I have been remiss in my duties. It has been far too long since I have brought you yet another image of a sphynx cat. I don't have much to say about this photo. The eyes, the oily hairlessness, and the sweater say it all.
I'm going to go curl up in a corner now, suck my thumb, think of a happy place, and hope that this cat won't haunt my dreams.
I can't believe I haven't posted on this guy yet. He's like the king of scorpions. No, even better: he is the emperor of scorpions. These arthropods are actually a lot more bark than bite. They look tough, but their sting is far from the nastiest of its relatives.
They make good pets - look at one underneath a black light. Not only that, but thanks to Fear Factor and the Scorpion Queen, we know that you can do a lot with them. I love animals that are so multi-purpose.
Photo courtesy: www.mark-ju.net
Rasmus sent me a link to this beauty. The aptly named rosy lipped batfish is a native of the Cocos island, off the Costa Rican coastline. This little lady has taken a page out of the anglerfish's handbook, and uses an appendage to lure edible fish in close. As if those luscious lips weren't enough of an attractant ...
Photo courtesy: Science Blogs.
The ambush bug is a masterful hunter, camouflaged among the flowers to lie in wait for unsuspecting prey (moths, wasps, bees, etc.). Here are two of them mating. Who ambushed who in this union? It had to have been the male, since the is the uglier one, the one on top. It's a rough world out there, folks.
Thanks for the photo, Sean.
Just in case you wanted one more reason to skip scuba diving off the Northern Califoria coastline this weekend, here you go. True, the odds of you being attacked by a great white shark are minimal, but do you want to be the anomaly? Do you want to beat the statistics? No you don't. Skip the outdoors altogether. Stay inside, bask your pasty skin in the glare of your monitor, and eat reheated KFC instead.
Photo courtesy: web.hcsps.sa.edu.au
Normal hippos are ugly enough, but there is something disturbing about these little guys. I don't see how they can even show their faces in public. Compared to their Nile-based cousins, these pygmies only get to be at most 550 lbs and 5 feet in length! How shameful.
This one (in London) is at least taking some steps to clean up its image.
Photo courtesy: Yahoo!
When you have an enormous Burmese python that has eaten an electric blanket, you can't just let it die can you? Of course not! We may never know what compelled this snake, in Ketchum, Idaho, to eat an electric blanket, cables and control and all, but it doesn't matter.
That's got to be an expensive vet bill, though. Do all pythons sleep with electric blankets?
Photo courtesy: Yahoo!
Rasmus, our preeminent biologist, directed me to this prize. Catfish are never attractive. But the chaca chaca deserves a place on the winners' podium for ugliest catfish.
A word to the wise: these denizens from the Orient (India, Nepal, Bangladesh, etc.) make for dangerous aquarium fish. They are capable of excreting a substance that can drop the tank's pH dramatically - and kill the other occupants in the process. See, looks can kill.
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