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The biggest swan round up in the UK at the Fleet nature Reserve in Dorset, Britain - 23 Jul 2011
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Geoff Moore / Rex Features ( 1388799w )
Team of handlers weigh the swans
The biggest swan round up in the UK at the Fleet nature Reserve in Dorset, Britain - 23 Jul 2011
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The biggest swan round up in the UK at the Fleet nature Reserve in Dorset, Britain - 23 Jul 2011
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Geoff Moore / Rex Features ( 1388799n )
Team of handlers weigh the swans
The biggest swan round up in the UK at the Fleet nature Reserve in Dorset, Britain - 23 Jul 2011
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The biggest swan round up in the UK at the Fleet nature Reserve in Dorset, Britain - 23 Jul 2011
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Geoff Moore / Rex Features ( 1388799f )
Volunteers during the swan round up
The biggest swan round up in the UK
The biggest swan round up in the UK has just taken place early this morning(sat) at the Fleet nature Reserve in Dorset. (collective noun: a lamentation of swans or herd).
Some 500 wild swans were corralled and slowly driven to a landing point at The Abbotsbury Swannery at the end of the waterway that lies just inside Chesil Beach on the Jurassic coast. Hundreds of volunteers of all ages walked to nearly waist deep in order to help keep the swans moving in the right direction.
The giant birds at this time of year are mainly flightless due to them moulting their feathers so they can be very carefully encouraged up the shallow tidal water to a place where a team of handlers can examine, weigh and ring the birds.
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Rare Baudet de Poitou dreadlocked donkey learns to walk, Charente, France - 04 Jun 2011
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gavin Rodgers / Rex Features ( 1338415h )
Learning To Walk Can Be A Hair Raising Experience
Learning to walk is a difficult enough skill to master even without the added risk of tripping over your own hair.
So little Baudet de Poitou donkey Belle should be grateful she hasn't yet developed the unusual dreadlocks that are characteristic of her rare breed.
The youngster and her long haired mother Lorelei are part of a herd being reared at a donkey sanctuary in Poitou-Charente, France.
And little Belle is still finding her feet - ably helped by mum and two humans handlers - after being born three days ago.
Despite being a little wobbly, that hasn't stopped Belle from happily prancing round her paddock.
However, when it comes to getting back to her stable for a well deserved rest the 88lb (5.5st) baby needs a little help - having to be carried up the steps by 20-year-old handler Melanie.
While she is closely cropped now Belle can rest assured that in time she will look just like mum - with the same luscious locks to be proud of.
La Baudet normally give birth to a foal every four years, following a gestation period of 12-and-a-half months.
They are believed to be one of the oldest donkey species in the world - thought to have existed in France since the Roman occupation of 54BC.
With only 50 foals born worldwide every year, the species is now even rarer than both white rhinos and giant pandas.
Sometime referred to as "woolly mammoth" donkeys, the rare breed nearly became extinct in 1978 when their population shrank to just 48 in the world.
Once common, their numbers declined with the advent of the railways and the introduction of mechanisation to farming.
After World War II many were also killed in order to feed the starving French population.
Nowadays, thanks to the kind of conservation efforts that have produced Lore...
For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/QLPEHHANJ
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Rare Baudet de Poitou dreadlocked donkey learns to walk, Charente, France - 04 Jun 2011
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gavin Rodgers / Rex Features ( 1338415f )
Learning To Walk Can Be A Hair Raising Experience
Learning to walk is a difficult enough skill to master even without the added risk of tripping over your own hair.
So little Baudet de Poitou donkey Belle should be grateful she hasn't yet developed the unusual dreadlocks that are characteristic of her rare breed.
The youngster and her long haired mother Lorelei are part of a herd being reared at a donkey sanctuary in Poitou-Charente, France.
And little Belle is still finding her feet - ably helped by mum and two humans handlers - after being born three days ago.
Despite being a little wobbly, that hasn't stopped Belle from happily prancing round her paddock.
However, when it comes to getting back to her stable for a well deserved rest the 88lb (5.5st) baby needs a little help - having to be carried up the steps by 20-year-old handler Melanie.
While she is closely cropped now Belle can rest assured that in time she will look just like mum - with the same luscious locks to be proud of.
La Baudet normally give birth to a foal every four years, following a gestation period of 12-and-a-half months.
They are believed to be one of the oldest donkey species in the world - thought to have existed in France since the Roman occupation of 54BC.
With only 50 foals born worldwide every year, the species is now even rarer than both white rhinos and giant pandas.
Sometime referred to as "woolly mammoth" donkeys, the rare breed nearly became extinct in 1978 when their population shrank to just 48 in the world.
Once common, their numbers declined with the advent of the railways and the introduction of mechanisation to farming.
After World War II many were also killed in order to feed the starving French population.
Nowadays, thanks to the kind of conservation efforts that have produced Lore...
For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/QLPEHHANJ
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Rare Baudet de Poitou dreadlocked donkey learns to walk, Charente, France - 04 Jun 2011
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gavin Rodgers / Rex Features ( 1338415g )
Learning To Walk Can Be A Hair Raising Experience
Learning to walk is a difficult enough skill to master even without the added risk of tripping over your own hair.
So little Baudet de Poitou donkey Belle should be grateful she hasn't yet developed the unusual dreadlocks that are characteristic of her rare breed.
The youngster and her long haired mother Lorelei are part of a herd being reared at a donkey sanctuary in Poitou-Charente, France.
And little Belle is still finding her feet - ably helped by mum and two humans handlers - after being born three days ago.
Despite being a little wobbly, that hasn't stopped Belle from happily prancing round her paddock.
However, when it comes to getting back to her stable for a well deserved rest the 88lb (5.5st) baby needs a little help - having to be carried up the steps by 20-year-old handler Melanie.
While she is closely cropped now Belle can rest assured that in time she will look just like mum - with the same luscious locks to be proud of.
La Baudet normally give birth to a foal every four years, following a gestation period of 12-and-a-half months.
They are believed to be one of the oldest donkey species in the world - thought to have existed in France since the Roman occupation of 54BC.
With only 50 foals born worldwide every year, the species is now even rarer than both white rhinos and giant pandas.
Sometime referred to as "woolly mammoth" donkeys, the rare breed nearly became extinct in 1978 when their population shrank to just 48 in the world.
Once common, their numbers declined with the advent of the railways and the introduction of mechanisation to farming.
After World War II many were also killed in order to feed the starving French population.
Nowadays, thanks to the kind of conservation efforts that have produced Lore...
For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/QLPEHHANJ
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