Amazing animal fact of the day: ... an anticoagulant from vampire bat saliva may soon be used to treat human heart/stroke patients.
Stories like this just make my whole day : ) I will include these interesting tidbits as an on-going addition to the blog.
on a completely different note; today we actually witnessed Jolly the green giant parakeet grooming the little brown finch chick, who knew there could be such tender interspecies love?