Where’s the peanut butter?!

If there’s any justice in the world, this seal will be the butt end of jokes in the seal community through the rest of his adolescence:

Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear. But the scientists who photographed the event speculate that it was the behaviour of a frustrated, sexually inexperienced young male seal.

Also:

Chinstrap penguins occasionally indulge in homosexual behaviour, and adelie penguins sometimes “prostitute” themselves to get stones for nest-building; while one in seven emperor penguins will change partners from one year to the next.

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Dolphins are such incredible animals.

There is more information about the physics and how the behavior might be learned here, but click the picture and check out the video - it’s just amazing.

Wednesday afternoon I’m working in my parents’ dining room. All of a sudden, Hildy is getting a little wild over near the stove. From my angle I can’t quite tell what’s going on but I know 90 pounds of nine-month-old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy frolicking like that probably means trouble, so I go over to investigate.

I got there in time to get the scorpion out of her mouth before she ate it (and apparently before she got noticeably stung) but I’m reminded of the time Flora ate the lead curtain weights and a friend of my sister asked “Is that breed known for being especially bright?”

 ”…four baby Solomon Island leaf frogs. born Nov. 20 at the zoo in Washington. They skipped the tadpole phase emerging from their eggs as fully-formed frogs known as ‘froglets.’ The Solomon Island leaf frog is one of the few species in the world to do this….”

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