An elephant and his mahut are a special kind of family. Sometimes when beloved work elephants die, people erect little temples in their honor. Too bad we hardly have any personal relationship to nature and the other inhabitants of this great planet.

On the other side - I can’t build a temple for every McChicken, Cow and Fish I ate …

The Deep is a brilliant book and web site from Claire Nouvian about deep sea creature. And they are amazing! Who needs alien when we have creatures like the Dumbo Octopus on this very planet!

Make sure to watch the Gallery.

Amazing! Cool! Wunderbar! Nature still creates the most stunning creatures and designs.

Those beautiful silent travelers of the oceans, they are adorable and graceful. It just pains me to realize they are hunted for their eggs and flesh.

Let’s save them!

Isn’t there a UN resolution against such designs? The 50’s have been a strange decade and dogs behaved very different from today. Taken from the blog of killer knitware:Threadbared.com.

A have a new favorite animal: the wombat. I always thought these are cute LITTLE marsupials. But they are actually pretty big and even more adorable. According to the great website ‘The Wombat’s Burrow‘ they are absolutely unsuitable as pets. Make sure to watch some of the videos on the case study page (loacted at the end of the page). Thank evolution for Australia and it’s many great beasts!

More? Wombats @ Wikipedia and loads of YouTube videos

Sometimes I wonder if the internet is just encouraging all the bad side of humanity? The obsession with cuteness and the hunger for trivial entertainment is perfectly served by cute ice bears, sneezing panda babies and other wild life we usually give a crap about.

Fuck cuteness - give me dead people or something that is worth caring for …