Archive for August, 2008

For many people Sunday is a time to get together with their families … I guess this holds true in the animal world as well. Here are some adorable siblings cuddling together:

I think these guys are wart hogs, but if I’m wrong please let me know! Aren’t they adorable?

I love dumb criminal stories, but you know what’s even better? Dumb criminals caught on film!
This video is one of my favorites. A guy who’s been drinking decides to break into a liquor store - through the roof! A comedy of mishaps happen and it’s all caught on the stores surveillance cameras. [...]

Last March the China’s Xinhua news agency reported that a farmer in Jilin province had been found with a tortoise that is addicted to nicotine. How they know it’s addicted I don’t know …

The farmer is a smoker and he said that he was surprised that the tortoise puffed on the smoke that he [...]

Now this is one odd looking contraption:

It appears to be a custom made car tractor. Perhaps the inventor plans to use it to dig earth or push snow around in the winter? I’m not sure how well it would hold up, but it’s definitely interesting!

With most species you’d think that the smarter of the bunch would live longer but that’s not the case with flies apparently.

Evolution scientists at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland published a report that states that over the course of 30 to 40 generations, ordinary house flies tend to live a lot longer if their [...]