Free the Goats!

"A minister in DR Congo has ordered a Kinshasa jail to release a dozen goats...

The beasts were due to appear in court, charged with being sold illegally by the roadside...

There was no word on what their punishment would have been, had they been found guilty."

Fun Commercial

Definitely worthwhile to check out the higher def video HERE

Birding from my office

This lovely fellow (or several like him) has been visiting me for the last week or so. He was nice enough to sit right on the window ledge about 2 feet away while I tried to figure out what he was today. At first I thought goldfinch, but then I found this picture. He seemed quite interested when I was playing the sounds off the All About Birds: Baltimore Oriole" website

LOLcats

This one just kills me for some reason.

Creature Comforts - body image

Excellent! Especially the last line.
Via Neatorama

Cross species cetacean aid

Normally I'd avoid a dolphin story due to the charismatic megafauna conspiracy. However a New Zealand dolphin seems to have lead two pygmy sperm whales off a beach and out to sea, just as conservation workers were going to give up on them.

Henry the Hexapus

Yes, hexapus . He is a six-legged octopus likely from a birth defect.


"Until Henry, the most famous six-legged octopus was one that appeared in a 1955 B-movie, 'It Came From Beneath The Sea.'

As was common of many science fiction movies of the era, the film was made on a shoestring budget -- and designers left off two legs from the creature because of budget contraints."

Frogs from Hell

Stony Brook University (and University College London) researchers in the news:

"Its diet would most likely have consisted of insects and small vertebrates like lizards, but it's not impossible that Beelzebufo might even have munched on hatchling or juvenile dinosaurs."

Possum!!!

There was one in our backyard this morning, ok, it wasn't quite that spastic looking as it lumbered through the yard, but I don't think I've ever seen a real life possum before.

Presenting: your sugary sweet monday morning video

via videosift.com

Kung Fu Hampster

(I thought of wacked when I saw this)

Squirrels on Crack!

”It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot, but it kept on desperately digging. It seems a strange thing to say, but it seemed to know what it was looking for."

Spray Paint

Poor Doggie!