For many children growing up in the country, pets become important members of the family, and cherished friends. Children learn valuable life skills such as responsibility, empathy and selfconfidence by caring for their pets, which rely on them for food, shelter and unconditional love.
published September 8th, 2013
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Penguins, Predators and Prey is a series of stamp issues featuring, in turn, each of the familiar Falkland penguins, together with some of their respective predators and prey.
published August 29th, 2013
An Post issued a further eight stamps for its Irish Animals and Marine Life definitive series, illustrating Ireland’s biodiversity from the seabed to the mountain top. Biodiversity is an all-encompassing term used to describe the variety of all life and natural processes on Earth.
published August 12th, 2013
After releasing “Owls of Taiwan” stamp sets in 2011 and 2012, Chunghwa Post is following up with another set of four stamps in 2013 featuring Otus lettia, Tyto longimembris, Ketupa flavipes and Otus elegans botelensis. Printed in intaglio, the set is scheduled to be released on June 26, 2013. The designs follow.
published July 12th, 2013
Written by Fang Huizhen and Sheng Lude, “Little Tadpoles Looking for Their Mother” is a fairy tale and lively tells about the scientific law for tadpoles’ development by metamorphosis.
published July 11th, 2013
MaltaPost is issuing a set of two stamps depicting wild and domestic fauna of the Maltese Islands.
published June 30th, 2013
Magyar Posta and Azermarka are presenting the peacock motif often used in the applied folk art of both countries on a joint miniature sheet. Cross stitch embroidery from Transdanubia is featured on a light background on one of the stamps of the miniature sheet, and a detail from a horse blanket from the Caucasus is shown on the other.
published June 28th, 2013
This year, the stamps issued by the postal administrations that are members of SEPAC (Small European Postal Administrations Cooperation) will feature “animals” as their joint theme.
published June 21st, 2013
The silhouette of a deer now prances across this Deer (Forever®) Stamped Card. A fanciful graphic of a golden deer, surrounded by gold and green cattails and grasses, captures the graceful look of an animal that is found in many countries around the world.
published May 22nd, 2013
To celebrate World Oceans Day on 8th June, the OETP, in association with the Monaco Oceanographic Museum,
published May 16th, 2013
Brown Rat
Rattus norvegicus
The brown rat is larger than the black rat and the male is larger than the female. An adult brown rat weighs around 200-400 g and is approx. 21-29 cm long, with a tail length of approx. 17-23 cm.
published May 3rd, 2013