Who knew?

The good folks over at Doggy Condoms believe that getting a dog spayed or neutered is cruel and usual punishment, and so they are introducing doggy condoms, along with a range of other solutions that allow your pup to gratify itself without the risk of pregnancy.

Frankly, we’re not sure if this site is some elaborate hoax, as clearly this product stands a good chance of failing, because when you take a second to think about it, the average person wants nothing to do with putting a condom on their dog.

However, the Vibra-Teddy seems like a product that dogs (and possibly their owners) could more easily embrace.

If you called croc, pay up. Seen here is the work of American wildlife photographer Hal Brindley, who’s snapped a series of flicks of the first documented account of a leopard playing predator to a crocodile’s prey — rather than the other way around. Even local rangers, whose jurisdiction in South Africa’s Kruger National Park served as the backdrop to this anomaly, said they had never heard of anything like it. Turns out the meat you snag from a predatory reptile as serious as the crocodile just isn’t worth the risk in most cases. Can’t hate on the hard-headed feline above for defying the odds.

Peep the flipbook version of this first with a video here.

(via The U.K. Telegraph)

After spending more than a decade researching the effects of a cancer outbreak on the mating habits of tasmanian devils, scientists at the University of Tasmania in Australia have suggested that we’re “seeing evolution occurring before our eyes.” Something called devil facial tumor disease has severely shortened the species’ lifespan, forcing the critters to get it on younger and younger or risk dying before procreating. Researchers have proposed that this knee-jerk reaction is an evolutionary defense against the threat of extinction. (Prep yourself for that excuse the next time your girlfriend explains why she gave it up so early.)

Cartoon icon Taz was dismissive when reached for comment on his kin: “Just another instance of babies havin’ babies.”

(via PhysOrg.com)

Talk about putting the cart before the horse. Dubai-based inventor Abdolhadi Mirhejazi has created the Naturmobil, a unique vehicle powered by a horse walking on a treadmill. (full story via Xpress News)

Frank fam and bug biologist extraordinaire Charles Seiderman just hit us up with some shots of his most recent wanderings around South America… Follow the link to check out more of his amazing finds.

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Yeah, NYC is gross sometimes.  You just have to love it regardless.

Apparently, the bedbug epidemic is back. (Remember last time, in 2006? We didn’t either.) This time, the New York Post is reporting, it’s the subway stations that are infested. 

Specifically citing seats in stations at Union Square, Hoyt-Schermerhorn and Fordham Road, the Post article references third-party quotes from one of the city’s “leading bedbug authorities”… which must be one of the worst jobs in the city.

mp3: Laika - “Bedbugs”

(Thanks Caitlin!)

If the monkeys who drink the most get to lead the others, Frank151 could be leading a freakin’ army.

Oh wait, maybe we kind of already are.