Here's a little video with something you don't see very often: about a dozen foxes gathered around the corpse of a deer. The author says that it took them about 3 days to eat the whole cadaver and that they actually slept around it.

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the September picture of the Browntrout Foxes 2011 calendar is really gorgeous? :)

There isn't really a large image on the net but here's the back cover:


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Yesterday I went to the dunes near Amsterdam to try and spot some foxes. I chose yesterday since the weather forecast was good. Turned out the weather might've been too good. The sun was blasting so much that the foxes probably didn't care to go out by day. And I'm still red from mighty sunburn. Totally tired as well still because of that ( Read more... )

...was my plan, but it might be that our dear government has thwarted it. Due to their need to shrink their budget, they are going to raise college money for part-time students from €1200 to around €4000. That is *per year*. Since the part-time trajectory is 6 years, that means the whole study would cost €24,000. Plus, they want to ( Read more... )

I've noticed that, when native English speakers want to type the word 'lair', it often comes out as 'liar'.

I wonder if it's a Freudian slip. ;)

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/03/dragon-age-2s-gay-character-offends-just-about-everyone.ars

Brilliant. :)

Recently, there was an issue whether or not the Dutch government would give out licenses to farmers to build so-called mega-stables, multi-floored stables. Most of the population doesn't agree with this because of concerns of animal welfare and stench ( Read more... )

I just saw Dog Soldiers

I hadn't seen it before, but that's a really nice werewolf movie. I don't like the design of most werewolves in movies very much.. too un-wolfy. But Dog Soldiers has a really great design I think.

...and the collie in it was also really cute. :)

Fox lived in the Shard skyscraper at London Bridge

Foxes are everywhere! :)

Forgot to post this article earlier this week:

Was the fox prehistoric man's best friend?

Very nice article. Now why couldn't prehistoric man just have continued with taming foxes. Nothing wrong with wolves, but foxes are just so much cuter. :)