Alvin the Alligator sunbathing on a rock, or sometimes chomping down on a stray sheep. He had been released into the river as a Rag Week Prank by Zoology Students at Matlock University, in 1958.
Initially, there were some attempts to recapture him, but after the disappearance of a couple of gypsy shoemakers, the locals sort of adopted him as an unofficial vermin-catcher. Nice.
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Bonus - One Swedish zoo, seven escaped chimpanzees
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Alas, racoons seem to be much maligned species in the US of A, and the Trash association doesn't really help.
I wonder what the equivalent for UK wildlife would be...
Bonus - https://www.reddit.com/r/trashpandas/
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No, I mean that I think that these are Dendrolagus, a.k.a. Tree Kangaroos.
They inhabit the tropical rainforests of New Guinea and far northeastern Queensland, along with some of the islands in the region. Most tree-kangaroos are considered threatened due to hunting and habitat destruction. They are the only true arboreal macropods.
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A great homely image to celebrate this Saturday. One of my favourites.
Bonus - A Spell of Peaceful Calm
However, cameras generally can't, so this slide just seems ... dull.
Bonus -in 1969, at the height of the Cold War, the Apollo 11 crew carried commemorative medals to the moon to honor two Soviet cosmonauts who died as part of the USSR's human spaceflight program
It's natural.
I guess it is a shape in nature. Fine.
I could carry on with this sequence of slides, but I sense that boredom is creeping thru' the millions and millions of BlogReaders here.
Bonus - (Some) People deserve to be punched. ‘It disgusts me’: how a wealthy couple lied to get a vaccine meant for Indigenous people
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