16 Sunday Apr 2017
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#SundayBlog, adorable, animal, animals, author, bunnies, bunny, chocolate, Easter, Easter Bunny, entertainment, fun, jokes, puns, Stephanie Beavers, writer
It doesn’t matter your religion. Who doesn’t love Easter? Adorable bunnies (and, frequently, other baby animals) and lots and LOTS of chocolate! Here, have some Easter-themed amusement:
03 Monday Apr 2017
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#MondayBlog, animal, animals, author, castle, courtship, fish, fun, nature, pufferfish, romance, romantic, Stephanie Beavers, writer
Sir Romantic Fish
Ah, love in the animal kingdom. It’s not always happy or pretty, but every so often it is just. So. Cute!
Take the romantic little pufferfish (a particular variety of it, anyways), who creates beautiful, temporary designs on the ocean floor to woo the lovely lady fish.
For my lady, a castle.
For over a decade, no one actually knew what made these underwater beauties were or why, but finally a team of researchers tracked the little lovebirds down. LiveScience notes that “[a]lthough the fish are only about 12 centimeters (5 inches) long, the formations they make measure about 2 meters (7 feet) in diameter.” That’s a big sandcastle for a little fish to build!
And it has to be a good sandcastle! The lady fish will come and inspect the male’s handiwork before deciding if she’ll mate with him. If the castle is a winner, they’ll lay their eggs in the center of the pattern, where the pattern itself creates an ideal environment – the ridges on the outside protect the silt in the middle where the eggs are cradled.
For more details, check out the LiveScience article and the video below!
14 Sunday Aug 2016
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04 Monday Jul 2016
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animal, animals, armadillo, author, Canada Day, cute, dog, dogs, Fourth of July, fun, Independence Day, life, News, pet, pets, squee, Stephanie Beavers, writer
Wow. Okay, so I didn’t intend to take that long of a break. Sorry, folks. But all that wedding stuff just piled up on me and I needed the break. But I’m back! Time to get back to the grindstone with my edits, blogging, and tweeting.
To celebrate that, Canada Day, and the 4th of July, here is Rollie, an adorable baby armadillo playing with a toy:
Happy Canada Day!
Happy Independence Day!
30 Monday May 2016
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adorable, animals, author, babies, baby, baby animals, cat, cats, cute, entertainment, fox, foxes, fun, humor, kit, kits, kitten, kittens, life, lol, nature, pet, pets, snow leopard, squee, wildlife, writer
Round 2: Who wins the cute crown this time?
Today we have tail-nomming snow leopards versus baby foxes!
I realize the snow leopards might be at a disadvantage, simply because they’re not all babies… but lookit them fluffy tails!
09 Monday May 2016
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adorable, animal, animals, author, babies, baby animals, bird, birds, duck, duckling, ducklings, ducks, fun, life, pond, Stephanie Beavers, wildlife, writer
I am thrilled to announce that the ducklings are back, and as adorable as ever. There were, in fact, two separate groups. I shall call them the Itsy Bitsy Group and the Fluffily Adorable Group. Both groups were down in the pond and the creek that run near my house. Having seen these precious little babies last year, my fiance and I have been going on walks solely to see them again this year.
We saw the Itsy Bitsy Group first:
They were definitely the younger group, so tiny and squee! But they were a little shy, so this is as close as we could get:
There’s no feeding the ducks in this area, which I do understand, even if I would love to lure them closer.
On our way back, the trail runs alongside the creek, and we got up-close and personal with some more ducklings! These were far less shy, although they kept a weather eye on us.
So cute!
Now we’re just waiting for the quail to hatch their ridiculously tiny offspring. Nothing like some darting, fluffy pinballs to make your day!
So, dear readers, which baby animals do you like to go out and *squee* at?
02 Monday May 2016
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25 Monday Apr 2016
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analytics, animal, animals, attention, attention span, author, culture, fish, goldfish, multitasking, pet, pets, psychology, Science, science news, social analytics, society, Stephanie Beavers, writer
At least it’s likely, in terms of attention span, at least. You see, goldfish have an average attention span of nine seconds. According to a study by Microsoft, the average human attention span had dropped to eight.
Interestingly, in 2002, the average attention span was twelve seconds; technological shifts in the last decade or so are the most likely cause for the drop to eight seconds, as recorded in 2013. As I can’t imagine this has improved in the last few years (I suspect the reverse is true), if you have an average attention span or less, then a goldfish is better than you at paying attention to stuff.
Have you ever seen a goldfish? That’s kind of sad.
Source: Wiki Media Commons
In actuality, it’s not quite as bad as it sounds. For although humans have seen a decline in the ability to focus on tasks for longer periods of time, we have improved our ability to multitask. Here are the pertinent bits:
those who use social media heavily had more “intermittent bursts of high attention.” The study says: “They’re better at identifying what they want/don’t want to engage with and need less to process and commit things to memory.”
Just because we may be allocating our attention differently as a function of the technologies we may be using, it doesn’t mean that the way our attention actually can function has changed.
Seriously though, check out the full IFLS article. Or is your attention span too short? Your loss, there’s some cool stuff in there.
14 Thursday Apr 2016
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adorable, animal, animals, author, cute, dog, dog days, doggy, dogs, fun, hot dogs, life, lol, passed out, pet, pets, sleeping, Stephanie Beavers, writer
In response to some of the unseasonably warm weather we’ve been having, here are some hot/sleepy/randomly passed out dogs, compliments of TheTango.Net.
Do you have a favorite, readers? I like “Yoga Dog” with his feet in the air.
11 Monday Apr 2016
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animal, animals, author, cafe, entertainment, fun, hedgehog, hedgehogs, inspiration, Japan, lol, News, pet, pets, Stephanie Beavers, wildlife, writer
Today, in Adorable News, I bring you: The Hedgehog Cafe.
Photo Credit: Wiki Commons
Anyways, the Harry Cafe can be found in the Roppongi District of Tokyo.
The name “Harry” stems from a wordplay on the Japanese word for hedgehog.
For $9-11, you can go pet and play with hedgehogs (presumably while drinking tea? It is a cafe after all… Then again, maybe not.)
Mizuki Murata, who works at the cafe, told Reuters, “We wanted to show people the charm of hedgehogs, which give the impression of being hard to handle. We wanted to get rid of that image by letting people touch them.”
She added, “The cutest thing about hedgehogs is getting them to finally open up and show you their face.”
And what cute faces!
P.S. Did you know that a group of hedgehogs is called an array or a prickle? A prickle of hedgehogs!
So what do you think, readers? Would you like to pet a hedgehog, or are they too prickly for you?
Stephanie Beavers 