Beauty

Drugs, Animals, and Australia

I was at New Scientist a few minutes ago reading this article about animals using drugs which said the following:

"The marsupials of Tasmania have found a means of passing the time on Australia's island state that could also explain mysterious local crop circles. Wallabies have been munching the poppies grown for opium by the pharmaceutical industry.

"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," the attorney general was quoted in The Mercury newspaper."

Which somehow lead to me being on YouTube and running across the funniest man I've ever seen talking about how dangerous Australia is because of it's wildlife, as seen below.

Humpback Breaches Off Coast of Ireland

Several amazing photos here. I tried to find the video on Youtube but from the article it sounds like the guy who took the video is making a documentary so I think we will have to wait for that. It just blows my mind that such a large creature feeds on Krill which are soooo small.

National Penguin Awareness Day

Penguins are pretty cool. I didn't know they had their own day! In celebration here is a slide show of some great penguin photos.

Spot the Gecko

Have you guys seen this? Totally cool.

Pictures

Click on the photos to make them larger. You can see my dogs 3 gray hairs. They are so funny. He's had them since he was a pup. Sorry they are so blurry. I am bad with a camera I guess.

So here is the biggest frog I've ever seen. The photo in the rocks there is actually the giant frog and a regular sized frog. His blending skills are stellar, so you have to look for him. Then there are some geese that are migrating I guess. Evil fucking birds. Actually those are much nicer than the canadian geese. That is my dog oscar with the frog, I've lovingly named Jeremiah. Oscar is a mini-dachshund and weighs like 11 or 12 lbs and about 15 inches long and maybe 7 inches tall to give you some perspective on this fucking frog. Also, when I was carrying Jeremiah, he put his legs on my chest and jumped with such force that he flew out of my hand and on to the ground where oscar picked him up and ran with him. He didn't hurt him or even break its skin and the frog hopped away back to the lake, but oscar was drooling for about an hour and hasn't been right all day. I'm starting to think there is something to that legend that says if you lick a frogs back you will get high. There was a gekko or another lizzard like that too, but I just put him in the brush and didn't take a picture. I wish I did now.

It was like 55 and rainy all day. The photos actually remind me of what I think Oregon looks like in the winter. Fucking beautiful. I like it when the sun is out too, but this is perfect weather for me.

Frisky Lion

A reporter kind of gets shown who is boss by a lion. I know the lion could have killed him in an instant if it wanted to, but why the fuck didn't he get out of the cage when it first started acting up? Some people are just incredibly stupid. You know he was thinking about the camera the whole time. Money isn't worth getting mauled by a lion, dude.

Baby Chicks

I just watched this video and the cruelty of it towards living creatures is enough to make you sick to your stomach. Caution -- this is graphic.

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery/