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animalog (http://blog.hellokitty.com/marvinm) Interesting animal tidbits |
Does he love me?
I wanna know!
How can I tell if he loves me so?
(Is it in his eyes?)
Oh no! You need to see!
(Is it in his size?)
Oh no! You make believe!
If you wanna know
If he loves you so
Its in his kiss!
(That’s where it is!)
In keeping with the “love” theme of Valentine’s day
Orangutans in Indonesia
Hi Everyone! Happy valentine’s day to you! I heard that there’s something stirring this special season of hearts for us animal lovers! Our favorite Hello Kitty and Dear Daniel in a wedding?
The promotion is by MTR (Hong Kong underground train) and Sanrio (makers of Hello kitty and other characters) for this Valentine’s season! They decorated the whole train with the HK love theme and an actual (legal) wedding will be conducted today Feb. 14, 2007!
Check out the info here:
RAISINVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Here is a dog with expensive taste: A pit bull ate its owner’s $5,000 wedding ring before being made to throw it up again. Tina Burlett had thought someone broke into her house and stole the custom-made ring. But her grandmother suspected the family dog, Missy.
X-rays showed she was right.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Burlett told The Monroe Evening News. “I didn’t think so at the time, but it’s funny now.”
Missy has been caught gnawing on VCRs, electric blankets and even Burlett’s diamond earring.
“I did have a dog eat a watch once,” said Dr. Linda Fung of the Country Creek Animal Hospital. “Animals swallow a lot of stuff. It’s not an unusual thing. We just made her throw it up.”
From Associated Press
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I think the doggie was just jealous… didn’t want the wedding to push through. 
TOKYO (AFP) - A goblin shark — a rarely seen species often called a “living fossil” — was caught alive in Tokyo Bay but died after being put on display, an aquarium said.
The grey, long-nosed shark was caught in fishermen’s nets around 150 to 200 metres (500 to 650 feet) deep. It was discovered by officials of the Tokyo Sea Life Park when they took a boat with local fishermen on January 25.
“We were able to bring it to the aquarium alive and show it to the public,” said an official at the park.
But the shark died on the morning of January 27.
“Dead goblin sharks are caught from time to time, but it is rarely seen alive. We were able to document the way the shark swims. After it died, we dissected the specimen for further studies,” he said.
The shark was about 1.3 metres long.
Resembling pre-historic sharks, goblin sharks live on deep sea bottoms. Little is known about their lives.
From http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070207/sc_afp/japanwildlifeshark
Amateur explorers also discovered footprint ‘track ways’
NEW DELHI - Three Indian explorers have recovered more than 100 fossilized eggs of dinosaurs in a remote area in a central Indian state, a news report said Monday.
The amateurs also found footprints of the dinosaurs through which they could also trace the ‘track way’ of the now extinct heavy animals, The Hindustan Times Web site quoted Vishal Verma, one of them, as saying.
All the eggs were discovered from a single nesting site in Kukshi-Bagh area, some 95 miles southwest of Indore, a key city of Madhya Pradesh state.
“These animals used to come from far away areas to lay eggs on the sandy banks of the rivers in this area, identified scientifically as Lameta bed,” Verma said.
The dinosaurs were 40-90 feet in length, Verma said.
The richest dinosaur field in India is in the “Deccan Traps” near Jabalpur, a town also in Madhya Pradesh state.
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from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17005871/
Nudibranchs are sea slugs. There are more than 3,000 described species.
Body forms can vary wildly. They lack a mantle cavity and are soft and spongy when you touch them. These creatures are tiny, their size varies from 4 to 600 mm so you have to take pictures of them on macro mode.
They are carnivorous and some are cannibals, even eating other sea slugs, or on some occassions, members of their own species. There are also groups that feed on sponges, tunicates and barnacles.
They occur worldwide at all depths, but they reach their greatest size and variation in warm, shallow waters.
Among them can be found the most colorful creatures on earth. Because sea slugs, in the course of evolution, have lost their shell, they have had to evolve another means of defense: camouflage, through color patterns that make them invisible or warn off predators as being distasteful or poisonous.
And Nemo asked, “how old can a turtle live for?”
We were diving at Mabini, Batangas last year. The turtle was feeding on some sponges when we nearly ran over him. He had good camouflage with the rocks. He was about 3-4ft long and his shell had some jagged edges. Battle wounds or old age?
From Wikipedia:
The Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a
sea turtle that is distinguished by the following characteristics.
It has also 4 pairs of frontal scutes and the epidermal scutes overlaying the bones build the turtle’s shell. Additionally, it has 2 pairs of prefrontal scales.
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