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3 tigers, hyena no longer with Wainfleet, Ont., owner despite efforts to fight exotic animal bylaw
The owner of three tigers and a hyena that are no longer living on a property in Wainfleet, Ont., is hopeful he'll someday be reunited with his animals, but it won't be in that rural township in Niagara that had ordered them removed for contravening an exotic animals bylaw.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tigers-hyena-exotic-animals-wainfleet-9.7142098?cmp=rss

CBC Top Stories 4d ago

3 tigers, hyena no longer with Wainfleet, Ont., owner despite efforts to fight exotic animal bylaw
The owner of three tigers and a hyena that are no longer living on a property in Wainfleet, Ont., is hopeful he'll someday be reunited with his animals, but it won't be in that rural township in Niagara that had ordered them removed for contravening an exotic animals bylaw.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tigers-hyena-exotic-animals-wainfleet-9.7142098?cmp=rss

CBC Hamilton 4d ago

3 tigers, hyena no longer with Wainfleet, Ont., owner despite efforts to fight exotic animal bylaw
The owner of three tigers and a hyena that are no longer living on a property in Wainfleet, Ont., is hopeful he'll someday be reunited with his animals, but it won't be in that rural township in Niagara that had ordered them removed for contravening an exotic animals bylaw.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tigers-hyena-exotic-animals-wainfleet-9.7142098?cmp=rss

Louis Brensi 4d ago

The most cosmopolitan products are illegal

You should read COSMOPOLITAN Playbook for citizens of the world ➡️ https://amzn.eu/d/1swKABw ➡️ Link in bio

#exoticanimals #darkweb #Cosmopolitan #citizenoftheworld #internationallaw

sberson Mar 7

No, it's not AI, just photos of the saiga antelope, a hold out with roots in the ice age, living in the plains of Siberia, and sadly endangered now. I love these faces!

#Photos #photography #cuteanimals #endangeredspecies #exoticanimals #saiga #antelope #animalpics

BellingenNSW Feb 5

Most neighbours on the NSW Mid North Coast reject the local environment and have three dogs and a cat, but this one had 38 snakes including a cobra, 19 lizards, a crocodile, three hedgehogs and 28 dogs and nine cats in the home. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/police-discover-snakes-crocodile-during-kempsey-drug-raid/106307800
#NSW #MidnorthCoast #CITES #Biosecurity #ExoticAnimals #pets #dogs #biodiversity #neighbourhoods

Deadly snakes and a crocodile discovered during drug raid

More than 50 reptiles, including a 1.3-metre crocodile, have been seized after police discovered a makeshift zoo during a drug raid on the NSW Mid North Coast.

N-gated Hacker News Dec 6

Behold, the majestic Zebra-Llama 🦓🐑, an article proving that even the most exotic animal mashup can't escape the endless jargon safari of academic buzzwords. Strap in as they gallop towards "extreme efficiency" while we wonder if the real hybrid here is the confusion between zebras and code monkeys. 🤯
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17272 #ZebraLlama #ExoticAnimals #AcademicBuzzwords #AnimalMashup #ConfusionInTech #HackerNews #ngated

Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models

With the growing demand for deploying large language models (LLMs) across diverse applications, improving their inference efficiency is crucial for sustainable and democratized access. However, retraining LLMs to meet new user-specific requirements is prohibitively expensive and environmentally unsustainable. In this work, we propose a practical and scalable alternative: composing efficient hybrid language models from existing pre-trained models. Our approach, Zebra-Llama, introduces a family of 1B, 3B, and 8B hybrid models by combining State Space Models (SSMs) and Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) layers, using a refined initialization and post-training pipeline to efficiently transfer knowledge from pre-trained Transformers. Zebra-Llama achieves Transformer-level accuracy with near-SSM efficiency using only 7-11B training tokens (compared to trillions of tokens required for pre-training) and an 8B teacher. Moreover, Zebra-Llama dramatically reduces KV cache size -down to 3.9%, 2%, and 2.73% of the original for the 1B, 3B, and 8B variants, respectively-while preserving 100%, 100%, and >97% of average zero-shot performance on LM Harness tasks. Compared to models like MambaInLLaMA, X-EcoMLA, Minitron, and Llamba, Zebra-Llama consistently delivers competitive or superior accuracy while using significantly fewer tokens, smaller teachers, and vastly reduced KV cache memory. Notably, Zebra-Llama-8B surpasses Minitron-8B in few-shot accuracy by 7% while using 8x fewer training tokens, over 12x smaller KV cache, and a smaller teacher (8B vs. 15B). It also achieves 2.6x-3.8x higher throughput (tokens/s) than MambaInLlama up to a 32k context length. We will release code and model checkpoints upon acceptance.

arXiv.org

Zoom Zoom Nomad Aug 25, 2025

The Blue Jeans Frog (Oophaga pumilio) is a tiny but highly poisonous frog from Central America.

Its body is bright red, while its legs are vivid blue – giving rise to the nickname “Blue Jeans Frog.” Its toxins are a powerful defense against predators.

#BlueJeansFrog #PoisonDartFrog #Wildlife #NatureWonder #TravelVibes #ExoticAnimals #JungleLife #CostaRica

Galactic Beat Books Aug 12, 2025

🦁 Zoo breakout in space! The Galactic Beat crew faces crystal spiders, rainbow serpents, and exploding fur-balls when exotic alien creatures escape their sanctuary. Sometimes the wildest adventure is just trying to help!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH495WLH
#GalacticBeat #SpaceZoo #AlienCreatures #ExoticAnimals #WildestAdventure #JustTryingToHelp