Category Archives: wildlife
Don’t try this at home
I’ve had this page open in a browser tab for about a week. Can’t seem to let it go, so here it is. I’ve understood for years that people should not under any circumstances go anywhere near polar bears, and … more…
Maggoty
Maggots? In the Daily Telegraph? This is a bluebottle maggot. For a price, this guy and his friends will chew — therapeutically, mind you — on your ulcerated parts. Second thought: a daily stream of this kind of thing would … more…
Marcus Coates’ Dawn Chorus
YouTube – from DAWN CHORUS by Marcus Coates I expect that this will be all over the place in the wake of Jarvis Cocker’s show from Port Eliot at the weekend. If it isn’t, it ought to be. Coates, with … more…
links for 2010-03-15: Red Squirrels
POV – Nutkin's Last Stand | PBS Eccentric northerners on a mission to keep the Greys at bay. Weird racist undertones. (via @bengoldacre) (tags: squirrels documentary PBS environment)
Mouse in VR Maze
YouTube – Mouse in VR Maze (via Neurophilosphy, from amongst Mac Tonnies‘ last few tweets)
buggy
flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy Most ingenious time-lapse photography of insects doing what insects do around streetlamps.
The Evolution of House Cats
Pretty interesting piece on The Evolution of House Cats at Scientific American, in which we discover that most of the varieties and breeds of contemporary cat are no more genetically different than, in the example given, French and Italian people; … more…
serendipitous crustacean
This image, which illustrates a post called Clink-Klonk-Clank! at Little White Earbuds, turned up on FFFF this evening. The post concerns unreleased electronica by a Mr Somewhere. I followed the links, but found no recurrence of the image, so it … more…
Introducing Indohyus
The land-based ancestor of whales : Nature News The teeth hint that the wading creature still preferred terrestrial plants over fish, indicating that it probably took to water to get away from predators rather than in search of food. (via … more…
Haeckel’s Problematical Phylogeny
I’ve had the beginnnings of this post hanging around backstage here since the early summer. Today, the handsome cephalopod illustration above showed up on FFFF, and so (in the absence of any compelling alternative) tonight, Ernst Haeckel, this is your … more…