Taxidermy Fashion Accessories

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Fashion on October 23, 2009 at 10:11 am

Artist Reid Peppard makes fashion accessories out of dead animals. Imagine cufflinks made from little mouse heads, a coin purse that was once a rat, or headbands with real wings. Shown is a hair comb made from a guinea pig. Link -via Digg

 
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Elephant Tusk Surgery

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Medicine, Video Clips on September 29, 2009 at 6:23 pm

If you think about it, an elephant’s tusk is a big tooth. And like any tooth, a tusk can break or otherwise get damaged and the elephant would then need to see a dentist (shudder!). That’s exactly what happened in the North Carolina Zoo.

But how exactly does one operate on an elephant’s tusk? Dainty dental equipments surely aren’t enough…  Enter Dr. Gary Spodnick and his power tools!

Disclaimer:  This version of the video, although no blood is spilled, may be disturbing to some viewers, since the power tools are shown in use on the animal.

Link – via myfox8

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Fur Elise with Animal Sounds

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Music, Video Clips on September 9, 2009 at 2:23 pm


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The sounds of a cat on bass purr, a loon on lead vocal, two owls, wood stork and cuckoo (solo) are the sole musical instruments in this furry arrangement of the classic, Fur Elise, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.

You can see who is currently singing at the botton of the screen.

– via SwitchZoo

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Rainbow Frog is Worshipped as God

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Religion on June 16, 2009 at 3:47 am

In India, a newly discovered color-changing frog has been worshipped as a god. Reji Kumar, the person who found it, keeps the frog in a glass jar at his home where hundreds of people come to see it every day.

Apart from the obvious biological findings this hopping lava lamp can provide, it also gives an additional insight as to how religions and spiritual groups can emerge. I don’t blame them either. Who needs color-saturating hallucinogens for spiritual transcendence when you have a kaleidoscopic animal?

I say this new rainbow frog will become the new symbol for racial equality, just as long as it doesn’t croak (which is actually a concern).

The frog was a dazzling white colour when Reji, who is from Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, in south India, first spotted it.

Then it changed to yellow and had gone grey by the time he got it home.

“By night the frog was dark yellow, and then it became transparent so you could see its internal organs,” Reji, a life worker, reportedly said.

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Jumbo Air Landing

Posted by Ali S. in Animal, Video Clips on April 1, 2009 at 6:28 pm


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Here is a really neat PSA from the “International Fund for Animal Welfare” from Germany concerning the trafficking and buying of products made from protected and endangered animals such as the Elephant. Air Dumbo now landing!

 
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Bat Boards Discovery, Stowaway Unlikely to Have Survived

Posted by Urbanist in Animal, Travel & Places on March 18, 2009 at 9:43 pm

Hitchhikers in space … wasn’t there a book about that? An apparently injured bat was expected to simply fly away when the spacecraft gunned the engines before take-off but inexplicably clung to the outside of the ship as it made its way up. It is speculated that the bat may have been injured and unable to fly away. There was, needless to say, no sign of the bat when the Discovery docked at the International Space Station.

NASA officials noticed the bat before shuttle’s liftoff and brought in a wildlife expert to look at video images of it. The expert said it appeared to be a free-tailed bat that probably had a broken left wing and an injured right shoulder or wrist.

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Kitty Poses for a Calendar

Posted by Ali S. in Animal, Christmas, Video Clips on December 24, 2008 at 12:27 am


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This has to be one of the most serene/patient feline I have ever seen. Dressed in ridonkulous costumes this cat gets its picture taken for a calendar in Japan and wishes you all a Merry Christmas. What a thoughtful kitty. ;)

via – Tokyo Mango

 
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Mouse Agility

Posted by Ali S. in Animal, Sports, Video Clips on December 7, 2008 at 6:35 pm


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I’ve certainly heard of training dogs, cats, parrots and almost every other animal under the Sun to do tricks but trained mice is something new to me. This little video presents Brain Storm who has been trained to run through a dastardly tough looking course. However, she prevails with the awesome Olympic Fanfare Theme by John Williams playing in the background to help her speed to victory and glory! Oh, and please don’t get too squeamish over the mouse or the mousey leftovers on the table. ;)

And the judges have their score cards ready: 9.0, 9.0, 9.5, 9.0, 10.0! It’s a new record!

More info on Brain Storm and other mice here – Link

 
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