running with sharks
where animals and people meet. usually for the worse.Outhouse Ambush
Many thanks to our friend Tush for sharing this horrifying video clip of spiders hunting in packs.
Octopus Uprising 2012.
Many thanks to Maya for sharing this pic with us.
Who wants to take a road trip to Russia?
But seriously, this is so cool! Researchers with the Far East Russia Orca Project have released some footage of killer whale that is possibly albino. The animal is reputed to be the first ever all-white orca observed in the wild.
The footage is brief, but beautiful.
Read more about Iceberg here.
To chum or not to chum…
Twenty-year-old David Lilienfeld, a champion bodyboarder, lost his life to a great white shark on Thursday in Kogel Bay near Cape Town, South Africa.
Though surfing in waters around South Africa carries with it the risk of shark attacks, several sources are discussing the fact that there has been a lot of chumming going on near Kogel Bay. This practice of pouring bloody fish pulp’n’guts into the water to temporarily attract sharks for tourists may cause the animals to linger in the area longer than expected.
Read more about the story here.
And, as with any news item posted on the internetz, we recommend that you skip over reader comments.
This python totally eats the time lapse shit out of an alligator.
Many thanks to Steph Darwish for sharing this with us.
There’s a tiger on the bus… what do you do?
Do you often wonder what it’s like to be on a bus that’s being ambushed by eight Bengal tigers?
Back in February, some terrified tourists in the Jinan Wildlife World in Shandong province, China, were lucky enough to survive such an ordeal. Eight tigers surrounded their tour bus, shanked the vehicle’s tires, and smashed the shit out of the windshield.
Read about it here.
Image from here.
Horror of Horrors
Staff at the Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall, England, couldn’t figure out how the coral in a particular tank got completely mangled. They went in to investigate, and what did they find? A four-foot tropical sea worm, covered with paralyzing bristles. This cylinder of pain now carries the charming name of Barry, but nonetheless, he looks like he slid right out of a John Carpenter movie.
Read about it here.
