Janna Ireland
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Spent my morning reading the dueling Esquire and GQ articles about the exotic animal massacre in Zanesville, OH last year. Chris Heath’s GQ article has more facts (and more titillating speculation), while Chris Jones’s Esquire article is classier and better written. Instead of recommending one over the other, I’d recommend reading one then the other. Horrible, sad, totally fascinating story.
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A thing that happened to a friend of a friend: “This has to be the weirdest thing that ever floated by me on the Snake River. They were stuck together in death lock, each wanting to kill the other first. My guess is that the falcon snatched up the tasty snake, and it somehow got its tail around the falcon’s neck, strangling it in midair causing both of them to crash into the river. They are both alive and well, considering. I think a few more minutes and the snake would have won. The tail was actually tied in a knot around the neck, and getting tighter by the second. I got the snake untied, and well, as you can see, they both made it…Neither of them bit me or scratched me; the snake didn’t want to stop biting the falcon’s leg, and only let go after I had untied everything else. I got the water out of the falcon’s lungs with birdie inversion technique, and stayed with him until he was almost dried off in the sun, and flying a little.”
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“The nictitating membrane (from Latin nictare, to blink) is a transparent or translucent third eyelid present in some animals that can be drawn across the eye for protection and to moisten it while maintaining visibility.”
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A troop of wild mountain gorillas recently turned a typical ecotourism encounter upside down when the animals paid a visit to a tented camp in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Video footage, now gone viral, shows baby and adult gorillas approaching U.S. tourist John J. King II, sitting with him, and even grooming him as he sits in quiet amazement—right next to a giant male silverback gorilla.
At first, “this baby kind of grabbed my arm in a very gentle way. I just can’t tell you how gentle it was. It was like a young child touching your arm in a way that’s very endearing. (You can read more about the experience on NationalGeographic.com.)
To add to the list of things things that turn me into a ridiculous, weepy woman (along with anything to do with US soldiers, 3 out of 4 episodes of Sports Night, and the music of Loudon Wainwright III).
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Today at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in camp counselor chic. Lion in background. (Escondido, CA)
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“How to Impress Females (In the Bird World)” by Tim Laman
Saw this video at LOOK3 last month but couldn’t find it online to post here. It is super-good, and you should watch it.
(found via PDN)
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