Entries Tagged as 'Animals'

Wondering about my recent silence? I’ve been spending my spare time working on a few different projects, such as the following:

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I have been long absent from posting on my blog. While traveling London and Italy, I was enjoying the trip far too much to concern myself with the blog, especially without consistent internet access. Following my return to Seattle, I was ill with Italian Death Virus and then substantially occupied with work.

But, with the goal [...]

I’m easy to amuse, I won’t lie.

Crazy elephant shrew! This new and bizarre mammal species was discovered in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. This region is well known for its wealth of biodiversity. Biodiversity is science speak for weird shit.

I don’t think he would make an “OM NOM NOM NOM” noise so much as a “SLURP SLURP SLURP.”

OK, so this may be freaking adorable, but what amount of resource expenditure (largely in person-hours) is allocated by the English government to save the life of a single dormouse? Ridiculous.

Note: I recognize that spending money on a dormouse is arguably more worthwhile than say, oh, I don’t know, the war in Iraq?

I have had this post waiting in the wings for some time now. I keep trotting out this fantastical story to friends—it even came out at Thanksgiving. I figure the time is right to support my wild leporid tale with hard facts.

I first read of Karl Szmolinsky in an interview in Viceland. This champion breeder [...]