Today’s creepy pic: the scariest effing squirrel you’ll see all week

Yea, I know it’s a shopjob. Doesn’t make it any less creepy, tho.

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That’s the ugliest bitch I’ve ever seen!

I was looking through an earlier blog entry and discovered *dramatic music*, the ugliest dog competition. Now even if you have heard of it before, it oddly draws your eyes!! Nooo, I can feel them being sucked innnnnnnn. So check out below and you can even download one of those beauties onto your desktop – [...]

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More strange and weird animals

Seeing as how the previous weird animal post was so popular, I’ve found a list of more strange and unusual animals, such as the very cute long-eared jerboa (wiki) shown above, or the star-nosed mole that was featured before. Some of these animals are quite bizarre, and it’s a testament to the sheer variety of [...]

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Scuse me, I can’t hear my mate chirping!

Ok, the pic is a Final Fantasy joke, but Bernie Krause, a field recording scientist, reckons that the sounds made by human machinery are buggering around with animal communication.
This isn’t just a matter of aesthetics. The contamination of biophony may soon become a serious environmental issue — Krause says that man-made sounds are already wreaking [...]

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One double-pepperoni aphid to go? Thanks!

According to this Live Science article, scientists have discovered that insects use plants in much the same way that we telephones (What, you mean that they send incriminating text messages to each other?)
When a subterranean insect takes up residence below a plant, it settles in to feast on the plant’s roots. In order to alert [...]

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Fowl-mouth bird teaches other birds to swear

A foul-mouthed macaw in London has been teaching other birds to swear. Says the owner, Geoff Grewcock (that’s seriously his name?):
“They just sit there swearing at each other now, all kinds of foul language – it’s unbelievable.”
It’s similar to having very young, impressionable children around the house, don’t you think? And like little children:
Mr Grewcock [...]

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25 weird animals

I seem to be going through a list phase at the moment. I really should find something that doesn’t include a list! Anyhow, DIVaBoo have a list of 25 of what they term the world’s weirdest animals, but I think I might argue with some of the animals, and the idea of weirder animals out [...]

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