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Cute Animal Tuesday: Black Vulture
by Amanda Arnold | February 14, 2012
Brought to you on Valentine’s Day 2012 is the black vulture. This bird will not cheat on you.
Here’s why: If relatives see your vulture mate trying to have an affair with another vulture, they will attack him. There is no philandering in the vulture kingdom. Really — studies have proven it.
Once in a while, I stumble across a story so remarkably absurd that I question whether or not I’m awake. Today, I saw such a story. Forbes blogger David M. Ewalt wrote about how the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has criticized Nintendo and the Mario series for animal cruelty. It all stems from an item you can find in several Mario games called the Tanooki Suit. This is a costume of a raccoon-like animal that gives Mario limited flying abilities.
Cute Animal Friday: Bat-eared Fox
by Amanda Arnold | November 4, 2011
This is the bat-eared fox and it can hear larvae chewing.
It’s no wonder it can hear larvae chewing when its ears are almost half as tall as its little body. Ears = 5.3 inches (13.4 centimeters). Body up to the shoulders = 11 to 15 inches (28 to 28 centimeters).
Cute Animal Friday: Alligator Snapping Turtle
by Amanda Arnold | October 7, 2011
You know you’ve got a special turtle on your hands when its name includes the word “alligator.” Of course, if you had one of these “on your hands” your hands would be mashed something awful because this turtle weighs as much as linebacker — about 200 pounds.
Cute Animal Friday: Sloth Bear
by Amanda Arnold | September 23, 2011
It’s not technically related to the sloth. For one thing, it’s not slow; it can run faster than a human (which is unfortunate, since it’s known to attack humans when startled). But its long, curved, non-retractable claws look like that of the sloth, and it’s been known to hang upside down from trees from time to time, so that’s how it got its name.
The sloth bear has a couple of cute features: One, it’s a loud eater.
The Fraudulent Chicanery of the Professional Wildlife Photographer
by Josh Clark | September 19, 2011
A Norwegian wildlife photographer living and working in Sweden has had a rough few weeks, though deservedly. The photog, Terje Hellese, was cold busted using Photoshop to doctor his photos. Apparently, he would shoot an exotic locale to use as a backdrop and cut and pasted images of lynxes he grabbed from stock photo websites. Were Hellese just some photographer, this would be a big deal, tantamount to a writer from the Toledo Blade blatantly plagiarizing another reporter’s work. But Hellese is not just some photographer.
Cute Animal Friday: Blue-footed Booby
by Amanda Arnold | September 2, 2011
When the male blue-footed booby wants to attract a lady friend, he does a jig — to show off the rugged, handsome blueness of his feet.
The male on the left will probably attract a female first because his feet are bluer. That’s just how it works in the animal kingdom.
Cute Animal Friday: Ring-tailed Lemur
by Amanda Arnold | August 26, 2011
This is what lemurs do.
Typically in mobs. Very, very angry mobs. Just kidding. Here’s the deal: It gets cold at night in the Madagascar forest, and a lemur needs to warm up before he or she starts foraging for breakfast. So the ring-tailed lemur, who, incidentally, can purr, meow, howl and bark, goes out to an open space in the forest with his or her mob of lemur buddies and sits like this …
Cute Animal Friday: Yellow-bellied Marmot
by Amanda Arnold | August 19, 2011
So, global warming has actually been good for the yellow-bellied marmot, and here’s why:
The marmot eats and eats before settling in for hibernation, only to be awakened early by warm weather, long before it’s burned off all those Clif bars.
It’s Cute Animal Friday, and I can’t imagine anything cuter than a wombat the size of an Escalade.
Scientists have discovered the skeletal remains of a plant-eating marsupial they call a “giant wombat on steroids” that roamed Australian land 2 million years ago.
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