Category Archives: Animals

Leaders Of The Pack

21May04 – 10:28

The dog genome is in. I should be ‘Blogging the potential benefits for genetic research of our being able to compare a whole collection of small, genetically isolated populations, but you want to read about the weirdness. It turns out that some pure breeds are ancient, close relatives of the wolf. This particular subgroup includes […]

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Worst Small Business Slogan Ever

18May04 – 07:31

And they say Americans don’t do irony. Check out the subtitle of these Webpages.

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Don’t Mess With The “Emotionally Troubled”

27Apr04 – 06:42

400-pound bear takes on 15-year-old boy. Bear surrenders.

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Message From God

23Apr04 – 09:17

Yesterday, I and a colleague had a meeting at a large London teaching hospital. While we were waiting to go in we shared a room with an inflatable rhinoceros. Today, Jonathan [photo by Leasey] sends me this typically Sun-style story for my “blog thingy”. Knowing my luck, these events are telling me: “You are about […]

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Mia-Ow

30Dec03 – 09:59

Here’s one for Jo: Cat Bathing as a Martial Art. There are more examples of that sort of thing here.

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“Mum, I’m Stuck!”

29Dec03 – 09:50

Marvin voice: Brain the size of a planet and all the readers want from me is pictures of pandas. No, Leasey, there is nothing “feminine” about my finding the badly-designed bears appealing. And as for Maoi, you can’t have a panda for your birthday, but you can have some panda wallpaper for your desktop. This […]

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Ahh

28Dec03 – 10:26

Am I going soft? I don’t normally do animal pictures, and pandas are such a biological mess that they seem to be a flesh-and-blood refutation of “intelligent design”, but the new panda born at San Diego Zoo is just absurdly cute.

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I Promised You Penguin Action

14Nov03 – 08:22

And here it is.

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Heart-Shaped Tag

05Nov03 – 07:49

It’s the question every divorcing couple must ask: “Who gets the Beanie Babies?”. The answer: someone on Ebay. [I recommend you read the whole of the seller’s description to enjoy this surreal slice of Internet life fully.]

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Swans’ Way

02Nov03 – 10:44

Only the British would have a swan-a-thon with live radio coverage.

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Doggish

29Oct03 – 08:16

If you have Macromedia Flash installed in your Web browser you can find out your computer can help you to become “bow-lingual”.

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