Reminiscent, in a general way, of the film Snakes on a Plane, here are two recent (or fairly recent) instances of scary (if you find them scary) animals interacting with humans inside a machine. Bat on a plane Bat stows away on Delta flight, CDC fears rabies risk to passengers The CDC [Centers for Disease […]
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Paper or Plastic? Plummeting Dead Mice
If you’re going to lace dead mice with poison, and drop them from helicopters into a rainforest in Guam in such a way that they become entangled high in the trees where they might murder the brown tree snakes, but you want to avoid (as much as possible) having the toxically tasty mouse corpses fall […]
Rube Goldbergian species discovery
An intriguing headline and sub-headline in The Guardian: Snake spits out new species of chameleon at scientist’s feet Latest find in natural world was result of reptile coughing up lizard as conservationist studied monkeys in the jungle