I have no problems eating animals. Many of them can be very yummy. But I do hate animal cruelty against pets and "food". There is NO reason to cause these creatures any unnecessary pain, even when we kill them to eat them.
I especially despise people who buy animals as pets and simply "dispose" them when they are bored with them. Next time buy a Tamagotchi instead - in that case you waste only the batteries life instead of a real one.
We humans have always loved to associate ourselves with animals: strong as a bear, cunning as a fox and being a chicken.
Now a stallion and the white horse are in particular interesting: strength, grace, white (as in innocent), potency, speed, freedom, independence, power (as leader of his herd) and war (because horses were only for rich people and knights need a horse).
So … no surprise "chicks" love riding horses.
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The word subtle or normal doesn’t apply here. Orangina is a nice soft drink around here - nothing special . But I love this advertising campaign: it’s the right amount of surrealism and sexism combined with loads of yellow and orange. And how can anything orange be bad? 
Do we care about our TV animal celebrities only because we feel guilty for killing off the rest of the species? Do we watch and say to ourselves “See, they are not all gone!”
Isn’t mass illusion a nice thing to clear our collective consciousness?
Interesting video - didn’t know that Sir Attenborough also did porn voice overs. Overall I am happy that my penis isn’t located behind my head - although sometimes it feels like my head is located in my penis. And another note: you can show almost any animal fucking on national TV - except homo sapiens … why is that?
*Thanks to Olivia for that scientific video*
I think dirt can make you very happy. Pigs and Kids enjoy playing in water and dirt - and why not? Nature is dirty.
Modern society is too obsessed with hygiene and “clean” fun.
Life is dirty.
Just because one species thinks you are cute doesn’t mean you can’t be lunch for another one. There is safety in numbers, but not in cuteness …
You know that ugly, terrible, totally annoying and nerve wrecking itch right between your crotch and your butt - and you are on the street or in a meeting. So you can’t whip down your trousers and simply scratch it or ask some other human to do that for you.
Chimps can. Mutually grooming, scratching, caring and cuddling is an important part of their - and many more primates - favorite social event.
I wish we would be more social like that. Our human culture could use some more backslapping, cuddles and scratching …
Thanks to our technical inventions we can prevail against big predators. But we still haven’ won against the really small ones: bacteria and viruses are still the biggest threat for humans. And boy do they love to eat and infect us!
In my next life I want to be reincarnated as a never growing Polar Bear Baby. Everybody would love me! Everybody would cuddle me! Everybody would love to feed me only the best stuff.
No sex though …
I still prefer my Easter Bunny in it’s original shape & material - like Jesus intended: in chocolate!
This little critter is called Elephant Shrew and was just recently discovered in Tanzania and I think they are pretty cute. Hopefully we won’t eradicate them before we have made pets out of them. I for one would trade any ol’ hamster for this bizarre bugger …
After Knut now Flocke (Flake) - another Polar Bear Mania sweeps the country. So many shops sell stuffed bears, the news and magazines can’t get enough of this cuddly something (image gallery here). Flocke even has her own official YouTube channel.
Madness.
Tree Kangaroos are pretty amazing and cuddly. I really envy the countries down under for all their strange and rare animals.
Documentary / Channel 4 / 55+ minutes
It’s always good to check from time to time who you are and who we are. Some nice insights about humans, apes, brains and our heritage in this documentary.
Pink and winter don’t mix very well. I must have been a Flamingo in a former life?!
Climate Change, reduced consumerism, no more cheap flights to your favorite party location, less cheap petrol, more expensive food, responsible consumerism, less convenience food, less lead and cheap toys, more reusing things - less shopping for new stuff …
Sure all that complicated and a serious effort for humans.
But how would you explain to those two chaps why we fucked up the whole planet. Most animals will simply be destroyed by more and extreme climate change. Sure nature will survive and produce some new amazing species after we have killed ourselves and the rest of the inhabitants of planet earth.
We need change - but not at a snails pace and with much more brains. Aren’t we always saying we are the smartest life form on earth? Time to prove it.
Hot summer nights on xmas eve, hanging out with sharks and kangaroos on the beach, even more exotic animals in the outback, no snow and no freezing your ass off, a new socialist government … some people have all the luck!
Damn you Australia!
Giving your kids a pet will make them happy and teach them lesson for life. Anyone ever asked those dogs, cats, hamsters, mice or whatever if they want to be abused by ignorant kids so they learn how to treat humans? It is highly unfair to train humans on animals how to behave with other humans.
In 1953 one enlightened being landed in a lonely backward in Milwaukee. He was easily captured, washed and put the bed in the following three hours. His insights were never made public.
Gimme Methane or gimme death!
There are incredible creature deep in the sea who survive by using methane. Since methane is one of the biggest green house gases we should watch these guys and learn from them. There are many deep sea critters that use methane to survive and transform it into energy - something we humans need.
It wasn’t me!
Since we humans love meat, milk and cheese we need loads of cows - but their digestive system produces loads of farty methane. Cows contribute massively to the green houses gases.
The mysterious stomach of Kangaroos.
This brings us to Kangaroos and a bacteria in their stomach that hardly produces any Methane. Scientists hope they can transplant that bacteria to cows and other life stock to reduce methane production.
We share 96% of our DNA with Chimps (or even 99% according to another study) and a similar amount with many other primates. But we still treat our closet living relatives like shit and many primates face extinction from us.
We should establish a new status in our legal and scientific. Primates should no longer be classified as animals, but subhumans or sentient beings - and have almost human rights and most of all protection.
Cute baby Knut.
Very Knute.
Super cute Knute.
Not so cute Knute anymore.
So - now Kute is one year old and no longer so small and harmless. The media is hardly interested in him anymore and so are the kids.
Modern Media Cuteness doesn’t like the natural way: polar bears get bigger and more dangerous. So all the Knute merchandise will show him as a baby forever, even when he is an old fart and maybe has eaten his care taker …
Not all animals are created equal, especially not in terms of intelligence. Nobody would consider Cows, Chicken or Snakes as especially smart.
Very different to Elephants, Squid, Chimps and most of all Dolphins. Recent stunning experiments with Dolphins have revealed that they ‘understand’ basic concepts of language and can answer questions with the capability of small kids.
