Entries in the ‘Animals’ Category:
filed in Animals, Language, Misc. on Oct.22, 2008
Did you know that roosters in other parts of the world speak a different language than roosters in America? A few weeks ago, I made the mistake of using the word “cock-a-doodle-doo” with my European friends, and they had a good laugh at that ridiculous word. “Why?” I asked. “What do roosters say where you […]
Tags: animal sounds, cock, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, dialects, Language, onomatopoeia, rooster, translations
filed in Animals, Nepal, Photo on Oct.11, 2008
Long cow is looooooooong! We’re now about halfway through the second half of the Annapurna Circuit (the “Jomsom Trek”), and this gigantic bovine showed up out of nowhere! My friend Brian (from Ireland) took this photo, and Hans is the one in the middle.
Tags: Annapurna Circuit, bovine, cow, Jomsom Trek, long cow, Nepal
filed in Animals, Culture, Nepal, Photo Set on Oct.07, 2008
These goats don’t know it, but they’re headed for the dinner table. While we were trekking around the Annapurna Circuit, the Nepalese people were in the middle of the 15-day national festival of Dasain. Dasain (sometimes “Dashain”) is a Hindu harvest festival, where families gather together, feast and make merry, recite mantras, and worship the […]
Tags: Dasain, Dashain, feast, festival, goats, Nepal, slaughter
filed in Animals, Nepal, Tibet, Videos on Sep.26, 2008
As we drive along the bumpy gravel track of the Friendship “Highway” between Tibet and Nepal, we are constantly confronted with roadblocks. The most common? Gigantic herds of goats! Apparently, the goats that people eat in Nepal are raised in the grassy plains of Tibet, and then marched along the highway down the steep, precarious […]
Tags: Friendship Highway, goats, herd, Nepal, Tibet
filed in Animals, Photo Set, Tibet on Sep.20, 2008
Yaks are pretty much the coolest animal of all time. Sure, they may just be big woolly cows with sweet horns, but they’re a way of life for everyone in rural Tibet. The nomadic yak herders live in tent encampments in the windy Tibetan planes, surrounded by their herd, and yaks are the source of […]
Tags: cattle, China, Namtso Lake, Tibet, yaks
filed in Animals, China, Photo Set, Ramblings, Videos on Sep.07, 2008
I just got back from the Giant Panda Research Center in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China…and holy crap, pandas are cute! The video above shows a few of them munching on bamboo early this morning. But having spent the morning learning about the panda bear, I’ve come to the conclusion that pandas are an anomaly of […]
Tags: bamboo, Chengdu, China, cute, diet, evolution, extinction, Giant Panda Breeding Center, invasive species, natural selection, nutrition, pandas, Sichuan Province