Tag: ANIMALS
Animals is an animated web series that (almost) shares a name and a similar set of interests with this very website. The latest episode features a bizarre love triangle of three pigeons who get nice and awkward before stumbling upon some sort of dead mammal. I won’t ruin the surprise for you. Phil Matarese and Mike […]
Alexander Semenov is the head diver at Moscow State University’s White Sea Biological Station in the Russian Arctic. When he’s not doing science-y stuff and whatever else head divers at biological stations do, he’s taking photographs of whatever beautiful plants and animals he finds underwater and posting them to his Flickr. The latest installment, uploaded […]
Design firm MGMT created this illustrated guide to NYC’s wildest wildlife. There’s the infamous @bronxzooscobra, Ming the Harlem tiger, and Sludgie, a depressingly named whale who got caught in the Gowanus in 2007 (this guy wasn’t the first, it turns out). Each entry done in an attractive, geometric minimalism, and includes the relevant facts about […]
Kansas-based photographer Emma Kisiel, who focuses on “ways in which we as humans experience and interact with animals,” has been making images of roadkill, specifically roadkill memorialized by the photographer herself for a series called At Rest. She pairs the drab sight of rodent death with brightly colored flower petals, etc. Why? My images draw […]
The idea of growing a piece of meat in a lab, without an animal, is sure to make a few readers gag–and understandably so. But when considered against the monumental environmental (not to mention ethical) impact of factory farming, 3D-printed hamburgers and pork chops slowly become more appealing. In the above lecture from Solve for […]
You’ve already got that awesome, high-speed cardboard robot cockroach, so here’s a rodent companion for it to play around with. Beware though–this robot rat is designed with the explicit purpose of making other animals stressed, depressed, and otherwise upset. With the intent of studying how mental disorders affect lab rats, the Japanese researchers programmed this […]
The ASPCA and Downtown Brooklyn’s One Love Animal Hospital will be hosting an event this weekend in which 30 straight-up adorable cats–all of which were rescued from a hoarder in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy–will be placed up for adoption, with all fees waived. Great, you love cats! You voted for one, didn’t you? That’s […]
A dolphin is currently stranded inside Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, one of the most polluted waterways in the country. Witnesses spotted the animal near the Union Street Bridge at around 12:30. It’s unclear how the dolphin got there, but the canal does empty into a series of waterways that eventually reaches the Atlantic Ocean. “It was […]
Twenty-seven years after the Chernobyl disaster, researchers are surprised to find that animals in the fall out zone don’t actually glow in the dark. Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, spent several months wandering through the exclusion zone, the evacuated area hit hardest by the fall out, and calls it a […]
Ever wonder what a giant otter sounds like? How about a striped skunk? Arctic loon? Red-throated loon? How about a Texas field cricket? No? Just me? Thanks to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, a brand new online database of recordings of those and some 150,000 other animals, now you can hear all of those and […]
