Since I am in Vancouver for a speech, I had to select this picture for our Sunday animal pic.
Category: Animals
A group of 15 monkeys at Kyoto University’s primate research institute escaped from a high-security research center by learning how to use tree limbs to catapult themselves over a 17ft high electric fence. One of them was named Dr. Zaius. Ok, I made that last part up but it is clear that our monkey overlords are gathering.
Ever wondered how cats celebrated the Fourth without fireworks?
This is a truly amazing animal.
Continue reading “Can Your Dog Do This?”
Buried out in the Peruvian desert is something that can only be called a whale of a whale. “Leviathan Melvillei” has such large teeth that, when uncovered, scientists thought they were elephant tusks.
Continue reading “Whale of a Whale: Meet Leviathan Melvillei”
Where is Samuel L. Jackson when we need him? A US Airways flight was forced to return to the terminal at Atlanta when maggots starting falling from an overhead bin.
Continue reading “Maggots on a Plane: Passenger’s Rancid Meat Causes Stir on US Airways Flight”
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D., IL) is calling for yet another czar in an already czar-heavy administration. This appointee might feel a bit insecure and self-conscious around the Afghanistan Czar, Border Czar, and Car Czar. He would be the Carp Czar tasked with tackling the influx of Asian carp in Lake Michigan. The greatest challenge will be to keep from confusing the Carp Czar and the Tarp Czar (Herb Allison).
Continue reading “Carp Czar: Durbin Asks Obama For A New Position To Take On the Asian Carp”
This is why our Vice President is God’s gift to reporters and YouTube fans. In a visit to an ice cream shop this week, the manager asked him to lower taxes and Biden responded by calling him a smart ass.
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This is perhaps the greatest example of restraint by any creature . . .
This week’s winner of the Pet of the Week is this beautiful creature, Charlie. The proud pet of Malcolm, Charlie is all personality, though a menace to slow-moving birds. If you are interested in nominating a pet (any species allowed), you can find the questions here.
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One has to be careful when reaching for your hat in a dark closet.
Continue reading “Just Hanging Around”
This is Mouse, our pet of the week — nominated by Cathy M. With a ball fetish and a libertarian streak, she reigns supreme today above all animals great and small. Congratulations to Mouse and Cathy M. If you are interested in nominating a pet (any species allowed), you can find the questions here.
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Dee Darwell, 56, had a lifelong fear of primates due to the British woman being raised in a house with her father’s chimpanzee pet — which she described as “positively evil.” Darwell finally decided to overcome her phobia by going to Thailand to visit “Monkey Island” — where she was promptly attacked by monkeys and repeatedly bitten.
Continue reading “Phobia Realized: Woman Seeking to Overcome Fear of Primates Is Attacked on “Monkey Island””
A German man outside of Munich has been arrested after a bizarre scene where he stormed into a clubhouse of Hell’s Angels, dropped his pants and threw a puppy at gang members. He then stole a bulldozer and tried to make an extremely slow getaway.
I just saw these pictures on Reddit: proof that there is hope in the world for opposites to attract and natural enemies to live in harmony.