Cougar realizing that CAPTCHAs prove non-artificiality by identifying traffic lights and crosswalks … the very thing that self driving cars are supposed to do.
Category Archives: Mammal
Bighorn Sheep
This sheep is aware that the 1980’s are as far away from today as WWII is from the 1980’s, but it doesn’t bother him because he likes being a time traveler.
Chacoan Peccary
That feeling when your pandemic restrictions are loosening up but you’re not sure if you actually want to hang out with anyone anymore.
Bactrian Camel
This camel has opinions that initially seem like reasonable statements on economic priorities, but that upon review place the personal property of his friends above the lives of those he doesn’t personally know.
He calls this view “social responsibility”.
Pig
Frankly, the prevalence of the phrase “hog wild” led me to expect a bit more dynamism.
Badgers
The badger-run sushi industry is still at a low maturity level.
Puma
Puma that accidentally followed a link to 4chan.
Rabbit
I know it’s hard to believe in January, but once it was so hot outside that the rabbits melted.
Seal
Seal of disapproval.
Orcas
In the ads and documentaries, whale watching looks like you go out on the boat on a beautiful day and watch the whales jump right next to the boat.
In reality, whale watching is cold and rainy, can make you motion sick, and the whales stay far away – mostly underwater.
Still worth doing, but it’s good to have realistic expectations.
Yellow Throated Marten
A weird thing about visiting a lot of zoos is that they specialize in rare species. This is not a rare species. It’s all over Asia … but it’s the first one I’ve ever seen and I had to go to France to do it. I’ve seen tons (literally) of animals rarer than the yellow throated marten, but this was the coolest animal of the visit – because it was new to me and that doesn’t happen that much anymore.
Orangutan
Fabio* was airbrushed**
* For those of you who haven’t seen 40 yet, Fabio Lanzoni was a famous model in the 1980’s*** and 1990’s*** who only looked like this around the (bleached) hair.
** For those of you who haven’t seen 30 yet, airbrushing was an analog**** version of photoshop.
*** For those of you who haven’t seen 20 yet, I am talking about things that happened in the last century.
**** For those of you haven’t seen 10 yet, this means “in those ancient day before computers existed”.
Red Panda
Red panda that still isn’t all that sure about this 2021 idea.
Orangutan
This orangutan sees humans complaining that the internet is full of negativity and is waiting for them to realize the internet is made of electrons.
Caracal
The idea of posting this way is to build a buffer so if you have a tiring or distracting day, a post still goes up. The downside is that it is harder to comment on recent events.
That’s okay. I’m sure nothing of interest happened yesterday.
Orangutan
This orangutan suspects that claims that all bad things will end along with the year 2020 are mistaken but doesn’t want to bother people about it – as bothering humans seldom goes well for orangutans.
Colobus Day!
Happy Colobus Day everyone.
It’s worth celebrating the colobus because, at no point in their history did they subjugate, murder, maim, and torture others of their species, just to get more a shiny metal that they didn’t even make things out of.
Black French Squirrel
When this squirrel said “money is no object”, he was referring to the fact that most societies have moved beyond scarcity tracking, like the gold standard, and is using money to represent more abstract concepts like social obligation, power dynamics, and false inter-cultural valuations.
This squirrel would like to apologize for the misunderstanding.
Zebra
This horse assures you that stripes are really quite fashionable, that everyone is wearing them now, and would really appreciate it if you could give him a ride to the city and away from the vicinity of the prison.
Southern White Rhino
It is erroneous to say “science doesn’t support re-opening this early”. Science simply suggests that opening this early will cause a large number of otherwise unnecessary* deaths and a likely shortened and more painful lifespan for some of the survivors.
Politically, this needs to be balanced against other critical factors, like the availability of haircuts** and stock market indices. So it’s really a heads vs tails sort of thing.
* Don’t get me started on the concept of “necessary deaths”.