by Grania
Jerry has made it back to the States safely and is taking it easy this morning.
It’s the birthday of activist Malcom X (1925), president of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh (1890), actor & wrestler Andre the Giant (1946) and singer Sam Smith (1992).
This is Sam Smith in the Naughty Boy version of a Disclosure song.
Offered without comment, for none is needed
snow leopards biting their tails: a thread pic.twitter.com/QVjylY6a9m
— rae 🐈⬛ paoletta (@PAYOLETTER) May 18, 2018
[[very small munch munch]] pic.twitter.com/HH1J1VhiZm
— rae 🐈⬛ paoletta (@PAYOLETTER) May 18, 2018
Good reminder for people not familiar with the legal system.
It moves…s-l-o-w-l-y https://t.co/1tk1uann4a pic.twitter.com/EZaEVgXmoJ
— Keith Lee (@associatesmind) May 17, 2018
Good parenting
https://twitter.com/Attenboroughs_D/status/997767947606163456
TRIGGER WARNING: aaaaargh!
Cutting up a whale penis using a deli slicer… all in a day’s work #unusualjobskills pic.twitter.com/qwgWOaM7yG
— Patricia Brennan (@sexinnature) May 18, 2018
Smart ducks wait for traffic lights (I wonder if this was a fluke)
Some baby squirrels who got themselves into trouble, read the whole story here. Spoiler alert: it has a happy ending.
And a happier squirrel how looked after his tail.
https://twitter.com/Koksalakn/status/995616775063687168
Cat date
Hi I saw a cat going on a date pic.twitter.com/P0SK0NNO0o
— taizou 🏳️🌈🦁 (@taizou_hori) May 16, 2018
OLD AGEHili: Look, there is a hare over there.Cyrus: I do not chase hares anymore.
STAROŚĆHili: Patrz, zając tam siedzi.
Cyrus: Ja już nie gonię zajęcy.
Hat-tip: Harry S, koppieop, Thomas C, Roger L, Barry L, Gethyn
The German ducks waiting for a green pedestrian crossing light is fake. The ducks have been extracted from another video & superimposed.
** Pause video at 0:11 & you can see the original very dark ground hasn’t been completely removed from under the duck’s feet i.e. it’s as if the feet are floating just above the pavement with a black line underneath & around
** The ‘shadows’ under the ducks are too dark & too defined at their edges
** The ‘shadows’ are some form of blurring tool – has the effect of blurring out the edges of the pavement bricks [pause at 0:17 to see an example] – this is to hide the original ground
Yes, I have to agree. That’s too bad. I really wanted it to be real. Sigh.
I’m absolutely done with tw@tter, though I recognize its potential for sharing great things (note: this is not a content complaint, I’m just sick of social media) so I don’t click on those postings, however, I would love to know what species of squirrel that white and red tufted one is.
Red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris
The mother blue-faced monkey knows how to parent a baby that’s obviously in the monkey equivalent of the developmental stage commonly called the “terrible twos”.
I know about those rat kings — happy ending that they’re alive, but what’s a squirrel going to do without its tail, and will they have phantom tail syndrome?
I want to know what kind of squirrels are those in the video of hand-feeding? I’m pretty sure they’re Russian, or Slavic of some sort (that from the few words I can hear), but that doesn’t tell me anything except where they might be geographically, not what kind of squirrel.
The squirrels were separated without losing their tails. The squirrel species question is answered – I suppose there must be a variety of fur coats for the species or they can get pale backs [as well as the usual pale bibs] in the winter season. Or their are sub-species
Oops, when I saw them, they appeared not to have tails. I didn’t read the entire article — should have before I jumped in.
I identify the squirrels in the video as red squirrels (appropriate if this was filmed in Russia) in their winter coat(s? — maybe plural since the two squirrels sported different color ears and tails). Variations in coat color is common. I also read that the tufted ears in winter, which make them appear very long, are another identifying feature of the European red squirrel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_squirrel.