Tag: animals
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Not quite ready for wintering indoors, our village's hardy sheep are enjoying pasturing in the large field near the school this beautiful but chilly morning.
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Warm colours break through scattered clouds from a winter sunrise over sheep grazing in a scrubby pasture.
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Firsts and Lasts
I was listening to the bats flying silently above me while I watched the Perseids, the other month. When was the last time I was actually capable of hearing their echolocation? I simply can't remember, because it didn't feel significant at the time.
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Something I've long enjoyed about Automattic gatherings is the opportunity to meet some the most diverse characters you'll ever find in one place.
But today was the first time I've ever been at a beachside disco that was attended by a foraging racoon.
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A slender long-tailed racoon stands on wooden decking in front of lush tropical vegetation.
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Bumblebees surprise scientists with 'sophisticated' social learning
There are two - maybe three - things I love about the recent discovery that bees exhibit complex social learning behaviours. Allow me to drone on about bees for a while...
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[Bloganuary] Magpies are the Best Bird
Magpies are the best bird, nay, the best animal. Fight me.
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Coco the Criminal and Peanut the Prophet
After squirrels steal his bird feeder, Dan wonders about their motives... and what happened next.
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Goose-Related Etymologies
Geese seem to work their way all over our language. Let's take a look at the etymology of some goosey terminology.
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Did You Know That Animals Eating Strawberries Look Terrifying?
Eat Liver (???) shares terrifying images of animals eating strawberries.
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The Great Flamingo Uprising
The story of the war between the geese and the flamingoes at a petting zoo. Laugh-out-loud funny.
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The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander
Wired wrote an article about the mythology surrounding salamanders, and it reminds Dan of other animal myths.
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Goat LARP
Oh, I thought: it's LARPing but with goats: well, whatever floats your goat... but no, I was wrong.
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So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today...
So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
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Toto - Africa (Chicken cover)
Big Marvel (youtube.com)
Big Marvel (YouTube)
One man - who appears to be afraid of chickens - plays Toto's Africa on a rubber chicken, with backup from a real chicken. Congratulations: if you watched this, you just won the whole damn Internet. -
Best mimicry ever
From Real Monstrosities via Ed Yong via Matthew Cobb comes one of the best cases of mimicry I’ve ever seen. Natural selection has been a fantastic artist here, giving a perfect illusion of three-dimensionality. In fact, this may be the most astonishing case of mimicry I know.
It’s a moth from eastern Asia: Uropyia meticulodina—a fantastic … -
Found GC5RZB4 #10..CHEWBACCA
This checkin to GC5RZB4 #10..CHEWBACCA reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Staying in nearby Wroxall Abbey for a Christmas party with a nonprofit I volunteer with, I took the opportunity to wander out to find this cache and nearby and GC1H3PK this morning between breakfast and check-out. I was watched …