Friday, July 30, 2010

Unique method of hunting

Unique method of hunting

July 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Photographer-animal painter Eric Cheng was in the midst of a flock of sardines, driven skillful predator – Atlantic sailing – which uses a unique method of hunting.
These photos can be seen high annual feeding with the fastest inhabitant of the ocean – the Atlantic sailboat and its extraction – Sardinia

In [...]

Weird hobby for a one small mouse

Weird hobby for a one small mouse

July 26, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Shane Wilmott, 39, from Australia, creates miniature surf boards specially designed for mice. 25 years ago Wilmott discovered the rodent’s ability to surf the wave and since then he has been breeding and training mice to master their unique skill.
Eight-month-old males Rocket, Peanut, Skidmark and Banzai have learned all the skills they need to [...]

Weird choice for a home

Weird choice for a home

July 20, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

In Washington, live wild ducks, you’ll be surprised when you find out where they settled on a ledge under the office of the bank.
What one would expect, the little ducklings are sometimes frustrated with this ledge and drop down
but that’s okay, usually Joule Armstrong was there, and catches ducklings.

Animals and humans are pretty much alike

Animals and humans are pretty much alike

July 12, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Imitation is an advanced behavior whereby an individual observes and replicates another’s. Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior.
The desire to understand animals has made ethology a rapidly growing topic, and since the turn of the 21st century, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as animal communication, personal symbolic name use, [...]

Animals found their shelter in the underground

Animals found their shelter in the underground

July 8, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Living by a hasty road, these animals aren’t willing to take any chances when it comes to getting across securely. Instead, a rabbit and a stoat are cleverly using an underground network of drains to make it to the other side. The cute animals scuttle from one side of the road to the other and [...]

Unusual Underground Map

Unusual Underground Map

July 4, 2010 by admin · 3 Comments 

Animals on the Underground is a collection of over 20 animal characters made using only lines, stations and interchange symbols on the London Underground map, created by illustrator Paul Middlewick in 1987. In 2003, the concept was used in a poster campaign by advertising agency McCann-Erickson to promote the London Zoo.  They have also appeared [...]

Elephant operator making films about wild animals

Elephant operator making films about wild animals

May 3, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments 

The British director of films about the animal world, John Downer (John Downer) invented an innovative way of filming – as the main operator in his favor elephant. Camera mounted on the trunk and removes all that sees the elephant, allowing the “director’s eye” to get closer to wild animals.

On British television, BBC One now [...]

Thai elephants playing basketball

Thai elephants playing basketball

April 22, 2010 by admin · 3 Comments 

The Island Safari Centre on Koh Samui is teaching six-year old Malie, and nine-year old Toktak to use their trunks to perform basketball skills, in an effort to improve their health and vitality.
Organisers at the Island Safari centre, which cares for the animals, say the huge beasts have to undergo rigorous training to learn the [...]

Five unusual swimming animals

Five unusual swimming animals

April 14, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments 

Swimming is biologically propelled motion through a liquid medium. Swimming has evolved a number of times in a range of organisms ranging from arthropods to fish to molluscs. But, sometimes nature can be strange and funny, and to give swiming power to animals that don’t bellong to water! Bellow you can see funny examples of [...]

Butterfly and his unusual friends

Butterfly and his unusual friends

April 12, 2010 by admin · 1 Comment 

A butterfly is any of several groups of mainly day-flying insects of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, butterflies’ life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.
Male Eastern Box Turtle & Lady [...]

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