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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.
In the great game of evolution, elephants have racked up an impressive list of achievements. For example: They’re the largest living land animal, and scientists are still studying the their prodigious brainpower. This intelligence is readily observable in the wild. Some appear to have an artistic streak (check out the video below). Humans even pay homage [...]
Yes, this is a real thing that people do.
According to a Miami Herald writer who horse-surfed with Beach Horses in Bradenton Beach, Fla., you’re led into the ocean bareback on a horse, and once the animal is submerged in water up to its shoulders, you’re free to stand up on its back and “surf.”
(Please excuse the subject matter; this post is on media criticism, not really on illegal and corrupt sex acts.)
Infrequent, it is when the topic of zoophilia makes the news cycle. Which is what makes the news cycle during the second weekend in May 2011 remarkable. Zoophilia, the clinical term for the more vulgar term bestiality (vulgar being a less common term for common), was all over the place in the last news cycle.
A Savanah looks a lot like a cat, but it is big. Savanahs are created by breeding African servals with domestic house cats: More on Servals: Foxes have been domesticated and they can make interesting pets: One source of foxes can be found here: Sibfox.com The new director of the program reports that their work [...]
A recent story in the Metro UK about a Polish goose named Buttons who has become a caretaker to a blind dog named Baks reminded me of all of those other similar stories of animals adopting other animals. Buttons has decided that Baks will live, live!, and leads Baks around their shared yard, either by using her long neck to guide the dog or by honking in the direction Baks should walk.
Should we set up “Human Exclusion Zones” across the planet?
by Marshall Brain | April 6, 2011
By coincidence I read two related articles this week. The first talks about the resurgence of wildlife in Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Twenty-five years after the meltdown at Chernobyl, an irradiated Eden is coming to life See also: The second article talks about the resurgence of wildlife in the Korean DMZ: The DMZ’s Thriving [...]
Tone Deaf Whale Cruises Seas Alone
by Amanda Arnold | February 23, 2011
Oh my goodness. A whale has stolen my heart.
Poor little enormous mammal is swimming the seas alone because his voice sounds weird.
Scientists who tracked the whale between 1992 and 2004 say the whale sings at the basso profundo frequency, or “just above the lowest note on a tuba.”
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