Antelopes often mull things over as they graze.
This is thinking that if we’re building the mirror universe reality from Star Trek, at least it means we’ll get to go to space.
Category Archives: Mammal
Giraffe
The giraffe’s extremely long legs and neck makes it ideally suited for eating the sensitive leaves on the tops of trees.
Yeah.
Chipmunk
This chipmunk loves literature and suggests that if people feel a need to act but know not how, they might look to Lysistrata.
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Time change tonight!
Remember the rule: “Spring Forward, Fall into a deep and lasting depression over the state of the world, your personal life, and the likelihood that things will never improve, leaving you sad and miserable for the rest of your life as you plaintively weep over the inconsistency of time itself.”
Red Kangaroo
Unlike in American politics, a kangaroo’s counterbalance is functional.
Antelope
Some areas of the Savannah are surprisingly pointy.
Zebra
ISBN: 1421419092
Black Mangaby
Black mangaby pretended to be a spider monkey.
Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
There are several types of cloud rats in the world. This one is doing fine which, oddly, means that they’re really hard to find in zoos. So if you want to see one, you stand a better chance to visit the Philippines … Luzon island in particular … The northern end … at night.
Pig
You can’t tell ’cause he’s wearing a mask, but this is a pig.
Harbor Seal
It took untold generations, but seals have finally invented cubical ice.
Building the igloos is rather harder.
Squirrel
Sometimes you’re out playing with your infrared camera and really wish you had your regular camera with you.
Arctic Fox
Some animals look nearly the same in infrared.
No disguising plants though.
Chipmunk
Modern chipmunks don’t appreciate the amount of labor their ancestors put into their roads.
Meerkat performing Tamburlaine
We hear the Tartars and the eastern thieves,
Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine,
Presume a bickering with your emperor,
And think to rouse us from our dreadful siege
Of the famous Grecian Constantinople.
Western Tufted Deer
At some point in history, the following conversation must have occurred:
“So let’s see here, we’ve already got the vampire bat, vampire finch, vampire squirrel, vampire moth, vampire squid, vampire flying frogs, and Dracula ants. What should we call this critter?”
“How about ‘tufted deer’?”
“Yeah, that sounds ’bout right.”
Seba's Short Tailed Bat
Interesting thing about infrared light … it doesn’t bother bats at all.
Bactrian Camel
The incredibly rare three hump camel.
Red Panda and Chipmunk
As it turns out, despite being herbivores (or, as humans say “vegan”), red pandas will attack animals.
These two “played” together until the chipmunk stopped moving, stuck in the fence.
I reported it to the keepers because many zoos have a policy whereby any animal that dies on zoo grounds requires an autopsy to make sure that any animal that came into contact with it wasn’t exposed to something nasty.
Sorry, not all the stories can be fun ones.
Otter
“Aaah, Saturday”