All Creatures Great and Small

[2020hindsight]

and you'd think this was a pisstake on what happened when this bloke went to take a piss / call to nature

but it ain't
(i've just seen him interviewed on tv lol - all's well that ends well)

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23776403-2,00.html

lol
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23845805-2,00.html
I notice he claimed (on aca) it felt hot down there so he put a cold can of Bundy and coke down his trousers.....

and there he is on TV wearing a Bundaberg T shirt lol.

 

[noirua]

"Chilli", the worlds largest bull: http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/chilli-the-worlds-largest-bull.html

 

[Calliope]

One small well known rodent is in danger of disappearing altogether. The lemming, which used used to fluctuate in about four year cycles from near extinction to plague proportions, could soon be no more. Apparently climate change is the culprit.

Their demise will also affect their predators which include the fox and the snowy owl.

 

[noirua]

Baby leopard cubs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/03/24/GA2009032403961.html?hpid.artslot

 

[Mad Mel]

Tens of millions of birds disappearing across North America

CBC’s The National reports that tens of millions of birds are disappearing across North America.

The following video is from CBC’s The National, broadcast on December 28, 2007.


http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=372

Perhaps their flight path is over this restaurant?

 

[noirua]

"Dead Shark Left in Miami Street": http://news.aol.com/article/dead-shark-in-miami-street/582261

 

[noirua]

"Animals in the news": http://news.aol.com/article/animals-in-the-news-photo-gallery/327798

 

[noirua]

"Giant Rat found in lost volcano", http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8210000/8210394.stm

 

[jbocker]

We have all been told not to flog a dead horse, now the jockeys are encouraged not to flog live ones.
But apparently they still can if within 100m of the winning post. Looks like the authorities are taking an each way bet on this one.

 

[noirua]

Tasmania's neon jellyfish: http://www.thistasmania.com/

 

[Timmy]

Battling through the financial blogs, doing a bit of a catch up, and came across these photos on the Naked Capitalism blog.

Apparently from January 2009 during one of the heatwaves.

Photos captioned thus:
At 120 degrees in Australia this January, it was so hot that koalas were asking people for water

Source (scroll down a bit):
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009...aign=Feed:+NakedCapitalism+(naked+capitalism)

 

[McCoy Pauley]

The first photo gives a new meaning to the term "ankle biter"!

 

[Wysiwyg]

For what reason does a human being kill another living organism? For food? For clothing? For pleasure? For money? Any human is capable of the actions in this following video. Be warned. It shows animals alive after being skinned.

Cover my face as the animals die.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Some footage then of a female leopard behaving maternally toward a baby baboon was incredible.

The female leopard had caught and killed a mother baboon and while carrying the dead mother baboon up a tree, the baby baboon fell onto a branch. The female leopard then carried, licked, nuzzled and played with the baby baboon as if it were a leopard cub.

Although she had never bore leopard cubs, the maternal instinct was more overwhelming than her senses of vision, hearing and smelling. Amazing stuff.

 

[Julia]

For what reason does a human being kill another living organism? For food? For clothing? For pleasure? For money? Any human is capable of the actions in this following video. Be warned. It shows animals alive after being skinned.

Cover my face as the animals die.

My instinct is to ask you not to post this sort of cruelty (and I haven't even watched the video: the thought is enough to make me sick), but then if awareness is not spread about these vile practices nothing will ever change.
Just so, so horrible.

 

[Timmy]

This made me
Monkeys use trees as catapults in escape
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/br...-research-centre/story-e6frf7jx-1225888978829

Then, later, in the same article, this made me

However, the monkeys seemed not to know what to do with their new-found liberty ... Most of them were found hanging around the outside of the fence and at least five were lured back inside with peanuts.

So like people .

 

[noirua]

The 10 Rarest Animals in the World
http://www.greenexpander.com/2007/10/01/the-10-rarest-animals-in-the-world/

 

[CanOz]

The 10 Rarest Animals in the World
http://www.greenexpander.com/2007/10/01/the-10-rarest-animals-in-the-world/

That Iberian Lynx is one of the most handsome cats I've ever seen...

CanOz

 

[burglar]

That Iberian Lynx is one of the most handsome cats I've ever seen...

CanOz

Did you mean this one?

More images here:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/iberian-lynx/oxford-photography

 

[burglar]

European Pine Marten (martes martes)