Content tagged animals

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The names given to the various positions animals can take on shields and crests and such. gulfstream/2435

“Beleaguered bear in bridge rescue.” gulfstream/2336

“Scientists dredge up longest-lived creature, a 400-year-old clam.” Another way of looking at this is that scientists have just killed the world’s … gulfstream/2344

“Rather startled, I watched this scene from close quarters behind the window until 19.10 hours during which time (75 minutes) I made some photographs … gulfstream/1704

Octopus takes a shark! gulfstream/1823

Hurricane-starved bit bulls take on an actual bull. gulfstream/1844

Beaver Overthinking Dam: “After much thought, Messner decided to reconstruct the anterior section of the dam with poplar wood on Tuesday, after he finished … gulfstream/2062

Domestic cats, bred to look like tigers! gulfstream/2190

One day I’ll write this up properly, but in the meantime here’s another datapoint in the manipulative and misleading charity category: Heifer International’s … gulfstream/2205

Terrific picture: small ginger cat looks up at a black bear perched high in a tree after scaring it there. (Although … Google is suspiciously ignorant … gulfstream/2222

African wildlife do their thing: herd of buffalo come across some lions and get set upon, baby buffalo gets knocked into a water-hole and gets fought over … gulfstream/2281

even in mad cow'd Britain, animals deserve a death more dignified than that of mass immolation (Andrew Sullivan) gulfstream/380

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Jared Diamond’s “Collapse.” Apparently, the Norse colonies in Greenland died out because they’d chopped down … gulfstream/1674

“Gay rights activists have protested at a north German zoo’s plans to test the sexual orientation of six male penguins which have displayed … gulfstream/1686

Human being can apparently run further and faster than any other animal. “All together, Lieberman said, these adaptations allowed us to relentlessly … gulfstream/2272

Quotes Collected

In Paris in 1780, of 21,000 registered births, only 5 per cent were nursed by their mothers. Most of the rest were sent to the countryside to be wet-nursed … quotes/169

"Is it One of the Fiercer Animals?" he said, looking the other way. Pooh nodded. "It's a Jagular," he said. "What do Jagulars do?" asked Piglet, hoping … pooh/62

"There's just one thing," said Piglet, fidgeting a bit. "I was talking to Christopher Robin, and he said that a Kanga was Generally Regarded as One of … pooh/20

When someone says that he lacks self-esteem he says it as if he were denied something that is his of right. Merely by virtue of drawing breath, each person … dalrymple/4