The Internet pretty much begins and ends with this. The vacant, cock-eyed horse stare. The tiny moustachioed gentleman with the shrunken, useless legs. The buxom peasant woman with the giant meaty paws. It’s got it all. You’ll probably listen to it ten times in a row before realising that you just listened to it ten [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Animals’
December 20, 2009
Wandering Ponies #2
While my brain eases itself out of the haze of Christmas madness, here are some things that have amused me of late:
It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of Alex Wild’s photography, so I thought I should mention it here. What makes it so special is that the galleries are organised according to taxonomy, [...]
November 23, 2009
Wandering Ponies #1
In an effort to generate more content here while Sara and I are too busy working/raving/generating content elsewhere to write proper posts, we’ve decided to throw up (not literally) a bunch of links to stuff that has amused and/or intrigued us during the week. This will hopefully a) make your visits here a little more [...]
November 5, 2009
Bet You Wish You Hadn’t Leaked That Sex Tape Now, Huh, Short-Nosed Fruit Bats?
A team of (confused? ambitious?) entomologists lead by Min Tan of China’s Guangdong Entomological Institute have just published a paper in PLoS One detailing for the first time the unusual sexual habits of the short-nosed fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx. Observing thirty pairs of males and females for a month in Guangzhou City, they believe to [...]
September 21, 2009
Beware Those Yellow Crazy Ants, Christmas Island White-Eye…
An online report published in last week’s Biology Letters has revealed the damaging effect an invasion of ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) is having on some of Christmas Island’s native bird and plant species. In this study, led by ecologist, Dennis O’Dowd of Monash University in Melbourne, experiments were carried out to see if the ants’ behaviour [...]
September 10, 2009
Those Great Tits Want Your Braaaains, Pipistrelle Bats.
As delicately pretty as it might look, the great tit (Parus major) has been gaining quite the reputation for being involved in some seriously gruesome behaviour. Driven by hunger when their normal diet of insects has grown scarce, the great tit has been known to peck open the skulls of other passerines, or “perching birds,” [...]
