Animals

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Peabody

https://youtu.be/2RpFPQk7Qw8?feature=shared

Awwww....

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Peabody

https://youtu.be/2RpFPQk7Qw8

Awwww....

Those ortho shoes are a hoot.


Yellowstone tourist suffers consequences after getting too close to bison: ‘Got what he was asking for’
“Can’t read and won’t follow the rules.”

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Peabody

https://youtu.be/2RpFPQk7Qw8

Awwww....

Those ortho shoes are a hoot.


Yellowstone tourist suffers consequences after getting too close to bison: ‘Got what he was asking for’
“Can’t read and won’t follow the rules.”

I saw that this morning.

It's over a year old, thanks Yahoo algorithm. But he was properly stomped. It didn't say the extent of his injuries or anything about recovery.

The "reaction" of the guy in the foreground is heartwarming.

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I saw that this morning.

It's over a year old, thanks Yahoo algorithm. But he was properly stomped. It didn't say the extent of his injuries or anything about recovery.

The "reaction" of the guy in the foreground is heartwarming.

I thought it looked familiar. Turns out I even posted it here in September Instagram comment:

You okay over there Bob??!

Watch: Orca punts seal 70 feet into the air 'among the gulls'

Video and series of stills.



NSAbook:

[billy.pilgrim]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/701129545 ... tid=0NULKw

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https://www.facebook.com/reel/701129545283617

Way cute, but if he's really banned don't reward him with a head rub at the top.

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https://www.facebook.com/reel/701129545283617

Way cute, but if he's really banned don't reward him with a head rub at the top.

He's no longer banned.

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https://www.facebook.com/reel/701129545283617

Way cute, but if he's really banned don't reward him with a head rub at the top.

He's no longer banned.

Cuteness exemption? I've done that.


Number of sea turtle nests on Florida coasts exploding, even tripling in some regions, conservationists say
It has been a record year for the sea turtle nesting season in Florida.

GoESAGo!

[billy.pilgrim]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/701129545283617

Way cute, but if he's really banned don't reward him with a head rub at the top.

He's no longer banned.

Cuteness exemption? I've done that.


Number of sea turtle nests on Florida coasts exploding, even tripling in some regions, conservationists say
It has been a record year for the sea turtle nesting season in Florida.

GoESAGo!

I guess it’s been about 20 to 30 years ago that Florida started restricting gulf front lighting and maybe 10 since requiring “turtle glass” for windows.
Could it be that those dumb environmentalists knew of what they spoke?

Go turtles.

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I guess it’s been about 20 to 30 years ago that Florida started restricting gulf front lighting and maybe 10 since requiring “turtle glass” for windows.
Could it be that those dumb environmentalists knew of what they spoke?

Go turtles.

I am loath to anthropomorphize, but it's hard to imagine a different explanation for this:

Dolphins Lead Lost Whale and Calf Back to Migration Route, Researchers Say (with video)

Go cross-species rescue!

[billy.pilgrim]

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/sto ... d=96476905


Coburg, Germany “were a great mystery unfolded at the Sea Star Aquarium.”
“One recent night the aquarium's whole electrical system shorted out. They fixed it in the morning, but the next night it happened again. Then again.”


we just had to know what was happening, what is going on.
So, a few of the staff decided to spend the night at the aquarium, waiting and watching. And what they saw - nothing.”
Then Otto the octopus was seen at the top of his tank squirting water at the offensive 2,000-watt spotlight over his bedroom.

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https://www.npr.org/templates/story/sto ... d=96476905

Coburg, Germany “were a great mystery unfolded at the Sea Star Aquarium.”
“One recent night the aquarium's whole electrical system shorted out. They fixed it in the morning, but the next night it happened again. Then again.”

we just had to know what was happening, what is going on.
So, a few of the staff decided to spend the night at the aquarium, waiting and watching. And what they saw - nothing.”
Then Otto the octopus was seen at the top of his tank squirting water at the offensive 2,000-watt spotlight over his bedroom.

Another animal victory over tech:

Orcas attacked a Polish yacht for 45 minutes, sinking it off the coast of Morocco, tour company says

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Long-lost mammal rediscovered in remote Indonesia mountains


An echidna walks amid vegetation in the Cyclops Mountains

Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost species of mammal described as having the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole, in Indonesia's Cyclops Mountains more than 60 years after it was last recorded.

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, named after British naturalist David Attenborough, was photographed for the first time by a trail camera on the last day of a four-week expedition led by Oxford University scientists.

Having descended from the mountains at the end of the trip, biologist James Kempton found the images of the small creature walking through the forest undergrowth on the last memory card retrieved from more than 80 remote cameras.

"There was a great sense of euphoria, and also relief having spent so long in the field with no reward until the very final day," he said, describing the moment he first saw the footage with collaborators from Indonesian conservation group YAPPENDA....

"The reason it appears so unlike other mammals is because it is a member of the monotremes – an egg-laying group that separated from the rest of the mammal tree-of-life about 200 million years ago," Kempton said.

The species has only been scientifically recorded once before, by a Dutch botanist in 1961. A different echidna species is found throughout Australia and lowland New Guinea.

Kempton's team survived an earthquake, malaria and even a leech attached to an eyeball during their trip. They worked with the local village Yongsu Sapari to navigate and explore the remote terrain of northeastern Papua....

Persistence pays off in science 97 year old David Attenborough must be thrilled.

I wonder what the effect of climate change will be?

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See, that's why Sasquatch shouldn't be automatically considered malarky.

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See, that's why Sasquatch shouldn't be automatically considered malarky.

Yeti is.

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John Oliver Hilariously Pulls Off Foreign Interference In New Zealand Bird Contest
Vote checkers were so overwhelmed after the comedian's campaign for the pūteketeke they had to delay announcing the winner.

Comedian John Oliver has succeeded in his campaign to have what he describes as a weird, puking bird with a colorful mullet win New Zealand’s Bird of the Century contest.

He managed to elbow out the iconic national bird, the kiwi.

Conservation group Forest and Bird on Wednesday announced that Oliver’s favored water bird, the pūteketeke, had won after Oliver went all-out in a humorous campaign for the bird on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight.” The North Island brown kiwi came in second....

Usually billed Bird of the Year, the annual event is held to raise awareness about the plight of the nation’s native birds, some of which have been driven to extinction. This year, the contest was named Bird of the Century to mark the group’s centennial.

Oliver discovered a loophole in the rules, which allowed anybody with a valid email address to cast a vote.

Oliver had a billboard erected for “The Lord of the Wings” in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington. He also put up billboards in Paris, Tokyo, London, and Mumbai, India. He had a plane with a banner fly over Ipanema Beach in Brazil. And he wore an oversized bird costume on Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show.”

“After all, this is what democracy is all about,” Oliver said on his show. “America interfering in foreign elections.”

Forest and Bird didn’t immediately release the final vote tally Wednesday but said the group received more than 350,000 verified votes, more than six times the previous record of 56,700 votes in 2021....

The contest has survived previous controversies. Election scrutineers in 2020 discovered about 1,500 fraudulent votes for the little spotted kiwi. And two years ago, the contest was won by a bat, which was allowed because it was considered part of the bird family by Indigenous Māori.

This year, the organizers said they eliminated more fraudulent votes, including 40,000 cast by a single person for the eastern rockhopper penguin.

Toki said that when the contest began in 2005, they had a total of 865 votes, which they considered a great success. She said the previous record vote count was broken within a couple of hours of Oliver launching his campaign....

Oliver described how the pūteketeke, which number less than 1,000 in New Zealand and are also known as the Australasian crested grebe, eats its own feathers before vomiting them back up.

“They have a mating dance where they both grab a clump of wet grass and chest bump each other before standing around unsure of what to do next,” Oliver said on his show, adding that he’d never identified more with anything in his life.

Some in New Zealand pushed back against Oliver’s campaign. One group put up billboards reading: “Dear John, don’t disrupt the pecking order,” while others urged people to vote for the kiwi. Oliver responded by saying the kiwi looked like “a rat carrying a toothpick.” ...

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Moose fight wrecks Alaska woman's backyard (video)

Gonna need a stronger fence.

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https://www.facebook.com/zizotravel0/vi ... 003112812/


First swim

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First swim was good but Snowboarding Crow might be better

https://youtu.be/PBlxNkyrMJs?si=3Y8VnjbAL9PwnNZF

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First swim was good but Snowboarding Crow might be better

https://youtu.be/PBlxNkyrMJs

The week in wildlife – in pictures: cute but vicious cats, battling stallions and a baby rhino
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Two examples:

A snowshoe hare shows off its paws in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, US, one of 25 photos that has been shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice award. You can vote on your favourite; the ballot closes on 31 January.

It looks angry to me.

A water monitor lizard swims in the Tapi River, Thailand, during heavy rainfall.

If I saw that irl I would swear off swimming forever, maybe boating, too.

Your favorite?