Every now and then I check out Google after I’ve drawn a cartoon..

just to see what other people have done on the same topic. (It can sometimes end in tears, when I discover my really cool funny cartoon is not the first). However, I entered this search knowing it wasn’t that unique, but rather surprisingly, elefont was quite niche with not many results (15k). This meant that I stumbled upon loosely related topics and I think you’ll agree in this instance, even though unrelated, it’s beautiful.

Meet Bubbles the elephant (Bubbles has a Facebook page) and Bella the labrador; both rescue animals who now live happily together on the Rescue Species Fund Reserve. The photos are amazing and taken by photography Barry Bland, who specialises in animal photography.

So what do you think?

November 19, 2015

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Elephant tight rope walking – not as hard as you would imagine

By MartiAnimals

I remembered being taught about the 5 senses at school. I was surprised to discover that in the mean time scientists have added another 5 to the list.

Balance and acceleration
Temperature
Kinesthetic sense
Pain
Other internal senses – a sense which is stimulated within the body

And to top that off, some animals have some really cool senses, we humans lack

Electroreception – able to detect electric fields (some fish, sharks and dolphins)
Magnetoception – able to detect direction using the earth’s magnetic field (typically observed in birds – so that’s how migratory birds do it!)
Pressure detection – within the gas bladder organ of a fish to help it regulate buoyancy
Current detection – enables fish to navigate, hunt and hang around in schools
Polarized light direction – an orientation ability found in bees, helping them to navigate on cloudy days
Slit sensillae – enables a spider to detect mechanical strain in the exoskeleton, helping them to sense force and vibration

Check out Wiki for definitions and examples

May 11, 2012

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Dead elephant

By MartiAnimals

I don’t know where the myth concerning elephants standing after they die came from. Various theories are out there, but I couldn’t find any evidence on Google. Here is Tyler’s theory on the subject.

March 29, 2012

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Cunning elephants

By MartiAnimals

Well really, you can hardly blame Ed Elephant for researching on the web how best to plan an escape from prison.

A quick Google will inform you that not only is dynamite made from peanuts, but the inventor of this explosive was Alfred Nobel who applied for a patent in 1866 (I love old documents so had to add the link). He made his wealth from this invention, amongst various other inventions totalling an astonishing 355. On his death, he died extremely wealthy and this enabled him to set up the Nobel Peace prize (must be a way of offsetting the bad name one could get from creating something that can be both useful or extremely destructive when in the wrong hands). For a basic chemistry lesson on the derivation from peanut to dynamite, check out this link.

March 7, 2012

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