The cub of a white tigress who was born in June in a zoo of the Indian city of Chennaj, has began to change color and by the present moment all has turned black, writes The Times of India. For the first time this unusual tiger cub had been presented to visitors some days ago, and it became one of the most popular animals in the zoo.

According to representatives of a zoo, except color black tiger is no different from their white relatives. The state of his health is watched by experts, but they have assured that any essential changes in an organism of an animal it isn't observed also feels well.

Veterinarians believe that for the unusual color cub is responsible for 80 percent of the high content of melanin - the dark pigment in the fur of the animal. The color changed a great part of the torso and legs , and though on it still it is possible to notice strips, it completely will turn black, when will grow up.

Usually tigers over the black pigment is dominated by yellow, responsible for the color of the animal. It is this combination of colors can tigers survive in the wild, while their white relatives, as a rule, are born and live only in captivity.

Biologists managed to photograph considered extinct primacy. Scientists could not only to photograph the thin Lori Horton Plains, but also to catch and study the three individuals of this species, writes British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. 

Loris tardigradus nycticeboides was first described in 1937, and since then scientists have seen this animal four times. Most experts believed that the thin Lory, once living in Sri Lanka and parts of southern India, all became extinct about 65 years ago.

Employees of the Zoological Society of London decided to check whether all Lori disappeared. Scientists have spent a thousand nights (Lory - nocturnal animals) in search of L. t. nycticeboides, and eventually they managed to photograph the male of this species, sitting on a branch. Later, the researchers caught three Lory and measured their anatomical parameters.

 L. t. nycticeboides are the small animals covered with a brown wool in the size about 15-25 centimetres. Huge eyes, thin Lory allow them to see well at night. According to experts, in the nature there are not more than a hundred of these animals, endangered due to destruction of their habitats - rain forests in Sri Lanka and India are being cut down by tea plantations. 

According to the most pessimistic estimates, the number Lory even less and not more than 60 specimens. If these estimations are correct, L. t. nycticeboides among the top five rarest species on earth

Rare black vulture enormous size was observed recently in Finland. Black Vulture is the biggest kind of vultures in the world and the biggest day winged predators in Eurasia. The length of the trunk of this huge bird is 100-120 cm and a wingspan - about 3 meters, reported portal Scandi news. 

Black Vulture, which ornithologists discovered in Finland, apparently, was in this northern country from afar, as in these latitudes, vultures do not live. Usual the habitat of this species of birds - is mountainous and wooded terrain, located in the area from the south of Europe to China and India. Scientists estimate that in the world today from 7 thousand to 10 thousand individuals of black vulture. 

Black Vulture (Latin Aegypius monachus) - the bird family Accipitridae. The total length of 75-100 cm, wing length 72-85 cm, wingspan 250-300 cm, weight 12.7 kg. Occurs in Southern Europe, North Africa, the Near, Middle and Central Asia, where its range in a small number - in the south-eastern Altai. It feeds on carrion. In search of food daily cover great distances (in East Africa - up to 300-400 km), skillfully using soaring upward flow of heated air (thermals). It nests in pairs in the trees.

Two local nurses in early May stroll around the lake, when accompanied their dog by jumping into the water, pulled out a strange creature. The animal was dead. Frightened of his appearance, women have made a few pictures, then hurried back to town. When returned to the site finds a group of citizens, the animal was no longer was - perhaps it was the victim of scavengers. 

The pictures posted on the city website, shows the animal about half a meter in length, its body is covered with thick brown hair in contrast to the paws, tail and muzzle, which are completely devoid of the coat. At the same time from the jaws of the beast fangs sticking out, resembling boars. 

An unusual finding has inspired the enthusiasm of supporters in Cryptozoology (the study of hidden animals) around the world: in their view, the discovery of about Kitchenuhmeykusiba beast once again proves the existence of such legendary kriptidov as the Chupacabra, the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot. 

Cryptozoology recall that very recently a New York City was discovered by another, previously unidentified sample of animal world - the so-called Montauk Monster. 

Meanwhile, supporters of traditional natural science views believe that Montauk Monster is nothing like raccoon, who suffered from a rare type of alopecia. Most likely, the beast of Kitchenuhmeykusiba - this is an otter with unknown genetic disease or mutation, they say.