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Photo du Jour: The Girl and the Hedgehog

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‘Paris-based photographer Cath Schneider recently became aware of a small hedgehog living in her garden and decided to investigate a bit closer with her daughter. Schneider … set out a small plate of (lactose free) milk and sure enough the fearless little guy ambled over and started blowing bubbles. Camera in-hand and graced with perfect [...]

When a SHARK crashes your peaceful river fishing Trip

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If this isn’t the reason why camera phones were invented, I don’t know what is. Here is a perfectly normal reaction to when a massive SHAAARRRKKK shows up out of nowhere on this family’s peaceful, if not slightly drizzly fishing trip. This is what I keep telling people, sharks are EVERYWHERE dammit.  That reminds me [...]

When Exotic Pets were the Accessory du Jour

Exotic Pets

  “The big picture is that we are intimately bound to animals and it is satisfying to take them in and tame them. Subconsciously, we are a mishmash. We don’t know who we are, and so to simplify things, we predicate our individuality on animals.” Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan, a cultural geographer at the University of [...]

THE JAW DROPPING PHOTOSTORY: Oh, don’t mind our pet Lion

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You’ve been looking at the home of actress Tippi Hedren in California, photographed by LIFE magazine during the early 1970s. Best-known for her role in Hitchcock’s The Birds, Tippi is also the mother of actress Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), who is the little girl you just saw lying in bed with a lion, and also above with her head [...]



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