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Comment by Davy on April 17, 2013 at 2:49pm

Poor buggers! It is a shame though they have one of the best wools for keeping warm when its bloody cold outside, thanks to it structure. 

Comment by doone on April 17, 2013 at 9:48am

Llama fluffy.

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Shaved llama's to a slightly lesser degree.

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Comment by doone on April 11, 2013 at 7:21pm

Lord Karthikeya with his Peahen wives in his peacock mount

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 11, 2013 at 7:02pm

What do you call a female pea fowl?

Comment by doone on April 11, 2013 at 3:07pm

Such a Naughty Bird

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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 7, 2013 at 10:20am

Hydrothermal Worm Viewed Under An Electron Microscope (via@feicompany & Philippe Crassous) #science

Comment by doone on April 4, 2013 at 6:07pm

The Evolution of Birds

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Comment by doone on April 3, 2013 at 6:16pm

The Hidden Beach of Honopu, Hawaii

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Comment by Michel on April 1, 2013 at 1:15pm

Dinner’s Revenge: mealworms that survive in the stomach, then eat t...

Can the eaten eat back?

The darkling beetle, small and shy with an understated matte-black carapace, is better known as its adolescent self, the mealworm. Mealworms and their darkling cousins the superworms are popular “live feeders”—food for pet reptiles and amphibians that won’t eat prey that’s already dead. For years, a disconcerting rumor has bounced around the “herp” (as in, herpetofauna) community. Heed the words of Fishguy2727, posting on Aquaticcommunity.com: “I have talked to a number of people who have FIRST-HAND watched with their own eyes as the animal ate a mealworm ... and within ten to twenty seconds the mealworm is chewing out of the animal’s stomach.”

phenomenon SECOND-HAND from wildlife biologist Tom Pitchford. The mealworm came to mind when I asked Tom whether he knew of any nonparasitic creature that could survive in a stomach for any length of time. He had heard that some online herp forums recommend crushing mealworms’ heads prior to serving. “While the insect is in its death throes, the lizard will come over and eat it.”

Mealworm ranchers scoff. “This is an old wives tale,” says Wormman.com. The owner of Bassetts Cricket (and mealworm) Ranch told me that a slice of carrot, for a mealworm, is a two-day project. “They can’t eat out,” he said. (Though obviously enough people worry about it that it has its own verb form.) But mealworm sellers have a financial stake in the matter. What do reptile and amphibian dealers say? Carlos Haslam, manager of the East Bay Vivarium, a reptile and amphibian store not far from my home, told me that in his forty years in the business, he has not seen the phenomenon nor heard a customer report it happening. He pointed out that lizards chew their food before swallowing. Frogs don’t, but lizards do. And most of the stories are about lizards. Fishguy2727 takes no comfort. “Just because 1,000 people have not had it happen to them does not mean it is impossible. There is no doubt that this can happen.”

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