It has come to our attention that there is a serious shortage of posts featuring baby blobby cephalopods hitching rides on hermit crabs. So here you go.
Squid pro quo, Shannon J.
Posts tagged as: Unusual Animals
Snailio Makes Itself Perfectly Clear
May 2, 2013 By 6 Comments
I don’t mean to be a pane but it’s not easy being transparent.
I’m fed up with birds crashing into me.
And telling the kids to go play baseball somewhere else.
It’s clear I’ll just have to see through another day.
Delicately dainty snailio photos by Helen Nelson of The Good Earth. Thanks to sender-inner Zoë.
THIS JUST IN: Dimbi’s Debut
May 1, 2013 By 19 Comments
Or, as the Parc Zoologique & Botanique de Mulhouse in France would say, “Voila!”, which literally means, jeepers creepers where’d ya get those peepers?
Dimbi, the blue-eyed black lemur, a critically endangered species (boo, hiss), was born on March 8 (yay!) and just recently made his first public appearance.
See for yourself!
Can’t… look… away…
And you can see even more about Dimbi over at Zooborns.
Odor to a Skunk
April 26, 2013 By 29 Comments
Skunkalette, no more than a budding flower
Sweet and dewey, too sleepy to bloom
Blissfully unaware of its ultimate power
Sparing us from skunkalette perfume
Allowing for a cuddle and a sniff.
Tie-tie skunkalettes need forty-winks
And the world’s noses breathe happy
No worries about getting a whiff
Of skunkalette’s stinky-stinks
When a skunkalette takes a little nappy.
Susan R. found this on PUTube and says, “Wait for :55 for ultimate leg wiggling action. I love how he immediately falls asleep at the end!”
Who’d Like To Trade Places With The Hoomin?
April 25, 2013 By 30 Comments
C’mon, raise your hands, let’s see ‘em.
“This little guy is a Quokka. It is a marsupial the size of a cat. It lives on an island called Rottnest Island, which is near Perth, on the west coast of Australia. The creature petting him is named Sowmya. She was having a bad day when a Quokka came out of the bush to say hi!”
[I bet the bad day ended right here. -Ed]
Cuteporter Doug E. checking in from Winnipeg, Manitoba…a LONG bike ride to Perth.
Tobermory Batwinghands
April 25, 2013 By 25 Comments
And now everyone, for your Peg, the-kind-hearted-Mom-who-helps-Edward-Scissorhands, moment!
Fave, “My, those are your hands? Those are your hands! What happened to you? Where are your parents? Um… Your mother? Your father? Are you alone? Do you live up here all by yourself?” Frame:
Lydia K., via YouTube. Video possibly from Bat Rescue Inc. Unconfirmed. Any info appreciated!
“Each year vaccinated wildlife rescuers hand rear baby flying foxes. At the end of the hand rearing process, (usually at about 13 weeks of age) the weaned babies are sent to baby bat crèche where they learn appropriate battie socialization skills. Tobermory had wing tip injuries sustained on rescue and shared the hospital aviary with several others, including 2 little guys who still required a morning bottle feed. As I searched in the bedding materials for the recipients, (weaned) Tobermory snuck over and made off with one of the bottles. I was impressed with his stealth and ingenuity and the fact he knew the bottle needed to be upended for the milk to flow. He afterwards got a bowl of warm milk for his trouble. Tobermorey is a grey headed flying fox and after his injuries were resolved, he was released back into the wild with his 60 crèche companions.”
What Happens When You Pet a Porcupine?
April 25, 2013 By 32 Comments
Will the porcupine think it’s a puppy? Will you require medical assistance from Dr. Tweezers? Will there be balloons involved? Let’s pet a porcupine and find out!
Fave Frame:
From CutiesNFuzzies on PorcYoupineTube.
Hi Honey, I’m Home!
April 24, 2013 By 14 Comments
Hellooo? Honeeeeeeey?
She’s makin’ me sleep on the log again. That’s the last time I forget to bring in the trash!
“This is ‘Homeslice’, he is a black bear, looking into our cabin, we got in trouble from the bosses for letting him get that close to our cabin. But I couldn’t help getting that great photo. And, I think he might have eaten something gross, like an old fish carcass. Right before he laid down in this cute as heck position, he was sitting on the log gagging like he was throwing up in his mouth (not being cute at all) he then laid down
for about 30 minutes. I was working nearby sampling Sockeye Salmon for the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game. We saw ‘Homeslice’ quite a lot that summer. I feel he was abandoned early or his Mom was shot by hunters cause he seemed too small to be on his own.
Photo by me: Bob F.
PS- why the name ‘Homeslice’?
The Short version: Just ’cause.
The Long version: I’ve been going up to that same spot in AK for the last 11 years. I like to think it is the same bear, but when my co-worker and I first saw him he was a lone cub that would come down to the river with his Mom. We then called him ‘PocketBear’ just because he was small and cute. We would watch as his Mom would leave the scene while ‘PocketBear’ would be sniffing around, and then he’d look up and see that she was gone. I think Mom may have had an alchohol problem or was just exercising bad parenting. The following summer there was this teen cub, which we imagined was ‘PocketBear’. He was a bit of a pain, he’d get too close to camp. (We are meant to scare them away, yelling, throwing rocks, etc. We’d do all of this but he had no fear) One day my co-worker and I were working inside a fish trap when just behind us in the river was this bear, my co-worker turned and yelled “get outta here Homeslice!” and he scurried away. A few summers later many different bears came and went. We name them all.”
If You Won the L’ottery
April 23, 2013 By 30 Comments
OMG! Happy dance! Here’s how ottermatically fabulous your life could be!
Fave Fenway (the otter) Frames:
The lucky winners are Fenway and MissPippyLou. And thanks to CO-er, rescue gal, who also sent this in!
“We Will Finish the Race!”
April 20, 2013 By 12 Comments
“Runnin’ runnin’, and runnin’ runnin’, and runnin’ runnin’, and runnin’ runnin’… Let’s get it started in here!”
“Don’t move too fast, people, just take it slow.
Don’t get ahead, just jump into it. Everybody, everybody, let’s get into it.”
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Stand a little taller.”
“What doesn’t kill you makes you fighter. Footsteps even lighter.”
“And I ran, I ran so far away. I just ran, I ran all night and day.”
“Let’s see how far we’ve come, let’s see how far we go.”
Dedicated to all runners, joggers, marathoners. Thank you for your inspiration.
Attack of the Cute, Stanley, Alex Tweedie, Tom F., Buzzfeed, Peter L., Temple of Cats
Lyric excerpts Black Eyed Peas, Matchbox Twenty, Kelly Clarkson, Flock of Seagulls.
Title quote Pres. Obama
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