Hi! My name is Yang Yang.  I’m a giant Panda living at Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuary in Chengdu, China together with my 350 fellow giant pandas.  When I was born, I was not bigger than your thumb.  But don’t worry, baby panda grows fast.  That’s because panda eats a lot.  My favourite food is Aero [...]

A beluga whale saved a drowning diver by hoisting her to the surface, carrying her leg in its mouth. Terrified Yang Yun thought she was going to die when her legs were paralyzed by crippling cramps in arctic temperatures. Competitors had to sink to the bottom of an aquarium’s 20-foot arctic pool and stay there [...]

From my mom’ garden, this one is called Garden Balsam. The plant is an annual native from China to India. They are freely branching and will reach up to 2.5 feet tall with an equal spread. Alternate leaves are up to 6 inches long and narrowly to broadly lanceolate, with deeply serrate edges. Garden Balsam [...]

Rawr.. behold this kitty :3 Is that a cocoon on top of the flower? Scientific Name: Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. Synonym: Gemmingia chinensis Family: Iridaceae Common name: Leopard Flower, Blackberry lily, Manipuri, Kabo Leiteng, Assamese, Surajakanti, Chalkumra, Torobot Leopard Flower is an iris-like perennial herb, with leaves in fans on branching stems. Lance-shaped leaves will [...]

“Where there is no water, there is no life. … We live by the grace of water.” – Michael Parfit, writer of National Geographic by v1olet