I was on YouTube the other day and I watched clips on how Slow Lorises are not only endangered but, clips of people who have bought Slow Lorises through illegal trade ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_loris).

     As you can see from the above pic that Slow Lorises are adorable and very desirable to those who like big eyed, cuddly looking animals but, the truth is -- Slow Lorises get abducted from their habitat by man and abused. They are not only abducted -- they go through stressful and harmful travel to the particular market where they're sold, which is usually on the streets in countries like Indonesia, they get their teeth yanked out, and they are caged -- surrounded by loud people, cars, pollution, dirty streets, and all in the name of money.

      We can only hope that these criminals get caught for doing this evil to these cuties but, no such luck -- in many of the Eastern Asian streets they are sold in, the police are paid off and turn the other cheek...

        The ugly truth about this is the Slow Loris might become extinct because of either greed, self-centered people who are looking at, "cute", and not the crime they are committing, or sheer apathy.

      It's true that a Slow Loris might have a life with less stress, more comfort, love, and the Slow Loris might even find happiness with his/her new owners in his/her new home; but a Slow Loris will never feel at home as long as he/she is not in his/her natural habitat (as long as man doesn't succeed in destroying it). Slow Lorises existence has been jeopardized by humans in more than one way; destroying their jungles/forests, or abducting them.

     Humans have almost destroyed more than one species of animal -- Slow Lorises, lions, tigers, the list goes on.
     
     Can we make a difference in these animals lives? I don't know, can we?  http://www.internationalanimalrescue.org/projects/25/Saving+the+slow+loris.html       

       If you want to see another site that features other animals as well, here you go...https://www.spcai.org/index.php/donate/general-spcai-fund.html?redir=1 http://www.wildnet.org/?gclid=CM67yuOfgK8CFcsAQAodXRfR3A 


       The choice is yours...


       


          

          As you can see by the picture I chose for the header and the YouTube clip I chose to be featured on my home page, I have a thing for lions. Why lions? Well lions are the most social of the big cats in the wild kingdom. They live together, sleep together, hunt together, and raise their male cubs for at least three and a half years before they are forced out of the pride. The lionesses never have to leave (for the most part), they will remain part of the pride for the rest of their days.

         There are typically two to four male pride lions and between six-plus lionesses to a pride. The males are usually a coalition or family (brothers), and they greet each other with head rubs, clean each other, play, and roar to not just tell others to stay off their territory but, to communicate with one another -- just to keep in touch, to know where the other members of the coalition/family are. The male lions fight to protect their pride as well. Sometimes they fight each other for mating rights, or dominance. There's politics in a pride of lions too. 

          Lionesses are the hunters, the providers, they keep their cubs fed, and their men fit to fight another day. Watching clips of them eating a kill makes it hard to believe that the lionesses really care about any other belly but their own but, don't be fooled. The cubs are number one. Even the males, the ones that demand and claim the most meat out of the rest of the pride, allow the cubs to eat along side them. Carrying the family line is the purpose of having cubs. 

           Affection is not a strange thing to see in a pride. Lionesses, male lions, and cubs will sleep close to one another, the cubs will be able to climb about, and play with the adults (males and females). And when the cubs are old enough, they will be taught to hunt by their patient mothers and on occasion fathers -- when there is a big kill that needs to be made (giraffe or hippo). 

            Lions are social animals just like we are and instinctively they are who they are as individuals no matter what the circumstances. If they need to fight, they will without question, and if the fight is too big they aren't afraid to accept the loss and flee. When it's time to hunt they hunt, when they want affection they will get their affection, and when they want to contact family they will. They stand their ground with every breath they take and they do it with courage; lions never lose themselves to fit in by being something they're not.

             They were born with the courage to be themselves... 

          This is your site, Compuraderie has been made for you to come as you are and be with others that are different than you. I want this site to be a place for those who like difference and to bring something new to the table, so to speak. chat, share, listen to music, play games at the arcade, and fight for a cause -- socialize. It's all here for the taking, come and take advantage of this experience and be yourself while doing it.