Caligo memnon, the owl butterfly, ranges from Mexico to Colombia...Caged magpie jays at La Pacifica readily ate adults, and I myself found no objectionable taste when I ate several.

-- P. J. DeVries, Costa Rican Natural History

I don't have the slightest clue what this means, but it's got to be one of the best article titles I've ever seen

Strong, M. (1990). Furgling by the Red-backed Fairy-Wren. Sunbird 20: 37-38.

I can't believe nobody's posted this here yet

Birds, penises, the NY Times--it's at the intersection of WOFIGO and Obviously of Interest.

The data on which we shall learn regression comes from a study of water loss in Tribolium confusum, the confused flour beetle.

-- Biometry: the principles and practice of statistical research

...and don't pick up hitchhikers, either...

"There is a Greater White-fronted Goose in front of the State Prison on Rt. 47. You can see it from the road but DON'T STOP IN FRONT OF THE PRISON IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA TO STOP IN FRONT OF THE PRISON AND STARE AT IT WITH BINOCULARS AS WE FOUND OUT YESTERDAY!!!!!"

--JerseyBirds listserv

Remember the yellow-bellied sap-sucking ground-dwelling Himalayan nighthawk?

The study, published in June in The Journal of Heredity, analyzed and compared DNA sequences from 233 species and used the results to create a new family tree for spiny-rayed fishes. That group includes many types of toadfish, scorpionfish (lionfish are a type of scorpionfish), surgeonfish, rabbitfish, jacks, stargazers and saber-toothed blennies.

--NYT article about venomous fish.

false advertising

They said "RUGGED"! They said "SHOCK-PROOF"!

--T, dismayed to find her binoculars smashed to oblivion after they
fell 150 feet from a tree

Transsexual chicken causing a ruckus in Sweden

This is a real article, I kid you not.

... and the sheep were gently dorking

"It was really nice, you know, with the birds twerping peacefully in the trees." -- J.P., slightly liquored up. He combined "tweet" and "chirp," we think.

Tragedy!

Seagull Is Hit by Pitch
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:10 a.m. ET

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Seagulls shouldn't fly between Bisons and Bulls. One of the birds found that out during last Sunday's Triple-A minor league game between the Buffalo Bisons and the Durham Bulls. The Bisons were batting in the bottom of the eleventh when a seagull flew between the pitcher's mound and home plate just as Durham's pitcher released the ball.

The ball hit the bird. The batter swung at the ball and missed. The ball got away from the catcher. Since it was a third strike, the batter ran to first but was thrown out by the catcher to end the inning.

Meanwhile, the stunned bird lay on the ground in front of home plate.

While the umpires convened to discuss the bizarre play, a Buffalo player carried the seagull off the field. The bird later flew away.

The umps ruled that play should have stopped the moment the ball hit the bird. Durham was sent back on to the field, and the Buffalo batter returned to the plate to finish his at-bat.

lost...in translation

>I put them on a platform 1m high. If the chick is get by a raptor put quick a trape on a >platform with a chick. Now you have to wait, it could be during two days, for days or never. >You need a lot of power to catch raptors in a rainforest but then you are very happy and the >king of the dschungel. You wil catch araptor or two I am shure!!!

-- this German dude giving me advice on how to catch hawks in rain forest

T: Oooh look! A starling!

For your reference on what ensued



"Hypothetical" Situation

"K": Oh let's wander around and go to the West Side... but alas! We are lost in Central Park!
T: Never fear! Hark! A starling!
"K":Oh.. pretty bird.
T: Tweet tweet tweet tweet West Side tweet tweet?
Starling: Tweet TWEEET tweet-tweet tweet.
T: Tweet tweet!
T: That way!

Aren't you glad we went to Harvard?

An associate was termed as any individual animal with whom the individual animal in question had had an association index value of greater than zero with; meaning an individual animal with whom an individual animal in question was seen in the same group as.

-- a hapless Princetonian senior thesis