Animals

[neoplacebo]

Those polkas make me nervous. Accordians are on my list of things to stomp.

[Vrede too]

Glad nobody got stomped or harp slapped.

If it was an accordion she would have been deer-stomped.

Those polkas make me nervous. Accordians are on my list of things to stomp.

Some need double-stomping:

[neoplacebo]

An accordian makes an awful lot of agonizing noise when it gets stomped. It's pretty much something to avoid unless you're on vacation and will be leaving town soon. Awful terrible shit and noise.

[billy.pilgrim]

Go serg

https://youtu.be/TyI2jZWh_Bg

[billy.pilgrim]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cbu93sXA ... MyMTA2M2Y=

[neoplacebo]

I ate another animal today. Another two got away. In fact, I've eaten so many animals I was kicked out of the animal kingdom decades ago. They don't know what they're missing.

[billy.pilgrim]

I ate another animal today. Another two got away. In fact, I've eaten so many animals I was kicked out of the animal kingdom decades ago. They don't know what they're missing.

I'd like one or two of those turkeys the little dog chased off.

[billy.pilgrim]

https://littlebuddythecat.com/2022/04/1 ... e-grounds/

"People who run shelters in the city of 42,000 have tried to find a home for Anastasia in the past, but she always returns to the Rector’s Palace, so a group of volunteers set up a small cardboard shelter for her on the grounds.

But the snooty museum authority didn’t like the little dwelling and had it removed in May of 2021. In response a local woodworker named Srdjan Kera built a beautiful wooden cat house for Anastasia that combines elements of the palace’s gothic and baroque architecture, boasts a distressed finish that matches the five-century-old building’s facade, features a velvet bed for its resident feline princess, and even has a golden nameplate with “Anastasia” etched into the metal. (Spelled Anastazija in Croatian.)

The little cat palace blends right in under the larger palace’s arcade and even emulates the stonework patterns, but the people who run the museum authority still weren’t impressed and earlier this month ordered the eviction of Anastasia for a second time."

"The people of Dubrovnik aren’t having it. A petition to return Anastasia to her rightful palatial place has garnered more than 12,000 signatures, a huge number for such a small city. In addition, some 90 percent of readers said they wanted Anastasia to stay at the palace when polled by a local newspaper.

“Anastasia needs her house! Give it back,” one local wrote on Facebook. “Apparently, cultural institutions are run by people without culture.”'

The snootiness of it is beyond belief.

[billy.pilgrim]

https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/trai ... a-toy-bear


Trail Camera Catches Bear Cub Taking A Bath With A Toy Bear He Found

[Vrede too]

https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/trai ... a-toy-bear

Trail Camera Catches Bear Cub Taking A Bath With A Toy Bear He Found

Awww.


Phone Camera Catches Orangutan Playing With A Zoo Visitor He Found

I was totally rooting for the orangutan.

[billy.pilgrim]

Laundry time.

https://youtu.be/rbE53XUtVw0

[Whack9]

Saving a guinea pig

https://www.reddit.com/r/perfectlycutsc ... urce=share

[Vrede too]

Saving a guinea pig

https://www.reddit.com/r/perfectlycutsc ... a_hamster/

Spoiler:

That’s not a hamster. That’s a guinea pig.

That WAS a guinea pig

I thought it would jump back in the hole but no. After seeing what just happened I wish it jumped back into the hole

That was my guess.

[Vrede too]

'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields

... "I don't know how to process it all right now, to be honest with you. It's amazing," said Dr. Grant Zazula, the Yukon government's paleontologist.

A little after noon on June 21, National Indigenous People's Day, a young miner working in Yukon's Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City, was digging up muck using a front end loader when he struck something.

He stopped and called his boss who went to see him right away.

When he arrived, Treadstone Mining's Brian McCaughan put a stop to the operation on the spot.

Within half an hour, Zazula received a picture of the discovery.

According to Zazula, the miner had made the "most important discovery in paleontology in North America."

It was a whole baby woolly mammoth, only the second one ever found in the world, and the first in North America.

"She has a trunk. She has a tail. She has tiny little ears. She has the little prehensile end of the trunk where she could use it to grab grass," said Zazula....

... Two geologists, one with the Yukon Geological Survey and another with the University of Calgary, were able to drive to the creek and recover the baby woolly mammoth and do a complete geological description and sampling of the site.

"And the amazing thing is, within an hour of them being there to do the work, the sky opened up, it turned black, lightning started striking and rain started pouring in," said Zazula.

"So if she wasn't recovered at that time, she would have been lost in the storm."

The baby woolly mammoth, named Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal" in the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin's Hän language, is about 140 cm long, which is a little bit longer than the other baby woolly mammoth that was found in Siberia, Russia, in May 2007.

Zazula thinks Nun cho ga was probably about 30 to 35 days old when she died. Based on the geology of the site, Zazula believes she died between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago.

"So she died during the last ice age and found in permafrost," said Zazula.

He said that the geologists who recovered her saw a piece of the animal's intestine with grass on it.

"So that's telling us what she did the last moments of her life," said Zazula.

He said the mammoth was probably a few steps away from her mother, but ventured off a little bit, eating grass and drinking water and got stuck in the mud.

"And that event, from getting trapped in the mud to burial was very, very quick," he said.

... "There will be one thing that stands out in a person's entire life and I can guarantee you this is my one thing," said Treadstone Mining's McCaughan....

Zazula remains overwhelmed by the finding.

"It's going to take days and weeks and months to sink in and it's going to take days and weeks and months working with Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in to decide what we do and learn from this."

[Vrede too]

Bulls win, and I'm okay with that.

At least 6 dead, 200 injured after stands collapse during bullfight in Colombia

[Vrede too]

When they say "water hazard", they mean it:

Dog walker found man killed by Florida alligator beside a Frisbee. Victim identified

The man believed to have been killed by an alligator at a popular Florida city park has been identified as 47-year-old Sean Thomas McGuinness, and he was a frequent visitor to the lake where he died, officials say....

Investigators believe McGuinness had gone into the 53-acre freshwater lake looking for Frisbees when he was attacked. The park is home to an 18-hole disc golf course, and “five holes are adjacent to the lake,” according to DGCourseReview.com.

“While the medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death, it was apparent that McGuinness suffered injuries related to alligators in the lake,” police said in a June 1 update. “Detectives believe this occurred in the nighttime hours as McGuinness did not appear to have been in the lake for a long period of time before he was discovered the morning of May 31.”

The corpse was “missing three limbs,” Largo police told station WFLA. John S. Taylor Park management reported “McGuinness was known to frequent the park and enter the lake with disregard to the posted ‘No Swimming’ signs,” police said....

“A witness also advised detectives that McGuinness was known to sell discs back to people within the park ... and McGuinness was found within a few feet of a disc in the water,” police said....

Opps.

[O Really]

How much of a fool does it take to get into Florida park water - at night, no less - along the edge? The water in those ponds isn't particularly clear anyway. The sheer stupidity is amazing.

[Vrede too]

How much of a fool does it take to get into Florida park water - at night, no less - along the edge? The water in those ponds isn't particularly clear anyway. The sheer stupidity is amazing.

... with 8 and 10 foot gators, possibly larger.

[billy.pilgrim]

https://news.yahoo.com/another-giant-af ... 20141.html

[Ulysses]