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Linktrawl – Pets

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Poor Cats.

Mice strike back!

This looks relatively harmless:
funny pictures

This was more serious and sad.

Birds, too!

funny pictures

another one
another two

Starting with the young ones

And then the cats’ humans get crazy ideas…

Mind you, that’s not limited to cats, but happens to dogs, too

Though this one may escape: fluffy, white, canine – but not a pomeranian

Link roundup – Octopi and other marine molluscs

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

News story: Bored octopus juggles crabs, shorts out aquarium


Photos and bits of science: Octopi with forked tentacles


Art: Colourful cartoony octopi by Rawjawbone – sample:

Art: Meg Lyman draws, among other things, squids and other cephalopods, and they’re often very cute.
samples:


More Art:


Photo (via National Geographic, click for original)
Supposedly smiling octopus
looks more like this to me

Nudibranchs are, sort of, cute, colourful miniature sea slugs, as far as I can tell.
Have some sample photos by Raymond™ from his Nudibranch flickr stream
red, black, white, blue and grumpy

Nudi Pixel is a website dedicated to become a spotter’s guide. They have over 10.000 (ten thousand) photos in their gallery.

more nudibranch links:
Another flickr set
Blog entry at Scienceray with a selection of photos

2 "Odd News" from Germany

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Police take snake into custody
Drug shop shut down – note the last line