Animals
California Roadkill Database
Find out what's been run over in the past 90 days. There's even a roadkill photo gallery. The site is maintained by UC Davis researchers who use it to track the movement of species throughout the state.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 08, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Death
Victoria the Bowling Kangaroo
Who knew that kangaroos could bowl!
MATCHING FIGURES — Shapely actress Monique Van Vooren is all set to match strikes and spares with Victoria, the bowling kangaroo, at the opening of a huge new bowling alley in New York. The bowling palace is the newest and largest of its kind in the East.
Source: Pampa Daily News - Oct. 1, 1958
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 06, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Sports, 1950s
Town terrorized by mad cats
This sounds like it could have been the start of a horror movie. The feline version of The Birds perhaps.
Source: San Francisco Call - May 26, 1890. via WSIHN
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 05, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Cats, Nineteenth Century
Happy Easter 2015!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 05, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Holidays, Easter, Women
Heads Up
How would you like one of these guys to land on your head? People walking through a particular field in the Netherlands get the chance to find out what its like. The friendly owl likes to spend a minute or so on his human perches before flying off.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 26, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Flight
BIG-CAT SCAN
A lion getting a CAT scan!
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 21, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Hospitals, Medicine
World’s Biggest Cuckoo Clock
Schonach, Germany, is the heart and homeland of the cuckoo-clock industry. Two houses in fact have been transformed into giant cuckoo clocks to commemorate this.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 20, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Kitsch and Collectibles, Technology, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Rev. Hansen’s Bible Birds
In 1940, Rev. Hansen started touring around the U.S. with his family, putting on a show in which he used trained birds to demonstrate lessons from the Bible. Newsweek (Dec. 10, 1951) offered this description of the act:Other birds ride on a tiny electric train, eat at tables, and climb ladders while the Hansens appropriately quote the Bible. For example, when Tiger the canary sits on Catnip the cat while daughter Sylvia watches (see picture), Mr. Hansen quotes Isaiah 11:6, "... the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the faitling together; and a little child shall lead them."
Mr. Hansen feels that the whole act is "a demonstration of faith. Pete is not afraid of the flaming hoop because he knows I am holding it. Muggs has to stretch out his neck to swallow a sword that's as long as he is, but he has faith in us."
Amazingly, Hansen was able to continue putting on his Bible Birds show for 60 years, until he died in 2002. See Roadside America for some more info.
Hansen makes Boom-Boom eat at a table
Tiger, Catnip, and Sylvia play
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 07, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Entertainment, Religion, 1950s
Look- A Squirrel!
A drunken squirrel that is. Either that or he's half bunny.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 05, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Alcohol, Eating
Free Ride
An amazing picture of a weasel riding on a woodpecker in flight. Flying for free and no TSA, lucky beast!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 03, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature
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