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| Sunday Sep 23, 2012 | Attention fellow documentarians of the horrifying, yet fascinating recesses of Brony subculture. There are far worse things than fluffy ponies. There are fat ponies, pony thread simulators, and fat pony thread simulators. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Sunday Aug 26, 2012 | As part of the fractally nested Brony subculture, allow me to present Fluffy Ponies. Apparently, a Fluffy Pony is an infantile, neotenous, mentally impaired and physically frail representation of a My Little Pony. These are then put into a series of greentext misadventures wherein they meet gruesome, painful fates and substantial abuse. This abuse is then represented visually on Fluffy Pony image boards, and subsequently stored on the most incomprehensible archives. Welcome to the Internet; I'll be your guide. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Wednesday Aug 15, 2012 | A slideshow of celebrities with three nipples. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Wednesday Apr 11, 2012 | Capybaras that look like Rafael Nadal. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Friday Sep 7, 2007 | Temple Grandin, a doctor of animal science, devotes her life to designing more humane abbatoirs. That site is a treasure trove of information on both animal behavior as well as humane ways of dispatching them in ways that conform with modern technology and religious restrictions. And she is autistic, to boot. Her essay, "Animals are Not Things" is a good way of showing that one can care about animal welfare and still enjoy eating them.
to Zoology by isosceles |
| Monday Dec 4, 2006 | Pandas sneeze and steal. to Zoology by roo |
| Saturday Sep 16, 2006 | There is a thriving dinosaur porn industry. The results are terrifying and astounding. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Monday Dec 12, 2005 | Pandas,
pandas,
pandas,
pandas! So
many pandas!
to Zoology by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 2, 2005 | The famed Geico Gecko (a reptile) has a blog. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Tuesday Mar 1, 2005 | In 2002, a lioness in Kenya made news by adopting a baby oryx antelope as its own child; caring for it, protecting it and accompanying it. Unsurprisingly, the oryx met a tragic end at the claws of other lions, but the undaunted lioness tried again and again, in the end adopting at least five oryx calves. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Friday Dec 31, 2004 | RentAMidget to spice up your New Year's Eve party! to Zoology by scromp |
| Monday Nov 8, 2004 | What does a zoologist and former Peace Corps volunteer do when she has an uncontrollable urge to have a moosehead on the wall or a bearskin on the floor? to Zoology by yoyology |
| Tuesday Jul 13, 2004 | The animals over at BuddyZoo let you compete for the title of the most popular instant messanger out in the college wild. But the social zoologists among us really want to sit back and calmly observe the animals through the bars. IMWatching does exactly that, only stopping short of letting you feed the critters peanuts. to Zoology by fool |
| Thursday Jul 1, 2004 | The largest big cat in the world is the liger: a hybrid between a lion and a tigress. Ligers tend to share behavioral characteristics of their parent species. Ligers are afflicted with giantism, and can reach weights of up to a thousand pounds. Male ligers are thus far sterile, although females can breed. A hybrid between a tiger and a lioness is called a tigon, and is generally smaller and never exceeds the size of its parents. This is because in the lion species, the genes for growth hormones come from the father and genes for growth inhibition come from the mother; in the tiger species this is not the case. This difference is related to the cats' social structure; lions with multiple males in prides have to compete for resources within the womb; thus is it to the father's advantage to have large children and it is in the mother's interest to limit the growth for genetic diversity. Tigers, who are solitary, are under pressure to have as many children as possible; thus it is to the father's advantage to have many, equally-sized cubs. The mother doesn't need to inhibit growth. Mixing and matching genes results in a condition called growth dysplasia, hence the giantism of ligers and dwarfism of tigons. The relations of gene expression to social behavior is part of the reason why it is difficult to breed giant domestic cats. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Because humans and chimpanzees share roughly 99% of their DNA (this number is in question), it is believed by some that these two species can crossbreed. The resulting theoretical hybrid would be called a humanzee. There are rumors of humanzees, but no hard evidence. In the 70's and 80's, a unique chimpanzee named Oliver was believed to be a humanzee: he preferred to walk completely upright, drink and smoke, had an odd smell that was considered neither human nor chimpanzee, lack of hair on his head and humanlike facial features. A recent test shows that he is genetically a chimpanzee, and is either a new subspecies or a random mutation. And so, while Oliver enjoys the golden years of his life, the search for the humanzee -- and its ethical ramifications -- continues.
to Zoology by isosceles |
| Thursday May 6, 2004 | Constant irritation can drive anyone to
the brink of madness. to Zoology by scromp |
| Monday Oct 6, 2003 | And you thought only humans were this fucked up. to Zoology by 7layerburrito |
| Friday Mar 14, 2003 | Determining a chicken's gender is apparently a very difficult and complicated process, and several books have been written on the subject. Chicken sexers are esteemed in many circles. The reason why sexing the chicken is so important is that roosters are no good for eating.
to Zoology by isosceles |
| Thursday Feb 27, 2003 | The oarfish is the longest bony fish in the world. It has been reliably documented at eight meters, with some specimens over fifteen meters have been claimed. The oarfish is a deep-water fish, which normally lives on strained plankton and only surfaces when sick or dead. It is often thought that ancient maritime legends of sea serpents originate from rare sightings of oarfish. Because the oarfish looks like a snake, it was always assumed that it moved like a snake in water as well. Recently, however, video footage of the oarfish proves otherwise. The fish moves with its body in a vertical swimming position.
to Zoology by isosceles |
| Saturday Oct 26, 2002 | According to their government, the Australians are being overrun with feral camels. Take their camel, please! All of it! to Zoology by fringehead |
| Tuesday Sep 3, 2002 | Life of Onni, the story of a little pig from birth to the slaughterhouse. We know his ending but thankfully they don't show it.
to Zoology by lucky |
| Monday Jul 22, 2002 |
Who needs an online
zoo when you've got O'Reilly
& Associates? (You know, the animal book people.) Their
online catalog
has information on the habits, habitats, and histories of scores of
animals, from the
traditional to
the weird,
from the venomous
to the fragile,
from the simply endangered
to the probably extinct,
and from the appropriate
to the slightly surreal.
to Zoology by voidptr |
| Wednesday Jun 5, 2002 | The Royal Order of the Ape-o-naut isn't just dedicated to monkeys in space; it's for all primates, everywhere, including badass ninja chimps.
to Zoology by caspian |
| Tuesday Apr 23, 2002 | Extracting semen from a bull can be very difficult... yet rewarding. to Zoology by isosceles |
| Monday Sep 17, 2001 | Just when you thought remote control devices couldn't get any creepier; enter the Robo-roach.
to Zoology by fool |
| Monday Mar 26, 2001 | Frequently mistaken for an urban legend, the dreaded Brazilian candiru fish is known to parasitize humans by lodging themselves in the urethra.
to Zoology by joshua |
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