Canada Goose
Apr. 6th, 2016 06:01 pmMost raindrops are of some interest, but this particular one is fascinating.
Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.
Most raindrops are of some interest, but this particular one is fascinating.
Contrary to what most people believe the comet’s tail always points away from the sun and doesn’t always show the direction it is moving.
He’s not just the owner of Beakclub for Birds, he’s also a client.
Q: How can’t you measure a snake?
A: In feet.
Q: What do you call a snake who works for the government?
A: A civil serpent.
Q: What do you call a snake that’s very polite?
A: A civil serpent.
Q: Why did the zoo’s breeding program have to replace all their plastic pedestals with wooden ones?
A: Because adders can only multiply with a log table.
Q: Why did the snake see Gone With The Wind in the theater?
A: She really liked the book.
Q: How did the snakes get out of jail?
A: They scaled the wall.
Ha!
At night, when the zoo is closed, the titi monkeys make edgy films on old 16mm cameras that they buy off of eBay.
The fact that animals bite you when you do things wrong should be warning enough, frankly.
Not only was this a common enough problem to require a sign, it was common enough to require the sign to be in two languages *and* needed a hotline.
Granted, this is from a state that recently decided to legalize certain passtimes.
“Sure. Just sit there and breathe the air like it’s no big deal. SOME OF US AREN’T SO PRIVILEGED.”
Many of the bends you see in branches are made by heavy frogs.
It takes a lot of effort to train a crocodile but in the end, when they stand still for the saddle, it’s worth it.
This is a hawk headed parrot eating a strawberry. Of course, the parrot doesn’t really have a hawk’s head. Accipitriformes and psittaciformes are two entire different orders of birds. Birds, of course, aren’t really birds. They’re avian dinosaurs. The word “dinosaur”, being coined in 1842 to mean “fearfully-great lizard”, of which the animals we call dinosaurs were most definitely not, at least on the “lizard” part. How great they were is rather subjective.
Also, a strawberry isn’t really a berry. It is an aggregate accessory fruit.
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* We now call a stream of electrons that make up words and/or pictures “posts” after the large wooden things we used to put into the ground for people to nail paper to. Thank you, linguistic evolution**.
** The word, “evolution”, of course coming from Latin and French, referring both to military maneuvers and the act of unrolling a scroll***.
*** Which, when unrolled, were sometimes nailed to posts*.
It’s called a mimic poison frog not because it’s not poisonous, but because they’re so small that they don’t produce much.
You can tell, these are the most vicious predators in Madagascar, right?