Air Bud is my one of my favourite movie,

it is the story of a Golden Retriever with their little pups which they have to go different houses.

As they are getting older.

Each of them have a unique characters of theirs.

Twelve year old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Wash. after the untimely death of his father. New in town, Josh has no friends and is too shy to try out for the school basketball team. While practicing on an abandoned court, he makes friends with a Golden Retriever named Buddy and discovers that the dog can sink baskets like a pro. Buddy the Wonder Dog, the Golden Retriever star of Air Bud, could actually sink regulation basketballs into a NBA regulation-high rim and had more than 14,000 career baskets.

Oct. 3, 2007 — The "Arnold Schwarzenegger" of duck-billed dinosaurs, representing a bulky, toothy new species, has just been identified from fossils excavated at Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, where a team of scientists today announced the find.
The 30-foot-long dinosaur, which stood about 10-12 feet tall at the hips and weighed several tons, is believed to be the largest specimen recovered from the site's 75-million-year-old Kaiparowits Formation. A description of the dino appears in this month's Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Larger dinos existed in other parts of the world, but few duck-bills — named for their duck-shaped heads — had as much heft.

this is the fossile that was founded. (duck-bills)

Oct. 1, 2007 — Meerkats mob almost any critter that comes near them, creating a noisy mass to scare off potential predators. That behavior also helps educate meerkat groups about other animals, even non-threatening ones, leading to better-coordinated responses in the future, according to a new study.
Co-author Marta Manser, a researcher at the University of Zurich's Zoology Institute, described a meerkat mob scene for Discovery News.
"While meerkats approach the invader, they erect their tail and hair and emit growl calls," she said. "As they are close to it, but at a safe distance, they will suddenly bob their head and upper body parts forward and emit at the same time one or a few very short, very noisy calls."

Manser and colleague Beke Graw studied 564 mobbing events — some natural, some elicited by the researchers — in a population of wild meerkats on a former ranch in South Africa. Their findings have been accepted for publication in the journal Animal Behavior.
To bring on the mobs, the scientists introduced known predators such as snakes in cages so as to not endanger any of the animals during the experiment. The researchers also presented an empty cage, some dead snakes and a dead squirrel, as well as a live domestic cat, which was meant to mimic an encounter with an African wildcat.
The most frequently mobbed creatures, they found, were mole snakes, puff adders, Cape cobras, horned adders, unspecified snakes, striped polecats, tortoises, yellow mongooses, Cape foxes and monitor lizards.

In addition to mobbing non-threatening tortoises, the meerkats also surrounded hares, squirrels and antelopes, which led the researchers to suspect that the mass approaches served functions other than just deterring predators.
The researchers noticed that pups learn from the repeated experiences.

"When a mobbing event starts, (young pups) just follow the other group members, often walking or standing around behind the mobbing line of older group members," Manser explained. "Only after some experience do they copy the behavior of others and improve in their mobbing behavior."
She and her colleagues also observed that the first individuals to encounter the intruder, usually senior adults, transfer information about the interloper to the rest of the group.
"This allows for coordinating the vigilance level among all group members," Manser said, adding that meerkats then get better at assessing when an invader is up to no good, or is just in the area to forage or to take care of other business.

The study adds to a growing body of evidence that meerkats learn by gathering information and then adjust their behavior accordingly.
Alex Thornton, a University of Cambridge zoologist, and his colleagues identified a very direct form of learning among the gregarious animals. While studying another group of meerkats in South Africa, the researchers discovered that older meerkats teach pups how to get food by incrementally introducing dead, injured and then live prey to the youngsters.
Thornton believes studying meerkats can provide valuable insight into the evolution of mammalian culture.
"A great understanding of the evolution of teaching is essential if we are to further our knowledge of human cultural evolution and for us to examine the relationships between culture in our own species and cultural behavior in other animals," he said.