Archduke Ferdinand, Animal Killer
Spiegel Online reports on a newly-published diary by Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the man whose assassination sparked World War I. He killed a lot of animals. A lot of animals.
Posts tagged: animals
Betty White and Slash at the Zoo
Betty White and Slash have teamed up for this commercial for the Los Angeles Zoo.
Jane Goodall Interviewed
Jane Goodall is on tour. She’s in my town right now, across the river, being interviewed on the radio program Think Out Loud, from Oregon Public Broadcasting. What makes a 77 year-old want to go on tour?
Anderson Cooper With a Limo and a Llama?
Yes, Anderson Cooper with a limo and a llama. And a Letterman.
The Best Talking Dog Video from Summer Vacation 2011
Auntie Jane showed us this one at the beach:
Koko the Gorilla is 40 Today
Koko the Gorilla, the ape who learned sign language, turns 40 today. Happy birthday to her!Koko was born in 1971 at the San Francisco Zoo. That’s where she was found by a Stanford graduate student, Penny Patterson, who has made gorilla sign language her life’s work.
Woody Allen Boxes a Kangaroo
From the British television show Hippodrome, here’s former comedian Woody Allen, horsing around with a boxing kangaroo in 1966: