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Hairless Racoon
In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
June 28, 2007
Category: australia
Mandarin Goby, Synchiropus splendidusResearchers from James Cook University in North Queensland, Australia have made a startling discovery: gobies intentionally deprive themselves of food to avoid conflict with their rulers. Goby society is lorded over by the largest males and females...
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June 26, 2007
Category: feeding
But I just want to cuddle! Bathynomus giganteusIn what might be described as the world's most destructive termite problem, Hotboro Island is actually being eaten away by isopods only about an inch long. Isopods are not in fact insects, but...
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June 25, 2007
Category: video
Seeing Eye Horse - The funniest home videos are hereSeeing Eye Horse...
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Category: africa
A Maclaud's horseshoe bat (being held in a glove) poses for the ladies...For the first time, scientists photographed a Maclaud's horseshoe bat in the forests of Guinea in West Africa. These bats had not been seen in the wild in...
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June 21, 2007
Category: video
Thanks to LonelyFatGuy, our Belgian friend...
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Category: africa
Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara-Anne......According to a new study from Cornell University, African electric fish engage in a dueling performance of electric pulses when in courtship. Scientists had known that the fish emitted electric signals to explore their surroundings and communicate sex and social...
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June 20, 2007
Category: cat
Firefighters in Pocatello, Idaho, pulled the lifeless bodies of four cats and an albino rat from a blaze and then managed to bring them back back to life through artificial resuscitation. The fire department had purchased tiny oxygen masks for...
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Category: pet
Triops australiensisWhere the hell were these things when I was a kid? Triops are small crustaceans in the class branchiopoda, that grow quickly and massively, reaching three inches or longer at full size. Their external appearance has apparently not changed...
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June 19, 2007
Category: spider
Tougher than steel and Kevlar, the silk of the black widow spider has long been coveted by manufacturing companies, defense contractors and comic-book reading nerds as a possible material of the future.Scientists have spent years decoding pieces of the spiders'...
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June 18, 2007
Category: Israel
Don't look at me, I'm hideously bloated!Researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Negev, Israel, have identified whiteleg shrimp as the only known species where the male has a reproductive cycle or "period." The male whitelegs--actually a type of prawn--generate two sperm...
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