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Artificial intelligence was also used to bring the virtual characters to life. And while the technology sounds quite sophisticated, everyone emphasized that the goal was to give the filmmakers the tools they needed to feel like they were making a live action film. Because they were deficient in vitamin A, their skulls had thickened, putting pressure on their brains, which extruded through the back of their skulls into their spinal cords, preventing the flow of cerebrospinal fluid.

They suffered from three different skin conditions—mange, pyoderma a bacterial infection , and alopecia an immune disorder causing hair loss —had high fevers, and were bleeding internally from stress-induced stomach ulcers.

Immediately upon arriving at the clinic, they were fed intravenously and given cortisone to reduce inflammation, antibiotics to treat their infections, and a medication called omeprazole for their stomach ulcers. I mention to him that Peens had told me that the cubs had been under the care of a veterinarian before the NSPCA inspection. If there was a veterinarian involved and he said he was dealing with the situation, I would like to personally speak to him and ask him how he was dealing with the situation.

She dangles a piece of hay between the bars of their enclosure. Karlos and Ivana, now six months old, stare at it, mesmerized. They swipe at the back scratcher she uses to gently rub their feet and spine—an action that stimulates their cerebellum, the part of the brain that governs movement. When she tries to use the back scratcher to block his path, he snaps it in half. Three months of around-the-clock care have been helping the cubs recover, but I notice that their heads bob slightly as they move.

Their balance may be off, and they may tremble slightly, or bob their heads, for the rest of their lives. But now, struggling to stand, she wobbles forward and collapses as her back legs give out.

She just started doing this very recently, Griesel says. Jacaranda, as he named the fourth cub, is suffering from the same infection of the nervous system as her two confiscated siblings, he says. He suspects the cause is vitamin A deficiency, a thiamine deficiency, or a genetic problem—or possibly all three. Because I need to get to the bottom of this. Someone else shoot it later on? All rights reserved. Animals Wildlife Watch. Exclusive: Inside a controversial South African lion farm National Geographic investigates the fate of lions found in terrible condition earlier this year.

The lions here, photographed in July, were diagnosed as suffering from mange, a skin disease caused by parasitic mites. Wildlife Watch is an investigative reporting project between National Geographic Society and National Geographic Partners focusing on wildlife crime and exploitation. Send tips, feedback, and story ideas to ngwildlife natgeo. For more on the National Geographic Society's work with lions, read about the Big Cats Initiative , which supports scientists and conservationists working to save big cats in the wild.

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Animals Wild Cities Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London. Borrego and her team presented the rope challenge to 12 captive lions at Florida's Lion Country Safari.

Eleven of them successfully solved it: seven on their own and four after watching another lion do it. Ten of the 11 recalled the solution five to seven months later. The results were recently published in the journal Animal Cognition. But she finds the social facilitation—the fact that some individuals figured it out after being paired with another lion—particularly exciting. In a follow-up experiment using a similar conceptual puzzle, lions outperformed leopards and tigers which are both solitary big cats —more evidence for the social intelligence hypothesis.

But Borrego acknowledges that habitat and diet could also be factors in cognitive evolution. Jason G. Receiving HD video calls requires a supported Intel-based Mac. Some iChat features offer better performance and quality with higher system capabilities.

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