Showing posts with the label Animals

LOLCats From Yesteryears: Photographs by Harry Whittier Frees

Jun 4, 2013

LOLcats, for those uninitiated, is an Internet meme of funny cat pictures accompanied with an amusing caption, often idiosyncratic and gramm...

Ducks Rule at Peabody Hotel, Memphis

May 23, 2013

Peabody Hotel is not just another luxury hotel in downtown Memphis in Tennessee, USA. This one has a peculiar attraction – ducks. Every day ...

Extraordinary Camouflage of Walking Leaves

May 22, 2013

Leaf insects or walking leaves are some of the most remarkable leaf mimics in the entire animal kingdom. These insects take the appearance o...

Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New Zealand

May 15, 2013

The Waitomo Glowworm Caves, located just outside the main Waitomo township on the North Island of New Zealand, is a famous attraction becaus...

Monarch Butterfly Migration

Apr 14, 2013

The Monarch butterfly (scientific name: Danaus plexippus ) is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies. It is easily recogni...

Massive Bird Nests on Telephone Poles

Feb 27, 2013

In the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, a native bird called the Sociable Weaver Bird constructs massive nests that, from a distance, looks li...

Creepy Images From Inside a Snake Slaughterhouse in Indonesia

Feb 21, 2013

In the small Javanese village of Kapetakan in Indonesia’s West Java province, Wakira owns a slaughterhouse that produces snake meat and skin...

The Bizarre Sport of Goose Pulling

Feb 16, 2013

Goose pulling is an old sport originally played in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, England and North America from the 17th to the 19th ce...

Nancy Rose's Adorable Squirrels

Feb 8, 2013

Nancy Rose has a bunch of squirrels living in the backyard of her home in Halifax, Canada, whom she has been photographing for a couple of ...

Camel Wrestling in Turkey

Feb 1, 2013

Camel Wrestling is a traditional sport very popular along the west coast of Turkey, where male camels from local villages are pit against ea...