be careful with those pigs

there was a pig truck accident on a highway in ohio and hundreds of pigs escaped into the woods, and hundreds more got injured or squished. be more careful!

madonna got her cape snatched and it took her down on tv

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i wanted to share this vintage kandi with you

go rihanna go!!!

Above, a trio of rhinoceros—led by a female named Rihanna—takes a heroic but understated stroll through the front gate of Ramat Gan Safari Park in Ramat Gan, Israel, as a zookeeper futilely gives chase. The security guard tasked with watching the entrance was asleep on the job, according to the Daily Mail. (via)

paul watson is on the lam

“Captain Watson’s attorney reports he has left Germany,” said Susan Hartland, Administrative Director of Sea Shepherd. We have reason to believe from a reliable source that, once in Costa Rica, the Japanese Government may have sought extradition of Captain Watson to Japan to answer charges related to obstructing their illegal whaling activities in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. We have no further information and are not in touch with him. We will do our best to provide more details as we learn more. We will post any new information as it arrives and we are able to confirm its validity." via


Paul Watson, the captain from Whale Wars was arrested and escaped from Germany and now no one knows where he is and the Japanese whale industry is probably looking for him so they can turn him into an oil lamp or something.

adorable rat story

A new study in the journal Science has found that rats can be helpful — the first instance that such behavior has been documented in rodents.

The researchers placed a free-roaming rat in an arena with a caged rat. Over the course of several days, the free rats realized they could nudge open a door and release the caged rat.

After figuring this out, they did so repeatedly, day after day.
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“They then did what we refer to as a celebration,” said an author of the study, Peggy Mason, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago. “The trapped rat runs around the arena, and the free rat appears excited and runs after the trapped rat.” (via)

awwwwwwwwAW!!

now, if they could just figure out how to escape nscience's murderous grip.

the 10 days of my birthday zooventure

oh haiye! it's me again. remember yesterday when i showed you the many talents of the red panda? i know.

today, we're going to talk about one of the best parts about the bronx zoo: low security. as you may or may not know, the bronx zoo has a little problem keeping their animals in the animal houses. without further ado, i present the zoo's most famous runaways...

please welcome....

a pEaHeN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! here she is, walking around on a car in one of the bronx's many thriving streetscapes.

and here she is, making a new friend. we do have a lot in common, i suppose.

in case you missed this story, catch up here. the best part is that she wasn't the first to escape her zoocage this year...

please welcome....

a KiNg cObRa!!!!!

a couple months before that stupid peahen got out, this thing escaped! as you can imagine, it was pretty scary for the entire city. we don't exactly have a lot of mongooses laying around. while he was out, he got his paws on an iphone and started a twitter, which he used to tell the world of his adventures, and which he apparently still maintains.

in the end, they found him sleeping at the zoo, just outside of his jail cell. idiot.

we are only 2 days away from the zooventure, and i just cannot WAIT!

Yvonne : FREEDOM FIGHTER

Yvonne is a dairy cow who executed a stunning escape from her electrified pen in Germany just days before she was to be turned into hamburger.

She has been on the lamb living secretly in the woods near her town eating grass and evading capture at every turn. Helicopters, infrared cameras, and a sexy bull named Ernst have all been employed to bring Yvonne back into custody, but now that she has tasted freedom, she will never go back to the farm.

full disclosure: this picture is actually of Yvonne's sister Waltraut, who has also been used at bait. yvonne hasn't been seen in DAYS

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COBRAWATCH 2K11

you have probably already heard that this weekend, an egyptian cobra escaped from its cage at the bronx zoo. it is still missing. they think he's probably just hiding under his house somewhere and will come out when he's hungry (for people), but in the meantime, check out this probably-real twitter.

some egyptian cobra factz:
it is the same snake cleopatra is rumored to have used to commit suicide.
it can kill an elephant in 3 hours, and a person in 15 minutes.
it could take weeks to find!

ssssssssSSSSSsssSsSSsSsSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssSssSsssSSSssssssss!!

smart dolphin.

this dalphin is a prisoner of the japanese (you know what they're like!), and he is doing everything he can to try to escape. just shoulda put a little bit more mmph into that jump. haven't you ever seen free whilly, dalphin?