The Fruit of Boredom
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WHAT MANNER OF MINDFUCKERY IS THIS
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uninterruptednonsense:vondell-swain: Seychelles Giant Tortoise
This tortoise, who died in 2006, was born 26 years before America was formed, in 1750. It was born when Thomas Jefferson was seven and died twelve days after James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” hit number-one on the US charts.
Apparently the turtle’s name was Adwaita (meaning “the one and only” in Sanskrit), and he was from the Seychelles, having been captured by a British general and kept as a pet in India during the colonial period. He was “around 255” years old!
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Shingleback/Stump-tailed skinks (Tiliqua rugosa)
So I watched a program about lizards on BBC the other day and they talk about these pine cone-like lizards. It truly intrigued me.
You see, when mating season comes, if a female skink attracts the eyes of a male, he will come and court her, following her everywhere. They’ll stay together as a pair for a period of two long months and mate repeatedly.
Female skinks give birth to live babies after 6 months of pregnancy. The babies are born large and can fend for themselves, independent from their mother.
When the next mating season comes, the pair will seek out each other and mate again, a relationship which lasts over their lifetime which sometimes reach 20 years. The pair will forever remain loyal to each other and won’t be interested in having other affairs.
The relationship will even last in death. Shinglebacks are slow-moving and they often become road kills when they cross it. If one of the pair is squashed and killed, his/her mate will hover around the body for many days, trying to wake it up and get it moving, until eventually it will reluctantly left. More often though, they’ll either got ran over by another car or fell prey to raptors, dingos, and monitor lizards that prowl the outback.
And people talk about how reptiles are cold and incapable of such emotions. Pity.
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A few weeks ago my dad brought me a fallen bird’s nest with a couple chicks in it(yes, real chicks that hatch from eggs), in hopes that I would take care of them. They are tiny, weak and completely helpless, and are not capable of flight yet.
So, I gave them to Blizz -my green tree python- for dinner later on that day.
Well, what would you expect me to do?
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Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine have replaced Gamera the tortoise’s leg with a wheel. The 12-year-old African spur-thighed tortoise recently had its left front leg amputated after suffering a severe thermal injury and tissue damage from an unknown source
Picture: REX FEATURES (via Animal pictures of the week: 22 July 2011 - Telegraph)
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SCANDAL to sing for upcoming 3D horror movie!
SCANDAL’s new song, “BURN”, has become the theme song for 3D horror movie “Rabbit Horror 3D”, which features actress Mitsushima Hikari!
“Rabbit Horror 3D” tells a story of an older sister and a younger brother, who receive a stuffed rabbit doll from a 3D movie screen. Afterwards, the siblings encounter various unexplainable phenomenon throughout the movie. A Panasonic “AG-3DA1” - the first two-in-one unit 3D camera – was used to shoot the film, allowing the audience to have a 3D experience that has never been seen before. Other actors and actresses for this movie include Kagawa Teruyuki, Omori Nao, and Ogawa Tamaki.
The song “BURN” is one of the new tracks from their upcoming album “BABY ACTION”, and was created specifically for this movie.
SCANDAL have also announced that they will be embarking on an Asia tour in September called, ‘SCANDAL ASIA TOUR 2011: BABY ACTION’, which includes stops in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The band also plans to open their Japanese tour called ‘SCANDAL VIRGIN HALL TOUR 2011: BABY ACTION’ in Hyogo prefecture’s Kobe Bunka Hall this October.
The movie will hit theaters on September 17th.
Originally posted on Oricon HERE, info credits to Tokyohive HERE.
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Panthera.
A 16-year old male Indonesian student creates a blog of his personal favorites, anecdotes and stuff he founds interesting.
