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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.
March 31, 2009
Category: toad
In the 1930s, Australian ecologists shortsightedly introduced the Cane Toad, a species indigenous to South America, to their isolated continent to eat agricultural pests. This famously proved to be a complete disaster with the toxic toads running rampant and native...
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March 26, 2009
Category: mollusk
It might not seem like the an 8 inch long leopard slug could put on an amazing sex show. After all, they can be real slimeballs. But actually, these hermaphroditic gastropod mollusks' sexual behavior is quite... well... beautiful. video link:...
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Category: Katie Thompson
It was no wonder that at a young age Katie turned to animals as her sole source of comfort. Her first pet was a galaga named Sadie, that she bought from a street vendor in Kuala Lumpur. She rescued a club-footed tapir in Equador, befriended a flock of endangered cranes in Perth, and even swam, daily, with a pod of Minki whales off the coast of New Foundland.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 1:11 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2009
Category: elephant
Elephant and dog get it on! Ok, not quite.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 6:44 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2009
Category: mosquito
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that scientists have finally taken my advice and designed a ruthless mosquito-killing laser that could never ever malfunction and target human children by mistake.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 6:12 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Crocodiles
Siamese Crocodiles Courtesy of Zooillogix reader extraordinaire, Zellychan....
Posted by ableiman at 10:09 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2009
Category: worm
For the last few months, a killer stalked the streets of Cornwall... or more specifically, the water of Cornwall, and even more specifically, the living reefs exhibit at Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium. Day after day, aquarists would return to the...
Posted by ableiman at 10:33 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 19, 2009
Category: cephalopod
As boneless, gelatinous bags, octopuses rarely find themselves preserved as fossils but just this week it was announced in the journal Palaeontology that three new 95,000,000 year old octopus fossils have been discovered. These are the oldest on record. So...
Posted by ableiman at 10:38 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2009
Category: dracula fish
A new kind of fish with Dracula style fangs has been discovered...in a fish tank that researchers had been keeping for a year.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 5:15 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2009
Category: australia
Zooillogix friend Tweet sent us along yet more cool ring tail possum pictures from Crocodile Dundee land. Here is one with a 10-14 day old baby....
Posted by ableiman at 6:25 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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