Imgur user cookiearthquake apparently got drunk and bought this online for their pug:
I bought the exact same costume for Zeta, albeit probably in a larger size, while completely sober.
I’ll try to get some pictures of Zeta the Triceraterrier up soon.
There are six species of sloth alive today. I decided to blog about all of them.
I find all that classification stuff interesting, but if you disagree, you may skip this paragraph. Sloths are mammals (duh) in the superorder Xenarthra, which also includes armadillos and anteaters, and which looks really cool because it starts with an “X.” They’re in the order Pilosa, which they share with the anteaters. The suborder Folivora contains two families of sloths, with six total species: two-toed sloths (2 species in Megalonychidae) and three-toed sloths (4 species in Bradypodidae).
The sorts of sloths that exist today tend towards the small and deceptively cuddly-looking (take a gander at those claws again), but they have some extinct relatives that were more on the megafauna side of things. (See families Megatheriidae, Nothrotheriidae, and Mylodontidae.)
A beautiful friendship, I’m sure.
(Although really, labs are friends with just about every living thing. Still adorable.)
Bonus cute: Baby anythings are cute. This was presented with the caption “Hay what’s up?” Continue reading
Seriously, are you going to tell these birds they can’t do something? I don’t think they’d listen. They might just cut you instead.
I found this picture in an Imgur album, and tracked down photo credits at Retronaut:
“Marine First Sergeant Neil I. Shober of Fort Wayne, Indiana, shares the spoils of war bananas with a native goat, one of the few survivors of the terrific naval and air bombardment in support of the Marines hitting the beach on the Japanese-mandated island of Saipan.” – National Museum of the Pacific War
Saipan is a 12-mile-by-5.6-mile island in the Northern Marianas Islands. From June 15 to July 9, 1944, the U.S. fought to take control of the island from Japan, which had held it since 1914. 71,000 American troops met 31,000 Japanese. The U.S. suffered 3,426 killed and about 13,000 wounded. It was the most costly battle of the Pacific War up to that point for the U.S.
Of the 31,000 Japanese soldiers, only 921 were taken prisoner. The rest were either killed in action or committed suicide. Out of a civilian population of around 25,000 people, an estimated 22,000 died. Many of them committed suicide, allegedly with the encouragement of the emperor, who promised them “an equal spiritual status in the afterlife with those of soldiers perishing in combat,” according to a Wikipedia article citing a book by David Bergamini.
But this goat survived, and got some bananas. Whether this scene is more cute or horrific is up to each of us, I guess, but war is hell.
Photo credit: National Museum of the Pacific War.
A baby elephant is called a “calf,” which is neither distinctive nor particularly cute, so I just went with “puppy” instead. Anyway, here are two baby elephants holding trunks:
I know what you’re thinking: it reminds you of this, right?
This is a bucket full of baby sloths. The two at bottom right are French kissing.
That’s all for this week. Trust me, you couldn’t take any more than this.
(See Slothville for more sloths if you don’t want to heed my warning…)
