Archive for September 2010
September 29, 2010
– – It kinda feels like a Syfy movie offering, these tales of genetically-engineered animals for human consumption. A fast-growing Atlantic salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies in Massachusetts contains an extra growth gene that makes it grow twice as fast as conventional farm-raised salmon, and is the first such genetically-engineered animal to be promoted for a food source.
The FDA says that studies conducted by AquaBounty show that the gene is safe for the salmon, safe for humans, and safe for the environment. Some scientists and consumer groups say, however, that the agency should slow down and get more information, citing concerns over potential consumer allergies to such fish and questions about what would happen if such genetically-modified fish escaped from fish farms into the wild, there to mate with wild fish, out-compete with them for food, or irreversibly change their environments. Soon, such fish might be running for elected office…
It all sounds a bit fishy…and there’s gotta be a bad horror movie in this somewhere! 
Categories: animals, scalies, science, trends
Tags: Frankenfish?, genetically-engineered salmon
Comments: 3 Comments
September 27, 2010
– – When a Montana woman found a 200-pound black bear attacking her 12-year-old collie in her backyard early Thursday after midnight, she screamed to divert the bear’s attention from her dog. The bear then charged the woman, taking a swipe at her with its paw and tearing her jeans (of course you know, this means war)!
Driven backwards, the woman then jumped back and grasped the nearest object on the kitchen counter inside the doorway. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and so the woman grabbed one of the most loathed vegetables that the Creator in his wisdom ever put on the face of the earth…a zucchini!
Yes, and it was a big zucchini, too, a 12-incher harvested earlier from her garden! Flinging the dreaded vegetable at the bear from a distance estimated at 3 feet (point blank range), the woman bopped the bruin on the top of his head, and he wisely fled! Probably the bear feared that he might be forced to eat the horrid thing…that oughta teach him!
(…I don’t like zucchinis, but I do respect them!)
Categories: animal occurrences, animals, furry, furry stories, weird
Tags: Bear attack thwarted with zucchini, the deadliest vegetable
Comments: 4 Comments
September 25, 2010
– – We all know that the government does terrible things behind our backs, like the calamitous Plum Island experiment that created yours truly.–Well, it would appear that the Navy has engineered a half-shark, half-octopus killing machine as a super-weapon which, of course, gets out of control as genetically-engineered creatures are prone to do…life would be so dreary if they didn’t!
The sharktopus shows a perverse predilection for beautiful blond women in bikinis, dragging them off boats, beaches, and bungee cords…gotta love the big lug! He also is not deterred by machine gun fire, otherwise the movie might be over quickly.
Coming from B-movie king Roger Corman and boasting a cheesy theme song, the absurd, low-budget made-for-tv movie Sharktopus may be a real hoot! –Witness the glory that is Syfy this Saturday night!
Categories: absurdities, animals, Brilliant but twisted, cool things, creature features, furry, imaginary animals, movies, television
Tags: Sharktopus
Comments: 4 Comments
September 24, 2010
– – Tigers tend to be thought of as jungle creatures, but a British television crew filmed a population of “lost” tigers living at a higher altitude than any others known. These cats were spotted roaming in the remote Himalayan nation of Bhutan at an altitude of 13,450 feet!
While the number of tigers has plunged to fewer to 3,200 from 100,000 over the past century, countries where wild tigers range hope to double their numbers by the year 2022…
Categories: animals, environmental, furry
Tags: "Lost" tigers found, dwindling tiger population
Comments: 3 Comments
September 22, 2010
– – A regular furry character appears, in all places, on The Cleveland Show, a spin-off of Family Guy. This character is Tim the Bear, who is a telemarketer working at the local cable company with Cleveland. Voiced by Seth MacFarlane, Tim speaks with a Slavic or Eastern-European accent, and is the son of a black bear and a kangaroo!
Tim tends to be a bit naive about American culture, and is partially a psychological derivative of Steve Martin’s Wild and Crazy Guy persona. Tim has an ursine wife, Arianna, and a son, Raymond. Tim has deep religious convictions, and considers it racist when someone screams because he is a bear. He often accidentally slashes things with his claws, something that he’s quite ashamed of.
While I’m not a great fan of The Cleveland Show, it’s nice to see the infiltration of furry characters here, who seem to fit in rather well as bears in human society…and yes, he has a Facebook page!
Categories: absurdities, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, cartoons, furries, furry, television
Tags: The Cleveland Show, Tim the Bear
Comments: 2 Comments
September 20, 2010
– – The Guinness Book of World Records has picked (no pun intended) the world’s largest human nose. The schnoz belongs to a 61-year-old Turkish gentleman, and measures an impressive 3.46 inches from bridge to tip.- -Any bigger than this, and the nose would qualify for its own zip code!
There’s gotta be a few good jokes hanging there, but we’ll spare you…
Categories: anomalies, body parts
Tags: largest nose
Comments: 4 Comments
September 18, 2010
– – Ah me…as if Sarah Palin shooting wolves from aircraft wasn’t enough, government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removal of gray wolves in the northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal’s endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota…
Although once poisoned to near-extermination in the lower 48 states, wolves have made a major comeback in the last two decades under the protection of the Endangered Species Act. A backlash has occurred, however, as wolf packs have developed a taste for livestock and big game herds coveted by hunters.
As wolf populations have expanded in numerous states, they tend to push into agricultural and residential areas where domestic animals offer an easy meal. Various proposals would gas wolf pups in their dens, surgically sterilize adult wolves, and allow “conservation” or “research” hunts to drive down the predators’ numbers.
Wildlife advocates and animal rights groups contend, however, that the response to depredating wolves has become too heavy-handed, and that a string of court decisions in their favor underscores that the species remains at risk…
Categories: animals, endangered species, environmental, furry
Tags: gray wolf over-population, wolf killings set to expand
Comments: 2 Comments
September 16, 2010
– – Geico has brilliantly re-invented classic lines and slogans, beginning with the little piggy who cried wee-wee-wee all the way home, and now posing the question of, “Can Geico save you 15% or more on car insurance?–Do woodchucks chuck wood?”- Remember how kids love that old chestnut of a tongue-twister when they’re about ten?
Well, these anthropomorphic woodchucks certainly chuck wood, and they appear to have made an afternoon’s entertainment of it, taking turns heaving the wood into a pond accompanied by their own maniacal laughter, sorta like the Beavis and Butthead of the rodent world.- -Oops, watch out, here comes the farmer, and he’s mighty ticked, shouting “Hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood!” None too deterred by the farmer, the woodchucks continue chucking their wood…and do you blame them?– They’re woodchucks, for crying out loud, it’s what they do!
– -Catch this video airing on television or YouTube and elsewhere, sure to be a classic!
Categories: absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, cool things, furry, television
Tags: Do woodchucks chuck wood?, Furry Commercials, Geico woodchucks
Comments: 2 Comments
September 15, 2010
– – In Lake Windermere, England’s largest natural lake, may reside an unidentified creature estimated at 20 to 50 feet in length described as perhaps a “distant relative” to the legendary Loch Ness monster!
Called Bownessie because of the bow wave of about twenty feet in length that it produces, the creature has been described as a giant eel or sturgeon, although others claim that they have seen a creature with humps; the cryptid has also been called Windie after the lake. The first publicly reported sighting of Bownessie occurred in Lake Windermere in 2006 and the number of people who claim to have seen something continues to grow. The most recent sighting of the creature was in July of this year, when a local hotelier was hit by a three foot wave while swimming. Another witness who claimed that the creature passed beneath him said that the movement in the water was so powerful that he though it was a submarine! A total of seven sightings have been recorded in the past four years.
A recent video seems to support the existence of some kind of creature in the lake, with an unexplained bow wave of around 20 meters in length recorded. A new investigation on the lake involving state of the art equipment and a specially chartered yacht has been launched. A dark smudge reported to be a photograph of the creature follows for your perusal, with the photographer grabbing a pair of binoculars and describing the creature as having a head like a labrador dog only “…much, much bigger…”
Categories: animals, cryptozoology, strange happenings, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Bownessie, Lake Windermere creature, Relative of Loch Ness monster?, Windie
Comments: 2 Comments
September 12, 2010
– – It’s not Mothra, but the world’s largest real specimen is the Atlas moth, named after their map-like wing patterns. Boasting 12-inch wings and breathtaking colors, the Atlas moth lives a mere two-week life span owing to the fact that they have no stomachs and their mouths don’t form properly, preventing them from eating anything!
Native to the rain forests of Southeast Asia, the Atlas moth lives its brief life off the fat it accumulated as a caterpillar, and spends its adult life breeding other moths…a short life but a merry one, eh?
Categories: animal oddities, insects, Invertebrates
Tags: Atlas moth
Comments: 3 Comments
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