A brave local TV reporter tracks down a reported wild turkey in a suburban neighborhood--then flees in terror when it appears out of the inky shrubbery!
In all fairness, wild turkeys can be pretty aggressive and violent. (Seriously.)
Where's Ripley when you need her?
GET AWAY FROM HER YOU POULTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Image Credit: FanPop.com)
As this nation staggers under the broiling summer sun toward its next election, I've decided to spare myself some sweat. Using the theory that a picture is worth a thousand words, I've decided to let an image do some of the talking for me now and then.
Meet Manny, the Disgusted Manul:
"Dfq?"
Manny is a Manul, or Pallas' Cat. In an election year when the U.S. remains mired in Great Depression 2.0 and neither Presidential candidate is worth a sane person's time, Manny's expressive little face is going to save me some typing now and then.
(Image Credit: mrazek76, flickr)
from The Guardian:
Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has taken some great (and, to be honest, not so great) paintings of nudes from the past and reimagined what they would look like if their bodies conformed to what the 21st-century thinks of as an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing – and quite shocking in what they say about our modern attitudes to women's bodies.
Here's Venus before:
And after:
Click this link to see the entire gallery of before/after classic nudes. You will notice one thing: breast size remains the same, even though thighs, hips and belly are slimmed down. Just like today's starved-out starlets with their stapled-on, fake boobs. Wonderful.
...a biochem lecture with a dash of theatrical Ole!
Somehow, our modern world, with its economic collapse and its many wars, still has college kids like this in it.
Suddenly, I'm less scared. Have at you, world!
...the Pallas' Cat!
(Image Credit: amyherndon.tumbir.com/Lizzy Stewart)
Pallas' Cats (Otocolobus manul, also called Manuls) are wild cats which live in some of the harshest climates of Asia: the steppes and deserts of Iran, China, Tibet and Mongolia. Their preferred habitat is rocky terrain, often at high altitudes (up to 15,000 ft.). Because temperatures in such locations can dip to -40 F, Palla's Cats have exceptionally thick coats (in the past they were hunted for their pelts), making them appear chubby.
They are thought to be the oldest cat species, emerging about 12 million years ago.
When most people think about wildcats, the large species such as Lions come to mind, but Manuls are roughly the size of a common housecat. They have short legs non-retractable claws. Their ears are rounded and set low on the head, giving them an oddly charming, goofy-wise expression. Unlike most cats, their pupils are round.
Manuls take shelter in rock crevices and caves during the day and emerge in the evening to hunt birds and small rodents. Their reclusive habits make population size difficult to gauge, but they are thought to be endangered in some areas. Zoos in the U.S. and abroad have Pallas' Cats and while they are known to reproduce in captivity, the kittens are felled by disease before reaching maturity. (Manuls in the wild ordinarily live to the age of 10 or 12.) The Palla's Cat project has been studying Manuls in the wild in order to improve survival of the species.
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