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Pandas still rubbish. Is messing this poor genetic dead-end about (come on poor old panda, let us move you somewhere where the bamboo isn’t in flower) less cruel than just letting the poor buggers die out?[…]

with apologies to, um, everyone really…
All pets are quite useless according to Terry Nutkins
Petra 1962 to 1977
Freda the Tortoise 1963 to 1979
Get Down Shep! 1971 to 1987 RIP
The Littlest Hobo 1958 to 1985
Jack and Jill, Maggie and Jim, Willo[…]

It is an insect. That looks like a stick. And the punchline of the sorely under-used joke “what’s insectile and sticky?” That would be enough for its greatness status. But the true story of the stick insect is even more unbelievable[…]

* Okay, we haven’t taken a vote and there may be no more than one – this is just me remembering something I’d intended to write way back in the Month Of Fear but forgot.
Years ago, my then-wife started getting seriously into photogr[…]

Penguins are so great that you could easily construct a top five of penguins. So easily that even though Blogger just et the first run round of this post, I am doing it again.
5: The Emperor Penguin
Looks like a butler, yadda yadda. Falls over when p[…]

Further egg mystery from Ananova.[…]

But OK for dawgs?[…]

MEERKATS LEAD TO MOCKERY
You know the rumbling swell of laughter, that starts with one influential person in the office, and then the scrawny middle manager, the one who goes RUNNING, you know the sort don’t you – well, she starts laughin[…]

In Doctor Doolittle And The Secret Lake Dr. D goes to a secret lake, there he talks to a giant turtle who is the only living thing who remembers the flood! This giant turtle knows the secrets of the ages (I’ve forgotten what they are exactly), […]