Tag: animals
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Best mimicry ever
From Real Monstrosities via Ed Yong via Matthew Cobb comes one of the best cases of mimicry I’ve ever seen. Natural selection has been a fantastic artist here, giving a perfect illusion of three-dimensionality. In fact, this may be the most astonishing case of mimicry I know.
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Found GC5RZB4 #10..CHEWBACCA
This checkin to GC5RZB4 #10..CHEWBACCA reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Staying in nearby Wroxall Abbey for a Christmas party with a nonprofit I volunteer with, I took the opportunity to wander out to find this cache and nearby and GC1H3PK this morning between breakfast and check-out. I was watched …
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Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo and Wild Wolves
For the first time in a long while, Dan's been setting up new geocaches. Also: did you know that Oxford used to have a zoo? In Kidlington‽
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Harrier hawk flies between Dan's arms
While on lunch break from the MCGProjects conference in York, Jenny Townshend shoots footage of a harrier hawk flying through a loop made by the arms of Dan and some random tourist.
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In Zimbabwe, We Don't Cry for Lions
Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me.
So sorry about Cecil.
Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe?
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TIL the ancient Greeks used shocks from electric rays to numb the pain of childbirth and operations
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Found "Lucky number 7" in /r/pics, but here's a better home
AltCow with "7"-shaped marking on face
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Where'd it go!? [x-post from /r/funny]
AltCat pranked by video of another cat
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Owl in flight [x-post from /r/pics]
AltOwl in flight
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Kitten vs. wipers [x-post from just about everywhere, but we know it belongs here]
AltKitten chasing windscreen wipers
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Here, fishy fishy fishy...
AltFlying shark toy scaring a cat.
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Jersey
JTA, Dan, Ruth, and her mother take a long-weekend holiday to the island of Jersey, and nobody kills anybody.
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Hello 2013: Goodbye 2012
In a belated blog post, Dan looks back on 2012, and describes it as one of the hardest years of his life.
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MS Paint sloth [x-post from /r/funny]
AltMS Paint sloth
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Puppy Eating Time
Dan puts his foot in his mouth, and makes it sound like he was considering putting his boss's new pet puppy in there, too. But then everything turns out better than expected.