a whale of a story (sorry)
What happened next?
eat the penguin
clever fish
Even the likeithateit team enjoys the occasional dolphin photo….
fun with virals – the herding of the cats
Nevermore
From Newsminer
FAIRBANKS — Ravens have feelings, too, at least judging from an eerie scene Tuesday morning on Minnie Street in east Fairbanks.
After two ravens roosting on top of a power transformer were electrocuted, hundreds of ravens showed up within a minute or two and started silently circling overhead and perching in nearby trees.
Rod Stephens, owner [...]
Flipper
At the risk of encouraging more worship of these fish by our dreadlocdked tie-dyed friends, here is a very engaging story on the dolphin and how clever they are (hint – much smarter than a poodle) from The Guardian
At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a [...]
contains animal products
Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.
Christien Meindertsma| via Wehr in the world
black stallion
The Kennel Club
What would you say about a pastime in which animals were knowingly bred to contain deformities that were incredibly painful and would lead to an early death? Personally I could think of nothing crueler, yet the great irony of this situation is that the people involved in this process would think of themselves as animals [...]
birdbrain
How smart are crows? Really, very smart indeed. From the BBC
Rooks have a remarkable aptitude for using tools, scientists have found.
Tests on captive birds revealed that they could craft and employ tools to solve a number of different problems.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, came as a surprise as [...]