Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

Lion King puts Michael Jordan to shame


Long story short, for shits 'n giggles... um, I mean... for science, ya, that's it! For SCIENCE, two guys locked themselves in a super strong box and studied the feeding hierarchy of aggressive male lions. They conducted a number of experiments which included hanging carcass' from trees, and setting up dummies (of mammals commonly hunted by lions) and mannequins (the same kind you see in a Macy's store window snuggled up in warm winter mittens over Christmas) to determine the feeding habits of a pride.

So what did these two guys find out? 1) That lions can jump 11 feet straight up into the air without blinking; and, 2) That they were not omitted from the King of the Jungle's dinner menu.

To witness this spectacular and disturbing event, click here.

Pictured below: OK, so the boy can jump, but can he rip the head off a gazelle in a single bite? Ha! Didn't think so!

Nature is my homeboy


You have absolutely no clue what you are looking at, do you? It's basically a feeding frenzy of fish and birds that BBC crew filmed off the coast of North America for part of their wildlife series Nature's Great Events: The Great Feast.

Seabirds were filmed corralling shoals of herring into tightly packed balls from below, while the seagulls were attacking the bait from above, leaving the poor herring trapped in a feeding frenzy from both ends. Then suddenly...*whoosh!*... Hey! Where did everybody go?!

To get the full story, click here. This is truly amazing!

Pictured below: Is this what Heaven looks like, Ghepetto?


Worth Seeing ~ Inappropriate & Otherwise