Ghost slug
Gory details here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7498195.stm
“Selenochlamys ysbryda” ? Sounds like a Gorky’s track to me…watch yer backs, y’earthworms…
G is for…
…one of my favourite creatures!
How could anyone not be excited upon discovering there was a real animal called a Gila MONSTER?
Mind you, this was nothing compared to when I found out the Cotswold Wildlife Park, fairly close to where I used to live, actually had one of these lads (in an enclosure in the restaurant!) If we’d had the money I would have adopted him. But he was always first on my list to visit when we went there.
Can you blame me? Isn’t he simply darling? Here’s a lowdown:
http://www.scz.org/animals/g/gila.html
Mmm, must take a peek at The Gila Monster and Its Allies… and while we’re in that vein, the Gila Monster is also responsible for inspiring a truly inspiring film:
An American acquaintance kindly procured me a DVD of this art object. Words still fail me. C’mon everybody, let’s all do “The Gila Monster Crawl“! Oh, all right then, be that way.
F is for…
If you’re a lickle creature on Madagascar, best to avoid this character:
S/he’s a fossa and they mean business. Here’s a lowdown:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/fossa/Fossa.shtml
More critters coming to a blog near you real soonish.
E is for…
…echidna. What a singular creature. This is a short-beaked echidna; for an epic tale of conservation versus gastronomy ref. Attenborough’s (yep, that Attenborough) long-beaked echidna, go here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070718-echidna.html
D is for…
The one and only
Check out this bonzer site for more info on yer man here and on other groovy Antipodean animals:
C is for….
…capybara.
Go here for more: http://www.rebsig.com/capybara/ Videos! T-shirts! Earrings already!
If I had a time machine I’d go back to July 1968, spend 3-4 years acquiring proficiency on a few instruments (Lowrey organ/Hohner Pianet/Mellotron 400/VCS3/tone generator) and then form a keyboard-dominated prog-rock band named Capybara, using this photo as the front cover for our eponymous debut which would appear either on Vertigo (swirl, natch) or RCA’s Neon imprint (four tracks, one taking up the whole of side 2). We’d do a tour with The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (incurring the wrath of their thuggish hardcore support) then split up owing to musical differences and the fact that our LP sold less than Ben’s. I’d become a session musician (but of course) and the others would roadie for Ducks Deluxe. Many years later, our name would appear in the lyrics to Go-Kart Mozart’s “Fuzzy Duck” from their “Tearing up the album chart” release (of which more another time), the out-takes from the 1st LP and the handful of tracks originally planned for our never-released sophomore effort “Capybara 2″ would come out on CD via Voiceprint and public demand would dictate we reformed (with me as the only original member) for a mini-tour of the Peak District with Gnidrolog and Tractor. Then I could die happy.
A is for…
“I thought this was a music blog!” I hear you wail in torment.
Wellll……it is.
But I was thinking about the sadly defunct UK freakbeat combo The Aardvarks and couldn’t find a pic of them, so here’s the bassist.
Or not, as the case may be. Ho ho ho. A superb beast, nonetheless.
Watch out for an animal beginning with the letter ‘b’ coming to a blog near you soon.
