MetaFilter posts tagged with weird and animals

No real issues. Just stuff and nonsense

jtron — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:09:58 -0800

Nothing To Do With Arbroath Part Cute Overload, part News Of The Weird, almost always the highlight of my RSS feed.

Organic AEV's - minus the bombs.

loquax — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:16:36 -0800

Remember the thre ads last week about R/C planes with digital cameras? Rank amateurs. Animal Planet has upped the stakes in the unmanned aerial vehicle race by strapping a video camera to an eagle. That's right, an eagle. It's incredible. Check out the dogfight in particular. They're also doing a bunch of other cool things with animals and technology.

Where the wildlife has a half-life

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:33:40 -0800

"The creation of the Nuclear Power Plant at Sellafield (formerly known as Windscale) was a bonus for the local zoo, as large tracts of land were made available and cheap by people moving away or dying."

Hairless animals

raygirvan — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:54:45 -0800

The Naked Mole-Rat is naturally naked. Conversely, these others are naked for reasons of disease (like this bear with alopecia and hairless chimpanzee) or mutation (the Sphynx cat; the Mexican hairless dog; the Chinese Crested Dog; the Naked Chicken; the Hairless Rat; a hairless ferret; the Nude Mouse; and the Hairless Hamster). What is the attraction of encouraging mutations that make normally furry animals furless?

Toad in a Tomb

agregoli — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:00:50 -0800

Animals trapped in stone have been reported many times, but do you believe it? Why has there been so little investigation of these claims? It could be the key to re-animation...