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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.

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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.

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Read the super-informative "Interview with the Bleiman Brothers" here.

October 31, 2007

Scientists Digitally Dissect Fossil Spider

Category: arachnid

Using a technique called very high-resolution x-ray computed tomography, researchers at the University of Manchester dissected a 50 million year old spider encased in amber. As reported in Zootaxa, leveraging the same technology used in CAT scans, it can make...

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Big Ben the Axolotl

Category: salamander

We get a lot of requests to feature friends pets on Zooillogix. Some people just don't seem to get the fact that their golden retriever does not belong on a site devoted to bizarre zoology (you know who you are...

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October 30, 2007

Insect Warfare: the Next Generation of Terrorism?

Category: insect

We've posted a handful of stories about insects being outfitted with surveillance equipment, converted into cyborgs and even remade as robots, but what about using insects as instruments of biological warfare? As it turns out, this may be the most...

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October 29, 2007

Scientists Find/Kill Oldest Living Creature on Record: 400 Year-Old Clam

Category: clam

Researchers from the University of Bangor recently discovered the oldest known animal on record, a 405 year-old clam, while dredging at the bottom of the North Atlantic above Iceland. Then they killed it. When I was your age, we used...

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October 26, 2007

Albatrosses Have No Idea Where They're Going

Category: bird

Who would have thought that the wandering albatross flew around the earth randomly with absolutely no plan? Apparently the person who named it. According to some fishermen, albatrosses look "wicked baked." Scientists used to believe that albatrosses followed a strange...

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Squid Have Teeth Like Old Men

Category: squid

According to the Tree of Life project, Promachoteuthis sulcus is known from a single, small (25 mm ML, sex unknown) but distinctive individual from great depths in the south Atlantic Ocean. Now Benny and I are no cephalopodologists, but those...

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October 25, 2007

Bedazzling Animal Photos

Category: Photography

The annual Shell Wildlife Photography contest is winding to a close, and the winners have been chosen. The award-winning shots will go on display at the Natural History Museum of London October 27th and then embark on a world-wide tour....

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October 23, 2007

Drunken Elephants Electrocute Themselves

Category: elephant migration

As reported in the AP, six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted after drinking alcohol in northeast India and going berserk. Apparently the animals have developed a taste for rice beer, fermented by farmers in plastic drums, and come looking for...

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6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World: Cracked Magazine Online

Category: cuisine

This was posted by our good friends over at cracked.com. (Actually, I think they are good friends of mine...old college buddies from my days as a lovable scamp at Gtown!) Anyway, worth a read. (Disclaimer: do not read if you...

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October 22, 2007

Flaming Squirrel Blows Up Woman's Car

Category: squirrel attack

Hudson County Now reported late last week that a flaming squirrel fell from the sky and blew up a woman's car in Bayonne, NJ. Lindsey Millar, 23, and her brother, Tony, 22, were inside their home when they looked outside...

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