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The Healthy Nerd

Today on my Facebook wall I saw this shared photo:

The first thing I thought was, are you f***ing kidding me? Can this be true? So, using some logical keywords in google I tried to find out. And soon I found this:

 

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Starling cloud

The air above the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands is currently dominated by this enormous cloud of more than 60.000 Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). The cloud has reached this size because more and more smaller clouds of Starlings come together to perform together It’s always amazing to see the fluidity in the movements of [...]

I’ve got a feeder for you to perch on

Sometimes it’s a bit crowded in our little Dutch garden:

European Greenfinch Chaffinch House Sparrow Eurasian Jay Great Tit Fieldfare Crow Jackdaw Blue Tit Black-headed Gull Robin Collared Dove Coal Tit Magpie Short-toed Treecreeper Willow Tit Winter Wren Wood Pigeon Starling Blackbird Dunnock Goshawk Long-eared owl

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How to tell if your cat is overweight

The slow collapse of the cardboard box he likes to sit on might be an indication…

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Titi monkey with sideburns..

One of my favourite animals which I encountered in the rain forest has a ‘new’ family member!

Recently a new species of titi monkeys was discovered in the Amazon region of Colombia. And according to this article, the new species has a beard…

However, if you take a look at this picture and compare [...]

Ladybird on a walkabout

(by Lenie Doornkamp)

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I like Medusozoa

(photo by me)

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Truth or fiction?

Although this news is already over a year old, I still think it’s worthwhile sharing.

“February 23, 2009–With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes–topped by green, orblike lenses–in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep [...]

Flying Manta’s

Ok, here’s todays piece of useless information: Manta rays can actually jump out of the water and look like birds.

Does it look like flying to you too?

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‘fast’-food..

As usual I was sitting in my window sill relaxing a bit, when I looked down just in time to see a lesser kestrel dive down to try to catch one of the sparrows which are always hanging out in the shrubs downstairs. Luckily for the sparrows and unfortunately for the kestrel (and me) [...]

Happy days

Fred, sunshine; happy days!

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Today:

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Dancing Sifakas

Want to go there. Preferably today.

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Henk the Uroplatus

Tonight I was looking through my photo-folders and I ran into this picture; Henk! Henk was our ‘pet’ Uroplatus Henkeli, a leaf-tailed gecko from Madagascar. I could watch this guy for hours.. at least, if I found him. He’s the master of camouflage! Sadly, Henk died of an unknown cause.. Now I [...]

The curse of the environmentalist

I want to share this quote of my friend Djan here because it is unfortunately oh so true.

The worst of being an environmentalist, is not to be unemployed…it is to be powerless and considered annoying, radical etc…people simply don´t want to feel responsible of nothing.

For me, the worst part is to [...]

Bullshit

Metro line 54, Amsterdam

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Hah!

Hah! It seems like my generous blood-donation to the mosquito colony of the Amazon has finally paid off, as I am now immune to them! No more itching red swollen bites! Now all I need is something against the annoying buzzing.. it seems to me that they will have a bigger chance of getting [...]

Spots

I got the cutest present last week!

According to Lady B, black spots are the latest trend. She even mentioned the term “high fashion”, but I ignored her. Who needs a six-legged trendwatcher anyway? haha!

Thanks to Sander. 

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flying dogs

Yesterday I got invited to the dog agility course of Tika to take some pictures.. 

Before you start you probably need to motivate your dog which is exactly what my cousin Irene is doing in this picture. I was too far away too hear the exact words, but I imagine the [...]

Nike & Xander

You open your heart and let them in, wanting to keep them there forever. And when they leave this place, you will succeed in doing so.

In loving memory of

 

                           Nike                                                                                                                       Xander

                                              

May 22nd, 2009

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