Posts Tagged africa
Simba?
Feb 27
By observing elephants moving across a hi-tech track, the team found the hefty creatures run with their front legs but walk with their back legs:
click for more pics
Three cheetahs spare tiny antelope’s life… and play with him instead
fuck you cheetah
Jan 13
don’t drink from pumba’s watering hole
granted, they were juvenile males, but still pretty cool
Latest find in natural world was result of reptile coughing up lizard as conservationist studied monkeys in the jungle:
Snake spits out new species of chameleon at scientist’s feet
hippo vs. crocodile
Nov 16
UPDATEbetter link with even more photos of the encounter!: hippo v. croc
hippo wins of course! =) =)
A crocodile strays too close to a mother hippo and her calves among a group of 50 hippos bathing in the river in the Serengeti national park, Tanzania, in these pictures taken by Vaclav Silha…
…The crocodile was killed in the battle that ensued – hippos can apply several tons of pressure in a single bite. One of these pictures was originally published in the November issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine www.bbcwildlifemagazine.com
image courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk
so i know the majority of the shit i post is funny/weird and requires no intellectual ability whatsoever to comprehend, but the fact of the matter is that i’m still a bio dork at heart and so i’m going to post some sciency shit i find interesting as well:
New species are born in the turbulence of the Congo River
basically this article is about this river being so deep in the middle that the strong currents separates fish on both banks, allowing them to evolve separately over time…but the best part of the article for me was what they named the fish:
“Mondeli bureau,” says the fisherman who brought it to her, pointing to the fish. Stiassny smiles. The name translates as “white man in an office” and plays on the locals’ vision of a computer-bound Westerner: blind, albino, stunted. hahahahahahaah
