Crab videotaped riding giant jellyfish
Exactly what it says. Requires a video player plugin, not sure which but one I had in any event. Animals are weird…
It’s a good day for random weird stuff:
Missing in Mexico: Truck with 5,000 condoms, 800 HIV tests and a giant inflatable prophylactic
MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Missing in Mexico: One truck carrying 5,000 condoms, 800 HIV tests and a 23-foot (7 meter) inflatable prophylactic.
The coordinator of an HIV/AIDS awareness tour, Polo Gomez, said Wednesday that the “Condomovil” was parked in front of a friend’s house in Mexico City when it disappeared Sunday evening. He believes the truck was stolen, but he doesn’t know why. Police are still investigating.
The truck should be easy to spot. It features painted images of a peeled banana, the exposed part shaped like a condom, and a shirtless man saying: “I protect myself. Do you?”
Scientists can’t get sloth to move
JENA, Germany - Scientists in the eastern German city of Jena said Wednesday they have finally given up after three years of failed attempts to entice a sloth into budging as part of an experiment in animal movement.
Alrighty-then.
A post on Making Light tracks BBC “obsession” with hamsters, and this one story caught my attention:
Hamster back from the dead
Three-year-old Claudia had gone to the great cage in the sky. Or so it seemed.
For despite being buried in her makeshift coffin three feet below the ground, the plucky rodent was determined not to give up on life just yet.
She gnawed her way out of the box and burrowed up to the surface, before making her way back home.
via a post on DailyKos (probably C&J?)
Oh, wait… that’s poisoning pigeons, not swallowing them…
Pelican swallows pigeon in park
Last Updated: Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 10:06 GMT 11:06 UK
Families and tourists in a London park were left shocked when a pelican picked up and swallowed a pigeon.
The unusual wildlife spectacle in St James’s Park was caught on camera by photographer Cathal McNaughton.
Sorry for yet another late post, this and the Thailand one I dropped a link into here when fresh and never got around to posting it.
