Author Topic: The Turtlestork Experience (Read 24258 times)

DingoMutt · « **Reply #75 on:** June 21, 2006, 08:36:51 PM »

I would like to donate, $2,000 from DingoMutt Biological Garden.We are currently re-doing the zoo so maybe we can donate more later.

Cuddly Panda · « **Reply #76 on:** June 22, 2006, 01:43:09 AM »

Oh no!

I am donating 3 Nile monitors, 2 females and a male, from the Cuddly Panda Research Institute, and a female American beaver that I have in my Behind the Scenes: Zoo Animals containment centre. And $10,000 that I got from my old work publishing a magazine article. Hope that helps.

Hughesy · « **Reply #77 on:** June 22, 2006, 06:02:19 AM »

so sad.I donate Â£20,000 from Hughesy zoo& wildlife park and i also donate 2 masai girrafe from my zoo they are both male

TurtleStork · « **Reply #78 on:** June 22, 2006, 06:41:54 AM »

Well, Being a rescue, we only accept money donations, as we cannot take on anymore animals. Thanks for the donations! I will send(post) you a certificate of gratitude with a picture of an animal you have helped.

Dingomutthttp://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9248/dingomuttcog8id.jpg
Cuddlypandahttp://img428.imageshack.us/img428/5568/scog5ps.jpg

Sloth_bear77 · « **Reply #79 on:** June 22, 2006, 10:24:13 AM »

I would like to donate 2 000 as well from the sloth bear society and also would like to donate two (male and female) Sloth bears ( Speaking of sloth bears where can i download them? :

: Anyone no, PM me please if u do)

penguinman · « **Reply #80 on:** June 22, 2006, 11:52:15 AM »

Poor zoo....

I'll donate money!

SeaWorldFan2010 · « **Reply #81 on:** June 22, 2006, 12:02:13 PM »

I would like to donate $100,000 from SeaWorld San Diego. I hope this helps and have a whale of a day!

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SeaWorldFan2010

TurtleStork · « **Reply #82 on:** June 22, 2006, 02:18:40 PM »

I will post the certificates in a bit.

Penguinman: how much money? oh, can you drop me an e-mail. I lost your old one and otusasio sent me the butaan.

also, no animal donations please. Only money donations. We are a rescue, and we take on animals only after they have been abused or needed to be removed from the wild.

penguinman · « **Reply #83 on:** June 22, 2006, 02:19:18 PM »

$100,000!

TurtleStork · « **Reply #84 on:** June 23, 2006, 09:50:26 AM »

Well, after 5 months of reconstruction, our zoo was opened. Here is our entrance.
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Here is our fountain that greets you on your way in.

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Here is The ramp down into the zoo. music is heard all around you.

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Here is the new bongo exhibit. They have really adjusted and really like the fog machines. You can see the baby in the back playing in the fog. This picture is older, and now both babies have grown up and the unnamed baby is called Taik.

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Here is the gelada exhibit. They really love it. I got some very good exhibit designers to make this look like the highlands of ethiopia.

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Here are some tortoise pictures. Due to their increasing popularity, there is a viewing area in the center of the exhibit. Also, we got some of the tortoise skeletons we found identified. They were all california native tortoises, and none of ours, so we have found every single one and they are all happy.

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Here is the new caracal exhibit. RaNae and Rikiel really love it. Also, we heard of a male caracal in need of a good home somewhere in Los Angeles. Maybe They might be getting a new friend soon.

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Here is our new meerkats. There is six, three males, three females. We need names, people! you can read there story in Penguinman's certificate of gratitude.

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Certificates of gratitude:

Penguinaman: http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/7236/penguinamnscog9hp.jpg
Sloth bear society: http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/8895/slothbearcog8qr.jpg
Sea World San Diego: http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/6631/seaworldfancog28tm.jpg

We also made a new desert cafe(pics soon).

Dinostine · « **Reply #85 on:** June 23, 2006, 10:32:39 AM »

Thats terrible donating $50,000 for rehab for the injured and another $60,000 for conservation from the [Dinostine Rehabilitation and Conservation Institute] DRCI

TurtleStork · « **Reply #86 on:** June 23, 2006, 11:32:01 AM »

Certificates of gratitude in a while.

New Births/Pregnancies at the Zoo:

Marge and Hue, African Spurred Tortoises, Are both laying eggs at the moment

Bonnie, an african bongo, is a third of the way through her pregnancy.

Grace, A gelada, is a thrid of the way through her pregnancy, too.

Hillary, a Galapagos giant tortoise, is a third of the way through her pregnancy.

More to come later/tomorrow!

Wild One · « **Reply #87 on:** June 23, 2006, 02:39:24 PM »

I'll donate $100,000 to help better the animal's lives at your zoo.

Cuddly Panda · « **Reply #88 on:** June 23, 2006, 05:20:10 PM »

EMERGENCEY! Here in Malaysia, a truck full of Nile monitors has been caught. Kept in poor conditions for weeks on end, eleven were found dead. Along with them in the truck were a pair of ratels, a caracal, and a female mandrill. The drivers have been arrested, but the 24 monitors still remain. Will you adopt any?

Another case: four warthogs were found stuffed in a restarant. two were dead, one is badly injured and one is sick. The restarant owner and all of the staff have been arrested and fined $20,000. Will you adopt any?

Thanks in advance. :innocent:

TurtleStork · « **Reply #89 on:** June 23, 2006, 06:44:51 PM »

I will take on 10 monitors, the caracal(a male i hope), the mandrill, the two warthogs, and the ratels. I will get pics soon.

Cuddly Panda · « **Reply #90 on:** June 24, 2006, 06:08:43 PM »

We have loaded the animals into crates, and have been packed onto a private plane, and are flying to you right now. The remaining 14 monitors have been sent to another zoo in Australia. :

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Hughesy · « **Reply #91 on:** June 25, 2006, 03:02:02 AM »

I love this topic so sad about the animals and have you got my certifcate as i donated 2 pages back

TurtleStork · « **Reply #92 on:** June 26, 2006, 01:45:12 PM »

Ok guys, long post. First, Certificates of gratitude.

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hughesy: http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/642/hughesycog2vw.jpg
Dinostine: http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/3582/dinostinecog3ko.jpg

Ok, New births.
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Above is Grace's new baby, Greco.(Gelada)

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Above is Rikiel's two Caracal Babies.

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Above is Bonnie the African Bongo's new baby.

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Above is Iklan the Gelada's new baby with Iklan.

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Above is Ranae's two new caracal cubs.

Now, from Cuddly Panda's situations, here are the animals.

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Here are all the animals in the zoo, ones born here and now adult in red. ones born here and still young in blue.

African Bongos: Bonnie(F), Ceilan(F), Ringo(M), Baikal(M), Nikal(F), Taik(M), Bain(F).

Geladas: Iklan(F), Hellen(F), Grace(F), Rico(M), Rethey(M), Greco(F), Reklan(F)

Caracals: Ranae(F), Rikiel(F), Hene`(M), Kilnama(M), Calve(M), Deree(M), Jey(M)

Mandrill: Martha(F)

Meerkat: Clarissa(F), Marissa(F), Vanessa(F), Len(M), Ben(M), Ken(M)

Nile Monitors: 1,2,3,4,5 are female, 6,7,8,9,10 are male

20th animal: Bebe(F), Bee(M).

African Spurred tortoises(unknown genders): Marge, Bin, Hue, Unrol, Rin, Jin, 4 eggs incubating

Galapagos giant tortoise: Hillary(F), Hugo(M), 2 eggs incubating.

Warthog: Kurumbae(M), Warba(F)

That is the whole zoo! I will post the same list in later posts with newer residnets added, or status changed.

TurtleStork · « **Reply #93 on:** June 26, 2006, 02:20:49 PM »

The Crossing[/i][/color]

Every year, thousands of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle migrate to more plentiful forage on the plains of the Masai Mara by crossing the Grumeti River. To take a break from the zoo, I took this quest to take photos of the extroadinary event. Although It put me in severe danger, this was one of the most amazing things I have done in my life. I also did this to start my study of these animals for any african grazing animals that come to my sanctuary.

Ok Here you see the massive herds preparing for the crossing of the river. They soon will get on with the crossing.

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Ok, The wildebeest begin to drink. The Nile crocodiles enter the water, getting ready.

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The first ones hop in, the crocs ready to strike. some of the wildebeest try to turn back from the dangers, but instinct will always overpower fear.

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The crossing is in full swing. Wildebeest pile in to the river for a mad dash to the other side.

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Finally, they make it to the other side. many wildebeest were killed or trampled. some are still struggling to the other side.

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for the last picture, I stupidly got in the water with them. I ended up fracturing my leg. I was told that the documentary was very good when i sent the pictures in. Maybe i will receive more funding for my zoo now. Until next time this is the Turtlestokr Experience.

jar10man · « **Reply #94 on:** June 26, 2006, 04:55:46 PM »

congradulations you have won 200 thousand dollers from bill gates.

TurtleStork · « **Reply #95 on:** June 26, 2006, 07:36:49 PM »

NO ANIMAL DONATIONS, PLEASE

Also, the 100 million dollars is not probable in this situation.

penguinman · « **Reply #96 on:** June 26, 2006, 08:48:39 PM »

Yay! I love the zoo pics but my favorite has to be the stories. The savannah one was very cool and creative

Cuddly Panda · « **Reply #97 on:** June 27, 2006, 03:13:18 PM »

Thank you for adopting those poor animals, but there is cruelty everywhere, I came across another case.....

In the south of Kuala Lumpur, in a small town near the coast, a man was found keeping a sick female orang-utan named Mary and a beutiful male crested gibbon called Vissagen. The team tried to knock on the door, but there was no answer. One of the men shouted in Malay 'Let us in now or we'll break the door down!'. At this, the criminal opened the door, and lead us into the back garden. Vissagen was sitting in a bird cage, squeeling in our presence. Mary was in a concrete 'bird cage' that was huge and much stronger. In a final attempt to save his pets, the man released Vissagen and Mary. Vassagen ran for his life for 15 minutes, but the team caught him in the end. Mary climbed onto the roof of the house and picked up a hammer, and began immitating construction work. She put no effort into fighting us off, and they were both rescued and are ready to be shipped to a zoo.

A Sumatran tiger skin carpet, a group of three Asian elephants (two males, both of which died while being transported, and one female), and a group of 45 peafowl (all of which were males) were also found at the scene of the crime.

The pet owner has been charged RM 100,000, and put in jail for two years.

The apes are not fit to be released to the wild, as both have never seen any other of their species, and do not know where to find fruit. With your help, Vissagen and Mary could find a new home, and live a happy and peaceful life.

KookyKoopa12 · « **Reply #98 on:** June 27, 2006, 03:34:04 PM »

Can you still donate? If you can, I would like to donate $50,000 from the Kooky Simian Society. Also, I have found this poor case.

A group of rhinos, Black, White, and Javan, have been found in India with 5 smugglers. 6 of the black rhinos died, leaving 2, a male and a female, both badly injured. The white rhinos have 1 survivor, a male, with his horn dented. Finally, for good news, none of the Javan rhinos were reported dead, and the 4 rhinos, two males and two females, were rescued. They were found beaten and covered in plantlife. The smugglers were all arrested, but the animals remain. Will you adopt them?

TurtleStork · « **Reply #99 on:** July 09, 2006, 08:24:04 PM »

Sorry for the huge wait! Pics of my zoo tommorrow!

The Bamboo Forests of China

Well, I applied for a special grant for a trip to the bamboo forests of china for research. After years of wait, my request went through and before i knew it i was on my way to china. I was making a video documentary of the animals of this region, which would be the first Un-translated american documentary of these species. Oh, i was excited.

As i entered the highlands i stumbled upon some Mainland Serows. These great animals which live on the outskirts of some of the bamboo forests in these regions in small herds or singly.
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I began to see movement in the bamboo. I was wondering exactly what species this was.
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I Found it was a pair of Red pandas, known as the Fire-cat by locals. This species feeds on exclusively bamboo and is endangered due to habitat loss. It is mainly nocturnal and usually solitary unless it is mating season, which happens to be now.
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This behaviour i never saw in red pandas before. They would sit up very still and seem to listen very closely to the world around them. I captured it on camera in both males and females.
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This is a picture of one of them grooming, a behaviour in which red pandas do a lot.
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All of the sudden one of the pair began calling to the other and they both left and disappeared into the forest. I wonder why there was such a hurried leave.
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Then i spotted something in the bamboo that i believe could have been the reason. I instantly knew what it was, but at the same time said to myself it can't be. I had just found a living specimen of the thought-to-be extinct south-chinese tiger! I was amazed.
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I photographed some of the behaviours i saw. First, i saw some pawing behaviour and then it ran and chased some small rodent that it had been stalking. Little is known about this cat, so maybe this could be a revolutionary find.
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That was when i spotted it. It was a wild giant panda eating bamboo in the cover of a bush. I was being very quiet in order not to spook it.
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I followed it through the forests. I did not know its destination.
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Again it stopped and ate some more and groomed itself, and it had an eye on me the whole time.
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I backed off a bit and came around to find it descending the far side of a valley where a hollow stump lay below.
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Then, I witnessed something amazing. The panda layed down in the hollow log and slept. There had been no footsge before this day of a wild sleeping panda.
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Well, that wraps up this experience. See you next time.

BTW, please don't make anymore scenarios where i get animals. Those one above i can take a few, but i would rather make those kind of things myself. also, tommorrow, more zoo pics and the first PSWS rescue mission!

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Author Topic: The Turtlestork Experience (Read 24258 times)