Follies of the Madmen #210

Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 29, 2013 - Comments (7)
Category: Animals, Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature

Unusual Friends

The book 'Unlikely Friendships 47 Remarkable Stories From The Animal Kingdom' by Jennifer S. Holland is a menagerie of inter species friendships that charm and delight. The baby antelope and the lioness that adopted it, pictured above, is just one of the unusual pairs described at the link. The book is available on Amazon.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 24, 2013 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals

Guinea Pig Love

A German University was ordered by a court to move their guinea pig enclosure due to all the noise the animals were making. Much of it during sex due to the lab policy of unrestrained breeding. They are apparently free love guineas.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 17, 2013 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals

Where’s Mrs. Veal—That Cat Lady?

Not for the faint of heart!!

When Janet Veal hadn't been seen for a while, the officials were notified.

Travel down this lovely country road and you'll find her house.



They had to use a ladder to get into the house for some reason, and found a dead dog, a dead cat, and several live cats.

What had the animals been living on?

Parts of Mrs. Veal.

Her partially eaten body was disconcerting for the officer who discovered her and the coroner who determined she died of natural causes.

Here's the link to the official story from the Daily News.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2391223/Janet-Veal-56-gnawed-eaten-CATS-kitchen-floor-died.html

What's the lesson? Don't have a heart-attack with a house full of animals if you want an open casket?

Or is there another lesson?

Posted By: gdanea - Thu Aug 15, 2013 - Comments (8)
Category: Animals

Fear of Flying

Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 15, 2013 - Comments (1)
Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Nature, Cartoons

Elephants Never Forget

Fifteen elephants keep revisiting the area, near Matari Railway Station in India, where one of the herd was struck down by a train recently. They seem to be bent on revenge as they are damaging houses and blocking the tracks near the site of the accident. Attempts to to chase them off have been only partly successful as the angry, grieving animals keep returning.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 09, 2013 - Comments (3)
Category: Animals

How to howl

A lot of people told her that howling would get her nowhere in life, but now she's a howling instructor. So that shows them!

Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 07, 2013 - Comments (9)
Category: Animals, Dogs

Holy Bat-babies, Batman!

This short clip may change your opinion of bats and their scary reputation. My favorite part is where an official from the Australian government says they really need these bats to pollinate the plants.



Trisha Wemberley is my new hero. She stayed up three nights in a row once to care for these orphaned bats.

Here's the link to the Austrailian Bat Clinic:

http://australianbatclinic.com.au/

How many bats do you want to adopt?

Posted By: gdanea - Thu Aug 01, 2013 - Comments (6)
Category: Animals

Vivacious Chicken

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An illustration from Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables.

Maybe it's just me, but the notion of carrying a "vivacious chicken" around on one's shoulder strikes my funnybone just perfectly.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 28, 2013 - Comments (9)
Category: Animals, Emotions, Literature, Nineteenth Century

POUND, by Downey Sr & Jr

The first clip shows Robert Downey Jr's first role in the year 1970, in a film by his father, Robert Downey Sr. As an example of late-60's weirdness-- Well, let's hear from Leanne Benson at IMDB:

I saw this film last night at the Barbican in London, apparently it hadn't been shown for thirty years, longer than I've been alive! We were warned at the beginning that it wasn't the easiest film to watch and with that in mind, I actually found it not too difficult to watch. All the characters were very different and I really like the idea of having people play the animals. It was pretty sad but also heartwarming in a way. I loved Robert Downey jr as the puppy, so cute!!!

I would say that the film was pretty bizarre and I'm not sure if I could watch it again for a while but for someone like me who is interested in they ways of past decades, I think it was a brilliant peek into the late sixties. There was one particular character, the old lady who played the dog with the mange problem who I thought was brilliant, amazing styling and directing. A film that should be available to be shown.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 18, 2013 - Comments (2)
Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Celebrities, Movies, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1960s