Darwin vs The Bible

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 10/11/2022 at 17:30, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Greatest animal in the world. Have some rep. 

Worth remembering that the Pacific trade deal the Tories have been trumpeting as a Brexit bonus removes protections for orang-utan habitats, pushing them closer to extinction.

 

Yay! Go free trade!

[Remmie]

Stunned no one has done a pant wetting Nunez joke yet

[TheHowieLama]

The hand of a koala looks pretty familiar

 

[Strontium]

Looks a bit like her Aunt Maude.

[TheHowieLama]

Well the nails I get, if the finger prints match up you might be right.

 

I wonder if all Koalas have unique fingerprints?

[Strontium]

45 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

I wonder if all Koalas have unique fingerprints?

 

It turns out they do. I thought I'd heard that before, but I had to check it. The only non-primate with them, apparently. 

[TheHowieLama]

Days after a poacher's trap killed a young mountain gorilla in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park in 2012, researchers spotted something remarkable: two four-year old gorillas working together to dismantle similar snares in the area.

"This is absolutely the first time that we've seen juveniles doing that … I don't know of any other reports in the world of juveniles destroying snares," Veronica Vecellio from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's Karisoke Research Centre in Rwanda told National Geographic at the time.

While adult gorillas are large and strong enough to extract themselves, young gorillas often are not, and if they don't die from being stuck in the trap, they run a very real risk of dying from injuries sustained during their escape, such as dislocated bones and gangrenous cuts.

 

Vecellio and her team were searching the park daily for these traps and dismantling them, but in 2012, one of the local trackers spotted one near the Kuryama gorilla clan, which had lost one of its juveniles to a trap just days earlier.

 

The tracker, John Ndayambaje, went to dismantle the snare, but was given a warning signal by the dominant male of the clan to back off.  

 

"Suddenly two juveniles - Rwema, a male; and Dukore, a female; both about four years old - ran toward the trap," Than reported.

 

"As Ndayambaje watched, Rwema jumped on the bent tree branch and broke it, while Dukore freed the noose."

 

The two gorillas then reportedly found another snare, and with the help of another juvenile, managed to dismantle that one too.

[TheHowieLama]

 

[Creator Supreme]

On 26/07/2023 at 18:34, Remmie said:

Stunned no one has done a pant wetting Nunez joke yet

We've got the only Darwin that evolution has missed?

[El Rojo]

On 26/07/2023 at 18:34, Remmie said:

Stunned no one has done a pant wetting Nunez joke yet

 

Fuck's sake. Thanks for puncturing my reason for clicking the thread title. 

 

Anyway, you're still getting it:

 

Maybe if he puts away a few of the easier chances first, he can worry about taking on the Bible. 

 

Happy?

[TheHowieLama]

On 10/11/2022 at 12:08, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

However, not many believe in the unique intellect of orangutans. So, when a photo showing an orangutan spearfishing in Borneo went viral, doubts were raised if it was real or fake. Well, the photo of a spearfishing orangutan is real. Gerd Schuster, co-author of the book Thinkers of the Jungle: The Orangutan Report described the photo he captured as:

 

“A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish… The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja… This individual had seen locals fishing with spears on the Gohong River. Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals’ fishing lines.”

 

 

 

[polymerpunkah]

 

240 million year old fossil of aquatic reptile

[TheHowieLama]

 

When observing a hoard of golden-backed frogs at a roadside pond in Karnataka, India, a group of naturalists noticed something odd about one of the amphibians — the animal had a tiny mushroom sprouting out of its side.

How the seemingly healthy frog came to grow its fungi companion — an occurrence that’s never been documented before — has left scientists baffled, according to a note published in January in the journal Reptiles and Amphibians.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 09/02/2024 at 13:10, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

 

Footage of me in my heyday, when I was drunk and thought I was being charming.

[SasaS]

This is now mainly just Howie and the apes.

 

Which is, obviously, a great name for a band.

[TheHowieLama]

29 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Howie and the Apes.

 

Which is, obviously, a great name for a band.

 

First album - Go Bananas

[TheHowieLama]

Our drummer: