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The space ship on that Russian space movie is just a little too Phallic.
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Allright, I give up... What is that mystery device?!?
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Mystery device: my bet is it's a giant kaleidoscope from the trippy hippy 1960's.
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Those motorbikes are awesome. The Yamaha is a bit much, but the Suzuki G-Stryder is gorgeous. It's a pity that the more extreme looks you see in automobile concept pieces are so rarely passed on to the consumer market.
That Monotracer pod thing seems to have two secret extra wheels - you can see one of them in the picture above, mostly covered by a panel, just in front of the back wheel. You can see them extended a bit here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6bxnjt on a different version.
Can't work out quite what the point of them is, though, unless it's to let you take EXTREMELY radical corners... Although then surely you'd have to get out to tip the bike upright again afterward...
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Ok, I have become entranced with the song, and must know where I can find a copy of it, short of replaying the YouTube video over and over..Help, oh internet!
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Rowan - try this
link. It should have all the songs from this movie in mp3.
Enjoy!
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I think the small wheels on the Monotracer are for low speed and parking. The Ecomobile has the same concept. This video shows it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdkZB9-Sd4&feature=related
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Avi Abrams, wow! Great to have those links although for some strange reason I can ony save as quicktime movie files. Any idea how I save as mp3s so I can play on my i-tunes?
Much appreciated
D x
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интересно чем закончился эксперимент с крыльми на параутисте
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Do you have a source link for the Paper LP? It looks like a marvellous idea...
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Ahem... "Although the glass does not currently get hot enough to toast bread, the vendor explained with some R&D this application may be possible"
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The Swiss Army knife is not a real marketed product. I believe that's just an ad piece.
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Knife's real:
http://www.wengerna.com/browse/product.jsp?prod_id=1260&cat_id=1&cat_name=Knives%E2%8A%82_cat_id=23
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You can also find this Knife here
http://www.gadgetshop.com/Gadgets/OutdoorGadgets/OutdoorSurvival/PRDOVR~291773/Wenger+Giant+Swiss+Army+Knife.jsp
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Thanks for all the info! No info on Paper LP though.
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http://www.simonelvins.com/paper_record.html
It appears that it was a one-time project, and there are no intructions for it.
Very, very interesting though.
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The Device is infinitely useful. I AM buying one!
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A few items are probably NSFW...a warning would be nice.
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The bag of plagues seems a bit racist. I don't remember Black People being one of the biblical plagues...
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haha awesome
oh, "national electronics" is actually Panasonic, but their home appliances line in Japan.
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I'm a straight girl and I'm itching to get a hold of those boob stress balls. Great idea!
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Anonymous said... "The bag of plagues seems a bit racist. I don't remember Black People being one of the biblical plagues..."
I went on to the link about the "plush plagues" and it turns out that the black man represents the plague of illness (he has a boil on his face).
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Found a link for the Paper LP, I see. Excellent.
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The photo with the water ballon is the greatest.
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The picture with the snowboard was taken during the 'Quicksilver Showdown over the city' in Vancouver (Canada). Original can be found here : http://www.showdownoverthecity.ca/gallery.html#
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Hmmm...those earthquake photos look rather suspicious.
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That furry fthing is a tribble! :-)
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Real fish slapping is done like this...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsfiD78Cy0s
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That first folding table is amazing - the engineering that must have gone into that thing!
The second one, however, looks wrong on so many levels.
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Russian policemen on the bike is taken from the photoshop contest performed at the http://fake.dirty.ru/veloment/
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Obviously you were joking by posting the 2 posts with kid's comments. You weren't, right?
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The picture with the crabs looks like the work of Corey Arnold.
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Absolutely freaking beautiful photos! Thank you!
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I grew up outside of Newport, OR and your pictures are somehow even better than my memories.
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I drive the gorge all the time, and I have never gotten tired of the scenery. Great write up here.
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correct me if im wrong but this is PRODUCT PLCEMENT. pictures asr simply spoiled by JEEP
shame
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Mar - nope. This is simply the car I drive. I happen to like how it looks :)
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The pictures are awesome, beautiful, but maybe the title is a little bit deceitful.
Two roads in oregon for part one, can I conclude there will be a LOOOOOOOOT of parts with the same title :P ?
I will stay connected - Thanks
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Ruben - this title is to kick off the series. Hopefully a long one.
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Just a small edit: it's "The Dalles," not just "Dalles." I think it's silly too, but that's how it is.
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In addition to the driveable parts of the Columbia River Highway, it's well worth checking out the Mosier Twin Tunnels just East of Hood River. This is a closed section of the road that was recently repaved and opened for walking and biking and it's spectacular.
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I drove up to Oregon a few years back, and the roads had so many twists and turns that by the end of the trip I was muttering things like, "They couldn't have just blown a hole through that freaking mountain?!"
Very pretty, though.
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Glad you enjoyed the drives and scenery! It's a prime reason DW and I moved back from Texas (aside from family and the extreme dislike of hot/humid weather). Great pics!
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I lived for a year in Portland, and often drove through the gorge just to appreciate its great beauty. There is an old road and a new road, and I highly recommend the "old" road for its great beauty and lack of traffic. I always thought it was a shame that Mark Twain wasn't born there instead of Missouri. Another beautiful spot on the Oregon coast is Cape Foulweather near Depoe Bay. Named by Capt James Cook, it is the highest point on the coast and you can watch the whale migration easily from there.
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In 2006 I got to visit a lovely little place called Langlois along 101. From there I climbed Cape Blanco light.
I wish I could live in OR. Enough of TX heat!
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Have you thought about posting roads form maybe the southern hemisphere or even europe. i mean they are beautiful photos but there are more roads than ones in America, Im from New Zealand and we have some stunning roads here, and i know that the UK does to. I suggest a title change.
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All other countries and locations will come in the next part of the series. This is only the first part. Stay tuned.
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Nada que envidiar a mi tierra.. Chile tiene parajes bastante similares a los mostrados en las fotos... salu2
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Have Jeep and ready to go!
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most beautiful roads in America maybe?
There are way more beautiful roads in the rest of the world
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I've actually walked under the cliff overhang of Latourell Falls. The falls are even cooler when you're between them and the cliff.
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These are like images taken in paradise. Very very interesting and fun to travel through... I'd love to have a visit there:)
I just imagine if it was possible to ride a limo on these roads (I'm sure that's not that easy, but...) what the excitement level would be:)
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you know, this series would make an awesome series of books: www.blurb.com
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oregon have nothing on norway, every road in sunmörsalpene blows that road out of the water
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I don't get the negative comments , if you don't have something positive to say , keep them to yourself . These are beautifull pics of a beautifull state and some of us appreciate it.
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These may be the most beautiful roads in Oregon, or perhaps the USA, but they are merely "pretty" compared to truly spectacular stretches of tarmac like the Stelvio Pass in Italy or the magnificent A82 through Glencoe in Scotland.
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Bernard Curry - I agree, Europe certainly has roads that trump these... This summer I took a sports car across the Alps, stay tuned for updates.
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Driving may be inspiring by seeing these wonderful paths that encourage you to help mother nature to preserve it and this is so wonderful. 3 stars for this blog...
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The picture of the child soldier with butterfly wings and an AK-47 is surely one of the saddest things I've seen lately.
Oh, and aren't the squid pacifiers actually meant to be jellyfish pacifiers?
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Great collection as always
The Victorian section looks more 1930's and 40's to me.
and the AK-47 shot with the wings, those aren't toys.
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He meant the wings :P
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To me these wings are photoshoped. Considering those kids are in armed conflict area I doubt they would wear such flashy toys on their backs.
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The wings are probably real. The National Patriotic Front of Liberia was infamous for child soldiers who wore womens' wigs, dresses, etc. in combat in the belief that it confused their enemies' bullets.
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Some of the kids in the article appear in the armed dispute so I hesitate that they would wear such
flashy wings on their back-side...
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Very thoughtful, touching, and some of them downright hilarious.
great post
:)
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The aliens face hugger isn't a pacifier, it's a plushie (comes with it's cocoon too, that's the grey thing in the background), I saw them for sale somewhere but I can't remember where.
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The bambi piece is from Ben Frost's "Kmart After Dark" I believe.
I think it's awesome. <<
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Does anyone know the story behind the photo with the two policemen in the foreground (one of whom is holding a billy-club) facing a child?
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Your "tank accident" isn't an an accident.. It's the only way to change the tracks on a tank.. One of the links gets unbolted, the tank drives off, a new track gets laid in place and the tank drives on it again.
How else would you replace a +2 tons "wheel" ?
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Actually, It looks like it is an accident, as the tank doesn't appear to have a new track on. Normally to change a track, the old track is unpinned at the front, the new track pinned to it, the tank driven forward until it is on the new track, and the old one is removed. This looks like one of the track pins has snapped while the tank was moving, and it's coasted several meters.
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Marilyn Monroe has so much personality - she still almost leaps at you from that old photo.
No star of today can match her aura
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I recommand people from other country then U.S. to NOT read "The Essential Man's Library". You could be a little bit insulted to find out that more then 50% of the book come from U.S.
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Your "old Russian art" looks a rather modern Baltic thing, something from Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia. The theme is still a mystery, though.
I identify the "Chtulhu harvest" as the Buddha's Hand citrus. That's the shape it typically is. The fruit is used symbolically in Chinese art.
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Considering the "Russian Art":
I don't know what the guy with the ring on the anvil is doing, but the woman seems to hold a pair of scissors..
the theme is "trades" it seems.
The Library could be seen as insulting, however the author of that list has some bias to T.Roosevelt and Dostoevsky - it is easy to replace many of the books with equivalent ones of other authors/countries and languages. These lists are always quite arbitrary and say much about their authors' taste.
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I thought she had a willy!
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I don't usually like YouTube edit-jobs, but that Red Army Ensemble/Run-DMC confab was great.
Also, agreed with the earlier poster; Marilyn Monroe was really a remarkable person.
That "Visionary Artist" thing was a bit painful, though, wasn't it?
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You Got Served: 1940's Soviet Edition
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Translation of the binary code: "Data Exchange"
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Short grammar lesson. "Bended" is not a word.
"Very ingenious sculptures from bended forks:"
should instead be written
"Very ingenious sculptures from bent forks:"
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@anonymous...
Actually, chief, 'bended' *is* a word.
See: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bended
It's fallen out of use but it's still very much a word.
@author...
Excellent, excellent finds!
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I don't know who made the skull but I saw it last year in person...it is in Venice, Italy.
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Does anybody know the name of the ceramic artist (teacup and saucer next to handgun)? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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see also this artist
http://nunoleitedesign.no.sapo.pt/nunorodrigues/html/galeria_escultura.htm
he got awsome works!
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For the Forks work, the artist is named Matthew Bartik, if it can help
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Hey guys, i have just found this post now, and thanks for featuring my photos!(better late than never :) )
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this is superb work i am very impressed, can we buy this stuff by the way? and where
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oh my,, such beautiful things.. Now I am convinced that scrap metal is the key to everything.. Not that very nice art objects can be made from it, it also costs some decent money..
http://www.metal-scrap.net
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I think the giant snail is fake? just decent CGI.
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And I think tthat it's
this.
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There's a similar (same?) Studebaker on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The card there indicates this was to be a nuclear-powered vehicle that balanced gyroscopically on one centered wheel, and was also to have a energy force field--hence no need for windows. All courtesy our friend the atom.
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The snail isn't fake. have you never watched a nature documentry before?
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The giant snail is definitely NOT a fake. They're not safe to handle though, because they can carry a disease (I forget which) that they can pass on to humans.
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They're cute, but at the same time, a little creepy, lol.
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Sooo cute...although the one on the leash is a bit much. But then again, saying "a bit much" in the context of a wild animal in a denim jacked isn't exactly relevant.
I, in fact, am a bit fan of sheep. Even think they're the new penguins. (You know the penguin trend...Happy Feet...March of the Penguins...all the toys, etc.). Check out some cool sheep-related art from across the web:
http://twurl.nl/g2w2ve
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I honestly don't know whether to laugh hysterically or cry - the idea of someone not only buying exotic wild animals that were either snatched from their native forest or worse, bred in captivity... but then dressing them up in dolls clothes and using them as fame fodder?!
This isn't cute at all, it's insane.
People like that should not be allowed to keep any sort of animals, let alone wild animals.
When will people ever learn that animals are not play things to be kept for our twisted amusement?
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Oh yes, Rox, because animals are so intelligent, right? Get real - in the wild, they'd almost definitely have a much, much, much shorter life, a harder time and would be more at risk of disease or predators.
Animals are not intelligent enough to comprehend things like "natural habitats" or "freedom". Animals merely want 3 things - food, water and safety. In that home, that is provided for them. They aren't suffering, and its silly to the extreme to believe that they possess the same awareness or emotions as human beings, given that they are a different species than us.
Animals are happy as long as you provide them with basic needs - they don't have philosophies, or ideals or dreams. Their brains aren't complex enough for that. These animals are being well taken care of.
Part of the problem with you is that you assume that animals are like us. They are NOTHING like us. They do have a right to be kept free from pain and such, but they are in no emotion or physical pain in that household. They don't have the brains to even comprehend such things like "captivity" or "freedom".
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If you re-read my comment, I didn't say anything about animals being on the same level as humans.
But the logic in thinking that wild animals are better off being put to work on movies, and being used for shows of 300 or more children and being dressed in dolls clothes and kept in cages and allowed to roam a house rather than being in their natural habitat is warped.
As for animals in captivity having longer healthier lives, that actually isn't always the case. Even with these anteaters, the female is sick and may soon be retired from 'show business'. Not getting the proper diet they would have in the wild and having supplements instead isn't always conducive to a long life.
And if it's silly to think that they deserve a natural existence, then fine, maybe I am silly. But the exotic pet trade still plays a big part in poaching and illegal animal trade, and when you stop to wonder how these animals are caught, it doesn't seem so silly.
Just because they don't have the same superior intelligence and reasoning we have, it doesn't give us the right to exploit them.
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Brainpicker claims breeding them in captivity is worse than taking them from the wild. Well how are they going to miss something they never knew? How is it worse?
Captive private breeding has saved many species on the brink of extinction. American bison, springbok, both of which were reintroduced from captive private bred stock. And there are many others such as lemurs, fennec fox, some chameleons, and some breeds of cockatoos and numerous species I can't think of that are threatened or even extinct in the wild that are in large numbers in the pet trade. This is GOOD. The species survival is assured as long as people want them.
The clothes are so it stays warm and not really any different from the harness it wears to go out. If it doesn't mind, and it doesn't seem to, then there's no harm in the clothing also being cute.
Animals are almost always longer lived in captivity when well treated, there are rare exceptions. The female having got sick is old news and was some bacterial infection. She was said to be considering retirement because Pua didn't like doing it as much as the male. All the full info is in the blogs.
The legal pet trade plays no part in poaching. The vast majority of exotic pets are bred in captivity for many generations this only helps the wild populations through better awareness and no reason to take any from the wild with a captive supply, which could be relied on when reintroduction becomes needed. There are not enough zoos to handle all the animals that are threatened.
For the few taken from the wild trade is highly regulated and limited under C.I.T.E.S.
The illegal animal trade you speak of is over 90% animal parts for medicines, food, or trophies. The few pets produced from it are a by product of the other(killed mom for meat, hey lets try to sell the baby).
And again the captive animals especially the well loved pets help foster a love for the wild animals. Just look at the love for these cute animals many have never even heard of before.
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I can see your logic, and what you are trying to say - but at the end of the day, buying exotic wild animals creates a demand. This in turn gives poachers and animal traders more incentive to capture wild animals as well as breed them and the more demand there is, the more likelihood of poorer breeding conditions and bigger 'farms'.
The irony is that it is people and their need to use animals for profit who are the biggest factor in the threat of species endangerment - capturing or breeding the species only perpetuates this problem, and is far from 'conservation' as circus animals are.
Breeding and selling wild animals to people who want a novelty pet is about profit and not about preservation of species.
No matter how I look at it, I just don't see the exotic pet trade as a good thing.
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Anteater Coolness? Oh yeah. Just about as cool as wearing real fur and eating shark fin soup. Now, anteaters with a fancy price tag in doll's clothes, how insane can it get? No, it's not cool, it's just totally lame. And the justification for doing so is equally lame. Here again we have people with too much money and too much time on their hands. It's always like that.
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I could SO sic these cute guys on the fire ant mounds here. Even if they couldn't wipe out the ants, it would be a delight to get them to off the little critters.
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If you read the info page @ the tamandua owner's site, at least one of them was found in the wild VERY ILL and the owner rescued him and nursed him back to health. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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How do you know these animals weren't saved or even just found and kept as a pet, they seem happy and cute, I didn't see any pictures of the ant eaters getting tortured so its all good. These animals look like there well taken care of.
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http://www.contentcaboodle.com/pets/anteater-faq.html
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http://www.contentcaboodle.com/pets/anteater-faq.html
odd htr? trying again HTML
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rox, go read 'Life of Pi', then think again.
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Now there's a calendar
Click for more examples
http://anteaterentertainment.com/Store.html
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They'd be lovely in a stew.
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>>> Animals are not intelligent enough to comprehend things like
>> "natural habitats" or "freedom".
>> Animals are happy as long as
>> you provide them with basic needs - they don't have
>> philosophies, or ideals or dreams.
>> they are in no emotion or physical pain
Please explain how you have done something that no scientist has ever managed - reading animals' minds?
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We've actually nominated a foul-mouthed Anteater for president this year! He's running as an independent Anteater.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/cat_anteater.php
It's good to see his constituents enjoying life in this country.
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First of all "Occams Razor" - If you've ever owned a pet in your life you would know that animals do have souls and can think for themselves.
I'm not saying they have human intelligence or all our emotions, but they do feel, animals can suffer from emotions like depression, just like people do.
Yes, animals in the wild have shorter life spans and are predated upon, but that is natural, taking an animal out of their natural habitat is NOT!
And second, I understand people’s desire to help endangered species, but how are you helping them by keeping them in your home and turning them into pets? Preserving species is a job for the zoos, who can keep these animals in a close to natural habitat, as appose to your house. I am currently a senior at Delaware Valley College majoring in Conservation and Wildlife Management, so exotic and endangered animals are my study.
People, these are NOT PETS, nor should they ever be pets, and they are NOT domesticated! Putting an animal in your house and training it does not make it a domestic animal. If you're that adamant on helping to save an endangered species then donate money to a cause. Keeping a wild animal as a pet does nothing to help preserve the species. And by purchasing one you are only helping to aid the exotic animal trade, which means your money is going toward taking even more critically endangered animals - like tigers - out of their natural habitats to live out a horrible life as someone’s pet.
The exotic animal trade/market is ranked just below the illegal drug trade and just above the illegal gun trade. Most of these animals are ripped from their mothers as babies and shipped all over the world to be kept as pets, how on earth can that possibly help that animal.
Yes they are adorable and would be awesome to own, but if you really want to touch wild animals then get a job at a zoo and do something practical to help a species.
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the only way to truly preserve an animal is by making sure you can release them back into the wild. these so called "pets" can never be released back into the wild because people like this have taken their natural survival skills away by raising them in households. Its the same for people who breed them for pets.
Yes Captive private breeding has saved many species on the brink of extinction, but they weren't bred by normal people, they were bred and supervised by trained wildlife professionals, and had minimal contact with people.
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I think they're great! They seem very happy in the human habitat, with clothes on or not so who cares where they came from!
At least they're not some predator food.
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Ant eaters are the best animal out of them all
I LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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First off, no species of Tamandua is endangered. They're listed as Least Concern and there's tons of them. Saying anything about keeping endangered species as pets is just not applicable here.
Secondly, there's nothing wrong with captive breeding pet animals. You're not removing them from their environment, and any imaginary concept of "freedom" you think these animals have would also be shared by your cat and your dog and your goldfish. the same arguments against keeping these animals as pets listed in this comments board could be applied to more traditionally domesticated animals.
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why don't you do the world a favor and educate yourselves a little bit better.
http://www.bornfreeusa.org/articles.php?p=1815&more=1
http://www.traffic.org/
http://www.livescience.com/animals/wildlife_numbers.html
No matter what you think, you are inadvertently supporting the wildlife trade every time you buy one of these, or other, wild animals as pets. it doesn’t matter if they were bred in the US or not your money will eventually wind up funding the trade...you bought it from a breeder in America, who obtained theirs from someone else in America, who obtained theirs from someone in Canada, who obtained theirs from someone in germany, who while on vacation bought theirs from a seller at a market in South America who trapped the animal ripped it from its natural habitat and decided to sell it make some money off of it…that’s how it works people.
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Your purchase creates a demand and your money eventually goes back to that seller, who in turn traps and sells more and more of these already endangered creatures.
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About Agassiz statue - it is not urban art - it's a real statue after earthquake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Agassiz_in_the_Concrete.jpg
About the photo that shows two smashed car, this is the Marriot Hotel at Antofagasta, chile.
Last year an earthquake produce this... and a lot more.
I think the apple thing is a bird-bath...
the atm picture is a fake, look at the shadows on the atm, they are wrong...
at least 2 photos are from poland: the one with the bicycle road (very famous photo in category: what polish engineers can do for bicycles), and the one with no railways for tram (the bus on the photo seems to be from warsaw).
@maciek - it isn't warsaw, it's łódź, probably zachodnia street. there's a major renovation of the tracks and the lamp (or whatever it is) will be removed. but nevertheless, funny as hell :D
it isnt lodz, it is gorzow wlkp ;D my city :D
that's what happens to cranes when they are lifting a very heavy load and the cable snaps...
no no it łódż zachodnia street :)) pozdro PL :)
Lots of pics are from Russia :)
first picture is form egypt!!
3mar ya masr :)
В росии самый креативный народ :)))
это точно!!! очень подборка понравилась!
LoL Great and very funny...:)
pozdro pl
The BMW- pics are from Trondheim, Norway..
The house with no basement or foundation is a historical house that is being moved.
Photo no4. is also from Poland - Wroclaw, apartment building... contemporary polish architecture :(
I have a hammer just like the one in the pic, it's awesome. It is the only purpose built bottle opener that guarantees and open bottle, it opens ANY bottle, the question is really how much liquid remains....
first picture is form egypt
Thanks. Goood
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