Friday, October 30, 2009

2-Headed Snake

AP has video on a 2-headed snake discovered in Illinois. They misidentify it as a watersnake, though. It's a juvenile ratsnake.

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Monday, September 14, 2009

One-Legged Snake

A Chinese woman killed what looks like a "one-legged snake." (News source.)

The leg is coming out of the snake's stomach region, however, so despite the similar coloration, it doesn't look like it actually belongs to the snake.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Pink Grasshopper

Andrew Gable has a posting on his blog about a rare mutation of a grasshopper found in the UK. I've seen records of pink katydids here in the US; that might make an interesting book, Mutants in the Insect Kingdom.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Pink Elephant

A probable albino elephant calf in Botswana is getting attention... (News source.)

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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

White Raccoon

A rare white-furred raccoon in Florida has the woman who feeds it worried that hunters might come along and kill it. (Apparently, she's less concerned about the dangers of habituating the animal to human presence by feeding it.) (News source.)

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Strange Snake in Southern Vietnam


A leucistic specimen of a native snake has become one Vietnamese family's pet. (New source.) I can't specifically identify the genus from the photo; from the shape of the head, and the fact it eats eels, it might be Cylindrophis. (The hand, held towards the camera, makes the snake seem larger than it actually is.) If I could see the tail, I could determine that quickly, as pipe snakes are fairly distinctive. I can't rule out a homalopsine, though, without better images.

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

White Lions

Sanbona Wildlife Reserve may hold the only free-roaming white lions in the world. (News source.)

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Oddballs

An albino whale shark was photographed off the Galapagos islands. (News source.)

A mangey fox was photographed in New York. (News source.)

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Monday, November 12, 2007

White Whaling

There are serious concerns that Japan's whaling fleet may kill a white humpbacked whale that has become an annual celebrity in its migrations to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. (News source.)

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

4-Wheel Drive - The 4 Legged Chicken


If a chicken has four legs instead of two, does the cost of a drumstick get reduced?



A chicken born on April 1st, yes April Fools Day, has four little legs.

The chicken was born in Arkansas to Robert Holmes and has been named 4-Wheel Drive.....

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Multi-Legged Duck is Born




A rare mutation has left the bird, named Stumpy, with an extra two legs behind the two he runs about on.


The creature would not survive in the wild, but Nicky Janaway, who runs the farm in the New Forest, said: "We will make sure he's OK and hopefully he will carry on running around and using the extra two legs as stabilisers."


John Durnell, head of conservation for the West Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, said: "I have never heard of anything like this in my life, and I have been birdwatching for more than 30 years."


A duck with four legs was born in Queensland, Australia in 2002, but died soon afterwards.

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