animal linkage

[anotheranon]

The UK's favorite David Attenborough moment, in which an Australian lyrebird performs formidable imitations of a camera shutter and a chainsaw (Windows Media) as part of his mating song. I'm not sure whether to be amused because the imitations are so spot-on, or depressed that a wild animal knows what a chainsaw sounds like well enough to mimic it perfectly.

And of course, we've all heard about female mantises eating their mates, but the NY Times has a slideshow of the actual act. NSFW if you work with entymologists. Cool. Morbid, but...cool.