May 03, 2008
Crossbreeds
Mangalica pig is a Hungarian pig race, which distinguishes itself by looking like a cross breed of pigs and sheep
The International Fainting Goat Association was founded in the fall of 1989 by a group of people who appreciated the Fainting Goat as a breed and wished to see them preserved. "Offering fast, friendly, and reliable service"
Also, Giant Stingrays Found Near Thai City
5 Cats that Look Like Diabeetus
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April 07, 2008
Dancing Bears
Ants on a donut. By Tracky Birthday
Dancing Bears Filmed in Wild. (There is a commercial you have to ignore, before you may watch the clip. I wish they wouldn't subject us to it)
The anatomy of a common snail
Monarch butterflies on flickr. (From Felicituri)
Unrelated diversion: Sweet gifs (Click on the arrow)
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, Katamari's site about Video Games Console colors & Limited Edition (But not a store!). Not related: The history of console video games from Magnavox's 1972 Odyssey to the Wii. Submit yours for consideration.
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March 30, 2008
Red-tailed
Re-post: Pale Male, (b. 1992) is a male Red-tailed Hawk who lives in New York City. He was named by the birdwatcher and author Marie Winn, due to his unusually light coloring. He is the first Red-tailed Hawk known to have nested on a building (rather than in a tree). He is known to have sired 26 chicks with four mates. Pale Male's current mate is known as Lola, and they raised 7 chicks between 2002 and 2004. (Don’t forget to browse the archives). The controversy regarding preservation & nest removal
You can find new hookups with the hottest elks and wildest herds. Whatever you're looking for, you'll get it on Adult Moose Finder. Turn your wildest fantasies into reality. (with video inside!)
The 1931 Allbatross Swimming Club and other Vintage photos
Also, Shocking eggplant
The sad story of the chimp who thought he was a boy
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March 22, 2008
Mama dog is dead
Our dog died this afternoon of old age. She was 13 years old. This photo is from last week. We are sad...
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February 29, 2008
Wonder Cat
The amazing adventures of Wonder Cat at The New Yorker
South African Cordylus cataphractus, i.e. the armadillo girdled lizard
When releasing a bear from a trap...
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February 19, 2008
The $400 pet strollers
Anteater Favorites, a flickr set
Max, the giant herding dog art project
Last night was intense. My brother and I discovered that we have a sister. Our parents sent us a photo of her - Super cute kitty. (From Andrea Harner)
"I'm curious about goat bras. I've seen a lot of goats wearing bra-like things, and I'd like to know what, exactly, the function is..."
Americans spend billions of dollars a year on veterinary care… $400 pet strollers. (From a Salon story, How much is too much to pay for your pet?)
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January 25, 2008
Face Of The Day
Father Juan Manuel Villar touches the nose of a Carlino dog with an aspergillum while he blesses the dog during the feast of San Anton, the patron saint of animals
Wild horses in Chernobyl. Photos by Tim Mousseau and colleagues of research in the Chernobyl Region. Thank you, Avi Solomon)
What is this? (and this?)
Vampire energy of devices in passive and active standby modes
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December 22, 2007
Guild for Reality Integrators
Animal icon of the Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators
The Rat Princess portraits with babies
The roaring camel
My cat won a contest, sponsored by Kitty Pan cat litter, when I was just 10 years old. We were part of a crazy, week-long cat-beauty pageant, held at the Playboy Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Yes, it was insane… The All American Glamour Kitty Contest
Virtual Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Also, a purring podcast
(No time to blog tonight - Sorry. This post was composed a few weeks ago)
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November 28, 2007
What do bears do in the woods?
Thanksgiving dinner with Brutus the Bear. (First link YT. Via Friday fish wrap)
A photo of a Holoplatys, a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders)
Siamese Dream. (From Sarah Snippets)
Poor Hamster on YTMND. The original Poor Hamster as sung by Alma Gentile & Annika Kandil
Greenpeace’s Whale naming competition. More than 11,000 possible whale names were submitted but we are now down to the last 30 possible whale names. The clear winner with 71% of the votes Mister Splashy Pants. "Tomorrow’s headline: Greenpeace cancels poll to name whale. Claims a small but vocal group of internet users skewed the results"
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November 08, 2007
My cat’s birthday
179 photos of funny animals, many new
Re-post: a huge resource of Animal Sounds
Carlitopolis, a short film by Luis Nieto
My cat’s birthday pool on flickr
There are no tigers in this field (YT)
How to save a drowning cat
Can you imagine about 130 Cats in One small Moscow Flat?
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October 17, 2007
Gator Art
Animals In Formalin Preservation
Long believed to be extinct, a small herd of female Indricotheria was discovered Thursday by two amateur Porphyrophobic scientists at a local watering hole
Gator Art by folk artist Willard J.
A beach donkey from Skegness in Lincolnshire has walked away with the title of Britain's Best Beach Donkey
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September 26, 2007
Animals in casts
Sturgeon kiss. More Putin kissing. What happens after the kisses
Big Mammals in Canada
Btw, if you try to fail and succeed, what have you done?
(Pix above from Zentastic)
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August 25, 2007
How to train a pig
Pigs are very smart, and can escape from just about any fencing you can rig up. But they can also be trained like dogs. So when they are piglets, teach them to come to you by shaking a can of rocks and rewarding them with an egg.
Then, when a pig gets out of the fence, simply stand inside the fencing and shake the can. The little piggy will come running home
Lord of the flies. (From 53 o’s)
How to Skin and Clean a Dead Snake
Lucy, The World's Largest Elephant
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August 05, 2007
“Dog is dog”
Cheap zoo (By Craig Robinson)
Sheep go to heaven
Perpetual motion via Murphy's Law. In an unusual alliance, the makers of Wonder Bread and the Conservative Conservation Coalition (CCC) unveiled plans for a project the two groups claim will one day revolutionize energy production in the United States. (Thank you, Soubriquet)
Giraffobia - The place for people what thinks giraffes is scary
Re-post: Horse Balls Products
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July 02, 2007
“My life has no meaning without dog”
How to put a chicken to sleep in under 60 seconds. (From the enlightening essay How To Carry A Chicken Around the World)
Barfing frog. (YT. From Anarchaia)
YTMND Shocking Cats
A herd of 800 elephants on the move. (Click to biggify. From Other Crap)
Not very many people know that the script for Mission Impossible was originally written for squirrels
Welcome Switch’ers! Click around for 1000’s amazing links on the sidebar…
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June 10, 2007
Animals And Emotions
Touch Sensor birds from Takara Tomy
A watermelon-eating bulldog. (YT)
Jellyfish invasion. (More YT)
Would you pay $22K for a designer Ashera "lifestyle" cat? ($6,000 extra if you don't want to wait 9-12 months for delivery)
Re-post: How To Make A Cruise Towel Animal (aka Towel Origami)
What is this pangolin?
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May 19, 2007
The last Thylacine
The last Thylacine was filmed in 1933 in the Hobart Zoo where it lived for three years. The Thylacine died on 7 September 1936 as the result of neglect
Cecil, you're my final hope
Of finding out the true Straight Dope
For I have been reading of Schroedinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.
This unusual animal (so it is said)
Is simultaneously live and dead!
What I don't understand is just why he
Can't be one or other, unquestionably.
My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't.
If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way
And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
Then I will and won't see you in Schroedinger's zoo
The story of Schroedinger's cat. (an epic poem, as told by Cecil Adams)
(Mug above from Mathematicians Pictures)
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May 04, 2007
No Mercy
Python eating a chick. (From Ernie's - Source is NSFW!)
Whaling in the Faroe Islands. More on wikipedia
Antique Mouse & Rat Trap Gallery
Khoi Vinh's dog, Mister President
What a great story: Orangutans Play Video Games at Atlanta Zoo
Leonardo Da Monkey (You have to click on "Animals" on the sidebar - I can't seem to link to it directly now. Help! Thank you, Anne...)
More from Neatorama: 30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits
Un-related: Next week, I am going to kill myself for peace
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March 25, 2007
The Hive and the Honeybee
Everything about keeping African cichlids
The complete O’reilly bookshelves line. (From Cogmios)
A Man and a Woman and the turtles that threatened to come between them: Confessions of a Turtle Wife
Last Supper with dogs. Stupid YTMND. Compare to the original
In 1925, a Cornell professor of apiculture set out to create a major repository of literature on bees and beekeeping. He envisioned this library as an “accessible storehouse of our knowledge of bees and beekeeping.” By 1926, Phillips had persuaded over 223 people from twenty-nine states and twenty-six foreign countries to donate thousands of books and pamphlets, and the Everett Franklin Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Cornell was born. The Hive and the Honeybee
Wikipedia List of fictional horses
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February 27, 2007
Flying dogs
Goliathus cacicus is the World's Largest Beetle. Other beetles of Africa
Enter the web address of your choice in this box and click DUCKSPEAK. Anything that's just padding will turn into a "QUACK"
Love among Cockatoos in 4 pages
Surely a re-post: Gorgeous cats
Cats on YouTube: A video of a cat being spanked . A fat cat sitting on the couch watching TV
The Dog Museum Also-Known-As Musée du Chien, Aka Museo del perro
Fliegende hunde. (From Scribal terror)
A stinky thread on AskMeFi: Please help me Stop my dog from farting
By the way, can you guess what is the first result for “Search” on Google?... Update: They changed it! It used to be This
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February 04, 2007
Hamster-Noodling
How to make Micro-Burgers for your hamster. (From Cookin' for my hamster, Lucy)
Local tribesmen catching an Anaconda
Local Alaskan smashing a crab (by David Noon)
Girls Gone Grabblin (Scroll down for "Great action video of girls noodling")
From July to September 2006, 11 giant pandas gave birth to 18 cubs at the Research and Conservation Center for Giant Panda in China. As of February 10, 2007, all 18 cubs will no longer live with their mothers and will start an independent life. As usual, they will be given their own names. At the moment, the giant pandas are named from No.1 to No 18.
The Research and Conservation Center for Giant Pandas is launching a public solicitation to Name the pandas. (From Drew Mackie)
The patience of a Labrador (YouTube)
Secrets of Cock o' the North
Russian bear photos. (From Good shit)
Unrelated: Perfect Dating - This Video should help Bobby get a date
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January 13, 2007
Robot fish
The scary animals of Luke Chueh
Antler Expressions furniture
Also, Deer in the Yard
A robotic fish developed by scientists from Essex University is put through its paces in a special tank at the London Aquarium. It works via sensors and has autonomous navigational control
A list of 63 Reasons that 63 Birds Died in downtown Austin last week
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December 28, 2006
Escobar’s Hippos
Cowscapes by Rachael Sudlow
Pablo Escobar lived in a 5,500-acre estate 100 miles east of Medellin, Colombia. He built a bullring, an airstrip, an ersatz Jurassic Park with half a dozen immense concrete dinosaurs. He stocked a private wild animal park with hundreds of animals, including elephants, camels, giraffes, ostriches and zebras. He installed four hippos in one of the estate's 12 man-made lakes.
Today, Hacienda Napoles is in ruins, taken over by jungle foliage and bats. But the hippos are still here
The Wildlife Sound Recording Society
Moishe, the jumping dog
Parrot with 950 words vocabulary
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November 24, 2006
DONT WORRY IM FROM TECH SUPPORT
For all your im in ur cats doing ur thingz needs
Kitten and his box. (Loud YouTube. From blanketfort)
Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers
How to assemble a Christmas tree when you have two cats and a dog
Re-post: A swinging cat
Also: Sloth Pictures
A Drinking Cat Fountain provides pets with an enjoyable "falling stream" of water
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October 21, 2006
Dog bloopers
A hawk eating a small creature
Pictures of geckos eating jam
Who Let The Dogs Out? (Thank you, Dafna)
Velociraptor attack is the 3rd leading cause of death for men age 27-29. However, everyone must think about the implications of velociraptors: young and old, men, women and trans-gendered persons. The American Society for Velociraptor Attack Prevention is a bi-partisan group of professionals, dedicated to the diffusion of knowledge concerning velociraptor attack prevention
Cat Vs. Evil HP printer. A Close up of a cat's tongue
How to catch a greased pig. Pigs are not naturally greasy, but some fairs and carnivals in Iberia make them so for the sake of competition. The following technique was tried and tested at such an event. (From The spectacularly obtuse blog)
Stuffed animals by Natasha Fadeeva
Molly and JB visit the town of Artesina in Piemonte and see the pink bunny installation by the art collective Gelatin
Also, the only thing real at Phony.com are his binges... (?)
(Please click on pix of lizard above to biggify).
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September 27, 2006
What do your pets do while you're at work?
What do your pets do while you're at work?
Re-post: 8 episodes of Ze Frank’s Annie and the Naughty bird
Catfish wallpapers for your computer. (From Information Junk)
By the end of summer, before the traditional Swedish moose hunt, moose and man meet - just like in the ancient days, as warriors did before some battles - not as enemies but as friends for a few days of celebration and fellowship
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September 08, 2006
Saudis rein in the sale of cats and dogs…
Albino green tree python. (From Hopsakee). More
Homemade cat-sized hamster wheel food dispenser/ exerciser (With video)
How To Eat A Zebra In 40 Minutes. On the Banks of the Ruaha river in Ruaha National Park, southern Tanzania. Sat and watched a pride of 13 lions looking for an easy meal, some Zebra came down to to the river to drink and the young female lions took one out very quickly right in front of us. The older males casually wandered along after and enjoyed the spoils of the kill
A lovely discussion on Metafilter: How many cats is too many?
Saudi to ban the sale of cats and dogs as un-Islamic (with cute picture). Some Cats from Uruguay
Handmade animals by Clive and Sunshine
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August 19, 2006
Tai Shan Turns One
Re-post from August 23, 2004: The wonderful story of Tag, the dog. Click on 'Previous' all the way to the beginning. Tag is a pedigree Chocolate Labrador Retriever - born March 17 2004 in a labrador kennel, Achter 't Dijkje in Baarn. He now lives in absolute bliss in a little town called Ravenstein situated on the Maas River between Nijmegen and Den Bosch.
Named Taggart Achter 't Dijkje in full, everyone calls him Tag. His name was given him by his owners who both work in the Internet industry and for whom 'HTML Tags' are an integrated part of daily life. Play on words such as Dog tags and Tag, you're it! are an added bonus. Although Rachel insists on the spelling Tag, Marcel prefers 'tag', strictly for validation purposes
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Update: Perfect Balance!
A solid gold lobster has been placed on display at the Ginza Tanaka jewelry store in Nagoya
Animated GIFs of cats in record stores with headphones on
The definition of Comeuppance. (By Rouseville)
A Good Reason Not To Go Frog Hunting. Also, 11-foot long, 1000lb sturgeon caught by a group of fisherman. (From Good Shit)
Sprinkle Brigade - We make dreams come true
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July 31, 2006
Save or delete?
Would you save or delete Distorted dogs ? From Olympus Camera
Everything you didn't want to know about the annual Canadian Harp Seal slaughter
Wikipedia on Chicken sexing
Junku’s Cat bathing set on flickr
What Is It? Somewhere in Bolivia, this terrible critter is crawling around, waiting to snatch off a finger
Jen's Stuffed Toy Archive Crochet Patterns
Alpaca Warfare. Llamas help Israeli troops bear Lebanon offensive
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July 02, 2006
Punny dog names
Giacomo Poochini, Rover Cleveland, Rutherford B. Bays, Billie Howliday... I need more Punny dog names, with particular interest in the more esoteric/nerdy/historical names. So Mary Louise Barker good, Droolius Caesar better, and Dwight D. Eisenhowler best
Baboon Mother Refuses to Abandon Dead Baby
Continuing with the post about the cat massage website that I though of building… Also, Ear blanket and some Cat Diary
Alex is an African Grey parrot that is learning to recognize various letters, can count to 7 and is working on 8, and learned the color 'grey' by looking at himself in a mirror and asking 'what color?' . (Thank you, Travis)
Baby llama and other Japanese baby zoo animals. (Both from See Here)
Yawning bunnies. Albino peacock
A flickr visit to the zoo
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