I have no words. Just high pitched squealing. Stroke the hedgehog! (Погладь Ежа!) – YouTube.
Tag Archives: animals
Inside of a Shark
… it’s too dark to read. Luckily we have this fantastic documentary to enlighten us. A team of scientists dissects a Great White and give some fascinating facts about the much maligned White Death. I became a huge fan after watching this one, and have burned through most of the other episodes in this series. […]
Gobble-Gobble
My sister, the ornithologist, once had a field job that involved driving past a turkey farm early in the morning. She said the team would start their mornings by gobbling at the sleeping turkeys, then driving away, laughing at the gobbles that echoed behind them from the shocked-awake turkeys. This guy is discovering their joy. […]
Translucent Ants
This isn’t science so much as taking advantage of a lesser species for our own amusement, but amusing it is, so whaddareyagonnado? Translucent Ants Photographed Eating Colored Liquids | Colossal.
Raven Banners
Did some research on corvids and their roles as symbols for a project I’m mulling over, and came across the Norse Raven Banner tradition. Odin was also closely linked to ravens because in Norse myths he received the fallen warriors at Valhalla, and ravens were linked with death and war due to their predilection for […]
Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions
My cat has slept in the sink, but not like this. I have something to hope for. 25 Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions: #26-50.
An Ongoing Disaster
Fish and crustaceans caught in the Gulf of Mexico are heavily diseased and deformed. Given the environmental disaster that the region suffered, first in the wake of the interminable oil spill, then again in the cleanup. How I wish these could be served up, à la Blinky, to BP executives and anybody involved in designing/building/voting […]
Lionized
Cute guy, Scottish accent, drowning in affectionate baby lions. My ovaries, they are a-throbbin’. worker at lion park gets hugs from sweet lion cubs 1 – YouTube.
Life as a Scientist of Life Sciences
Neat article by the National Post about a spider expert. I particularly loved this little aside: Erigonines are so small that Nina has to handle them using a combination of a fine-gauge pipette—with which she sucks up a bead or two of spider-containing alcohol—and an even finer insect needle—with which she spends long minutes positioning […]