“There are certain days that remind me of why I ran for this office.
And then there are moments like this where I pardon a turkey and
send it to Disneyland.”
Barack Obama, Nov. 25th 2009

my frog spawn time lapse video is on display in the natural history museum of neuchatel in switzerland. it’s part of the temporary exhibition “parce queue”, which is about the animal tails.

anton and i came through neuchatel in mid-july (as part of our bike journey to spain), and seized the opportunity.
the exhibition has a special focus on evolution and features many quotes of charles darwin’s “on the origin of species”.
it’s very interesting, and worth checking out if you get a chance (open until february 2009).

filming and photographing the kakapo for the new BBC documentary series “last chance to see“, zoologist mark carwardine becomes part of something unexpected…

Stephen Fry sees photographer get humped by a rare parrot – watch hilarious video

This clip is more suited to the top shelf of a seedy sex shop than part of a nature documentary presented by Stephen Fry.

While filming a kakapo parrot for new BBC programme Last Chance to See, the actor is taken aback when the bird leaps onto a crewmember’s head and starts humping him.

Exploding with laughter, Q1 host Stephen says: “This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, you are being shagged by a rare parrot.”

The excited kakapo, christened Sirocco, flaps its wings and attempts to mate with the photographer for a full minute before its claws start to draw blood.

Stephen was in New Zealand to record scenes for the wildlife series, based on the search of animals on the brink of extinction.

The kakapo species, known for being fat and flightless, is extremely rare.

Perhaps poor Sirocco should try taking out his frustration on another parrot…

source: mirror.co.uk

while up on patscherkofel¹, two weeks ago, i took the time to make a time-lapse recording of innsbruck, between sunset and darkness.
this time, i used my pentax w60 (night mode), which has an internal timer feature. it took a picture every 15 seconds for 2 hours, which resulted in a speedup of about 200 times in the video.

enjoy! :)

you can also download the video: time lapse: innsbruck nightfall (avi, xvid codec)

soundtrack: tim minchin – not perfect
 

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whale wars season 2 is coming up on june 5th in the US, and they’ve released a trailer and some clips on youtube:

(via eric)

incredible creativity!

(thanks, tom.)

via failblog

another interesting post there: cow transportation fail. it clearly shows a tyrolean license plate!