Pictures of animals and pictures of reptiles taken in South Africa. The pictures of animals, pictures of birds, pictures of trees and reptile pictures will give you an idea of the wildlife living on this beautiful game ranch in the Limpopo Province. Photo World of Wild Nature - The Best Photos of Nature - Wildlife images
I’ve read and written about a some pretty unusual hotels, in the past, but this is the first chicken hotel I’ve ever heard of.
The Chicken Hotel created by 31-year-old David Roberts, from Boskenwyn, Helston, is almost just like any other hotel out there, with one big difference – instead of people, it offers accommodations for chicken. I know it sounds like a joke, but this place is for real, and apparently it’s also very successful.
“With more people looking to escape the rat race and move out in the country with a little bit of land, keeping chickens is becoming more and more popular. But what do you do if you go away on holiday? Who looks after the chicken?” asks Mr. Roberts, who opened his unusual establishment to encourage people to raise their own chicken. A former cabinet-maker, David Roberts built the chicken coops himself and now rents them for 2 pounds each, plus 75 pence per chicken.
Each coop in the Chicken Hotel holds up to eight chicken and the current offer includes buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner of local produce, served in open-air. Guests are allowed to roam around the hotel grounds all day, before being gathered to roost at night. According to Mr. Roberts, the hotel was fully booked over Christmas time, and he hopes half term and Easter will be just as successful.
Photographed by reader Robert Costin, the photo was taken in a biology classroom at Nevada State College. The cow eyes in question were being passed out to students as dissection subjects. Costin assures me that, creepy as this is, it's nothing compared to what he saw in the cadaver lab.
I'm sure he's right. My high school anatomy class once took a field trip to a cadaver lab at Kansas State University. Cow eyeballs have nothing on Rubbermaid tubs full of preserved human genitalia, still attached to disembodied hips and upper thighs. For some reason, those freaked out 17-year-old me way more than the still mostly-intact dead bodies.
A 17-year-old thoroughbred gelding in Chino Hills, Calif., is going into the record books, not for the speed of his feet but for the quickness of his mind.
The horse in question is Lukas, who is touted as the smartest horse in the world for the many amazing feats he's been able to master: 35 in all.
According to Karen Murdock, Lukas' owner and trainer, he is able to count and discern different shapes, spell his name and recognize the difference between objects that are the same and those that are different, those that are bigger or smaller than others and a concept called "absentness."
"Lukas knows when something is missing, and that is a skill that was previously only detected in primates and parrots," Murdock said.
But despite having an extremely high equine IQ, Lukas was absent from the Guinness World Records book until June, when Guinness finally created a record attempt for Lukas that fit in their criteria. Murdock believes AOL Weird News was partially responsible.
"I had been trying for years to get their attention, but they only contacted me after [AOL Weird News] did a story on him," she said. "I believe your story prompted them to do this."
Although Lukas did the record attempt in June, Murdock only received official confirmation on Nov. 20 when a certificate arrived acknowledging his world record.
For the record, Lukas is now the record holder in the category "Most Numbers Correctly Identified by a Horse in One Minute" after identifying 19 number in less than 60 seconds.
"This is the fastest we've ever done this," Murdock said, still amazed at her horse's remarkable achievement. "Guinness has very rigid specifications, so I couldn't praise him -- and that was hard!
"I do believe he wanted to his best. He was very focused and able to concentrate during the attempt."
But even though Lukas is an official record holder, he's not going to "saddle" for just one honor, according to Murdock.
"We're going to keep practicing," she promised. "Guinness wants another record involving recognizing shapes, but I'd like to do something with his sense of 'absentness,' but I don't know how you'd do it."
Some people might keep a valuable artifact like a Guinness certificate in a place of honor, but Murdock prefers to keep it close to her vest.
"I bring it everywhere with me and show it to everyone who asks," she said with a laugh.
Beautiful animals move around the world, chasing resources in dangerous journeys that might take mere hours or span generations. To capture the images and video for the series, they spent two and a half years in the field, traveling 420,000 miles across 20 countries and all seven continents. Move as millions, survive as one. That is the subtitle to the new seven-part television series from National Geographic called "Great Migrations". The fine folks at National Geographic have been kind enough to share with us some images from "Great Migrations: Official Companion Book" below. Great Migrations premieres in the U.S. on Sunday, November 7 on the National Geographic Channel.
This pet cemetery is located in Hyde Park, Central London. Few suspect pet cemetery in the shade of trees. It is very old. Wealthy Londoners began to bury their pets there back in the Victorian era, in 1880s and by 1915 it had already been filled. This corner of the park is fenced and closed to visitors.
Peek behind the iron bars off Bayswater Road for a look at hundreds of tiny pet tombstones dating back to the 1800s. Unfortunately not open to the public. Very unusual Place.
The Dog House, Plans known in British English as a kennel, is a small shed commonly built in the shape of a little house intended for a dog. It is a structure in which a dog is kept or can run into for shelter from the elements.
In architecture, "doghouse" is commonly a builder/contractor term for a dormer. The name is derived from the appearance of improperly proportioned dormers, which do resemble dog houses. A properly proportioned dormer should neatly fit over the window it is meant to frame. A common mistake is to undersize the windows or oversize the dormer, which necessitates the use of siding or other infill material with the structure treated as a gable end. Some architects use the word "doghouse" in a derogatory manner to indicate an ignorance of "honest" building practices often found in low-cost cheap residential and light commercial, developer-built structures.
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67-year-old Nick Le Souef Australian Spider Man to Spend Three Weeks with Poisonous Spiders Imagine living in a confined space for three weeks with more than 300 spiders, including fatally venomous red backs and hairy huntsman.
Nick Le Souef, an Australian businessman from Melbourne, will do exactly that to raise 50,000 dollars for a children's charity.
Passersby will be able to see him in a shop window everyday surrounded by his eight-legged friends.
Souef, a former opal miner, says he will take just one precaution in his mission, he will be spider-free at night.
"The spiders can be roaming around me during the day. They won't have the opportunity to be crawling into my swag (camp bed) at night and sort of saying a quick hello - I mean I'm fairly silly doing this but I'm not stupid," he said.
To begin with, there were about 400 spiders until a 'massacre' happened when the creatures started eating one another.
So now, a few crickets and cockroaches will be thrown into the shop window each day to keep the remaining 300 satisfied.
Souef, who holds the Australian records for three-week stints in a snake pit and a shark tank, originally wanted to do the stunt with snakes, but licensing issues put a stop to that.
Though he does not care much for the spiders, Souef says he will put up with the creepy crawlies for charity and use this time to write his memoirs.
In the north-west Asian country of Myanmar were found rare animal - an elephant albino. According to Buddhist beliefs, White Elephant can bring good luck throughout the state.
