This might be one of the biggest, if not the biggest spiderweb ever found. This huge web was found covering 180 meters of trees and bushes by the employees of park Lake Tawakoni in Texas. It’s not yet clear if this “work of art” has been made by a single or a colony of spiders. Also, nothing was said about the species of spider found at the location. Until further information is provided, here is the huge white web.
Some dogs just don’t like to get wet. Check out all the trouble this one goes through just to get himself dry. I never seen a dog that dries up rubbing against the patio furniture.
I think that you’re going to enjoy seeing this video if you like animals and they’re natural and innocent reactions against what they dislike.
Because I’m a fan of dogs and their tricks I present you with Peb-bulls the bulldog!
There are less than 60 Javan rhinos left in the wild. The last populations of critically endangered rhinos live in the jungles of Indonesia. This video was made in order to help understand the rhino’s habits so that entities can help preserve this endangered animal.
Check it out:
Image via Wikipedia
When tissues are damaged in plants they emit green-leaf volatiles which are attractive to social wasps. This happens because normally plants are damaged by parasites like caterpillars and wasps are their predator, so when a plant is damaged and emits those green leaf volatiles the parasitic wasps come to check it out to see if their meal is around.
Researchers have already found that orchids, which are known by the diversity of their pollination systems, also employ chemical deceit for the attraction of pollinators but this new way is just too awesome.
The orchid Epipactis helleborine is a typical wasp flower, exhibiting physiological and morphological adaptations for the attraction of pollinating social wasps. Despite the large nectar reward that these orchids offer, they’re overlooked by other potential pollinators because of their characteristics.
The wasps are attracted to those orchids because their flowers also emit green-leaf volatiles that trick the wasps to come to them, when the wasp reaches the designated orchids they just forget the motive why they are there and just take attention on the large nectar reward that the orchids offer.
This is the first example in which green-leaf volatiles have been implicated in chemical mimicry for the attraction of pollinating insects.
Font: Volume 18 Issue 10: May 19, 2008 of Biology online
The tigers are some of the most powerful and beautiful animals at the face of the Earth.
Unfortunately this carnivore mammal which is the largest of the four “big cats” is under extinction all over the world. These “cats” can reach 4 meters (14 feet) in total length and weight up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds).
To remember you how graceful nature is and incite your protecting feelings towards the five living tiger species I decided to post this group of tiger photos specially selected for you.
Hope you enjoy!
(Bellow) Bengal Tiger
(Bellow) Siberian Tiger
Giving a shower to a dog can be quite a bit of hard work but is always funny to watch dogs taking it.
Dogs normally kind of enjoy showers and at least they get clean which is good news for their owners.
I just love the eyes they make when showering, gentle eyes like asking: please let me get out of here…
When giving a shower to a dog it’s a good idea to be sitting down because there’s no need to break your back any more than the necessary. So that you don’t ruin the chairs that you have at home you better get some shower chairs because you can use them to shower your dog or to when you shower yourself. It must be nice to be able to site down while having a shower.
The jellyfish are marine invertebrates that can be found in any ocean of the world and even in some fresh waters.
Contrary to what people think the jelly is not a fish but an organism that belongs to the class Scyphozoa.
One special jelly is creating a lot of turbulence in the science world (the one in the photo) because it’s shaking some beliefs.
Through a massive analysis of the evolutionary biology of animals it has been suggested that this jellyfish might just be the direct progeny of the first animal on Earth making it the earliest member of the kingdom that includes insects, fish, reptiles, birds, mammals (including humans) and many more or all the ones that belong to the kingdom Animalia.
Normally experts were supposing the sponge to be the first true animal because it is the simplest known, lacking in distinct tissues and nervous system which are two of the jelly characteristics.
This discovery is a blow to the mindset that evolution automatically means increasing complexity, researchers say.
This completely new and amazing discovery to the world of science has been published by researchers in the 10 of April issue of Nature.
The Tuatara Lizards from New Zealand are limited to two species which are the only surviving members of the Sphenodontidae family that flourished 200 million years ago.
This small lizard might measure up to 80 cm. from head to tail and besides resembling to lizards it’s also equally related to the snakes.
The Tuatara hibernate during winter and are nocturnal, terrestrial reptiles that often enjoy some exposition to Sun light in order to warm up their bodies.
Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan Wilson Center for Molecular Ecology and Evolution recovered DNA sequences from Tuatara bones that are 8000 years old. From these bones researchers found out that although the Tuatara lizard has remained physically unchanged over very long periods of evolution, it has the fastest changing DNA sequence.
Amazing how this “living dinosaur” still looks the same has ages ago and at the same time shows to have the fastest rate of evolution (DNA level).
Photo: Male Tuatara, wikipedia.
Probably you must have eared of a so called artist named Guillermo Vargas Habacuc. This men last year tied a stray dog inside the place were he was doing an exposition of his works. This dog made part of the exposition and the objective of this man was to let the dog die. The dog had no care whatsoever; this means no water and no food which led him to a painful death.
I don’t know how people can think this is art but we live in a free world. What I cannot allow is the suffering of an animal, specially a dog which is so kind and friendly to the human race.
Here are some photos from last year of this artist so called art.
I urge everybody to revolt against this miserable idea of Guillermo Vargas Habacuc which he wants to repeat again this year at the Biennial American Center of Art which amazingly supports him…
Anyone with a bit of common sense can help stop this demonstration of ignorance by signing an online petition against Guillermo Vargas Habacuc actions.
If you want to check out this story just search in google for Guillermo Vargas Habacuc and you’ll find these horrible photos.
Your signature counts and you don’t need to pay or register anything.
Please help stop this salvage and cruel act.
Sign this online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html
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