Tag: ANIMALS
According to New York Times report, mockingbirds have been terrorizing visitors at Greenpoint’s Transmitter Park lately, hovering over people, pecking at them, and generally making a ruckus. One man describes hearing “a wail, like a battle cry,” before a bird swooped down at him, and another says the birds were “were dive-bombing me, and flying at […]
Say you’re a hawk moth, quietly minding your own business, doing whatever it is hawk moths do, when you hear a sound. To your finely-tuned ear, it sounds like a bat, ready to swoop in and make an attack; you don’t have enough time to get away, and the flying predator is getting closer by […]
The goose roundup of 2013 is officially on. David Karopkin–the man behind GooseWatch NYC–recorded this video of the birds being gathered for slaughter in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife reserve. According to the New York Times, which published the video, the USDA targeted 500 birds for killing today. R.I.P., 500 innocent geese. […]
Where were you during the Great Cicada Swarmageddon of 2013? Locking your doors and sealing your windows to keep the hordes away? Battling your way to the corner bodega with a baseball bat, swatting away all of the filthy creatures in your path? Or putting your entomologist hat on, carefully studying the wealth of new specimens […]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a permit to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to kill over 90 species of bird within New York State this year, ANIMAL has learned. The birds slated for killing include owls, herons, hawks, and woodpeckers, in addition to the slaughter of Canada geese that has been widely […]
Here’s the first documented goose slaughter of 2013’s molting season. Volunteers with GooseWatch NYC encountered a roundup of about 10 birds and their goslings in progress at Inwood Hill Park this morning and snapped the above photo as USDA agents were leaving. The city contracts the USDA to kill off geese each year in an attempt […]
Every good organization deserves a good logo, so after ANIMAL profiled GooseWatch NYC earlier this week, we decided to do a little pro-bono, unsolicited design work for the volunteer group. In an attempt to curtail incidents of birds interfering with airplane flight, the City of New York and the USDA began slaughtering geese in NYC’s […]
Summertime is almost here, which, for New York City’s goose population, means it’s molting season. Ordinarily, it’s a time for the birds to shed their wing and tail feathers and grow new ones in preparation for migration. But since 2009, when a gaggle of migratory geese led to the “Miracle on the Hudson” emergency plane […]
We’ve seen robotic roaches and tweet-controlled critters before, but nothing quite like this. RoboRoach, currently funding on Kickstarter, is a $99 kit that would allow users to turn a cockroach–yes, an actual, living cockroach–into their own personal cyborg. See the thing in action above. Getting the bug under your command is just as gruesome as you might imagine. […]
Not to be outdone by Kill Bill bees and Johnny Depp Arthropods, a group of paleontologists studying a giant prehistoric reptile discovered in the 1970s decided to name it after the original Lizard King: Jim Morrison. The ancient beast, dubbed Barbaturex morrisoni, lived some 40 million years ago, weighed 60 pounds, and was six feet long. It’s one […]
