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Monday Morning Cute: King of the Jungle
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Fire Ant Genocide, in GIF Form, Because Art
This is from a Reddit post entitled “Casting a Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum,” which is apparently a thing people do.
People go to such great lengths for the sake of art. I screencapped a few comments discussing the ethics of the project.
Captain Cragen and a Gibbon
Do you need a reason to have a GIF of SVU’s Captain Cragen pulling a gibbon out of what appears to be a basketball?
No. No you do not need a reason.
Monday Morning Cute: Seven Otters Jumping
Who wants swans a-swimming when you could have otters jumping? Seriously, who do I talk to about this?
Picture via Imgur user ImnNotGivingMyUsernameToSomeMachine.
It’s Wednesday, So Here’s a Creepy Bird
Presenting the shoebill, Balaeniceps rex, apparently also known as the whalehead. It lives in Africa, and it appears to be mildly amused by you.
It’s also classified as “vulnerable,” which is better than “endangered,” but still not good. Who could harm such a majestic creature? I mean, as opposed to backing away slowly from such a majestic creature while trying to avoid direct eye contact.
Photo credit: Jimo.
Survival, and Awesome Spookiness, on the High Seas
Whatever sort of crap you’ve had to deal with recently, I hope it doesn’t compare to the ordeal of Harrison Odjegba Okene (h/t Bob):
Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat for three days, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle.
The Nigerian cook survived by breathing an ever-dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket. A video of Okene’s rescue in May — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWGILmKCqE — that was posted on the Internet more than six months later has gone viral this week.
As the temperature dropped to freezing, Okene, dressed only in boxer shorts, recited the last psalm his wife had sent by text message, sometimes called the Prayer for Deliverance: “Oh God, by your name, save me. … The Lord sustains my life.”
To this day, Okene believes his rescue after 72 hours underwater at a depth of 30 meters (about 100 feet) is a sign of divine deliverance. The other 11 seamen aboard the Jascon 4 died.
This miraculous (for lack of a better word) rescue has a shock-horror element to it, as well:
Divers sent to the scene were looking only for bodies, according to Tony Walker, project manager for the Dutch company DCN Diving.
The divers, who were working on a neighboring oil field 120 kilometers (75 miles) away when they were deployed, had already pulled up four bodies.
So when a hand appeared on the TV screen Walker was monitoring in the rescue boat, showing what the diver in the Jascon saw, everybody assumed it was another corpse.
“The diver acknowledged that he had seen the hand and then, when he went to grab the hand, the hand grabbed him!” Walker said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
“It was frightening for everybody,” he said. “For the guy that was trapped because he didn’t know what was happening. It was a shock for the diver while he was down there looking for bodies, and we (in the control room) shot back when the hand grabbed him on the screen.”
On the video, there’s an exclamation of fear and shock from Okene’s rescuer, and then joy as the realization sets in. Okene recalls hearing: “There’s a survivor! He’s alive.” [Emphasis added.]
I took the liberty of capturing the “jump” moment in GIF form for posterity. Feel free to add in suspenseful music. Also, I wish Mr. Okene all the best.
Monday Morning Cute: Fawning
Please join me in fawning over this adorable baby deer:
Credit for the pun goes to the original poster on Imgur, xZora.
Every Argument on Social Media, as Performed by Animated Dogs
Riding in Single-File, Because of Reasons
Most people like me (i.e. who probably spend more time on the internet than interacting with actual people) will recognize Bantha Pug, but it’s worth noting a winning comment about why they might ride in single-file (see below photoset):
I guess hiding the Tusken Raiders’ numbers was just an incidental benefit.
