Älgstudsare

 

Bild ej gjord med drönare

Varför är detta olagligt? Låter som en effektiv jaktmetod. Och vi behöver köttet. Eller?

Jagar älg med drönare - jaktbrott utreds

Capturing Bigfoot

 

LOL. 

Det är över

Nu är det väl ändå definitivt över? Mentalt, så att säga. 

Donald Trump delar video på omtalade tigerattacken - väcker ilska

Suicide by tiger

 

Credit: Arunraj Foundation

This poor man has been identified, apparently a former child actor who suffered from mental illness. A really bizarre case. RIP. 

Tiger victim was "praying, bowing" to the animal 

Family pays tribute to man killed in tiger attack

Animals know

 

Animals can see UFOs! Interesting presentation by Richard Dolan on how dogs, cats and horses react to mystery objects in the sky...or said objects landing. 

Delfinologi

 

I själva verket var det exakt ingen alls som "förstod" detta, men okej, det tyder väl på att Nooshi Dadgostar faktiskt behöver "kommunikatörer". Eller att Ida Gabrielsson gör det...

Geezus. Det här börjar bli lika dumt som under Gudrun Schyman. Eller faktiskt ännu dummare. Kremlologin övergår i delfinologi. 

Svaret om delfinbilden: "Det förstår nog alla"

Pons asinus

 

- So how *does* bhoga become yoga?
- Dude, you´ve been a monk for too long!

If your religion includes a talking donkey (viz. Judaism and Christianity) or a talking man-horse with wings (viz. Islam), you have no leg to stand on if mocking Hinduism for believing in a talking equid all its own...

Seriously now...

 

This is an extremely silly story, since a Golden Retriever *isn´t a fucking guard dog*. Period!

Friendly "guard dog" greets alleged San Diego burglar with toy in mouth

The forbidden country

 

Forbidden cryptids in *North* Korea?! Clearly a counter-revolutionary provocation, since it doesn´t mention the famed unicorn lair outside Pyongyang, LOL. 

Makabert

 

Credit: JM Ligero Loarte

Källan är en avhoppare, men även den amerikanska militären undersökte ju om djur kunde ha övernaturliga förmågor. Och människor! Så visst kan detta vara sant. Och sanslöst. 

Makabert experiment skulle testa kaniners övernaturliga förmågor

Second breakfast

 

Another video on the Homo florensiensis situation. Recent research suggests that the "Hobbit" might not be a dwarfed Homo erectus (sensu stricto) but some kind of pre-human or almost-human. Perhaps an australopith (sensu latto)? I´m not surprised. I had a hunch in this direction already seven years ago. So can we go home now? Second breakfast, guys!

Bigfoot evidence

Mematha-Gaṇapataye Namaḥ

 

Or is it Mahodgaja-Gaṇapataye Namaḥ? So I asked Gemini to make a picture of Ganesha as a mammoth, rather than as an elephant. This was the result. Would you worship god if he was a mammoth? Interesting question, I suppose! And instead of venerating Baby Krishna, how about doing it with a dwarf elephant? I know, I should go to sleep...

Faking parakeets

Red gorillas in the Congo? Yes, red. The Strait of Hormuz sea-serpent? Yes, the Strait of Hormuz. A faked video of surviving Carolina Parakeets, perhaps in the Okefenokee swamp? I admit I never heard *these* particular tall tales before! The parakeet video was the funniest part. The guy who "discovered" it (or rather faked it) was a very colorful character! Would be big on YouTube if he had lived today, LOL. 

The other monkey

 

Something new is always coming out of Africa. Or something old. Primordially old. Muh-hah-hah! 

Likweli

 

Credit: Daniel Rosengren

En glad nyhet? Kanske. Eller kanske inte. Likweli-apan har upptäckts av sina evolutionära kusiner... 

Sensationell apa hemlighölls i fem år

The perfect shave

 

Attributed to Charles Darwin: "Whilst Man, however well-behaved, at best is but a monkey shaved!"

Symbolic

 

It´s over. 

Mammoth remains revealed in Bulgaria after Danube water levels hit record low

The hares of eternity

 

Credit: The Devonshire Association(?)

I never heard of the mysterious Three Hare symbol before, so here we go! It must be some kind of swastiska stuff...

Can you tell me about the Three Hares symbol?

The Three Hares is one of the most fascinating and mysterious symbols in world art. It consists of three hares running in a circle, with each hare sharing an ear with its neighbor. Although there are only three ears in total, each hare appears to have two—a clever visual illusion.

What makes the symbol especially intriguing is that it appears across a vast geographical area—from China to the Middle East and Europe—over more than a thousand years.

The design

At first glance, you see three hares chasing one another.

Looking more closely, you notice:

• there are only three ears,
• each ear belongs simultaneously to two hares,
• each hare nevertheless appears complete.

This ingenious construction has fascinated artists and mathematicians alike.

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Where is it found?

The earliest known examples appear along the Silk Road.

China

Some of the oldest surviving examples are in the Mogao Caves, dating to around the 6th–7th centuries CE.

These Buddhist cave temples contain paintings of the Three Hares on their ceilings.

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Central Asia

The motif spread westward along Silk Road trade routes.

Examples occur in:

• Iran,
• Afghanistan,
• Uzbekistan.

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Islamic art

The design appears in medieval Islamic decorative art, where geometric and symbolic motifs were highly developed.

It seems to have been appreciated primarily as an elegant ornamental pattern.

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Europe

The motif eventually reached Europe.

It is especially famous in:

• England (particularly Devon churches),
• Germany,
• France.

Many medieval churches have the Three Hares carved into wooden roof bosses.

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What does it mean?

This is the mystery.

No medieval text explicitly explains the symbol.

Scholars therefore propose several possibilities.

1. Eternity

Because the hares form an unbroken circle, the symbol may represent:

• eternity,
• endless cycles,
• continuity,
• the wheel of time.

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2. Interdependence

Each hare shares an ear.

Nothing is completely separate.

Modern interpreters often see this as expressing:

• interconnectedness,
• mutual dependence,
• unity within plurality.

This interpretation resonates well with Buddhist philosophy, although we cannot say with certainty that it was the original intention.

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3. The Moon

Since hares are ancient lunar animals throughout Asia, the Three Hares may have had lunar symbolism.

Possible meanings include:

• lunar phases,
• recurring cycles,
• rebirth,
• immortality.

This fits comfortably with both Chinese and Indian traditions.

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4. Buddhism

Because the oldest examples are found in Buddhist cave temples, many scholars think the symbol originally had Buddhist significance.

Possible associations include:

• cyclic existence (saṃsāra),
• harmony,
• compassion,
• perfection.

However, no Buddhist scripture specifically explains the motif.

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5. Christianity

When the motif appears in churches, some have interpreted it as representing the Holy Trinity:

• three persons,
• one essence.

The geometry certainly lends itself to this reading.

However, there is little evidence that this was the original meaning. It is more likely that medieval Christians adopted an already existing motif and gave it a Christian interpretation.

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Could it have many meanings?

Quite possibly.

Unlike symbols with a fixed doctrinal explanation, the Three Hares seems to have been remarkably adaptable.

As it traveled across cultures, different communities could understand it in ways that fit their own traditions:

• Buddhists: interdependence or cyclic existence.
• Muslims: elegant geometric harmony.
• Christians: the Trinity.
• Folk traditions: luck, fertility, or the cycle of the seasons.

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Why hares?

Hares themselves already carried rich symbolism across Eurasia.

They were associated with:

• the Moon,
• fertility,
• spring,
• vigilance,
• transformation,
• generosity (through Indian and Buddhist stories),
• the Otherworld in Celtic tradition.

Using three hares naturally amplified these associations.

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Relation to sacred geometry

The Three Hares also appeals because of its mathematical elegance.

It demonstrates how:

• three creatures,
• sharing only three ears,

can all appear anatomically complete.

The design beautifully balances:

• unity,
• multiplicity,
• symmetry,
• motion.

Grounded

 

Ground sloths are scarier than Sasquatch! OK, maybe not, but apparently people all over the Americas keep seeing strange large & largely hairy beasts they assume are "ground sloths" (which have been extinct since circa 9000 BC). Or perhaps overhunted by our noble savage forebears? 

Speaking of bears...yes, people are either making shit up, or they are simply seeing ursids. The YouTube content-creator (who is really a skeptic) points out that there are trail cameras all over the United States "wilderness", yet no ground sloth has ever been caught on one.

Verdict: killed for food by the Natives over 10,000 years ago. "They are part of our stories". Well, how did they taste? I aint judgin´. 

Barely human, merely Hobbit?

 

New research on the mysterious "human" (?) species known as Homo floresiensis suggests that they didn´t and couldn´t hunt dwarf elephants in their island habitat of Flores 100,000 years ago. Rather, the Hobbit (as this species of Homo is colloquially called) was feeding on carcasses of said pachyderm. The unfortunate proboscids had already been hunted and killed by Komodo dragons! That is, the extremely large monitor lizards known as "Komodo dragons" (this species of reptile is of course still around). 

Not sure what to make of this. If Homo floresiensis is an example of insular dwarfism - a shrunken Homo erectus as it were - then the erecti weren´t fully "human" in our sense of the term, still being subject to natural selection (which our species can at least try to escape or transcend). But isn´t there also evidence that Homo erectus were smarter than hitherto assumed? I mean, how on earth did they even *reach* Flores in the first place?

So I don´t know. Something strange is going on here. Either evolution can in extreme cases "go backward" even in a lineage were intelligence is developing. Or the good ol´ Hobbit wasn´t really a human in the first place, but some kind of stray australopith a long way from home...

Both perspectives are pretty mind-boggling. So if Frodo and his 57 half-cousins keep you up at night, pray that the Hobbits (those at Flores) were just monkeys!