Category Archives: Critters

Tours at night…

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Horse on a horse

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Boa Constrictors do NOT squeeze the breath out of you…

Well, they DO, but that’s not what kills you.  Turns out we were wrong:

A Dumeril's boa (Acrantophis dumerili) at the Great Plains Zoo in South Dakota. Constrictors quickly kill their prey by cutting off their blood supply, a new study says.

A Dumeril’s boa (Acrantophis dumerili) at the Great Plains Zoo in South Dakota. Constrictors quickly kill their prey by cutting off their blood supply, a new study says.

National Geographic Link

Cat

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Here I am!

Tipping

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Say Goodbye

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Technically Correct – poisonous vs venomous

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71st Annual Gerry Rodeo

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2015 Gerry Rodeo

71st Annual Rodeo August 5 – August 8, 2015

Wednesday thru Saturday Evening Performances   8:00 P.M.

Saturday Afternoon Performance   2:00 P.M.

Famous Beef Barbeque Dinners  Each Evening   5:00-7:30 P.M.

– Click to see the brochure (Link removed)

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What is the difference between venomous and poisonous animals?

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As Jolene Creighton in Quarks to Quasars puts it, “The quick and dirty way to separate venomous creatures from poisonous ones is by thinking about bites: If you bite it and die, it is poisonous; if it bites you and you die, it is venomous.” So a cobra is venomous and a poison dart frog is poisonous. (I guess if you want to be picky, a snake could be considered poisonous if you eat it and ingest its venom.)

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Juno

Juno is one of three Beluga whales who live at Mystic Aquarium on Mystic, Connecticut.

A shark eating…

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Cat Coaching…

Cat Pong

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(simulated, of course)

Timber Wolf

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This is Olav the Wolf, a sculpture made from scrap lumber by Copenhagen artist Thomas Dambo. It was commissioned for the Copenhell 2015 music festival. They asked him to make a large, evil wolf, so he made it appear as if it were emerging from the underworld- and named it after a friend who helped him build it. The sculpture had lights inside, so it glowed red during the entire festival. Then by tradition, it was torched on the final night of the festival.

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Three Little Pigs Memorial

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In early June, a semitrailer carrying two thousands pigs suffered a big bad crash on Ohio’s Highway 35 in Xenia. Recently, are residents came across a touching memorial to the pigs on the side of the road that look straight out of the fairy tales!

The Dayton Daily News reported that the houses, modeled out of the Three Little Pigs fable, are made from straw, sticks, and bricks were discovered early Monday morning and have been slowing down traffic and attracting on-lookers.

Even though the Big Bad Wolf huffed and puffed and couldn’t blow these houses down, the local police department did. They removed the houses to avoid traffic accidents and people crossing the highway to take pictures of the houses.

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The police and the media wanted to know who built the fairy tale houses, but so far, no one’s squealed.

Good Morning

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Exploding Plants

https://youtu.be/NsIojj4PzAo

Wrong side of the cage!

Spider web in leaf

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