The Monster Book for Boys & Girls

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when you are a poodle no one cares because you are a fucking poodle

The $11.00 Meat Pie

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Putemup

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Danger

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Limited edition prints.

Polite and Slender

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Limited edition prints.

Effective Fly Swatter

2008-04-16T02:56:00.000-07:00

Limited edition prints.

Paya the Painter

2008-04-04T08:33:00.000-07:00

Paya is a 5 year old elephant living in the Maesa Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Paya is also an artist. He specializes in painting elephant heads. He can be a bit sullen at times, but does very much enjoy his time at the easel. Paya will often swing a leg, dance, and smile when he is painting. Having just started one year ago, it is astonishing how quickly Paya has excelled at creating figural works.

Goats Suck Down Blackberry Vines Like It Was Spaghetti

2008-04-04T05:05:00.000-07:00

They are just eating machines, says Tammy Dunakin of Vashon Island, who rents out goats. "They suck down blackberry vines like it was spaghetti." rent-a-ruminant.com

Rancher, Craig Madsen spends five months a year touring Western Washington in a semi with a 30-foot double-deck trailer full of goats. Craig's part of an urban trend. With their four-chambered stomachs and insatiable desire to nibble on anything even resembling a plant, goats have gained credibility as land clearers among Seattle-area government agencies and private developers. His rentable herd of 270 Boer and Spanish goats have never been more in demand.

Pygmy-Patterned Nigerian Dwarf Goats Seriously Faulted

2008-04-04T04:10:00.000-07:00

Nigerian Dwarf Goats were developed as miniature dairy goats in North America. Standing approximately 22" high with erect ears and a straight facial profile, Dwarf goats come in many colours and combinations. The Canadian Goat Society recognizes most patterns with the exception of the pygmy "agouti" pattern which is seriously faulted. For a small family of two, one or 2 goats would provide sufficient milk for the table including drinking, cream, topping for cereals and cooking.

Faith the Two-Legged Dog In Washington

2008-04-01T03:53:00.000-07:00

Faith, a chow mix, was born without front legs and has learned to walk upright. She travels the country, serving as an inspiration for overcoming adversity. This visit is her first to the Washington region. The Washington Post.

Mantis Shrimp Vision—A Secret Mode of Communication

2008-04-01T03:27:00.000-07:00

Mantis shrimp are large and particularly violent marine crustaceans that aren't actually a kind of shrimp but look something like one. The discovery--which marks the fourth type of visual system--suggests that the ability to perceive circular polarized light may lend mantis shrimp a secret mode of communication. Science Daily.

Bobolinks Skunky Blackbirds

2008-04-01T03:05:00.000-07:00

Migratory songbirds are suffering mysterious population declines, and pesticides may well be to blame.… Since the 1980s, pesticide use has increased fivefold in Latin America as countries have expanded their production of nontraditional crops to fuel the demand for fresh produce during the winter months in North America and Europe. Bridget Stutchbury, The New York Times.

Bat Breath Reveals Identity Of Vampire's Last Victim

2008-04-01T02:56:00.000-07:00

Farmers are observing vampire bats satisfying their need for blood by attacking cattle instead of wild mammals. Science Daily

Pollutants Increase Song Complexity in Starlings

2008-03-25T19:11:00.000-07:00

European male starlings exposed to EDC, pollutants, attract more females and spend more time singing longer and more complex songs. Sad song? Read the study: http://www.plosone.org

Monkeys on Cam

2008-03-25T09:55:00.000-07:00

Watch the monkeys examine the BBC's logcam.

Bat Calamity: White Nose Sydrome?

2008-03-25T03:28:00.000-07:00

Wildlife biologists fear a significant die-off in about 15 caves and mines in New York, as well as at sites in Massachusetts and Vermont. Whatever is killing the bats leaves them unusually thin and, in some cases, dotted with a white fungus. Bat experts fear that what they call White Nose Syndrome may spell doom for several species that keep insect pests under control.

"A few bats had a wing around their nearest cavemates. Their white bellies mostly faced downhill. When they awoke, they made high squeaks, like someone sucking a tooth." Al Hicks, standing outside the the largest bat hibernaculum in New York State. The New York Times

Ratfish

2008-03-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

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Rare Martin Ramirez Drawings

2008-03-21T06:36:00.000-07:00

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This is a rare opportunity to see a collection of unknown drawings by Martin Ramirez.

"The survival of the drawings is all the more unlikely because, after Dr. Dunievitz’s death in 1988, they were thrown in a trash pile by his relatives as they sorted through the possessions in his basement.

“They basically made a blind assessment: ‘All this stuff needs to go in the trash,’” said Phil Dunievitz, 42, who had seen the artworks many times in his grandfather’s house when he was young. Instead, he gathered them all up, rolling them and putting them into several long-stem-flower boxes in his mother’s garage.

They were later transferred to an old box that sat atop her garage refrigerator for years, “with a sleeping bag on top of that,” Mrs. Dunievitz said. “And sometimes the cat slept out there on top of it all.” The New York Times

Zarcero, Costa Rica

2008-03-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

Photo, kindly…Kathryn Gaitens

No True Albino Horses

2008-03-21T04:31:00.000-07:00

If a horse has two white genes (homozygous white or WW), it is generally considered a lethal gene and the ensuing foal will die in the womb. It is not known at present why this happens, but the end result is that there are no true albinos in the horse world.

Pipi Strellus

2008-03-20T07:38:00.001-07:00

The Pipistrellus bat is only one inch long without it's tail and weighs just one gram. To put this in perspective, think of a heap of sixty thousand of these bats — that pile would be the weight of an average man.

WHAP…I GOT IT!

2008-03-20T07:10:00.000-07:00

Lemurs are very moody. You don't pet or touch them without their permission, if they think you are going to take something away from them...WHAP...you are gonna get it! If they attack, (jump on you) they usually go for your head... One time I gave the hand-raised mother lemur a piece of romaine lettuce. She sat on it. I gave her another one and reached for the one she was sitting on.... She shot like a bullet at me. Knocked my glasses off…WHAP...i got it....I wasn't thinking. You NEVER take anything away from a lemur. Another time I reached into their food dish to hand a male lemur a grape...I got my hand slapped....FEMALES FIRST... Excerpt from Ringtail Lemurs As Pets, Linda Lafrentz.

Are We Too Big For Our World?

2008-03-20T07:07:00.000-07:00

"The magic of the microscope is not that it makes little creatures larger, but that it makes a large one smaller. We are too big for our world. The microscope takes us down from our proud and lonely immensity and makes us, for a time, fellow citizens with the great majority of living things. It lets us share with them the strange and beautiful world where a meter amounts to a mile and yesterday was years ago." A.E. Treat, Mites of Moths and Butterflies.

I would love, for a few days, to be shrunk down – perhaps not so small as to be microscopic but, say, about the size of my thumbnail…" laments evolutionary biologist and writer, Olivia Judson.

Lamps Made From Preserved Sheep-Stomachs

2008-03-20T07:04:00.000-07:00

Ruminant Bloom are beautiful, blossom-like lamps that are made from preserved sheep stomachs, each with a unique structure.

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The Apertyx, A Beast

2008-03-20T06:25:00.000-07:00

Ah me! What' manner of thing am I?

Though I've hairy hide and I cannot fly,
When beasts in a cousinly way I greet,
They spot my bill and my birdlike feet.

Dear, kind artist, this time at least,
Beneath my portrait write 'A Beast';
And if it sticks, and no one kicks,
You'll earn the love of the Apteryx."

Excerpt from a Burges Johnson poem, 1906, Harper's Magazine.

They're A Pallid, Blind Lot

2008-03-20T06:22:00.000-07:00

Looking around the Earth, it’s striking how often similar traits evolve in similar environments. So: birds living on remote islands typically lose the power of flight. Males in species where females are promiscuous tend to evolve high sperm counts and large testes. Animals that live in caves lose their eyes and their color: whether they live in Rwanda or Romania, they’re a pallid, blind lot, the troglodytes. Olivia Judson, The Wild Side, The New York Times.