Don't Stick Your Fingers in the Cage
Raccoon / Dog Wrestling
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.
November 30, 2008
Category: spider
Two weeks ago the University of Colorado College of Engineering sent two orb weaving spiders up in the space shuttle. The spiders' web building behavior was observed and streamed back to earth, serving as a classroom tool for teaching fifth...
Posted by ableiman at 9:41 PM • 6 Comments •
November 28, 2008
Category: squid
Very cool video of a bizarre squid from the genus Magnapinna. Also known as bigfin squid, few specimens have ever been observed and only a handful ever captured. The squid in this footage has tentacles 20 feet long. This footage...
Posted by ableiman at 11:55 PM • 4 Comments •
November 25, 2008
Category: horse
Riverdance Miniatures in Victoria, Australia may have set a new record for the world's smallest horse. This prematurely born foal stands only 15 inches high, or 3.3 "hands", in horse-speak. The previous record for a fully grown horse was 4...
Posted by ableiman at 3:04 PM • 19 Comments •
November 20, 2008
Category: tarsier
"Scientists" tell us that the tarsier is the only member of its lonely family Tarsiidae, which itself is the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes... We here at Zooillogix think they might be more closely related to other species...
Posted by ableiman at 10:42 AM • 13 Comments •
November 19, 2008
Category: zoos
If you are one of the 10 or 20 people in the world living outside of the Zooillogix bubble, you might not know that I collect zoo and aquarium shot glasses. If you send me a new one (scroll down...
Posted by ableiman at 10:00 PM • 2 Comments •
High in the mountaintop forests of Indonesia, the little Furby-gremlin hybrid known as the pygmy tarsier hid undiscovered (and unmolested) for the last ninety years. Last seen alive in the 1920s,it was thought extinct until researchers from Texas A&M University rediscovered the little guy last month.
Posted by ableiman at 12:23 PM • 7 Comments •
November 14, 2008
Category: new species
The Census of Marine life is the gift that keeps on giving. Here are the latest pics of some new species they've discovered at the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 2:46 PM • 20 Comments •
November 13, 2008
Category: salmon
A monster salmon the size of a man is found in CA.
Posted by ableiman at 5:24 PM • 10 Comments •
November 12, 2008
Category: whale
The tiny 3.5 ft. long helicopters in the video below hover over sperm whales as they spew air, mucus and other gases out of their blowholes.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 2:53 PM • 4 Comments •
November 8, 2008
Category: squirrel
Speaking of animals commonly found in the US, we bring you the gray squirrel engaged in a typical fall ritual to prepare for the winter....
Posted by ableiman at 11:24 AM • 2 Comments •
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