Tuesday - September 06, 2011
What A Croc
Relieved Filipino villagers threw a fiesta when they captured a one-ton crocodile, with about 100 people pulling the feared beast from a creek by rope then hoisting it by crane onto a truck. The party may have been premature.
After the 20-foot (6.1-meter) saltwater crocodile was caught over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday an even bigger killer crocodile may lurk in creeks of the remote southern region.
The crocodile — weighing 2,370 pounds (1,075 kilograms) and estimated to be at least 50 years old — is the biggest caught alive in the Philippines in recent years. Wildlife officials were trying to confirm whether it was the largest such catch in the world, said Theresa Mundita Lim of the government’s Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau.
It was captured alive after a three-week hunt in Bunawan township in Agusan del Sur province, where villagers have been terrified. A child was killed two years ago in the township by a crocodile that was not caught, and a croc is suspected of killing a fisherman missing since July. Villagers witnessed a crocodile killing a water buffalo last month.
Bunawan villagers celebrated after they caught the crocodile. “It was like a feast, so many villagers turned up,” Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde said.
Wildlife official Ronnie Sumiller, who has hunted “nuisance crocodiles” for 20 years and led the team behind the capture in Bunawan, said a search was under way for a possibly larger crocodile he and villagers have seen roaming in the farming town’s marshy outskirts.
“There is a bigger one, and it could be the one creating problems,” Sumiller told The Associated Press by telephone from Bunawan, about 515 miles (830 kilometers) southeast of Manila.
“The villagers were saying 10 percent of their fear was gone because of the first capture,” Sumiller said. “But there is still the other 90 percent to take care of.”
The crocodile was placed in a fenced cage in an area where the town plans to build an ecotourism park for species found in a vast marshland in Agusan, an impoverished region about 515 miles southeast of Manila, [village Mayor Edwin Cox] Elorde said.
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Despite the catch, villagers remain wary because several crocodiles still roam the outskirts of the farming town of about 37,000 people.They have been told to avoid venturing into marshy areas alone at night, Elorde said.
The Guinness Book of World Records reports that the largest crocodile in captivity is 17-feet-long “Cassius” of Australia. If the facts are verified, the new Filipino crocodile could take the record by a long shot.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 09, 2011
Gonna get me some
NJ Wildlife Team Captures Big Black Bear In Suburbia
This is the 7th time this bear has been tranquilized and removed in 18 months
The New Jersey joke is that the bear has been doped so many times he’s developed a drug habit
Bear in search of romance shot out of tree with tranquilliser for SIXTH time as he wanders into yet another town
The lengths that some will go to for love.
A bear, known as number 6131, was finally captured by wildlife officials after leading them across an entire state in his search for a mate.
The team finally caught up with the male, black bear up a tree in a front garden in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He was brought down with a tranquilliser dart and fell into a net held by Department of Environmental Protection staff.
He has already been found in six towns in the past year and each time released back into a state wildlife park.
Kim Tinnes, a wildlife expert who helped capture the bear, said: ‘Probably in the course of a week he’s travelling over 100 miles.
‘I’ve got 30 years with the state and I don’t think we’ve ever trapped the same bear so many times in so many urban situations.’
Like, wow man. Stoner bear contemplates nirvana as the dope takes effect again
h/t to Peiper, because the story is running in the UK Daily Mail !
Ok, it’s in the NJ papers too. On about page 300.
EAST BRUNSWICK — It’s a bear developing a monthly habit. Two months ago it was in Hightstown, Mercer County, and last month near Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township.
Today, the same bear was tranquilized and captured on Tompkins Road in East Brunswick, the sixth time in less than 18 months wildlife officials have been called out for the animal.
What’s the Jersey solution?
“Take him for a ride.”
What, like to the Meadowlands, and dump his body like the mafia does?
“No! Eh, whaddaru, stupit? Wassamadda witchu? Take him down the shore!”
The last time he was captured, the bear was taken to a wildlife area in Upper Freehold. This time, he’ll go farther away.
“We’re going to try to find a different location for him, so he won’t come back,” Burgess said.
Officials decided that this time, the bear will go to a wildlife management area in New Egypt, which is in Ocean County.
Actually, New Egypt is where Fort Dix and McGuire AFB are, down in the Pine Barrens, so let the military deal with now if they have to. But the ocean is within a day’s walk for this fellow if he wants.
I think they should take him up north to Butler, which is just swimming with bears. Then maybe he can find himself a lady bear. My bet is that he’ll be back up there in a couple weeks anyway. This bear is a regular New Jersey commuter. Maybe they should have hooked him up with E-ZPass instead of a tracking collar.
Oh, and East Brunswick is where Rutgers University is. It’s not even close to rural. It’s about as built up as non-urban NJ gets.
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Permalink • Thursday - July 07, 2011
This Quacks Me Up
BOISE IDAHO -- A few animal lovers rescued a few ducklings that were trapped in a storm drain Tuesday night on Victory Road near Five Mile Road.
A passerby noticed a mother duck acting strangely on the side of the road and stopped to see what was going on. She realized a few ducklings were trapped in the drain.
A bit later, some others had gathered to help remove the ducklings. They used a stick with duct tape on the end as well as a swimming pool skimmer to take three ducklings out.
All of the rescued ducklings were reunited with their mother who was by then swimming in a nearby canal.
“Happy ending. It was adorable. It was just wonderful,” Annette Anderson said.
And now everything is just ducky.
via Insty
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Permalink • Saturday - July 02, 2011
Awww
Another day in Clinton. Baby bunnies having a snack and a nap in the neighbor’s flower garden. Awww.
Little bunny is lucky that Mr. Fox doesn’t have the nerve to come this close to the buildings. He stays in the woods down by the pond. Neighbor Nancy isn’t going to be too thrilled; she just planted those flowers a few weeks ago.
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Permalink • Thursday - June 16, 2011
A WING AND A PRAYER?
Since I can only get to one posting today, this is my pick. Makes a good change from usual rant and rave and besides, it is funny and cute.
Happened on a busy fwy here called the M4. A motorist got out of his car and managed to get the bird on to the shoulder.
Very very HEAVY rain mixed with hail. Oh boy. Not nice weather today. Pullin’ the plug.
[ Drew adds: At least this time it wasn’t runaway cows or dead pigs! ]
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Permalink • Saturday - May 21, 2011
One Bat, No Moon
I was out on the back balcony enjoying the bit of sunshine we’re having today. Actual spring, yahoo!! I looked down at the neighbor’s garden patio below us, and saw movement. There was a little brown bat out in the day time, crawling around. He didn’t seem to be injured, and managed his walkabout pretty easily. By the time I’d watched him for a couple minutes and had the idea of taking a picture, he’d crawled under a bush.
Bats out in the daytime? Made me wonder about rabies. So I Googled it up, and found out that New Jersey brown bats have been suffering from a terrible disease called White Nose Syndrome. It’s a fungus. This little fellow was quite hard to see, because he’s almost the same color as the stonework and the soil. But every once in a while he’d open out a wing and give it a shake. For all I know he was just water logged from all the rain and was trying to dry out a little.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has detailed a national plan to combat a fungus that has killed more than 1 million bats, including tens of thousands in New Jersey.
The disease, known as white-nose syndrome, is caused by fungus that appears to affect wing and tail membranes in many species of bats. It has spread to bats in 18 states and four Canadian provinces.
In unveiling the plan Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said it will provide a road map for the more than 100 federal, state and tribal agencies and scientific researchers who are tracking the disease and trying to combat it.
“The plan pretty much lays out a blueprint for the work that has been done and it ... lays out what is needed to be done,” said biologist Mick Valent of the state’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program. “It’s a framework.”
Since it was first detected outside Albany, N.Y., in 2006, the disease has been found in bats along the Eastern Seaboard and has spread inland to Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. The fungus also has been found in Oklahoma and Missouri, although no bats are known to have died from it in those states.
The rapid spread of the disease has concerned many ecologists because of the critical role bats play in maintaining healthy ecosystems, as well as in agricultural systems.
White-nose syndrome has hit New Jersey’s bat population especially hard, Valent said. Before it was detected in the state in January 2009, about 27,000 bats of various species gathered each fall to hibernate in the Hibernia Mine in Rockaway. The next spring, there were only 1,715 bats left at the mine, a mortality rate of more than 90 percent.
Scientists are not certain how the disease is transmitted or even how it kills. The fungus grows on bats’ noses, wings and ears and it may irritate those membranes, causing the animals to wake often during hibernation and thus burn so much energy they starve to death before spring. Other evidence suggests the fungus directly damages the wings, which are important for bats’ water balance and blood pressure.
The disease does not affect humans, officials said. However, the fungus can be spread by people’s footwear. Many caves on federal land have been closed to the public to try to stem the spread of the fungus. Officials said it was important for people to clean their shoes before and after they enter caves.
The announcement of a national effort to combat the disease was welcomed by New Jersey environmentalists who are seeking a solution to a devastating problem.
“There should be some kind of national plan because if every state is doing its own thing, it’s kind of chaotic,” said Jackie Kashmer of the New Jersey Bat Sanctuary in Alexandria Township. “Having a central agency overseeing the entire project could only be a good thing, to see what works and what doesn’t work.”
Alexandria Township is just a couple miles to the west of us here. Hmm, I wonder if we have a bat nest up under the eaves? I did see a woman out on the hill behind us with a camera yesterday at dusk. She was taking pictures of our roof. I figured she was just strange. Hope the little bat dude is Ok.
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Permalink • Monday - April 04, 2011
Awww is for April
Stoaty the Woozle caught little Mr. Bunsy hiding in her hen house. Uncle Badger snapped a pic, and then squirmy Mr. Bunsy ... flew the coop. It was another of his Big Adventures.
Full color wallpaper, perfect for the season.
Awwww.
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Permalink • Sunday - February 13, 2011
Packers Fans
A little email update on our two feathered friends down there in hill country.
They’ve been in their bad weather inside duck bin for most of the past month – too cold and their kiddie pool is frozen solid. I hear there is rumor of 50 and 60 degree weather just a few days away – they will definitely be swimming like hell when the weather breaks. They watched and rooted for the Green Bay Packers with me at the Super Bowl, too.
“Nothing scores higher in ‘awww’ factor than baby ducks. If you attempt to sway my decision in this matter – I’ll be forced to kill off whatever you suggest as the alternative.”
(Cattywumpus, USA: Unpublished Chronicles of Thots Whilst Shaving)
Of course Harold and Skokie (the two ducks) are Packers fans: they have the team colors built right in! 
It hasn’t been a good year so far for Miss Autumn, our champion coyote eliminator. She lost her father in law, a WWII veteran, to high speed cancer and poor hospital care in late January. The end is also part of the circle, but that doesn’t make it any easier.
But I am having a nice moment in my mind, imagining what an indoor bad weather duck bin would look like. I’m thinking either some kind of brightly painted large toy box off in one corner with a small puddle leaking out, or one of those old time artfully perforated tin storage boxes up on a closet shelf in the kitchen. Either way, faint and questionable quacks can be heard. Quack. “Hey, remember us?” Quack. “Um, it’s dark in here!” Quack. “Is the game on yet?” Not to worry though; I know for a fact that her puddle ducks are more cuddle ducks than anything. And aren’t their baby pictures just too cute for words?
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Permalink • Friday - February 11, 2011
Your Foreign Aid Dollars At Work
In an attempt to increase the range of the endangered Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), wildlife biologists have taken to ferrying young adult males and females about to enter estrus across Lake Tanganyika from Tanzania into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to the massive size of the lake, it would take longer for even these long legged creatures to walk around it than their mating season gives them, so the biologists built them their own ferry.
“Putting a cage on the barge wasn’t hard” states Mbulati Gahlwana, chief biologist for the Giraffe Project, “but rounding up half a dozen giraffes and getting them all aboard without injury was a challenge. They are very energetic creatures, and a kick from even a young one can kill a man in one go.”
The land and climate in most of the DR Congo is not perfect for giraffes, but the area on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika is moist enough to support the kind of vegetation and cover that these giraffes need. The Giraffe Project hopes to be able to move 4 dozen pairs of Masai Giraffes this year, enough to establish a small breeding population.
“We worry about poachers over there” says Gahlwana, “but if they don’t know the giraffes are around they might not go looking for them.”
The Giraffe Project is funded both by US foreign aid to Tanzania and by the World Wildlife Foundation.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 01, 2011
THE CALL OF NATURE. HERE KITTY,KITTY. NICE PUSS.
Can never resist this kind of thing. They are so beautiful. Wish they could be tamed but heck, imagine the size of the litter box you’d need.
And you’d never win a tug of war if one of em decided your arm was a toy. Couldn’t begin to afford to feed one.
OK, I’m convinced. Leopard as a pet? Bad idea.
Cute tho huh?
Take a look.
A python became the focus of an epic tug-of-war between two leopards. The six-and-a-half-foot (2m) long African rock python became the unwilling “rope” in the game, after being caught by a female leopard in the long grass. But as she dragged it, still wriggling, along behind her, she was ambushed by her son who wanted to land the kill for himself. The young male snatched the end of the enormous snake in his powerful jaws, and tried to tug it away from his mother…
Picture: Josh Scheinert/BNPS.co.uk
..The two big cats fought ferociously over their prey for half an hour, in front of stunned guests at the MalaMala game reserve, South Africa. The brutal battle was only ended when the female leopard gave up, retreating to a tree while her son tucked in to his prize. The scene was caught on camera by American photographer Josh Scheinert, who was staying at the MalaMala reserve.
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Permalink • Friday - January 14, 2011
The World Still Exists, Part III
When thinking of traveling to the Dominican Republic, many things come to mind – a tropical drink, sandy beaches, upscale, all-inclusive resorts.
And whales?
An often overlooked fact about the island of Hispaniola is the seasonal prominence of humpback whales off the coast of the Dominican Republic. Between the months of January and March, a portion of the humpback whale population migrates to the warm waters of the Caribbean to find their ideal mate, or give birth to the next generation of humpbacks.
The appropriately named animals play an interesting mating game in the waters of the Samana Bay. The male whales remain on the outskirts of the perimeter, aggressively pursuing the females with posturing and flashy aquatic moves. The available females stay on the inside of this show, waiting for their chosen mate and keeping the inner bay safe for the newly born calves.
Apart from the odd visual of nursing mothers huddling in the center, this particular mating ritual may be similar to what often occurs on land in typical tourist hotspots. Ecologically speaking, winter in the Caribbean sea is like Spring Break for the humpbacks.
Looks like Whales Just Wanna Have Fun!
But ... SAY WHAT??? I didn’t even know there was such a thing as Fox News LATINO. WTF?? What the hell is with these damn minorities? You don’t get to have no more Separate But Equal bullshit. It isn’t, so we don’t. None of us, you included. We don’t lay it down on you, and you don’t push it up on us. Fox News Latino? The mere existence of such a sub category of news is RAAAAAACIST. And pretty stupid too, since more than half the stories are written in English. Nothing wrong at all with categorizing news events by where they happen: the Far East, Africa, Down Under, South America, North of the Border, South of the Border. Whatever. And if you want to make a Spanish or French or Portuguese language edition of your news that’s fine. Those are the main languages spoken in the Western Hemisphere. I’m cool with that too. But don’t you DARE go and create a special sub branch of the news. Especially when specific “latino” stories include “New dinosaur species found in Argentina”. News is news, and of interest to all. If this sub genre thing is legitimate, then I demand Fox News Whitey, a code word access only venue that the blacks, browns, yellows, and rainbows can’t get at. That’s only fair. Except, gosh, it would be 90% of the news, wouldn’t it? TOO BAD.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 13, 2011
Schrödinger’s Penguin
The Daily Bayonet slides a foot of cold steel between the ribs of Climate Change scientists, by reporting on yet another bit of flawed science.
For the past decade or so, these “highly educated” folks have been studying penguins in Antarctica as a way of gathering climate change impact data. Problem is, they’ve been banding the birds with flipper tags instead of the ankle bands almost all other bird research folks use. And the tags themselves have caused the penguins to swim slower, catch less food, mate less, and generally suffer and die much more than regular penguins. So an entire decade’s worth of data is considerably skewed. And thus useless. Total waste of time and money, and half a career down the drain for the scientists involved. Not to mention harmful and abusive to the penguins themselves.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 09, 2010
Doe!
In People’s Republik of New Jersey, deer hits you!
Damnation.
Almost a year to the day after a deer flung herself under the bumper, I got beaned by another one. Both times while driving my wife’s car. Oops. I hadn’t driven more than a quarter mile from the garage, and I doubt if I was going 20mph. I saw the deer about 30 feet away, coming running right at me. I braked. I swerved. I blew the horn. I was almost stopped. “God dammit, go AWAY!!!” Nope. BAM. The stupid high rise cockroach runs right into the side of the fender. Does the floppy spazzo thing rolling over the hood. Kicks out the headlight and falls to the ground in front of the car. Gets up all wobbly, falls down a couple times, then gets up and limps away.
Limping off to die? I hope not, but what can I do? So now the fender is all bent up, looks like its been punched a few times. Guess I’ve got to go file a claim.
NJ is absolutely overrun with deer. They are everywhere. And in the rut, their mating season, right now, they are even stupider than usual. That’s mighty stupid. They are a plague.
Crap!! I am so pissed off.
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Permalink • Thursday - October 28, 2010
He Does Exist!
Looks like old Ruddy was 100 years ahead of his time.
Back in 1902 Rudyard Kipling published his Just So stories for little children. Stories that are wonderful to read aloud to very small ones, and give good answers to questions of Why. Plus you get to do the silly voices, wave your arms around, and roll his alliterative phrases trippingly off your tongue, to the impression and delight of the tiny folk. Great moments in parenting. Plus there’s free poetry at the end. With luck you’ll kick-start a lifelong love of reading.
Some of us love Kipling. Others have never kippled. Stoke your own ‘satiable curtiosity if you haven’t, because you are missing something grand. Disney utterly destroyed The Jungle Book when they took it over. Gutted it. Took out all the blood and danger, two elements essential for any real children’s stories. The original printed tale that Kipling wrote is a different world.
The Elephant’s Child is one of tales that are Just So. It’s a story about a small one who asks questions endlessly. Perhaps you’ve known a two year old just like him?
IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn’t pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant’s Child--who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable curtiosities. He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the Ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw. He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! He asked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, why her eyes were red, and his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, spanked him with her broad, broad hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon, why melons tasted just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy, hairy paw. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! He asked questions about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched, and all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity!
One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, ‘What does the Crocodile have for dinner?’ Then everybody said, ‘Hush!’ in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time.
By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, ‘My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my ‘satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!’
Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, ‘Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.’
That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, ‘Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.’ And they all spanked him once more for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop.
Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up.
[excerpt from later on in the story] Then the Elephant’s Child grew all breathless, and panted, and kneeled down on the bank and said, ‘You are the very person I have been looking for all these long days. Will you please tell me what you have for dinner?’
‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘and I’ll whisper.’
Then the Elephant’s Child put his head down close to the Crocodile’s musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose, which up to that very week, day, hour, and minute, had been no bigger than a boot, though much more useful.
‘I think,’ said the Crocodile--and he said it between his teeth, like this--’I think to-day I will begin ... with Elephant’s Child!’
At this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant’s Child was much annoyed, and he said, speaking through his nose, like this, ‘Led go! You are hurtig be!’
and today in the news we have this:
This baby elephant was given quite a shock when the camouflaged crocodile gave a tug on its trunk while it went for a drink with its family.
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The extraordinary scene was captured by amateur photographer Johan Opperman while taking pictures of a family of African Bush elephants grazing by a water hole and cooling down.Under the watchful eye of its family, the young elephant headed to the edge of the waterhole to grab itself a drink.
However, in what has been described by experts as very rare behaviour, a crocodile pounced on the youngster, hoping for a kill by locking its jaws around its trunk.
Hearing the baby’s distress calls, the herd of elephants, which are known for being very protective of their young, immediately came to its rescue, scaring off the croc by trumpeting and stamping around.
After the attack the herd stayed with the youngster. When the baby had been tended to and the herd decided all was well, they crossed the dam together, just metres from where the crocodile had been hiding.
So now, O Best Beloved, you have photographic proof for when your own ‘satiable Elephant’s Child turns into a Doubting Thomas. And you can find the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River on the map; it’s the border between South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. I’ve even given you a sign. Just so.
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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