Category Archives: wildlife
festive brass toad
can has bluebottlz? Gorbless us, every one. UPDATE: the preceding post is apparently not considered related, and without it — if you are arriving in the hereafter, once this has scrolled away — you will not see the origin of … more…
links for 2007-12-05: daily coyote
The Daily Coyote Shreve Stockton and her cat are raising an orphaned baby coyote in a log cabin in Wyoming. Frequent updates and lots of pictures, many of them quite insufferably cute… (via J-Walk) (tags: coyote wildlife Wyoming)
more tentacles
I haven’t discovered any information from the site this came from. The relevant information is displayed as an image, and there’s no alt text provided. (via FFFF again. I am thinking that perhaps I should be looking at setting up … more…
“Mushroom Faking” by Dexter Petley
From Caught By The River, which is new to me: Seasons have become increasingly meaningless. Weather patterns within very localised habitats are the key to mushroom knowledge, and the resulting forest-craft is no different to water-craft. I learned this one … more…
persistence of cephalopods
A few weeks ago, I ran across a bunch of pictures by visioluxus at DeviantArt, Of The Deep (nsfw) which featured a model tastefully draped with an octopus. I was reminded of, and was prompted to locate the Hokusai woodcut, … more…
Walrus on Disco Island!
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Over and out from tagged walruses Eight walruses were tagged in April, in the hope of discovering where they spent the summer months. Most of the trackers stopped working early on, and now the last … more…
flocking
Statistical physics is for the birds – Physics Today October 2007 At dusk each winter evening, millions of starlings fly in from the countryside to their roosting sites in Rome and, before settling into trees for the night, “they spend … more…
The exclusion zone
Dan McMillan, Shipeliki school room, 1995 A most Ballardian photostream arising from eleven visits to the depopulated region surrounding the remains of Chernobyl. (via wood s lot) [I’ve got myself bogged down in a long post that’s still far from … more…
Red Kites at Gigrin Farm
This is not a huge distance from where I spent ten years; I was about 25 miles further west. There were red kites nesting nearby, and I used to see them all the time, but it’s exhilerating to see them … more…
Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers!
Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers! Oh yes! A handsome collection, being a side-dish of the rather wonderful and previously unsuspected (by me, at any rate) octopus blog, Octopia. This cover particularly caught my eye, despite that the perspective and scale are … more…