Embryo

Another gem from the wide world of YouTube - Embryo doing an eastern thing -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9XFvPFxiPA

Although the band is Japanese they do sound a bit like David Sylvian's Japan. A dark moody piece in fact.  

Basically the song is about loss and rape.
Anyway a beautiful but dark song. Enjoy.
 

Pawparazzi

THE PAWPARAZZI (from Metro Wed.5th) 

This really tickled my fancy. Even meerkats can be photographers!!

Meerkats get snap-happy

Press photography can get a little hairy... and here's the proof, courtesy of some curious meerkats.

They developed a taste for photography while left with a camera at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire..

Monty grabs a warden’s camera to reel off a little photomontage 


Ian Turner, deputy head warden, was taking photos for a brochure when he went to get another camera. Not thinking that a Kalahari Desert-dwelling mammal could work an advanced piece of digital equipment, he left the first camera with the meerkats.

He returned to find a furry David Bailey merrily putting together a family album of three snaps of the eight-strong meerkat mob. 


A photo of a relative taken by Monty 

Monty, the alpha male who usually leads the family, is thought to have been the one pressing the shutter button.

Mr Turner said: 'To actually get up to the camera and take a family portrait is quite incredible.

'They are some of the more inquisitive creatures here and will generally get their nose and paws into most things. Maybe we have a film crew in the making.'

Penguin At Zebra Crossing!

 More great weird animal going-ons from Metro yesterday -

Penguins get zebra crossing

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

These pedestrians have got happy feet after zoo keepers installed the world's first zebra crossing – for penguins.

Every day the birds cross a wide footpath as they make their way from Penguin Beach at Living Coasts in Torquay, Devon, to meet a keeper. Zoo bosses asked Torbay Council to paint the black and white markings.

 

These penguins get to learn about road safety

 

Head keeper Tony Durkin said: 'It's hard to teach a penguin road safety – but these alert visitors.