The jaunty scarf is a bandage to keep beagle’s stitched up ear immobile as well as to cover her puncture wounds
Hundreds of dogs being trucked to Chinese restaurants were spared after about 200 animal lovers mobilised to stop them ending up on dinner tables, state-run media said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is my entry for the Dem Bones Haunted Halloween contest Playoff round and my homage to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a great author — via MOCpages
A tiny sea mollusk uses eyes made of a calcium carbonate crystal to spot predators lurking above, researchers say of the first such rocky lenses found in the animal kingdom — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Love your dog? Why not wear his/her nose around your neck. Jewellery designer Jackie Kaufman of Rock My World Inc creates personalised dog nose necklaces using recycled silver and a process called lost-wax casting
. The process is relatively simple: She sends you a kit in the mail, you hold the mold up to your pooches snout for a few seconds, and then you send the mold back to Jackie in a self-addressed envelope. She then creates your one of a kind piece, finished off with your name engraved on the back. In two weeks time, you can have your dog’s nose to wear around your neck!
An engraved nose print necklace will cost from $109.99 to $174.99, depending on the size. If you don’t like the nose print idea Jackie also creates personalised paw print necklaces. As for me, I can’t decide if this really cute or creepy — via Pawesome
The times are changing for European biologists who work with octopuses, squid and cuttlefish. A European Union (EU) regulation on animal experiments will soon make them familiar with the bureaucracy that is already the daily routine of those who experiment on monkeys and mice.
The EU directive on “the protection of animals used for scientific purposes”, which member states must incorporate into their national laws by January 2013, for the first time extends protections to cephalopods as well as vertebrate lab animals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whales and dolphins aren’t the only marine creatures bothered by the increasing amount of undersea noise. The first study to detail the physical toll of low-frequency noise on cephalopods has revealed a surprising amount of trauma, according to a study published today in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Environment.
In four separate species, noise exposure resulted in significant permanent damage in the statocyst, the fluid-filled structure in a cephalopod’s head responsible for helping the animal determine its position and maintain balance. Hair cells and nerve fibres in the statocyst were missing or damaged within 12 hours of noise exposure. And, in the worst cases, large holes were present immediately in the sensory epithelium of the statocyst—and became more pronounced 96 hours after noise exposure. The noise impact was acute and immediate, yet worsened over time — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Just in time to deposit festive egg sacs around your yard for Easter — via Octophant
A Boy and His Squid
by Travis Louie, part of his new exhibition The Creature Show
currently on display through May 7th at Roq La Rue in Seattle — via Laughing Squid
This is a comment I see and hear often. All breeding should be outlawed until every shelter dog has a home.
There’s a couple of significant flaws in this thinking. I know that even though it may come from a person with good intentions; they really haven’t thought it through thoroughly — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Meet our SWAKtopus Nova
! She’s Pink mixed with metallic gold with antique gold polymer clay. She is hand made sanded and polished for a smooth finish. Each leg is jointed to the body with metal eye rings and jump rings and each leg is accented with a tiny, colour coordinating Swarovski crystal. The hardware is reinforced with glue making it sturdy for versatile positioning.
She is approx. 5″ tall from head to the longest tentacle & 7″ wide at the widest when flat. This is a very sturdy, heavy piece — via Etsy
The wolves of Isle Royale in Lake Superior have been studied by scientists for more than 50 years, but they’re still learning new tricks. The scientists discovered a new immigrant in the population by analyzing the genes in its poop.
The scientists, John Vucetich and Rolf Peterson, of Michigan Technological University, long thought that the wolves were an isolated group, because no other wolves could make it onto the island, located in Lake Superior. The wolf, called The Old Gray Guy
crossed an ice bridge onto the island in 1997.
Before this discovery, the Isle Royale wolf population had been considered completely isolated since it was founded in the late 1940s,
Vucetich said in a statement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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Dead Cthulhu dreams… of holding hands and candle-lit dinners — via RedBubble
A very fun tattoo commission for Amy. Her little guy apparently calls them applepus
instead of octopus, which is adorable and also the reason for the toy.
I used a more impasto application of gouache than usual, and it was both challenging and educational. The stuff is really easy to blend wet in wet, but once it dries, lifting becomes a problem. It’s a delicate balancing act between having enough paint mixed up and keeping that paint wet while you work with other colors — via CrashOctopus Blog
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The system, dubbed StripeSpotter, only requires a small amount of human input. Users draw a rectangle around the zebra’s side, then this part of the image is automatically sliced into a number of horizontal bands and each pixel is made fully black or fully white, creating a low-resolution version of the zebra’s stripes.
Each band is then encoded as a StripeString, a sequence of coloured blocks with particular lengths – for example, white for two blocks, black for three, white for one – and the collection of StripeStrings forms a StripeCode, the zebra equivalent of a barcode — via benno.newsvine.com
Two holidaymakers who were caught on CCTV dumping a dog in Dorset have been convicted under animal cruelty laws.
The dog – originally called Brandy but later renamed Ginger – was filmed in Weymouth sitting on grassland as a car was driven away in September.
Michael Hartley, 54, of Daisy Meadow, Preston, pleaded guilty at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court. Jennifer Hadfield, 56, of Briary Court, was found guilty — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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