Picture Post, England, June 24, 1950
Tag: animals
Rodrigo Menendez was selling bananas at the market, and one day one of his customers was bitten by a viper that got out of the fruits. He thanks Saint Francis of Assisi for this snake turned out to be non-venomous because the health control was going to throw him in jail.
A comparative diagram of deer butts. From Life-histories of Northern Animals: An Account of the Mammals of Manitoba by Ernest Thompson Seton
I. white tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
II. mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
III. black tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus)
IV. elk (Cervus candanensis)
V. red deer (Cervus elaphus)
What Happens When Zookeepers Have Too Much Time On Their Hands
Via Bored Panda
For my zookeeper friends
THESE ARE BRILLIANT
A horde of squirrels invaded the people’s houses. They were eating all the food, but the worst part was that they were smashing and dropping everything around. But thanks to our prayers to Saint Francis, a new restaurant with delicious food was opened in our town. So the squeamish squirrels lost their interest in our houses and went to destroy the restaurant.
Fish with no scales, thin gelatinous skin, and a bulbous head? That’s the deep sea for you!
Snailfish (Family Liparidae) have long, tadpole-like bodies with large
heads and small eyes. They live throughout the world’s oceans from the
Arctic to the Antarctic and from the shallow intertidal zone to many
thousands of meters in the deep sea. They eat small benthic crustaceans,
molluscs, polychaete worms, and other small invertebrates.This
snailfish, Careproctus longifilis, was photographed using ROV Tiburon
3,300 meters (>10,800 feet) deep in the Monterey Canyon. ⠀
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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