The things one learns on the internet — now I know the proper way to stimulate a bull elephant, in case the opportunity ever comes up. It looks strenuous and hazardous.
I’m also amazed at the way the elephant just stands there and accepts servicing by the team of creepy bipeds. If some small species of mammal tried to massage my prostate, I’d be on a rampage of squealing disgust trying to get the icky creatures out of my butt.
(Note also: I think someone with a bird fetish has a birthday coming up…)
Behold the magnificent geoduck:
Oh, I know why! Because, after mentioning the mascot of UCSC, she remembered that Evergreen State College also has a molluscan mascot:
Go, Geoducks go,
Through the mud and the sand,
let’s go.
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.Go, Geoducks go,
Stretch your necks when the tide
is low
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.
(via Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)
Please, please, National Geographic — get a more serious narrator and some non-cheesy commentary. Otherwise, though, this movie about romantic arthropods is very nice.
My wife says I need to diversify, and ought to make an occasional nod to these strange organisms called ‘non-animals’. Weird. So she sends me this photo by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and reminds me of those days in our youth when we’d find these whiplike kelp washed up on the beaches…I think it was a hint.
Nereocystis luetkeana
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