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Don't Stick Your Fingers in the Cage
Cormorant Fishing
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 30, 2008
Category: tarsier
Tarsiers are prosimian primates, sharing their primitive grouping with lemurs, bushbabies and the aye-aye. However, due to numerous similarities to ancestral monkeys, apes and humans, there is some disagreement as to whether tarsiers should be grouped with the other prosimians...
Posted by ableiman at 4:16 PM • 3 Comments •
June 27, 2008
Category: aquarium
A not at all exhaustive collection of cool bizarro aquariums. Modular fish tank Toilet tank. Kind of like fish purgatory. The Fish-Bird Tank-Cage many more below the fold......
Posted by ableiman at 1:42 PM • 17 Comments •
June 26, 2008
Category: Crocodiles
In a new discovery published in the current issue of the current science affairs journal Current Biology , new research reveals that unborn baby crocodiles begin communicating to each other and their mothers moments before they are born.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 12:16 PM • 4 Comments •
June 24, 2008
Category: wombat
Scientists have solved a timeless question that has divided Andrew and myself, more than once leading us to come to blows...And as it turns out, only one species of giant wombat roamed the planet between 2 million and 10,000 years ago, despite evidence that they varied significantly in size. Boo hoo, Andrew. You lose again!
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 12:01 PM • 7 Comments •
June 23, 2008
Category: Moth
Bio-engineered sterilized moths to be released in San Francisco to quell insatiable moth sex appetites.
Posted by ableiman at 4:00 PM • 4 Comments •
June 19, 2008
Category: New Mexico
New Mexico is phenomenally weird and the Century Plant is a prime example. Thanks to S. Smith for taking this pic and sending it along, even if it ain't an animal. From Wikipedia: The Century Plant or Maguey (Agave...
Posted by ableiman at 7:54 PM • 8 Comments •
June 18, 2008
Category: slug
The mild, wet winter in England has created the perfect conditions for slug overpopulation and the destruction of British gardens.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 12:24 PM • 9 Comments •
June 16, 2008
Category: kissing bug
A pilot program has been launched in England to take blood samples from animals in zoos not with plastic syringes but with live, bloodsucking insects known as a kissing bugs.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 4:48 PM • 12 Comments •
June 15, 2008
Category: zoos
Spent the day at the Brookfield Zoo and was lucky enough to catch a resident polar bear inventing games for himself and doubly lucky my fiancee brought a video cam. Polar Bear Takes a Dive Polar Bear Tossing Around His...
Posted by ableiman at 10:48 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: aquarium
The world's largest zoo and aquarium shot glass collection just got one glass bigger. Someone call the Guinness Book! Growing up in Connecticut, The Mystic Aquarium was basically Benny and my Disney World. Special thanks to Eric Heupel of the...
Posted by ableiman at 9:54 PM • 4 Comments •
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