Don't tell Jerry, but aren't pictures of baby kitties a cheap way to get some eyeballs? At least it's a nice story about a few animals coming back to the wilderness.
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Mary's Monday Metazoan: Big-eyed ball o' fluff!
Category: Environment • Organisms
Posted on: July 6, 2009 7:20 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Jerry Coyne | July 6, 2009 7:34 AM
o.k. P.Z., you've crossed the line. Isn't it enough that you have a million readers a month, while I get about a tenth of that? Or that you already have a weekly animal? Now you are posting KITTENS? I have had enough of your risible postings, and I am forced to ask, in lieu of a lawsuit, for a camera. I have a friend with a Leica, whose name I will give you. And I want a pony, too. And a life.
Posted by: Rorschach | July 6, 2009 7:40 AM
Relax mate,we're only here for the bacon,geology and lesbian porn.
Posted by: Rick R | July 6, 2009 7:50 AM
OMFG...... bacon, lesbians.....and kitties!!!111!
That picture is so cute I'm going to die right now, this instant.....
So cute it hurts.
Posted by: Mozglubov | July 6, 2009 7:52 AM
That is an adorable picture... It helps to ease the stress of having to give a talk tomorrow. I'm not a seasoned talker like PZ...
Posted by: John D Stackpole | July 6, 2009 8:08 AM
If I was a momma-lynx I would be NOT AT ALL happy having some Colorado biologists poking around in my private maternity-den.
Posted by: Richard Smith | July 6, 2009 8:22 AM
First it was Ida, now another news report of finding the missing lynx...es.
But it is very cute. And I've already got a soft spot for the lynx... But I'm not going to start baby-typing.
Posted by: cherie | July 6, 2009 9:13 AM
Is a kitten really cuter and more eyeball-getting than a baby echidna? How about a grub? In the interest of science, I believe you must ask fellow bloggers to send in their scientifically verified submissions of neonates. Then we can vote.
Don't forget to add the giant hornet grubs from Ed Young's blog -- the video of them thumping their jaws on the sides of their hatching cells is especially effective.
Posted by: Sili
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July 6, 2009 9:56 AM
We are amused. Prof Coyne fits right in.
I should buy his book, really.
Posted by: Mozglubov | July 6, 2009 10:02 AM
@Richard Smith
Well done, sir.
Posted by: cherie | July 6, 2009 10:59 AM
Is a kitten really cuter and more eyeball-getting than a baby echidna? How about a grub? In the interest of science, I believe you must ask fellow bloggers to send in their scientifically verified submissions of neonates. Then we can vote.
Don't forget to add the giant hornet grubs from Ed Young's blog -- the video of them thumping their jaws on the sides of their hatching cells is especially effective.
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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July 6, 2009 11:19 AM
Is that what we'd call inflated cuteness?
It's a puffball, only with fur, and huge enchanting eyes.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: daveau
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July 6, 2009 1:33 PM
Well, OK. As long as it's about biology and the environment, and not just kitteh pandering.
Posted by: Paul Lundgren | July 6, 2009 1:38 PM
I wuv puzzykatz!
Posted by: Tim | July 6, 2009 1:46 PM
Not to be too skeptical, and lynx kittens are not an incredible claim... but are those back paws/feet consistent with a lynx, or any cat? Doesn't the foot look more rodent like?
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | July 6, 2009 2:22 PM
KITTY!
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | July 6, 2009 2:33 PM
Jerry Coyne, #1
Bitch, bitch, bitch. I'm lucky if I get a hundreth of your traffic. You are so neglected.
Tell you what, PZ sends you a Leica, you send me whatever you can get on sale in the camera department at Wal-Mart. Either that, or I send you the latest kitteh picture on Zooborns.
(Don't push me, I play dirty.)
Posted by: SC, OM | July 6, 2009 3:04 PM
OK, I've been wondering about this for a couple of weeks, and am now compelled to ask: If you want more traffic, why don't you link to your blog in the URL box when you leave comments here?
I'm so curious! :)
Posted by: Ophelia Benson | July 6, 2009 3:15 PM
I want a camera, and a pony, and a life, and a cute baby lynx, and a car, and my own radio show with my name on it, and for Francis Collins to be my childhood best friend from when we went to Camp Eeecherlunch together at age 6. That's what I want.
Posted by: Sili
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July 6, 2009 3:54 PM
Oh this is one of those threads ...
I want nude photos of David Marjanovic(´ goes over the c).
And a job.
That doesn't involve teaching.
And pays well.
With a pension.
And more photos of Sastra too.
Taken with a Leika.
By Jerry Coyne.
Posted by: Jerry Coyne | July 6, 2009 4:04 PM
Dear P.Z.,
Since I have not heard from you about your risible and quite idiotic misappropriation of the cat picture idea from my site, I am forced to raise my demands to include not only a Leica, a pony, and a life, but also documentation of your birth certificate, as I reluctantly suspect that you are not in fact a human but an IDiot Borg Drone. I must say that I find your internet stalking quite unacceptable.
If you are not forthcoming with these items, I will be forced to report you not only to the president of your university, but also to the president of Brown University, the head of Stuyvestant High School, the CEO of Facebook, and to my good friend Ben Moller, whom I had the great honor of helping prepare for a debate twenty years ago.
Posted by: AdamK | July 6, 2009 4:28 PM
Bah. Crappy cute lynx.
If is isn't gigantic, red, living in a secret hideout in the Antarctic, and genetically engineered, what good is it?
Posted by: Annapolitan | July 6, 2009 4:51 PM
I don't know about you folks, but I come here for the calama-- er, the squid.
Yeah, the squid. I come here for that.
Posted by: Sili
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July 6, 2009 6:04 PM
This just in.
Papparazzo catches Jerry Coyne as he reads Pharyngula.
(Shhsssh - PeeZed was spawned not born.)
Posted by: Happy Tentacles
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July 6, 2009 6:13 PM
#7 & 10 Yes, baby Echindas are really cute, even in the white squirmy stage. And I really love the Australian name for a baby Echidna - it's a Puggle!
Posted by: herr doktor bimler | July 6, 2009 6:20 PM
the missing lynx...es
I was under the impression that the plural is 'lynges', by analogy with pharynx / pharynges and sphinx / sphinges.
The same geometric logic leads me to the conclusion that if a door has two hinges, and one breaks, then the remaining one is a hinx.
Posted by: Katkinkate | July 6, 2009 6:33 PM
Posted by: Tim @ 14 "Not to be too skeptical, and lynx kittens are not an incredible claim... but are those back paws/feet consistent with a lynx, or any cat? Doesn't the foot look more rodent like?"
My thought as well Tim at first. But I know very little kitties will splay their toes and dig in with claws when moving around until they get strong enough to walk properly. Do lynx kittens have longer back toes than other kittens? I think its claws are buried in the soil.
Posted by: Katkinkate | July 6, 2009 7:51 PM
PS on Comment 26 - the article mentioned that lynx have large back feet.
Posted by: Inky | July 6, 2009 8:43 PM
EeeeeeEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Posted by: bassmanpete | July 6, 2009 9:05 PM
Check out the video of a slow loris being tickled on Jerry Coyne's blog; it's really cute. And I say that as someone who loves cats/kittens.
Posted by: Jadehawk, OM
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July 6, 2009 9:23 PM
I want nude photos of David Marjanovic(´ goes over the c). And a job. That doesn't involve teaching. And pays well. With a pension. And more photos of Sastra too. Taken with a Leika. By Jerry Coyne.replace "doesn't involve teaching" with "doesn't involve customer service"; other than that, seconded
:-D
Posted by: Jadehawk, OM
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July 6, 2009 9:27 PM
complete blockquote fail :-p
replace "doesn't involve teaching" with "doesn't involve customer service"; other than that, seconded
:-D
also, WANT LYNX KITTEH!
Posted by: Claire Kelly | July 7, 2009 9:43 AM
WANT. Want so MUCH.