Category Archives: Animals

Socially Awkward Penguin Knows Your Pain

26Feb11 – 22:29
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Pick Up A Penguin

12Feb10 – 23:10

I didn’t catch this in November, when it was posted, but I can’t miss it now. It’s a YouTube video that tells an astonishing wildlife photography story. [via this teacher’s life]

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Primitive Tool Use

04Jun09 – 14:47

Cunningly, Yahoo! has made a virtue of the Alex Massie view of the relative lack of sophistication of “Twenty20” cricket to promote their live online coverage of the world championships. [The video embedded below is a Windows Media file.]

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Bat Into Hell

18Mar09 – 15:47

[A] bat, seen clinging to the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery before its launch on Sunday, apparently clung for dear life to the side of the tank as the spaceship lifted off. … The shuttle accelerates to an orbital velocity of 17,500 milers per hour, which is 25 times faster than the speed […]

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Яolcats

09Feb09 – 17:31

Via Ben Goldacre, “English Translations of Eastern Bloc Lolcats”.

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Endangered Pink Lizards Threatened By Invasion Of Feral Goats

06Jan09 – 01:48

Seriously.

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Jurassic Car Park

25Nov08 – 11:33

There’s a US marine biologist on BBC Radio 4 talking about the leatherback turtles that she and her team have been tagging. Apparently an adult leatherback grows to the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Wikipedia concurs—and also points out that this makes the leatherback only the fourth largest reptile, after some crocodilians. I’m scared now.

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Biology, Radio | Comments (7)

Marching Across Europe

02Sep08 – 19:25

If you are scared of spiders then please don’t follow this link [requires Flash].

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Royal Breeding

19Aug08 – 09:57

King Charles’s brain constricted by tiny skull.

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Science | Comments (1)

Disturbing Search Of The Moment

12Aug08 – 10:53

I’m kind of afraid to ask why people have been arriving at PooterGeek over the past couple of days as a result of googling for “John Kettley” and “hedgehog”. I realise my publishing this post will now make things worse. Perhaps I should add the phrase “Richard Gere” as well.

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Celebrities, Searches | Comments (0)

Top Tip

01Jul08 – 11:15

You certainly don’t want to go walking through a field of disoriented, agitated and wet honey bees. – Richard Duplain, vice president of the New Brunswick [Canada] Beekeepers Association Unfortunately for one journalist, not everyone got Mr Duplain’s advice in time, says this story. [Thanks, Sue]

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Pussy Pedantry

20May08 – 13:29

My last post prompted a reader to send me photos of her tortoiseshell cats. [Thank you!] Such a flow of cat pics is of course unconventional in cat blogging, but it gives me an opportunity to point out that it’s only some of the much rarer male tortoiseshells that are the true chimeras, mixtures from […]

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Biology, Sex, Work | Comments (0)

Bear With A Big Head

27Mar08 – 01:09

KNUT the polar bear has turned from a cuddly cub into a publicity-addicted psycho, one of his keepers has claimed. Markus Roebke said Berlin Zoo’s celebrity animal was obsessed with the limelight and howled with rage when denied an audience. “Knut must go and the sooner the better,” he said, insisting that the bear should be sent […]

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Celebrities, I Told You So, Mainland Europe, PooterGeek | Comments (0)

When Brighton Hen Parties Go Bad

16Mar08 – 01:11
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Future News: Headlines Of 2108

10Mar08 – 16:41

NASA ASTRONAUTS ARRIVE ON CENTAURI IV AND ENCOUNTER POPULATION OF HUMANOIDS SO PRIMITIVE THAT THEY STILL HAVE FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS. PANEL OF HISTORIANS VOTES ON MOST HATED FIGURES OF 21ST CENTURY. SADDAM HUSSEIN, CLONED HITLER, HEATHER MILLS-MCCARTNEY TOP POLL. HUMPHREY LYTTELTON FORCED TO STAND DOWN AS PRESENTER OF I’M SORRY I HAVEN’T A CLUE AFTER EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT […]

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…No Dogs, No Irish…

03Aug07 – 15:59

a bitch, currently residing at a fine Welsh bed-and-breakfast establishment[click image to enlarge it] There’s a discussion going on over at Chris Dillow’s place about whether or not guest house owners should be allowed to discriminate against gay couples. Whatever is implied by Chris’s musings on the matter, markets are not the solution to this […]

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Lifted

23Jul07 – 08:41

I like levitating terriers. Here are two more from a flickr user: Ollie & Muffet race at the BTCO Fun Day by Gavatron. And here’s a beagle with a piece of cucumber on its head.

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Photography | Comments (0)

Finding A Line

08Jun07 – 19:43

While his master leads the England bowling attack, Steve Harmison’s dog, Magoo, participates in the British Dog Agility Championships.

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Rumble In The Jungle On The Savannah

04Jun07 – 13:12

This YouTube video of charismatic megafauna fighting by a waterhole starts slowly, but develops into a riveting drama. It’s got all the ingredients for a Disney animated feature except songs by Elton John.

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Africa, Video | Comments (1)

Missed Opportunity

11May07 – 22:08

Dave lives in Brighton and has a blog and I think I’ve been out for a drink with him—or rather his posse—on a couple of occasions. The only reason I know he has a blog is that he recently commented on Andrew’s. When I found Dave’s site I had a browse and found that he […]

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Only Me!

10May07 – 09:30

photo by Osito Tai I’m not dead, just busy. There’ll be something new here tomorrow—probably.

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Size Matters

01May07 – 23:16

I used to work for a Professor whose academic homepage listed among his interests “sperm production”. If you want evidence that female animals can be as promiscuous as male animals you should have a browse through the literature on sperm competition. In the case of ducks, that promiscuity is not necessarily the females’ choice, so they […]

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Biology, Sex | Comments (2)

Hands Across The Ocean

07Apr07 – 10:18

Hi, Knut. Jerry here. Yeah, I’m afraid it is kinda bad news again. Look, I gotta be honest with you: Pixar have nixed the whole project. No, it wasn’t your fee—though I gotta say they thought the spec you were demanding for your Winnebago was, er, “unusual”. You really wanna know? Hey, don’t take this the wrong […]

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Mr White

23Mar07 – 22:15

[BERLIN: A Luxury Executive Premium polar bear enclosure. KNUT relaxes on a Le Corbusier recliner carved out of rock, doing bicep curls with a protesting baby seal clutched in his fist] KNUT: [into Bluetooth headset] Ya, Jerry, the death threat was the clincher, man. Mom rejects me, bro’ rejects me, then “Big bad animal rights activists […]

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Arctic, Celebrities | Comments (6)

Chasing Frisbees

16Mar07 – 12:11

Later, on the Wedding Photography Blog, I’ll be explaining how you can obtain a photo like this yourself, using an old camera, a wind machine, and a stuffed Westie on a stick.

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Brighton, Photography | Comments (4)

Evolutionary Arms Race Update

23Feb07 – 12:27

Meanwhile, embarrassed by the cats, the chimpanzees get in on the act [requires free registration]. (Note that most of the chimp spear-carriers are female.)

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Warfare, World Domination | Comments (2)

An Abomination Unto The Lord

23Feb07 – 01:24

Hak Mao links to a cat with 26 toes. What she doesn’t mention in her blog post is that further down that article is the terrifying news that some cats have evolved opposable thumbs. People are worried about genetically modified potatoes when we are sharing this planet with a sub-population of Felis catus that can […]

By PooterGeek | Also posted in World Domination | Comments (6)

Caught

18Feb07 – 09:37

I’m no wildlife photographer and I know this kind of thing has been done before, but I doubt if it’s been done much better than this.

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Photography | Comments (1)

A Message From Our Sponsors

29Jan07 – 09:59

The previous post included my first paid link to Amazon. In future, when I recommend a book or CD or DVD here I’ll link to its Amazon page. I always used to do this anyway because it was convenient. It also happens that I am a frequent Amazon customer and that their service has always […]

By PooterGeek | Also posted in Money, PooterGeek, Shopping | Comments (1)

Catblogging At PooterGeek Now Out Of Control

22Jan07 – 20:16

Earlier today I linked to a picture of a cat in a box before linking to a picture of a cat on a man’s hat. That was before I discovered this animated image of a cat clinging to Jeremy Paxman’s hair.

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