Stunning Sand Sculpture Of A Life-Size Elephant Playing Chess With A Mouse (Bored Panda, via Andrew Y.)
Canopy Cat Rescue; WA firm rescues stuck cats for free (via stiffsage)
New Species of Unusual Jellyfish Discovered 2.3 Miles Below the Oceanβs Surface (This is Colossal, via Murray C.)
Oh how I wish I lived anywhere near that elephant sculpture!
(There’s a link to the sculptor’s pumpkin carving art in the article that’s worth checking out, too.)
(Videos will have to wait until I get home, but that jellyfish is creepy-cool.)
Isn’t that elephant amazing???? I’d love to go see it, too. And made out of sand! Incroyable!(did I spell it right?)
Is that hair on top of the elephant’s head?
I think it is! I am completely amazed at this sculpture. I thought the elephant was real!
So did I!
The jellyfish is stunning – science fiction has nothing over real life creatures!
It looks like a UFO from a 50’s scifi movie. What Roger Corman would’ve come up with if he had James Cameron’s budget.
Did you know Corman was one of Cameron’s mentors? #truestory
Yeah, he directed Piranha II and my favorite director, John Sayles, wrote the screenplay for the original Piranha.
I find his business model fascinating. Although the working conditioned prompted one of Jack Nicholson’s infamous quips, “Who do I have to [BEEP] to get off this film?
Or maybe the aliens are already here?!
and Squeakmate. . . SQUEAKMATE!!!!
NTMTOM – you are brilliant!
Great set of links! That canopy cat rescue in the two-cat tree was remarkable! That did not look like an easy tree to work in.
Were my eyes playing tricks on me or did that elephant sand sculpture have hair on its forehead like a real elephant?
No tricks. It looks like hair. The Bored Panda linkies have different views of that amazing sculpture.
The BP article also includes a walkaround video of the sculpture, so everybody should check that out.
And behind him there was a dung beetle rolling away his booty!?
They did a 6- or 8-episode show about Canopy Cat Rescue a year or two ago on, I believe, Animal Planet. Those guys are so talented at rescuing the most awkwardly stuck kitties! We need people like them everywhere!
And that elephant sculpture is truly beyond amazing. I don’t know how sand artists do what they do, but their skill is astonishing!
Just an fyi re a previous link– the ‘High Park Capyberas’ update: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/there-have-been-a-handful-of-credible-capybara-sightings-in-high-park-1.3618377
Thanks! I was wondering about the ROUSs (ROUSes? ..hmm.).
Spotted at dusk!
Those wiley patagonian pitbulls! Toronto will catch ’em eventually!!!!
The photo reminds me of one of those fake sasquatch photo sightings– always at dusk, just an outline, blurry etc. π
Hehe, yes, that’s either a runaway capybara…or a bag of laundry! π
Fake?! What do you mean, fake? ?
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You can practically see the zippers up the backs of those suits the “yeti” wears?
Ha!
Thought he was waiting for a bus.
A. I thought that was a real elephant. Amazing!
B. The distressed meowing broke my heart but I am so glad about the happy
ending! Great work by the kind rescuer!
C. Those jellyfish look otherworldly! Nature endlessly fascinating!
B. Me and my cat were anxiously waiting for the happy ending as well.. good lord, poor kitties. Glad he took some time calming them down but on the other hand thinking: just get them to the ground already!!!
Yes, I think they used the ancient method “pachyderm perdu” to cast the elephant.
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That first jellyfish was having a serious bad hair day!
He was great, my favorite! I love cowlicks and messy hair/fur!
SOMEday I’m going to have a guinea pig – they are so dear.
Holds first finger to lips. “Shhhhh.” Looks left and right. They piddle and poop. ALOT!
Nope. Not me disparaging the mini hamster dog.
I still miss my childhood Mini Hamster Dogs. The eeeping and peeping makes the peeing and pooping worth it. Sweet creatures.
The squee outweighs the pee (period or question mark)
Yes. Very squee worthy creatures.
Loving all of the above gPig remarks. I’ll bet their pee and poop are very compost worthy.
I knew the elephant wasn’t real because, as the Mythbusters proved, elephants are afraid of mice.
A truly astonishing work of art!