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 […]
Tag Archives: animals
Squirrel Nuts Over Builder Friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd5Hvghe58k “Nutty’s best friend”. This is adorable.
The Eagles of Hornby Island – Webcam
http://www.hornbyeagles.com/webcam.htm These eagles are smarter than any celebs on Perez Hilton: They’ve laid their new nest ON TOP OF the camera. Privacy assured!
タカアシガニの脱皮6時間全記録！- The giant spider crab sloughed off old skin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgCDcobtZHs What I really loved is how, after it had shed, it carried right on eating. No big thang.
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.)
Pacific Coast Shark News
http://www.sharkresearchcommittee.com/pacific_coast_shark_news.htm As one who is both terrified of and fascinated by sharks, I found this website a compulsive read.
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 […]