pigeon a friend to a motherless monkey

oh -



The macaque nestles his head against his feathered friend
The abandoned monkey who has found love with a pigeon | the Daily Mail: The 12-week-old macaque was abandoned by his mother and close to death when rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province. After being taken to an animal hospital his health began to improve but he seemed spiritless until he developed a friendship with a white pigeon.

Fotogalerij: Odin de duikende witte tijger

I'm worried that he is mad.

Planet - Fotogalerij: Odin de duikende witte tijger

Odin tall, feet on grass

beautiful white tiger, laughter

Planet - Fotogalerij: Odin de duikende witte tijger

Gazpachot:


26 July. Fearful symmetry... Do our actions in life simply mirror the contents of our consciousness, which is haunted by the ghosts of memories and emotions and dreams?



11 Aug. Dangerous playmates (cont'd)... The dangerous playmate is coveted and crowned for their natural ability, in private, to seize the moment, buck convention, voraciously spark the imagination, lift the spirits by sheer example, challenge the mind, and terrify the soul. But it ain't all serious. In fact, the most dangerous skill of all is the ability to inspire true,
uncontrollable
laughter.

"He is here to help Grandma get to heaven."

NEJM -- A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat

A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat

David M. Dosa, M.D., M.P.H.

Making his way back up the hallway, Oscar arrives at Room 313. The door is open, and he proceeds inside. Mrs. K. is resting peacefully in her bed, her breathing steady but shallow. She is surrounded by photographs of her grandchildren and one from her wedding day. Despite these keepsakes, she is alone. Oscar jumps onto her bed and again sniffs the air. He pauses to consider the situation, and then turns around twice before curling up beside Mrs. K.
One hour passes. Oscar waits. A nurse walks into the room to check on her patient. She pauses to note Oscar's presence. Concerned, she hurriedly leaves the room and returns to her desk. She grabs Mrs. K.'s chart off the medical-records rack and begins to make phone calls.
Within a half hour the family starts to arrive. Chairs are brought into the room, where the relatives begin their vigil. The priest is called to deliver last rites. And still, Oscar has not budged, instead purring and gently nuzzling Mrs. K.
A young grandson asks his mother, "What is the cat doing here?" The mother, fighting back tears, tells him, "He is here to help Grandma get to heaven."
Thirty minutes later, Mrs. K. takes her last earthly breath. With this, Oscar sits up, looks around, then departs the room so quietly that the grieving family barely notices.
On his way back to the charting area, Oscar passes a plaque mounted on the wall. On it is engraved a commendation from a local hospice agency: "For his compassionate hospice care, this plaque is awarded to Oscar the Cat." Oscar takes a quick drink of water and returns to his desk to curl up for a long rest. His day's work is done. There will be no more deaths today.
Note: Since he was adopted by staff members as a kitten, Oscar the Cat has had an uncanny ability to predict when residents are about to die. Thus far, he has presided over the deaths of more than 25 residents on the third floor of Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. His mere presence at the bedside is viewed by physicians and nursing home staff as an almost absolute indicator of impending death, allowing staff members to adequately notify families. Oscar has also provided companionship to those who would otherwise have died alone. For his work, he is highly regarded by the physicians and staff at Steere House and by the families of the residents whom he serves.

26 July 2007

for his compassionate hospice care

Oscar the cat curls up next to nursing home patients during their final hours.-CNN.com:
"He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," Dr. David Dosa said in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Many family members take some solace from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one," said Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.
The 2-year-old feline was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses. After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He'd sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would wind up dying in a few hours. Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously and is generally aloof. "This is not a cat that's friendly to people," he said.
Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill, was convinced of Oscar's talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn't eating, was breathing with difficulty and that her legs had a bluish tinge, signs that often mean death is near. Oscar wouldn't stay inside the room, though, so Teno thought his streak was broken. Instead, it turned out the doctor's prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient's final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.
Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill they probably don't know he's there, so patients aren't aware he's a harbinger of death. ok. Most families are grateful for the advance warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure.
Nursing home staffers aren't concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying. Oscar recently received a wall plaque publicly commending his "compassionate hospice care." good cat.

photos of Oscar - The Boston Globe

photo/day

[daily dose of imagery 29 Aug 07] house and three walkers: Salzburg, Austria.


A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania 30 Aug 07: Mr. Darcy (A Baby Pygmy Goat)

phylum chordata - class mammalia - orders:

about.com: An Introduction to Mammals
To understand mammals, it first helps to understand how they fit into the classification system of all animals. Mammals, as a group of animals, belong to the Class Mammalia. The Class Mammalia, in turn, belongs to the larger group known as the vertebrates (animals with backbones; also called the Phylum Chordata). Other classes in the Phylumn Chordata include fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
Looking within the Class Mammmalia, we can subdivide mammals into smaller groups (known as orders). Although scientists differ on the number of orders that exist within the Class Mammalia, the list below summarizes one possible approach to their classification:

• Monotremata (egg-laying marsupials) platypus
  
• Marsupialia (marsupials)
• Insectivora (insectivores) hedgehogs
  
• Chiroptera (bats)
• Dermoptera (flying lemurs)
• Macroscelidea (elephant shrews) wha...
  
• Scandentia (tree shrews)
• Primates (primates)
• Xenarthra (anteaters and relatives)
• Pholidota (pangolins)
• Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares, and pikas)
• Rodentia (rodents) two suborders: squirrel-like and mouse-like
  
• Cetacea (cetaceans)
• Carnivora (carnivores)
• Pinnipedea (seals and sea lions)
• Proboscidea (elephants)
• Tubulidentata (aardvark)
• Hyracoidea (hydraxes)
• Sirenia (dugongs and manatees)
• Perissodactyla (odd-toed hoofed mammals) horses
  
• Artiodactyla (even-toed hoofed mammals) giraffes

The odd-toed hoofed mammals include animals such as horses, zebras, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.
The even-toed hoofed mammals include animals such as pigs, boars, hippos, camels, llama, deer, elk, pronghorn, giraffe, okapi, yak, and American bison.


two sub-orders of rodents:
Squirrels and their relatives belong to the Suborder Sciuromorpha: squirrels, beavers, chipmunks, marmots, prairie dogs, gophers...
Mouselike rodents belong to the Suborder Myomorpha: mice, rats, voles, lemmings, hamsters, gerbils, jerboas...

cats, dogs, bears

Mammal Classification: Understanding How Mammals Relate to One Another (Part II):
so cats & dogs & bears are the three families that make up the Carnivore order

Carnivores
Carnivores include mammals such as dogs, foxes, wolves, bears, racoons, hyenas, and cats.
Although the term carnivore is used to refer to meat-eating animals, members of the Order Carnivora are not exclusively meat-eaters (some have mixed diets or herbivorous diets). Yet, most carnivores are well-suited for hunting. Many are fast, agile creatures with keen vision, hearing, and smell.

• Family Canidae: Dogs, foxes, wolves, coyotes, and jackals all belong to the family of mammals known as the canids. The most familiar member of this group, the domestic dog, descended from wolves over 10,000 years ago. Many canids are social creatures, forming packs, hunting together, and defending a common territory.
• Family Ursidae: The bear family includes eight species: the polar bear, American black bear, spectacled bear, giant panda, sloth bear, sun bear, brown bear, and Asiatic black bear. In general, bears feed on a mixed diet that includes insects, fish, and plants. The polar bear is unique in its eating habits though, feeding exclusively on meat.
• Family Felidae: The cats are muscular, agile hunters with sharp claws, acute vision, and specialized teeth. This family includes tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, leopards, lions, and of course, the domestic cat.

also, others orders are meat-eaters. like: Primates. also an order, within the mammal class.


MIACIDS: This ancestral group gave rise to cats, bears, dogs, skunks, mongooses, and hyaenas.
In zoological classification cats belong to
the Class : Mammalia (they are hair covered animals that suckle their young with breast milk)
the Order : Carnivora (they eat meat)
the Family: Felidae.

Genus: Within this family there are three further subdivisions called genera
Panthera (cats that roar) rooooar. like tigers and lions.
Acinonyx (the Cheetah) why's he get his own?
Felis (all other 'small' cats) like house kitties.

and each genus contains individual species, which is a group that normally breeds and produces fertile offspring.

Kingdom -three right? Plants, Animals, and.. Fungi? what do these make up? all the phyla make up a kindom. all the kingdoms make what? life on earth?
Phylum
Class
Order -remember class above order. ( kate says: 'king philip came over from germany stoned.' )
Family
Genus
Species

I was thinking whether raccoons are more like cats or like dogs. or like bears. so then I was thinking what is the difference btw cats and dogs? and bears? why classified differently? how is a pug less like a kitty cat than like a greyhound?

little orphan hedgehogs

Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as their mother | the Daily Mail:
The four inch long creatures are being hand-reared by staff at the New Forest Otter, Owl and Wildlife Park in Ashurst, Hants. Manager John Crooks, 41, said: "Three of the hedgehogs came to us because their mum died. They are only a couple of weeks old. The fourth one is a little bit older and was found wandering around a back garden in the middle of the day. The home owner left it alone for a while to see if it would find its mum but after a few hours it was still by itself so she brought it into to us." The hedgehogs will be fed until they are full-sized and then they will be released back into the wild.

"They are a bit like human babies - they need activities to keep them busy. Because they have very poor eyesight you have to appeal to their sense of smell and touch by giving them different scents and textures. They like natural scents and have enjoyed playing with our cleaning brushes, soil, leaves, flower pots and the like. They particularly seem to enjoy rubbing against the brush." The smells on the brush, which is used to sweep a yard, remind the hedgehogs of their natural habitat while the texture reminds them of their mother. "It may sound odd but I imagine the bristles feel a bit like their mum."

He added: "They are quite a handful and each has their own character. One is quite snappy and another fairly sleepy."

winter

monkeys' pink faces

January many monkeys, December santa motion

jump : monkey into pool

that was (from sidebar) on Mon Jul 12 13:00:22 2004

and today cam is showing what I guess was last pic taken yesterday before dark Tue Aug 28 16:30:19 2007 monkey rear end in air:

and more I saved from yesterday:
monkey walks on water
and

monkey alone now poolside

man with umbrella, monkeys

see the monkey in back, sitting up there? and then there are several who are swimming. and one is getting out. and there's a man with an umbrella.

look at all the monkeys!

swimming monkey looking at me.

green, steep hillside rocks. I love it here.

The Rage Diaries 2005.02.25 monkey photos: apparently a live camera trained on Japanese Snow Monkeys. still current, that's lovely.

monkey safe

Primarily Primates - about: a non-profit sanctuary in Bexar County, Texas that operates to house, protect, and rehabilitate various non-native animals.

what a funny little guy

The Rage Diaries 2005.03.11: to take action to make sure we don't live in a world where anime-looking prosimians are wiped out, The Philippine Tarsier Foundation asks that you get in touch with them...

Mouse has moved

SaveMouse.com (ggl cache):

UPDIT: MOS ES SAVD!!!!!!!!!!!!! [April 5th, 2007]
Will, I ded nat updit may 1 web sit allat 4 allang tam. And I no yew wer sad beccas yew miss me Mos su mush becass I amm su gud 4 hilping athir dags and 4 tilling yew why 2 hat that 1 harbil pressidint Gorj Bus. Butt I hef bin viry bissy trayeeng 2 figgur ot wes 2 git mor an mor peepil fud. YES, thiy didd gif mi 1 gud CENTINNUS DAG FIDDIR, yis thatt is viry nis bet PIPIL FUD ES WIY BETTIR. Didd yew no thatt thiy fid stayk 2 thimsilfs bet thin thiy thru et en thi tresh! Nan 4 mi Mous!

Itt hass bin allat ef werk and I haf bin en allat ef trebbels all thi tam 4 thatt hard werk 2 git fud awwiy frem thi bebe. Thes bebe es mush bettir than thatt firs gud bebe becass evin thu he scrims at me allat and dun’t lak 2 pitt me, thar is 1 theng thatt nuw bebe dus and thatt is EET. He eets all diy lang. An lecky 4 mi Mous, he es harbil att gitting thatt fud en hiss mauth. Hi draps et everwar an I leck et an itt es su gud. Tifne yils att mi allat an thatt bebe yils 2 bet am tellin yew ef yew culd test wat that bebe gits 4 breffas yew wuld jemp ap an leck itt 2!! An thiy wuld yil att YEW an yew wul nat cer becass wo! Thatt es gud fud.

Bett my laf haf nat bin perfic. Nat lanng aggu, Tifne an Kivin starttit 2 git allat ef baxxis and put thens en thus baxxis. Thin I har semwin sey thatt we R muvvin bak 2 Gorja.
Naw yew mat remimbir, I hattit Gorja. Gorja es 2 CULD 4 DAGS 2 LIF!! Mebbe peffy skirry dags culd lif thar, or dags whu haf nas fansee shus 4 thir fit bet NAT pur dags wit nu her orr bodee fatt lak mi.
I wel nivir gu bak thar. I hed 2 du semtheen an I hed 2 ect fas, or may lif wul bi uvvir.
I cantected may gud frin, Tuddy Jo. Shi is the nassist pirsin, shi sint me emmels and trits en thi mel. We stertit 2 figger out the PIRFICT PLEN. An wi didd it! Shi is gun 2 cam and riscu me 4evir nes wik. Shi is gun 2 tik mi hum 2 hir haws en Iddaho war shi wil pit me and lett mi eet stayk and trits an lett mi slip an thi furnisher an mebbe evin pup en thi hos. Shi will nivir yill at mi ef I eet her garbij, she wel jus sey “Think yew Mous 4 eeten thatt garbij 2 mik ett gu awwiy!” Thin shi wel hugg me and nivir gif mi a harbil bath or cutt may nells or tik me 2 thatt skirry vit.
An I hef nevir bin 2 Idahho bet thar es nu wey itt culd be anni culder wethir than thiy haf en Gorja. IT ES THI PIRFIC PLANN!!!!
I wel tray 2 updit yew aftir I git 2 Idahho an yew wel bi su jilis! My lif wel be 2 perfic!

lov,

Mous

pees. Ii kint figger ott haw 2 gitt cemmins 2 werk rat naw. Plis emmel mi ef yew wen 2! mows@savemouse.com

so he is gone to live with someone else... and now savemouse.com seems to be down. that was his last post? to "1 gud dag’s sad web sit"
bye mouse I hope you are doing great in idaho. ah - site is still up at http://www.electricboogaloo.net/savemouse/wordpress/

white square little book

The Mr Men Series - Roger Hargreaves - Review:

The size of the book (small), the colours used (bright) and the drawing style on the cover (naïve) told me I was looking at a Mr Man Book.
yep I saw in Powells box this morning: L'ami de Madame Chance. and I had no distinct memory of the series but some memory of the square white little (2 staples as binding!) book with colorful person.
The books are all exactly the same in format – small, square, with white covers with a bold illustration of the featured Mr Man on front.
The Mr Men are all drawn with a cartoon-like simplicity that makes them so appealing to kids. They have funny shapes – ranging from round or oval right through to triangular and, in the case of Mr Greedy, pot bellied. They also have bright colours.

The Mr Men are a bunch of funny little fellows who seem to live inside a child’s drawing. Each one of them has only one defining characteristic – and this provides him with his entire life’s purpose. Mr Small, for instance, spends his whole day coping with being small. This includes eating one cornflake for breakfast. That makes me laugh even now!

The Little Miss books arrived in the Eighties...

Mr Hargreaves died in 1988, but his legacy lives on, and now his son Adam does the drawings. I can’t tell the difference – the boy certainly inherited his dad’s talent. I notice that the blurb inside says ‘copyright Mrs Roger Hargreaves’ which made we wonder if maybe his wife now writes the stories, using her husbands name? The internet let me down on this and I don’t know the answer. yep I came to this via ggl: Mrs.Roger.Hargreaves bcs I was wondering.

Free to Be ... You and Me

I was trying to remember... I remembered pink with little people on it ~ making shapes ... rg did not know it ... I was googling "childrens record me you" without much success. and I wonder if I have noted it here or on dlww or on dlcs? then I remembered "free to be me and you"! but that did not get me a record. finally wkp search free to be me --->
Free to Be… You and Me:The album has become a cult classic across the United States amongst many who were children in the 1970s.
Using poetry, songs, and sketches, the basic concept was to salute values such as individuality, tolerance, and happiness with one's identity; a major thematic message is that anyone, whether a boy or a girl, can achieve anything one wants.

SEE PICTURE cupcake club: February 2005 Archives: "Did you have 'Free to Be You and Me' when you were growing up, or were you raised by wolves? The nicest human parents in the 70s gave their kids this record to learn the songs about non-sexist gender roles (it's better than it sounds)."

kitty

1 kitty face flickr-photos-bjyap (drunkenbiscuit)

dog happy

Dog that takes itself to the pub (on a No 10 bus) | July06 the Daily Mail
Like many country folk...
friendly busdriver, and barmaid, and farmer owner. it's like heaven.

-This is a very clever dog, who proves to us once again that dogs are people too

'Everyone loves him,' said farmer Gary Kay, 41, from Dunning-ton, a few miles outside York. Mr Kay said he believed Ratty's first visit to the pub was probably an accident.
'The bus stop is just along the road and he must have just happened to come across a bus. He ended up getting on and then getting off when everybody else did - which was when it hit York - and just walked straight into a pub.
'The people there ended up fussing over him so much that he ended up making a habit of it. that's cute. and smart. On the first occasion somebody spotted he was my dog and telephoned me to come and get him. But a girl behind the bar lived in the next village to me so when it continued she would bring him back in her car with her. It was funny because I would get a call every now and again to come and get him - I suppose that must have been when the barmaid wasn't on - and I would just pull up outside the pub and he would run out and jump in. I must have had to go and get him about 20 times.' what a sweetie.
Since his ban Ratty has been seen riding the school bus. Mr Kay added: 'I've had kids phoning me to say Ratty was on the bus with them. I've no idea how he gets home - he drives me mad.'
Peter Edwards, commercial director for the bus company First, said: 'I've heard of dogs waiting for people to get off buses but nothing like this. We don't charge for dogs so there's no reason why he can't get on.'

Clockwise from top left: Ratty, a Jack Russell, trots to the bus stop and selects his favourite seat before getting off at the pub.
Twice a week he would trot out alone through the farm gates, jump on a number ten bus and head for his local, the Black Bull. The five-year-old dog would stay all day at the pub in York, where he had his own water dish and was fed his favourite sausages. He would even get a lift home at closing time from a friendly barmaid.
But suddenly his social life was left in ruins after the Black Bull was taken over, the barmaid left - and animals were banned. 'Dogs are not allowed in the pub,' declared duty manager Carl Sage. aw. Ratty's owners feel it can be only a matter of time, however, before he finds a new watering hole.

saw a gorilla on my way to work

he was sitting at Kimbark & 58th

am back-dating this to the day I saw him. actually putting this here on 23Apr08, surprised to find I didn't put photo of gorilla online (to keep) anywhere?

polar bear body

A polar bear in a New York zoo. The British government will publish a draft climate change bill on Tuesday... AFP/Getty Images/File - Mon Mar 12, 11:09 PM ET
At the Zoo on Yahoo! News Photos

ARE YOU MY MOTHER?!

"ARE YOU MY MOTHER" - Google Image Search

so happy, so happy to find you!

wandering scuffy tugboat

Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour -by Mark Wilson



0199269254.jpg

Jacket illustration by Tibor Gergely from Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton, copyright 1946,1955 ... Used by permission of Golden Books ...


Scuffy the Tugboat (Little Golden Storybook) - by Gertrude Crampton:

Scuffy the tugbaot is one of the few books that have the meaning of there's no place like home.
A Kid's Review - December 14, 2006
Scuffy the tugbaot is one of the few books that have the meaning of there's no place like home. Scuffy the tugboat is about a little boat who thinks he has bigger priorities than hes given. Scuffy doesn't want to just sail in a tub or the sink, Scuffy wants to go on the a big adventure. As Scuffy went on his adventure he realized that he didn't a big river all he wanted in his life was a young boy, a guy with a poke a dot tie, and his favorite bath tub.



Modern Art Notes: For the kind among you who emailed to ask why I hadn't written word one about Robert Smithson's Floating Island (the photo at left, of Scuffy the Tugboat pulling the Island, is by this guy) on MAN, here's why: I wrote about it for today's LA Times. I'm pretty sure I have a few nuggets that no one else has written. I love the Island. It's proof that conceptual art can be visually engaging, that it can amuse and delight, that objecthood is as important as a smart idea.

how a nun (pink lips & ice cream)

Cesar Aira. pretty little book. aerial view of ice cream cone
& little "ellie face" says rg.

How I Became a Nun: Books: Cesar Aira, trans Chris Andrews