Animals
Telling The Bees
George Morley writes in Shakespeare's Greenwood: The Customs of the Country (1900) of the curious tradition of "telling the bees":
I don't have any bees, but I guess I could try "telling the gopher" that lives in my front yard.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 27, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Customs, Superstition
Cinderella Penguin
The tale of a glass flipper.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 25, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Family, Myths and Fairytales, Cartoons, Shoes, Parody
The Land Eaters
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 19, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Destruction, Dreams and Nightmares, Surrealism, Fantasy, Stop-motion Animation
Hendrik Coetzee
Kadoma_teaser from Ben Stookesberry on Vimeo.
Do African explorers still get eaten by crocodiles in the 21st century? It seems a highly Victorian fate.
But it happened to Hendrik Coetzee just a little over a year ago. And now there's a documentary about him, the trailer for which is above.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 04, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Eccentrics, Documentaries, Africa
Sunglasses for Chickens
Invented in 1937 to control cannibalism among chickens. Apparently chickens have a natural instinct to peck each other, but the sight of blood intensifies this instinct. So much so that if one chicken has blood on its feathers, all the others in the flock will peck it to death. This was a real problem for farmers until these rose-colored chicken sunglasses came along, which made it hard for the chickens to see the sight of blood. Nowadays, farmers must have other solutions to the problem of chicken cannibalism, because these glasses are no longer manufactured and are considered collector's items. (National Band and Tag via Feathered Forager)
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 02, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Cannibalism, Fashion
Win Miniature Dog
I wonder what you actually got in the mail if you completed all the requirements for winning one of these things? Or was it impossible to ever complete the requirements?
(via jbcurio on flickr)
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 30, 2012 -
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Category: Animals
Simulated Horse Ride
From my pal, Sherry Mowbray.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 24, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Technology, Reader Recommendation, Asia, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
March 15: Space Bat Memorial Day
On March 15, 2009, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center without any issues, except one. From Wikipedia:
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 15, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy
Tentacle Grape
Old-hand WU-vies know all about the fascination of the Japanese for "tentacle sex." But did you know you could buy the matching soft drink?
One question remains: is the English-only pun with "tentacle rape" intentional or accidental?
Buy yours here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 12, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Junk Food, Asia
Mystery Gadget 8
What is this gadget doing to the poor goat?
Find out here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 11, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Technology, 1930s
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