city.
September is about to start this year; unless the governments give orders to stop the killing, this will happen again:
Many friends will return to them; many bodies will float again in a red sea.
And in Japan they don't want any photo taken. But blood is impossible to cover... In Faeroe Islands, or Taiji, that blood will fall on many souls.
Because for us, there's not much to do that can prevent the slaughters unless we make a direct and violent confrontation. But to those who can count each drop shed by Dolphins, the Law will turn the accumulated pain into years of justice.

"Matando Una Leyenda Y Una Criatura Real"

El Delfín Rosado o Boto como lo conocen los pobladores de la amazonia, es el Delfin de agua dulce más grande del mundo. Mide hasta 3 metros de largo y pesa unos 125 kg.
Suele vivir en parejas o formando pequeños grupos familiares de hasta 6 individuos.

Ha estado desde siempre ligado al misterio y la leyenda. A pesar de su tamaño y su relativa abundancia, los habitantes de los grandes ríos de la selva peruana no lo cazan y lo consideran un animal con poderes especiales.
Se cree que el Delfín Rosado puede vivir cerca de 30 años, pero los datos acerca de su periodo de vida aun son poco conocidos. No se conocen registros de predadores para esta especie.

De acuerdo con la leyenda, el Delfín Rosado fue un joven guerrero indígena. Pero uno de los dioses le envidió sus atributos masculinos y decidió transformarlo en Delfín y con esto condenarlo a vivir en los ríos y lagos de la Amazonia.
Los indígenas cuentan que esto ocurrió ya varias veces. El Delfín Rosado convertido en un hombre atractivo y un amante insaciable se acerca a la orilla. Está vestido de blanco y la cabeza la tiene cubierta por un sombrero de paja. Bajo el sombrero esconde la única característica que le quedó del Delfín, el orificio en la cabeza por donde respira. Es por eso que cuando algún hombre de sombrero se presenta durante el mes de junio, los habitantes de la selva amazónica piden que se quite el sombrero para asegurarse de que no sea un Delfín. El atractivo Delfín baila perfectamente y ninguna mujer puede huir ante sus encantos. Él escoge a la muchacha más bonita, le dice piropos, baila con ella y al final le propone un paseo al borde del río. Al día siguiente, la mujer no recuerda nada de lo que había pasado en la noche. Al rato se da cuenta de que está embarazada.
Otro mito cuenta que cualquier mujer que ande por el río en una canoa en la época de su menstruación, algún día recibirá la visita del Delfín que irá a dejarla embarazada.

A causa de estas leyendas se le ha acreditado a los delfines rosados la paternidad de todos los niños sin padres de la región y se cuenta que en algunos casos hay niños registrados en las notarías como hijos del Delfín. Los hombres de la región en algunos casos intentan acabar con la vida de estos animales pues no quieren que ellos embaracen a sus mujeres.

En la actualidad se encuentra al Delfín Rosado como una especie de peligro en extinción; entre las principales amenazas que se encuentran esta la sobre-pesca, que acaba con su alimento; la contaminación de algunos ríos por la actividades petroleras, y el intenso trafico fluvial en algunas regiones del oriente. Por ello esta especie se encuentra protegida legalmente a nivel nacional e internacional.
El Delfín Rosado está presente en la reserva nacional pacaya-samiria, en el Perú. También en la amazonia colombiana.

Gabriel Blejman

"Acerca De Varios Fines Del Mundo"

Sólo por catástrofes naturales, tal vez hayan desaparecido en los últimos veinte años unos tres millones de personas. Los que como yo hasta ahora, parecen haber sobrevivido, tendremos que esperar algo muy bueno, o muy malo; o bien contribuir a algún final preferiblemente positivo.

El tan repetido estos días "Fin del Mundo" según los Mayas y algunos nuevos profetas, no va a llegar tan pronto como lo dicen. Por lo de Indonesia, Haití, Chile y Japón, en cada caso oí hablar del "Gran Final". Pero si los Mayas anunciaron algo para el 2012, también están los que hablan hace rato de Acuario y del Planeta Nibiru.

Respecto de estas tres cosas, debo traer lo que ví en un libro en el que habla de todo eso:
Acuario: Los ciclos para cada Era, que se inició con Piscis en el año 60 de nuestro calendario -y van en sentido inverso-, duran 2160 años (Aquarius en 23820 AC., Capricornio en 21660 AC., Sagitarius en 19500 AC., Scorpio en 17340 AC., Libra en 15180 AC., Virgo en 13020 AC., Leo en 10860 AC., Cancer en 8700 AC., Gemini en 6540 AC., Taurus en 4380 AC., Aries en 2220 AC., Pisces en 60 AC., Aquarius en 2100 de nuestra Era).

Esos cuatro grandes terremotos ocurrieron en lugares alejados entre sí, y en una etapa de cuatro o cinco años. La profecía de los Mayas no habla al parecer de un sismo que vaya a hundir el este de Asia o el de América, de norte a sur.

Por último, Nibiru... Como ya muchos habrán podido ver, éste era el nombre de un planeta conocido por los sumerios. Uno de sus satélites, dice en el Enuma Elish, golpeó la Tierra en una etapa muy temprana de su formación, dejando una gran cavidad (la cuenca del Pacífico). Miles de años después -siempre según el Enuma Elish-, ese gran planeta volvió al sistema Solar y dejó a nuestra Tierra en su sitio actual. El nombre de Nibiru hace referencia únicamente a su situación respecto de la Tierra, cuando éste regresa al sistema Solar (estando en ese momento entre Marte y Júpiter). Pero su regreso, tal como el principio de la próxima gran Era, se calcula recién para el siglo que viene.

De modo que... Si hay realmente un fin del mundo, no será por ninguna profecía.

"What Trees And Plants Still Hadn't Show Us"

Smarty Plants: Inside the World's Only Plant-Intelligence Lab


SESTO FIORENTINO, Italy -Professor Stefano Mancuso knows it isn't easy being green: He runs the world's only laboratory dedicated to plant intelligence.
At the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, about seven miles outside Florence, Italy, Mancuso and his team of nine work to debunk the myth that plants are low-life. Research at the modern building combines physiology, ecology and molecular biology.
"If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us", says Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades of his favorite color: green. "Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neurones. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain".
Plants have never been given their due in the order of things; they've usually been dismissed as mere vegetables. But there's a growing body of research showing that plants have a lot to contribute in fields as disparate as robotics and telecommunications. For instance, current projects at the LINV include a plant-inspired robot in development for the European Space Agency. The "plantoid" might be used to explore the Martian soil by dropping mechanical "pods" capable of communicating with a central "stem", which would send data back to Earth.
The idea that plants are more than hanging decor at the dentist's office is not new. Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants -on phototropism and vine behavior- in 1880, but the concept of plant intelligence has been slow to creep into the general consciousness.
At the root of the problem: assuming that plants have, or should have, human-like feelings in order to be considered intelligent life forms, Mancuso says.
After the folksy 1970s hit book and stop-motion film The Secret Life of Plants, which maintained, sans serious research, that greenery had feelings and emotions, the scientific community has avoided talking about smarty plants.
So while there has been a bumper crop of studies demonstrating that green matter can be nearly as sophisticated as gray matter -especially when it comes to signaling and response systems, few talk about intelligence.
To christen the lab in 2004, Mancuso decided to use the controversial term "plant neurobiology" to reinforce the idea that plants have biochemistry, cell biology and electrophysiology similar to the human nervous system. But although LINV is part of the University of Florence -where Mancuso teaches horticulture- funds for this fertile field of research weren't forthcoming.
Studies at LINV were eventually given lymph -1 million euro so far, with about 500,000 euro to come- from the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, a bank foundation that mainly supports cultural events and art restorations.
What convinced them to provide seed money?
"Looking beyond the name at the research", says Paolo Blasi, a physics professor at the university who's on LINV's board of directors. "It sounds almost like a pseudoscientific field, but now even skeptics are convinced because of the validity of the work".
In addition to studies on the effects of music on vineyards, the center's researchers have also published papers on gravity sensing, plant synapses and long-distance signal transmission in trees. One important offshoot of the research activity is an international symposium on plant neurobiology. Next year's meeting will be held in Japan.
Leopold Summerer, advanced-concepts team coordinator at the European Space Agency, remembers that the term "plant intelligence" raised a few eyebrows when collaboration with the lab was proposed -even on a multidisciplinary think-tank team that's used to pondering ideas out of left field. Nonetheless, Summerer says plant research may provide important ideas.
"Biometrics can provide some of the most inspiring resources for us", he says. "Solutions found by nature that might not seem related to real engineering problems at first sight actually are related and give technical solutions".
Radical as the LINV sounds, if it weren't for a lone sugarcane stalk perched on a cabinet, the lab looks like any other.
While white-coated researcher Luciana Renna patiently tests for DNA markers, molecular biologist Giovanni Stefano analyzes data on two computer monitors around the corner.
During a visit to the lab's two greenhouses -where research is being conducted on the effects of light on olive trees and reactions in Venus flytraps and the Mimosa pudica- Mancuso points out a few neglected office plants sent there for a little TLC.
Mancuso, however, is no plant-whisperer. Under-tended plants are a long way from understanding sweet nothings spoken softly to them, he explains.
"Plants communicate via chemical substances," Mancuso says. "They have a specific and fairly extensive vocabulary to convey alarms, health and a host of other things. We just have sound waves broken down into various languages, I don't see how we could bridge the gap".

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/veggie_intelligence

More Examples...

In 1966, Cleve Backster claimed that his Dracena plant could read his mind. More recently, botanists at Penn State University discovered that the five-angled dodder vine could hunt down its prey by scent. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that plants are not only intelligent, but they also communicate this intelligence to the ecosystem.
As Stephen Harrod Buhner states in The Lost Language of Plants (Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002), "all things possess a soul, a sacred intelligence or logos" because all things are made from the sacred. Plants have demonstrated versatility with this sacred language. Some believe that man, who used to be able to communicate with plants, has lost touch with this language.
For example, healthy plants can sense what their community's need in terms of soil chemistry; they deliberately increase their production of the missing ingredients and send them into the soil for distribution. Trees that have been cut or injured are supported with nutrients through a network from neighbouring healthy plants.
Moreover, some believe plants know how cry for help. Ecologist Richard Karban of the University of California, Davis, examined this plant version of communication in a 2008 paper in which he details how plants release a complex blend of volatile chemicals when they are attacked by mites. These chemicals attract other insects that prey on these mites. Moreover, the volatile signals are "read" by neighboring plants which immediately "beef up" their own defense mechanism.
If problem-solving is one of the signs of intelligence, then some say plants are very intelligent. The dodder vine mentioned in the introduction of this article knows enough about its surroundings to bypass human throats for tomato stalks, which it embraces tightly before sucking out its juices.
The Amazonian Stilt Palm knows how to track its area for sunlight. Once it has found the right location, it sends out new roots and "de-activates" old roots that have grown in the shade.
Several studies also show that rhizomes know enough to "construct a three-dimensional perspective of their local space... to exploit resources, thus receiving rewards for successful behavior".
Plants can also change their genetic structure when they are under stress, and in a very short period of time, they can produce a highly variant offspring that can adapt to the new environmental demands. Their capacity to learn and adapt, discover solutions to problems attests to their evolutionary advantage –they learn to function within the ecosystem, not against it.

www.suite101.com/.../does-plant-intelligence-exist-a155651

And yet another wonderful fact, though now about trees: if one makes a cut in two trees, confronted, they will turn their trunks so that the cuts be not in front of each other...
With just half of this, we can now consider trees and plants much closer to us than we thought for hundreds of years.
And then, knowing this, maybe respect them all instead of burning, or throwing them down like they were simple and senseless pieces of wood.

The Woman's Bear Son

An Eskimo Legend

Long ago in the far north, there lived a village of people known as the Inuit. They lived on the shores of the icy Arctic, and they depended upon the bounty of the salmon and seal and the creatures of the snow to feed themselves. All the young men of the village were hunters and fishermen. One old woman lived alone She had no husband and no sons to hunt or fish for her, and though her neighbors shared their food with her, as was their custom, she was lonely. She longed for a family of her own. She often walked along the shore, looking far out to sea, praying that the gods might send her a son.
One cold winter day, the woman was walking by the sea when she spotted a tiny white Polar Bear sitting all alone on the thick ice. At once she felt a kinship toward him, for he looked as lonely as she. His mother was nowhere in sight. "Someone must have killed her," she said softly, and she walked onto the ice, picked up the cub and looked into his eyes. "You will be my son," she said. She called him Kunik.
The old woman took her cub back to her home. From that day on, she shared all of her food with Kunik, and a strong bond grew between the two.
The village children loved Kunik, too. Now the woman was never lonely, for her son, the Bear, and all the village children kept her company all day. She would stand by her igloo and smile as Kunik and the children rolled in the snow and slid on the ice. Kunik was gentle with the children as if they were his brothers and sisters.
Kunik grew taller and smarter. The children taught him to fish. By springtime he was fishing on his own, and every afternoon he came home carrying fresh salmon for his mother, The old woman was now the happiest of all the villagers. She had plenty of food and a son she loved with all her heart. She was so proud of her little bear that whenever he returned home, she would say proudly to anyone nearby, "He's the finest fisherman in all the village!"
Before long the men began to whisper among themselves. They knew the bear was the most skillful fisherman of the village. They began to feel envious. "What will we do?" they asked each other. "That Bear brings home the fattest seals and the biggest salmon". "He must be stopped," one of the men said. "He puts us to shame". They all turned and looked at him. They nodded slowly for although they were envious , they knew how much the old woman loved the Bear. "We'll have to kill him. He has grown far too big", one man said. One by one the others agreed, for their envy made them stupid and mean. "Yes", the others said. "He is a danger to our families".
A little boy overheard the men talking. He ran to the old woman's home to tell her of the terrible plan. When the old woman heard the news, she threw her arms around the Bear and wept. "No", she said, "they must not kill my child". At once she set off to visit every house in the village. She begged each man not to kill her beautiful Bear. "Kill me instead", she wept. "He is my child. I love him dearly".
"He is fat", some of the village men said. "He will make a great feast for the whole village". "He is a danger to our children", the others said. "We cannot let him live".
The old woman saw that the men was determined to kill her son. She rushed home and sat down beside him. "Your life is in danger, Kunik. You must run away. Run away and do not return, my child". she wept as she spoke and held him close. "Run away. but do not go so far that I cannot find you", she whispered. And though her heart was breaking, she sent Kunik away. He had tears in his eyes, but he obeyed his mother's wishes.
For many days the old woman and the children grieved their loss. And then one day the old woman rose at dawn and was determined to find Kunik. She walked and walked, calling out his name. After many hours, just as the old woman feared she would never find him, she saw her bear running toward her. He was fat and strong, and his coat was shimmering white. They embraced, and the old woman whispered, "I love you".
But Kunik could see that his mother was hungry, and so he ran to get her fresh meat and fish. With tears in her eyes, the old woman cut up the seal and gave her son the choicest slices of blubber. Promising to return the next day, she set off for home, carrying her meat, her heart filled with joy.
The next day, as she had promised, she went to visit her son. And every day after that, the old woman and her son met, and the bear brought his mother fresh meat and fish.
After awhile the villagers grew to understand the love between the woman and the Bear was strong and true. And from that point on, they told with pride and respect the tale of the unbroken love between the old woman and her son.

-Native American Indian Legends-

"Strong Familiar Bonds, From The Beginning"

This video shows a reality beyond all our troubled reality; and also how creatures can be treated like our equals in some parts of the world we all live, we being forced to think so much in the daily dosis of difficulties.

Breast Feeding Puppies - Mondo Magic

But when it happens in our modern cities, it only can bring us back to nature..., back to innocence... Back to Eden. A US Woman Breastfeeds Her Dog January 15, 2009, 10:17 PM Mum Janelle Williams, 27, nursed her Terrier crossbreed back to health with her own breast milk after he fell ill. The puppy, Jack, stopped eating and became weak soon after Janelle bought him in October last year. A vet recommended formula milk, but Jack refused, prompting Janelle to take more drastic action. Janelle, from Nevada, said: "I was producing milk as I was still breastfeeding my two-year-old son Johnny. So I squeezed some breast milk onto my finger and Jack lapped it up". Jack took to Janelle's breast, and now suckles alongside Johnny. She added: "Johnny -who was generous-, pointed at my right breast and said 'puppy titty' and then at my left breast and yelled 'Johnny titty'". The puppy got better after breastfeed with Janelle’s milk. Medically, as long as the dog is healthy and Janelle's nipple is clean, the practice poses no risk. Now they are sharing the same mother but different breast.

Respecting to this unknown mother, who obviously didn't want to show her face, maybe she thought that in the latest years breastfeed any animal wasn't a good thing to do (*).

Another image of the Bishnoi woman with her calf.

Peruvian woman, according to the source in which I found the picture, breastfeeding a lamb.

(*): Don't visit this blog just for these images and the others -similar- that are in a previous entry / No visiten este blog sólo por estas imágenes y las otras -similares- que hay en una entrada anterior).

Mundo o Paraíso - 2

Segunda Serie De Imágenes Y Notas De Un Mundo Que No Acostumbramos Ver...

-Recordatorio: Ninguna de estas imágenes debe ser considerada más que como una muestra de la simpleza en relación a otras Criaturas necesitadas de vivir-.


“There was a lady that had a Cat on board under her seat. The Cat was meowing and generally not happy. The lady had taken the Cat and was holding it. When the attendant noticed, she went to the lady and told her that the pet had to be in the carrier ; then she noted that the lady was breastfeeding the Cat. ‘It calms the Cat down’, she explained”.

 

Abohar, May 21 - 2007. - Mrs Vijay Luxmi Sahu of Narainpura village has saved a female Fawn by breastfeeding her. She had gone to meet her parents at Dhaani Jodkian, near Kainchian village, in Sriganganagar district earlier this month. Her husband, Mr Vijay Pal Sahu, accompanied her. One day, when their Dog did not return home till late evening, they went to the fields. To their surprise, the Dog was sitting beside a newly born Fawn. People said a Deer had given birth to two Fawns. As stray Dogs chased the Deer, she escaped, leaving behind a Fawn. The couple said they brought the Fawn to their home. They tried to give her Cow milk, but in vain. Mrs. Sahu, who had a seven-month-old son had heard that a resident of Nadhoki village in Hisar district had saved the life of a Fawn by breastfeeding it. She breastfed the Fawn for five days after which she started accepting Cow milk. The Sahu family now treats the Fawn like a member of the family.

 

YANGON ( Reuters ) - Hla Htay has three hungry infants to feed these days… A seven-month old baby boy and two Bengal Tiger cubs. Three times a day, the Myanmar housewife goes to the Yangon Zoo where she breastfeeds the hungry black-striped, orange-brown cubs rejected by their natural mother. “The cubs are just like my babies”, Hla Htay told Fuji TV as one of the baby big Cats suckled her breast. “It’s not scary at all”, she said of the 45-minute feeds. “I needed to do something for the cubs because I felt really sorry for them”. Three cubs were born at the zoo in mid-March, but their mother killed one and refused to nurse the others. Veterinarians rescued the other two but had little success bottle feeding them. “They had some difficulties sucking the nipple on the bottle. When we tried to get the cubs to suck a lady’s breast, it was alright”, said a veterinarian. The zoo says the breastfeeding will stop by the end of April or when the cubs start teething …Whichever comes first.

"If Your Brothers Were Still Here..."

 
"A Cheyenne woman lost a small child that was nursing. Soon after her child died she had found a nest of young Kitten Panthers, she waited until the mother Panther was away to hunt food, then she went and took one of the young Panthers out of the nest and ran off with it and the young Panther gave a moan or whine which sounded like the cry of the baby she had lost and the reminder of her dead babe caused the woman to hug the Kitten Panther to her breast and when she did so the Kitten Panther which no doubt was hungry began nursing from the woman. Thus it was taking the place of her dead babe and an affection for the Kitten Panther sprang into her heart and the woman loved this Kitten Panther and she raised it as if it had been her own child, and as it grew up it would kill Deer and other large game and furnished food for the Cheyenne much easier than they could get it in any other way. So other women got hold of young Panthers and raised them the same way as this woman had done".

A Bolivian woman has saved an abandoned one-week-old puppy by breastfeeding it. She found the Dog in a rubbish dump in the town of Cochabamba, reports the “Los Tiempos” newspaper. The woman, who has a 14-month-old daughter, is calling the puppy Manchitas. She said : “I will give the Dog my milk until I can. When it drinks, the puppy behaves like a human baby, no difference at all. I think it’s pretty natural”. Story filed : 09:57 - Tuesday 25th February 2003


Zhouzhi, China. The wife of an animal refuge worker is credited with saving the life of an infant Golden Monkey by breastfeeding it after the mother turned away, reports the China Daily Newspaper.

The rare Monkey, one of a few still existing in China, might have died of an infection withoutnourishment from mother’s milk.

 

A few years ago my wife and I rescued a Joey whose mother had been killed by a car. The Joey was cold and obviously on the way out, so we wrapped him up and tried to give him something to eat to give him some strength. Nothing seemed to work, then he saw my wife breastfeeding our newborn daughter. When my wife saw the little Kangaroo’s interest, she picked him up and put him on the other breast. The Joey suckled happily until his belly was full and he slipped off to sleep. This went on for a couple of days, until some Wildlife rescue people came to collect the Joey. By that time, he was fit and healthy and full of beans”.

“There was an odd girl in my high school who claimed to have breastfed a kitten, but I always figured she was trying to get attention. I still think I’m right”. “I’ve seen photos of young women in the Andes breastfeeding lambs and kids. One anthropology book says that this is sometimes done when a young animal is orphaned”.

Mundo o Paraíso

"En El Reino, Lo Que Gobierna

Sobre Todo Es La Inocencia"

-Recordatorio: Ninguna de estas imágenes debe ser considerada más que como una muestra de la simpleza en relación a otras Criaturas necesitadas de vivir-.

Una muestra de lo que representa "Back To Eden", en cuanto a inocencia e interrelación perfectas con respecto a otras criaturas (al igual que en el caso de la tribu Awa-Guaja).

Awa Guaja In Danger

Women Of A Tribe

In The Amazon Jungle

Breastfeed Small Primates

And Other Animals

By Jack Boulware - May 3, 2000

Deep in the Amazonian jungle, a rare Indian tribe extends the maternal instinct beyond its own species. In a remote village, the breasts of female humans also feed the urgent lips of hungry baby Monkeys. For centuries, this monkey-feeding tribe, called the Awa Guaja, has survived in an isolated area in northern Brazil. And they are very definitely animal oriented. Whenever a tribal member dies, the Awa Guaja believe the person’s spirit is taken by a Jaguar. Also, women are expected to breastfeed jungle animals from puberty. Monkeys are considered the most sacred of all creatures. Baby Monkeys eat and sleep with the women, are breastfed to their heart’s content and are raised alongside human children. But this strange nomadic tribe may soon be wiped out. Many members of the tribe are seriously ill with malaria and tuberculosis. A nearby mining project also threatens their habitat, as do the ever-encroaching settlers, ranchers and loggers. At first glance, the Awa don’t appear to be much different from other tribes in the jungle. The males go naked except for headbands of bright orange Toucan plumage and armbands of yellow and red Macaw feathers. The women have small Monkeys clinging to their bodies, with some perched on their heads like hats, their tails wrapped around the women’s necks. Not surprisingly, the Awa Guaja are a matriarchal society. Their female chief is an old wrinkled woman named Merikidia, who lives in a central hut and is responsible for everything from arranging marriages to delivering babies. As chief, she often wears a Monkey on her head, perhaps a couple of them wrapped around her thighs, and she shares her home with 12 Monkeys, which chatter loudly as she walks past. But until an organization or government takes steps to preserve the tribe, extinction appears imminent for this unique society of Monkey nursers. “Monkeys are a very important part of their culture”, said Renildo Matos dos Santos. “I have also seen them breastfeeding small Pigs and Raccoons”.

My Animal Totem

How To Find Your Animal Totem

An Animal Totem is an important symbolic object used by a person to get in touch with specific qualities found within an Animal which the person needs, connects with, or feels a deep affinity toward.
You can have several Animal Guides through out your life. Sometimes an Animal Guide will come into your life for a short period of time, and then be replaced by another depending on the journey or direction you are headed toward. When you find an Animal that speaks strongly to you or feel you must draw more deeply into your life, you might fill your environment with images of the animal to let the Animal know it's welcome in your space. Animal Guides can help you get back to your Earthly roots, and reconnect with nature by reminding you that we are all interconnected.

If you don't know what your Animal Totem is there are several questions you can ask yourself.
Only you can truly know which Animal Totem (s) are right for your journey.
Since we are drawn to that which resonates with us, what Animal, Bird, or Insect are you drawn to?
When you go to the park, forest, or zoo what Animal are you most interested in seeing?
What Animal do you most frequently see when you're out in nature or in the city?
What Animals are you currently interested in learning about?
Which Animal do you find most frightening or intriguing?
Have you ever been bitten or attacked by an Animal?
Is there a recurring Animal in your dreams or do you have one you have never forgotten?
You must not try to force the Animal to come, it can pick up on that energy and be put off. Being patient and doing the following exercises will draw your Animal Totem to you.
Ask yourself what Animal has played a meaningful part in your world?
If unsure, make a list of Animals that have drawn your interest or have left a deep impression on you from paintings, photographs, stories, movies, carvings, etc.
Which Animal shows up in your life and dreams most frequently? How did the Animal behave? Did you interact with the Animal?
Find a place where you can be alone to meditate. Sit quietly and ask your Animal to make its nature known to you. Feel free to use incense, smudge, and candles.
Don't give up, sometimes your Animal Totem is nearby watching to see if you're serious about connecting with it. Keep doing the above exercises until your Animal Totem makes itself known to you.

...Hace unos veinte años, pude sentir de algún modo, como una gran certeza interior, que estaba vinculado internamente con el Tigre (tuve su imagen dentro y quise buscarlo fuera), y ahora que sé esto pienso que fue siempre mi principal Tótem Animal.