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Animals

A Happy Pup

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Duncan Lou Who is a boxer puppy born with severely deformed hind legs that had to be surgically removed. Although he has a wheeled device to help him walk, in the video below he simply runs happily on his two forelegs, recorded doing so with a GoPro Camera.

Animals, Art, History, Nature

The Imagination at Work

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Long before they saw animals from faraway places, European artists imagined what they might look like, from tales they heard from others. Vincze Miklós writes about the art of the unfamiliar — See, How Europeans Imagined Exotic Animals Centuries Ago, Based on Hearsay.

Animals, Nature

Honey Bee Swarm

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Embedded below is a film about a honey bee swarm. Sometimes bees are a metaphor for human pursuits (e.g., of social cooperation, collectivization, etc.), but that’s not my point here. The film is simply interesting to me as a documentary about animal life. Enjoy.

Animals, Poll

Friday Poll: The Dog-Defending, Raccoon-Tossing Incident

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This summer, entrepreneur Kevin Rose awoke to the cries of his dog, Toaster. Rose found his dog on a stairwell outside his apartment, battling (none-too-successfully) a raccoon. Acting to protect his dog, Rose tossed the masked attacker down the stairwell. Video from security cameras recorded the encounter, and Rose placed it on the YouTube (the…