2 years ago

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Amazing pictures have emerged of a brave lion handler giving a 250kg big cat a loving foot rub. Alex Larenty, 50, has built a unique bond with nine-year-old Jamu by tickling him on his giant paws at The Lion Park, outside Johannesburg. [via http://news.ninemsn.com.au/] via - illapt:bitchville:

Amazing pictures have emerged of a brave lion handler giving a 250kg big cat a loving foot rub. Alex Larenty, 50, has built a unique bond with nine-year-old Jamu by tickling him on his giant paws at The Lion Park, outside Johannesburg. [via http://news.ninemsn.com.au/] via - illapt:bitchville:

3 years ago

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The pictures BP doesn’t want you to see. « Climate Progress - Yesterday, AP photographer Charles Riedel filed these disturbing images of the effect the BP oil disaster is having on Gulf Coast birds (via Amanda Terkel at Think Progress).  BP has been working to keep journalists away from the region, but the situation appears to be improving, according to yesterday’s Washington Post.  Ultimately, the press gets the story and efforts to block coverage always backfire. This is breaking my heart. via - anatomyofamuse

The pictures BP doesn’t want you to see. « Climate Progress - Yesterday, AP photographer Charles Riedel filed these disturbing images of the effect the BP oil disaster is having on Gulf Coast birds (via Amanda Terkel at Think Progress).  BP has been working to keep journalists away from the region, but the situation appears to be improving, according to yesterday’s Washington Post.  Ultimately, the press gets the story and efforts to block coverage always backfire.

This is breaking my heart. via - anatomyofamuse

3 years ago

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The plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is believed to be the largest meat-eating shrub, dissolving rats with acid-like enzymes.  The team of botanists, led by British experts Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson, found the plant on Mount Victoria in the Philippines. May ganito tayo?! :O It’d be a useful household plant. Haha. :P pinoytumblr:orangegummi:strungfromthemoon:scandalinbohemia:havent-got-a-prayer:

The plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is believed to be the largest meat-eating shrub, dissolving rats with acid-like enzymes.  The team of botanists, led by British experts Stewart McPherson and Alastair Robinson, found the plant on Mount Victoria in the Philippines.

May ganito tayo?! :O It’d be a useful household plant. Haha. :P

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3 years ago

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A quote from Miguel de Unamuno (via thechosenwords) (via missinglingerie)

"Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree."

3 years ago

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Philippine as a Menagerie Illustration for magazine article. The article was about the major islands in the Philippines as animals /objects. The focus of the article though was Mindanao. :) Enjoy. (twistedfork)

Philippine as a Menagerie
Illustration for magazine article. The article was about the major islands in the Philippines as animals /objects. The focus of the article though was Mindanao. :) Enjoy. (twistedfork)

3 years ago

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tattooedmistakes: Family: NymphalidaeGenus: IthomiinaeCommon name: The Glasswing

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Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Ithomiinae
Common name: The Glasswing

3 years ago

chayenne: Immortal jellyfish (via Top 10 Badass Living Creatures) After reaching sexual maturity, this jellyfish is able to reverse its aging process and become a polyp again. The ability to reverse the life cycle is probably unique in the animal kingdom, and allows the jellyfish to bypass death, rendering the Turritopsis nutricula biologically immortal. Lab tests showed that 100% of specimens reverted to the polyp stage. I’m sure this poor thing will be turned into face cream to appease human vanity.

chayenne:

Immortal jellyfish (via Top 10 Badass Living Creatures)

After reaching sexual maturity, this jellyfish is able to reverse its aging process and become a polyp again. The ability to reverse the life cycle is probably unique in the animal kingdom, and allows the jellyfish to bypass death, rendering the Turritopsis nutricula biologically immortal. Lab tests showed that 100% of specimens reverted to the polyp stage.

I’m sure this poor thing will be turned into face cream to appease human vanity.