Here, have some owls

Posted by aaron cohen Nov 17, 2011 0

Here, have some owls

You need more owls in your life.

Via Stellar / Reddit

Posted by aaron cohen Sep 19, 2011 0

The Amazing Lyrebird of Australia

I'm not sure why this unseen footage of The Amazing Lyrebird of Australia is just going around now, but I'm glad it is. I laughed out loud. If you liked Honey Badger, you'll also like Lyrebird. If you want to watch a version with a commercial, you can do that here.

Via Stellar

Posted by aaron cohen Aug 27, 2011 0

Scuba diving chimpanzee

Will someone get this chimp some goldang goggles? Dude keeps covering his eyes.

For what it's worth, here are some more scuba diving animals.

(Via Chris)

Posted by aaron cohen Jul 1, 2011 0

New Randall! Drunk Animals!

The Intoxicating Marula Trees of South Africa‬‏ is Randall's latest. If you like the Honey Badger, you'll like this. Boo on not being able to embed, but click through, it's worth it.

Via Stellar

Posted by aaron cohen May 8, 2011 0

Hawk attack in Somerville

Linking to this story about a dude getting jacked up by a hawk while he was walking down the street minding his own business (the dude was walking, not the hawk) because I have a fascination with the hawks that hang out in Boston. I can think of at least 3 posts I've written about them over the years, including the 2nd or 3rd post I wrote when I started blogging again in 2004. HOLY SHIT that was a long time ago.

Posted by aaron cohen Feb 1, 2011 0

What’s a group of eagles called?

This picture makes me super nervous for some reason. The eagles in St. Louis were freezing, so someone fed them fish. A gathering of eagles is called a convocation, by the way.

Via Whatevs.net

Posted by aaron cohen Jan 5, 2011 2

How Unusual Are These Animal Die-Offs?

I've been curious if the large number of animal die-offs was coincidence, or if the media was making a "Summer of the Shark" out of it. While the reasons put forth in this article don't seem totally plausible, I'm going to believe them for now.

LeAnn White, a wildlife disease specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said bird kills occur more frequently than the public realizes. The USGS database contains at least 16 cases in the last 20 years of large numbers of blackbirds dying in contained areas.

Posted by aaron cohen Dec 15, 2010 0

Photo of the year

The 2010 photo retrospectives have begun, but for my money, the photo of the year is this picture of a monkey saving a puppy from a gas pipeline explosion in Nanjing, China.

We can all agree on this one, right?

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Update: Just found out the picture isn't from this year. It might be a monkey saving a puppy, but it's from 2006. I don't care. It should be the picture of EVERY year.

Posted by aaron cohen Nov 25, 2010 1

Death of a pig

4 years before Charlotte's Web was published, E.B. White published an account of failing to save a pig he was raising for slaughter.

I spent several days and nights in mid-September with an ailing pig and I feel driven to account for this stretch of time, more particularly since the pig died at last, and I lived, and things might easily have gone the other way round and none left to do the accounting.

Via The Morning News

Posted by aaron cohen Jul 27, 2010 0

Urban Hawks

Basically, I'll take any opportunity to post about hawks living in the city. Not sure why. 1, 2
3, and here's the latest.