Rare and terrifying frilled shark catch in Victorian waters the first for fishermen in local living memory (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-20/hideous-frilled-shark-found-in-victorian-waters/6028524)
Ziggy is Aive:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-13/worlds-ugliest-animals-photo-gallery-blob-fish/4955582
I follow this stuff where I can and the general view is that dinosaurs never left us, they just adapted after the meteor impact of about 65 million years ago. We now call them birds.
...and it shows
birds are very vicious animals, really
the land equiv of sharks, if you ask me
glad there aren't many species larger than humans :redface:
Quote from: dedndave on January 29, 2015, 04:51:24 AM
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glad there aren't many species larger than humans :redface:
Otherwise we could have another amazing game :
Hungry Birds :biggrin:
Hi vertograd,
Quote from: vertograd on January 29, 2015, 06:07:05 AM
Otherwise we could have another amazing game :
Hungry Birds :biggrin:
that would be not new. I hope you've seen that classic movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_%28film%29).
Gunther
Quote from: Gunther on January 30, 2015, 05:31:56 AM
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that would be not new. I hope you've seen that classic movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_%28film%29).
Gunther
Hi, Gunther
My fault, I have not seen this movie though IIRC I saw a movie about Hitchcock and his 'The Birds' on TV .
I said "Hungry Birds" by analogy with very popular game Angry Birds (https://www.angrybirds.com/) .
I will say,I have been dive bombed by a Blue Jay,that is one mean and nasty bird,very territorial to say the least.
http://www.austinriba.com/2008/04/bluejays-are-carnivores/ (http://www.austinriba.com/2008/04/bluejays-are-carnivores/)
Little Known Fact: Blue Jays are Vicious Carnivores
Swans - beautiful but mean and nasty, territorial. Big too. Lots of them along the coast here
The Birds is still an excellent movie.
Quote from: Magnum on January 31, 2015, 01:56:28 AM
The Birds is still an excellent movie.
from an excellent director. No doubts about that.
Gunther
Again , about birds ;)
Weasel photographed riding on a woodpecker's back :
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31711446
Crocodiles survived the meteor impact.
And George Carlin has some good insight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
Emu. Can get to 6'2". Mellow, but will chase you (up to 31 mph) for your sandwich :biggrin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emu-wild.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emu-wild.jpg)
Cassowary. Can get to 6'6" and 129 lbs. Can run at 31 mph. Another Australian animal that can disembowel you (with its 5" long middle claw). Such a pretty bird too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cassowary_head_frontal.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cassowary_head_frontal.jpg)
that cassowary looks like a dinosaur that forgot to go extinct
count me out - lol - i'll stay in the US :P
A word of wisdom, never hit an emu at high speed in a car. Long ago on the way to Adelaide we came upon this car that had hit an emu at over 100 mph and the bumper bar was just about level with the windscreen. They are this tough ball of gristle and while the emu was a wreck, the car was unrecoverable. :P