A post that’s more worthy of the USS Indianapolis anniversary, rather than Pearl Harbor, but wow: My palms were sweating just watching this. You can hardly blame the guys for swearing, either (though I would like to slap the one suggesting they shoot it) – that boy’s enormous. Half of me thinks it’d be a […]
Category Archives: animals
Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/giant-crocodile-captured-alive-philippines-134625838.html Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde said dozens of villagers and experts ensnared the 21-foot (6.4-meter) male crocodile along a creek in Bunawan township in Agusan del Sur province after a three-week hunt. It could be one of the largest crocodiles to be captured alive in recent years, he said, quoting local crocodile experts… After initial […]
Squirrel Nuts Over Builder Friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd5Hvghe58k “Nutty’s best friend”. This is adorable.
Beluga whale saves diver – Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5931345/Beluga-whale-saves-diver.html Old news, but still heartwarming: A beluga whale saves a diver whose legs had cramped. Beautiful, sentient creatures, yet still there are countries who hunt them.
Tickling Slow Loris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f-6jygRJk Today’s my birthday. If you’re wondering what to get me, I’d like this. (NB: Am referring to the idea of someone offering me snuggles and scratches, but am happy to settle for that adorable loris.)
Cheeky baboon troop ransacks car
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/839863/plague-of-baboons-converges-on-car When I was about 10, my parents took us to the local safari park. Two hours later, we were still screaming, and they couldn’t pry us out from under the back seats. Having tigers stalk your car and giraffes try to fit their entire head into your window are good signs that fenced-in zoos […]
Lurking at the Aquarium, Brilliant Houdinis of the Deep
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/15/AR2006081500916_pf.html I’m on an octopus kick, and wore a tremendous grin while reading this article. (The grin appeared even before reading of an octopus nicknamed “Lucretia McEvil”.) Science is now questioning whether these wonderful creatures shouldn’t be considered as intelligent as the vertebrate nerds of the animal world. They certainly seem to have highly developed, […]
Slow loris – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_loris I do love Wikipedia, but the user-created content sometimes results in a disparity of quality from one article to the next. I’ve read a fair few articles whose contributors, I feel certain, were 14 year old boys with very little understanding of their subject. This article, however, reads like a postdoctoral essay from someone […]
Escaped Elephants. | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/62884/Escaped-Elephants There’s very little I regret about taking my 8 month trip in 2007, but I did miss the escape of two elephants into one of Toronto’s suburban streets: “Police said no one was hurt, no property was damaged and that the two well-behaved animals spent their free time snacking on plants and trees as […]
Toronto Zoo elephant dies after push to ground by one of her own – Toronto – CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/06/15/torontozoo-elephant.html An elephant died over the weekend at the Toronto Zoo after another elephant shoved her to the ground over some food. Tessa, 40, fell and couldn’t get back up even with the help a crane after a more dominant elephant pushed her Saturday, zoo officials said. My zoo membership expired the other week; I’d […]