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Don't Stick Your Fingers in the Cage
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.
December 31, 2007
Category: Conservation
Seafood Watch is a very cool and very practical conservation effort led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Basically, it is a regularly updated guide to which lake and ocean critters should or should not be devoured each year. At its...
Posted by ableiman at 11:42 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2007
Category: cat
As many of you might have noticed, Benny and I have been off for the week for Christmas in San Francisco. The plan was to visit the Zoo on Wednesday, which obviously did not happen, so we checked out the...
Posted by ableiman at 10:15 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 19, 2007
Category: seal
A pod of Orcas surrounds a seal on an ice sheet and creates waves to try and knock it off. This reminds me of when you buy a candy bar and it gets stuck by the wrapper and you have...
Posted by ableiman at 11:25 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: whale
Japan is a country pretty much known for only one thing: being mean to whales. They eat whales for taste and curiousity and conduct "experiments" on whales for "Mengele street cred." But now, they have finally taken their twisted torture too far...
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 10:47 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2007
Category: albino
Olney, Illinois is famous for white squirrels. In 1943 there were 1000 of the little guys but by the '90s the population remained constant around 200. The town has implemented a rather strict set of laws to protect them. Dogs...
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December 17, 2007
Category: lobster
When it's served at Long John Silvers! I just saw an ad for LJS' new "Buttered Lobster Bites," basically a carton of popcorn-chicken-like-crustacean-parts for $2.99. Careful listeners may have paused when they heard that the lobster was "real langostino lobster."...
Posted by ableiman at 9:20 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: electric
While we're on the topic, we thought you might enjoy these videos of electric eels using their super powers to defend the world from evil. It's a Christmas miracle! What's up now, son? Does that feel good? Who's the punk...
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Category: electric
Using aluminum panels as electrodes, Japanese inventor Kazuhiko Minawa has powered a mall Christmas tree with an electric eel. Minawa told Reuters Televesion that "If we could gather all electric eels from all around the world, we would be able...
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Category: opossum
Much like Pier 1 Imports is the place to make great unexpected holiday gift discoveries this season, Indonesia is the #1 source for mildly inventive new mammal species. In the Foja Mountains rainforest of eastern Papua province, a joint Indonesian...
Posted by ableiman at 10:26 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 12, 2007
Category: weekly readers' poll
Two weeks ago, we asked you what your favoritest animals in the world were. Then, last week we asked you to up the ante and get weirder. You responded in turn with a veritable cornucopia of odd critters some of which we had never heard of! (Just kidding of course we'd heard of them, we're like freaking bizarre animal encyclopedias.) Anyway, without further ado, your responses (in video, whenever possible):
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