Yay octopus!!!!

octopus steals my video camera and swims off with it (while it's Recording) from Victor Huang on Vimeo.

If the octopuses using coconut shells as tools didnt convince you to stop eating them, this totally will! Look how smart he is!

This kid rocks

And hes so cute and adorable and ROUND!

Also, I was discussing with my friend Janet that this isnt really a romantic song at all, is it? Its like, oh yeah, its not you, its me, I'm holding you back, but I'll always have a special place in my heart for you while I'm off screwing this other chick. Right? Right.

Painfully Adorable Sea Dragons

BBC has filmed Sea Dragons, which are basically like seahorses, during their courting dance and subsequent babies' births offshore of Australia.



The dance is only so strange because of the way the sea dragons look; we have all seen schools of fish mirroring each others movements, so it doesnt seem like too rare of an occurrence. Probably involves sensing water movements with their lateral line. ANYWAY, the baby sea dragons are where it's actually at, super cute, with their little eyes in the eggs and then after they're born... Reminds me of when my dad's fish were breeding and there were all these little babies that were basically a pair of giant eyes with a little tail attached, hanging out in the plants and miraculously not getting eaten. I'm just glad my fish don't breed, because anything that fits in a goldfish's mouth will not last very long.

All that said, I guess I didnt really realize that seahorses were fish, since they sort of look like a cross between a starfish and a fish, maybe, even though that makes absolutely no sense. I guess the seahorses don't need much in the way of a fuller more fish-like body as they have adapted to sort of hang out instead of swimming around and don't need all those extra muscles.

This is a good FU Penguin post, IMO. You should read it. Just look at the lamb!!!

Hamster Birthday Party!!!!

This is unbearably CUTE. They made the hamster a CAKE out of bread, cream cheese and a carrot piece and THEN there was also a sweet cardboard house that had cheerios and carrots and apples stuck to it that the hamster could EXPLORE and find YUMMIES.

A very good, cute Christmas idea for pets :)

Look how smart those Australian Shepards are! The Golden Retriever's all like confused about what's happening, but they're not! The sad thing about this, if you read the comments by the lady who posted it, is that this was the dark one's last Christmas and now all of the dogs in the video have passed away :(

This makes me want to give my kitties presents, like catnip, and Georgie always likes to try to break into dry cat food and treat bags, maybe I will actually let her get away with it once. I'm sort of sad that I'm leaving them for Christmas now, but its not like they care which day we pretend some guy was born two millennia ago. Maybe we will celebrate the winter solstice today! :)

I also wanted to mention that I made my first batch of Wild Kitty raw cat food yesterday. I had been feeding them the frozen Primal raw cat food that I got from the Whole Pets food store in town, so they are used to eating raw and I think that it is good for them. ANYWAY, all of the garbage from making the raw cat food, like the bag the ground chicken thighs were in, went into the garbage, and when I came home after leaving for a while, my coon-cats had gotten into the garbage and made a right mess out of everything. I think the stuff is a success!

Hey I Got an Idea... : )

Saw it on reddit.

Also:


Can't quite understand everthing he's saying, but its still cute/funny. And try to do one thing for ANIMALS!

Super Smart Mouse

I wonder how long this took to teach him all these tricks. It's too bad that we do experiments on these guys when they have so much potential! I like how he runs up into his owners hand at the end, he so obviously likes her!

I'm a giant softie

THIS SLIDESHOW IS THE BEST THING EVER.

It's of zoo animals eating their birthday cakes. It is so sweet. I cried a single tear.

GAH! SO CUTE!

This is basically what Georgie does when she's hungry to. SO FUCKING CUTE. There are also other videos by this man that I will leave you to discover, if it pleases you.

Fishes Post!

This post is all about fishes! (With some doom n gloom thrown in, of course)

First! Scientists have been watching some ciclids evolve in Lake Victoria! From what I understand (I didnt read the journal article, but I DID download it!), some of the fishes are changing to a reddish color, thus have red pigmented eyes and can better see red? And other fishes are turning bluer. The strange thing is that both populations are in contact with one another, and that this selection is occurring by female preference towards the colorful males. In any case, fully expect a crazy fundie person to claim that they made up the data and that proof of evolution in process has to be false! (BTW, that whole sequence of articles is highly entertaining. The back-and-forth between the prof and the crazy person, etc)

Second! Some sweet-ass fishes that live 5 miles beneath the surface of the ocean! They were captured on video tape swimmin' around and bein' cute, much more actively than you would expect these deep-sea fishes to be. These are the deepest fish ever captured on tape! They "see" with little vibration sensors on their noses. They kind of look like big tadpoles. Anyway, the incredible thing about them is the PRESSURE on their little heads! I personally calculated the pressure at 7.7 km for you, and I came up with roughly 746 atm! OR 75561325 Pa! Which is nearly 11000 pounds per sq inch!!!! Amazing adaption. (You are all free to check that calculation. I readily admit I do not often do fluid statics calcs) I also want to mention that when they tried to bring one up to the surface a while ago, it died before it got there, so maybe it NEEDS this pressure, OR they weren't very gentle with it on the 5 mi elevator ride up!

Anyway, SUPER CUTE! Like little gollum fish!

Heres some doom n gloom to damper all the cuteness. Apparently the world will be "extinct" by 2050. All these poor fishes MAY live through the environmental catastrophe we have caused. Those ciclids might make it, since they're also evolving. Anyway, seriously, stop consuming, people!

Happy Penguins!

Some penguins that had mysteriously washed up in north Brazil were released to the ocean in an area closer to their home! Scientists think the penguins got off course either as a result of altered ocean currents, or a change in the food supply. While the release of the penguins was a happy occasion, many more penguins had died before they were washed ashore, or shortly afterward.

It's Snowing! (On Mars)

For some reason, the idea of it snowing on Mars makes me, and others, very happy. I picture the Phoenix twittering along, on a romantic stroll amide the freshly fallen snow. However, the water-snow hasn't actually reached the ground yet, and carbon dioxide snow will supposedly be the death of the poor rover, whose solar panels weren't built to withstand the weight.

The gif above depicts water-clouds moving across the sky. Below is a picture the rover took of itself! And also, the rover moved that rock there into that trench there! So cute! (I don't know why it is cute, but it is)




You can also check out some pictures of soil on the Phoenix website, which are pretty cool. It has discovered that there maybe be calcium carbonate in the soil, as well as clay. Both of these things suggest that the soil had interacted with water in the past!

According to that latest news release, Phoenix will also try turning on its microphone soon and take a listen to Mars! (It will probably sound lonely)

Birdie & Science Images

Birdie captured by a webcam!

Here are also National Geographic's Best Science images for 2008

Aw! They are friends!

THIS is so cute!

Cats Don't Care!

:D

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