Agronesia

When I opened the drawers on the kitchen today to search for some random foods, how surprised I was when I found a green grasshopper inside! Only God knows how that poor little insect got caught there.

What was more surprising is the fact that she (yes, a female!) has lost one of her back limbs! She only had one of those large legs for jumping! Well, that’s if she could jump at all in that state.

Of course the only sane thing to do was to pick her up and release her back into the wild. But she wouldn’t let me take her that easily! She hopped and hopped as I tried to catch her. With one jumping leg!

It took some effort before I could finally get hold of her. I just put her near the door and in a few moment she hopped skilfully outside.

Just think of how great that creature was. Losing one important organ but still being able to do so much, still being able to jump that high! Nature does indeed teach us humans a lot…

When I was having a walk yesterday morning, I found this praying mantis:

She didn’t try to run when I took him up. Closer examination revealed that both of her eyes seemed to be damaged. She was injured and probably blind. A disease? Poor little thing.

So, rather than let her have a tragic face of being crushed by mechanical whatnots, I took her home. I just let her stand on my hands along the way. After photographing her, I put her on a bush on my back yard.

I found this card game Xeco with ecosystem as its background topic, so you’ll have real animals instead of made up monsters. If you know Yu-Gi-Oh!, then yeah, the basic idea is to fight with our card, but the gameplay is different.

Somehow they have an Indonesian mission (a pack of cards?):

Go Indonesia!

(but why in the earth do they put ™ to the right of the word “Indonesia”? It’s my country’s name dammit!)

But we have to buy it, either in a USA real shop or online. It would be great if they provide the files for us to print ourselves :P.

(no, that’s not me, both the hand and the little thing. I’m the one taking the photo though)

In my house there are lots of mouse, rats, or whatever they actually are. They make noises from the ceiling at night, they poo anywhere they want, and worst of all… THEY EAT CABLES! When they succeed cutting the telephone line, there won’t be any internet for me, so they deserve to be exterminated.

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This is not exactly new stuff, but I just recently found it.

Chimpanzees are known as a highly intelligent animal. They use stone and wooden tools, hunt in coordination, and can be taught limited sign language. What might be surprising is that on a particular intellectual test devised by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, young chimps outperforms university students.

Here’s a simple explanation of the test, which is actually a fun game:

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