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Muhammad Alley-Cat

Video: funnyordie.com

Muhammad Alley-Cat is in training so watch out all you boxing wannabes.

Close up of a Flys Eye

Photo: The Flys Eye

Close up view of a Flys Eye, very interesting and thanks to University of Hawaii at Manoa via photosfan.com for the image.

Website: University of Hawaii at Manoa via PhotosFan.com

100 things you didn’t know

Video: YouTube

Maybe these facts are useless and won’t benefit you in anyway, they are interesting though and might give you something to talk about at your next party or gathering.

Werewolves of London: Warren Zevon

Video:YouTube

I love this song, it has a brilliant sound and has always made me feel upbeat when it comes on the radio. This is the original by Warren Zevon from 1978.

Below is the same song but with a good animated video to go with it.

Video:YouTube

Some funny animal clips

Video: YouTube

Lots of funny animal clips here. This video has been around for a while, so if you have seen it then maybe you can laugh all over again. If not sit back and enjoy some

Dog Gets Ball in Pool

I guess some, if not many of you may have seen this footage, for those who haven’t, or are dog lovers such as myself, enjoy… oh by the way, to you cat lovers, suck eggs!

Deer Gets Revenge

Video: Google Video

HaHaHaHaHa… Good to see, I’ve never considered hunting a sport, think about it, you use a high powered rifle with a scope to kill some poor creature and call it ’sport’?… if you did the same thing to another human, it would be murder.

OK, I know that there are circumstances where you have to cull certain animals for various reasons. In Australia for instance, feral pigs, cats, dogs, dear, buffalo, goats and camels can cause enormous damage to our delicate Aussie bush and our farms, and I’m all for shooting programs, either to bring down their numbers or even to wipe them out, to protect that delicate bush.

We also have situations where the Kangaroos end up in plague proportions; largely because we have changed the balance, and we have to kull them. Now don’t get me wrong here, I have no problem with this culling, in fact I’m some what pissed off when a bunch of bleeding harts try to stop these culls… sort of a save Skippy thing.

I’m also pissed off when these same people, protest at Kangaroos being ‘farmed’… because “You can’t eat our national symbol.” Well yes you can, the Aboriginals have for some 60,000 years or more. It’s also one of the healthiest meats having very low cholesterol and having the advantage that they do less harm to the bush than Beef… we should be farming them.

But killing for pleasure, no I’m sorry but I’m not happy with that. By the way, did you know that another reason given for the Kangaroo and the Emu being on our crest is because they can’t take a step backwards… an Australian trait all but gone in the last 30 years. Hears another fact. In every conflict that Aussie military personnel were involved in, it was our boys who were the first to win battles amongst the allies.

The Bunny Envelope Opener

Video: Live Leak via YouTube

What a cool envelope opener! It’s weird, but every time I see a rabbit I think either of Monty Python’s “It’s just a harmless bunny.”… or my mothers fantastic Rabbit Stew.

The Star-nosed mole

Video: YouTube

The Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) is a small mole found in in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States. It is the only member of the tribe Condylurini and the genus Condylura.

The Star-nosed mole lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates, worms, insects and mollusks. The mole is a good swimmer and can also forage along the bottom of streams and ponds. The mole digs shallow tunnels that it can use to forage for food.

The Star-nosed mole is covered in a thick black/brown water repellent fur, has large scaled feet and a long thick tail. It is the mole nose though which is it’s most distinctive feature, it has a circle of 22 mobile, pink, fleshy tentacles at the end of the snout, which is used to identify food by touch.

That Nose

“The incredibly sensitive nasal tentacles are covered with almost one hundred thousand minute touch receptors known as Eimer’s organs. These were first described in the European Mole in 1871 by German zoologist Theodor Eimer. Other mole species also possess Eimer’s organs, though they are not as specialized or numerous as in the Star-nosed Mole. Because the Star-nosed Mole is functionally blind, it had long been suspected that the snout was used to detect electrical activity in prey animals[3][4], though there is little, if any, empirical support for this contention. It appears the nasal star and dentition of this species are primarily adapted to exploit extremely small prey items. A report in the journal Nature gives this animal the title of fastest-eating mammal, taking as short as 120 milliseconds (average: 227 milliseconds) to identify and consume individual food items. Its brain decides in the ultra short time of 8 ms if a prey is comestible or not. This speed is at the limit of the speed of neurons. They also possess the ability to smell underwater. It is done by exhaling air bubbles onto objects or scent trails and then inhaling the bubbles to carry the smell back through the nose.”

“The star of tentacles is formed in a unique way so far not seen other places in the animal world. Instead of growing in the same way fingers grow outward on a hand, they start as swellings on the face around the nose, and some days after birth they break free and move forward in the same way a banana is peeled.”

The Star-nosed mole is just one of the many amazing, yet not so well known creatures that inhabit this world, we will from time to time be showing more of these amazing inhabitants of this place we call home.

Website: Star-Nosed Mole

How Fast Can A Peregrine Falcon Fly

Video: Metacafe

What an awesome bird and I for one would prefer to see a few more Peregrine Falcons in our cities, which means we’d be entertained, whilst they trim down the numbers of pigeons and seagulls… sort of two birds with one sort of bionic stone.

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