Would this girl be required to do a quad, or would we let her slide with a passing leap and cute and charming?
Saturday, January 10, 2009
For Warren
Cheval passion 2008 Haras de Lipica
It is real hard to fault anything the Lipizzans do. Music plays such an important part in a horse performance.
National Knie Circus
This looks like what Raffaele described as the interior of Knie Circus. Who is this with the Llama?
Giant panda in China bites third victim
"Should we laugh at his stupidity, or cry at his ignorance?"
For the third time, he's tasted the flesh of an unwitting intruder in his pen at the Beijing Zoo.
His most recent victim was 28-year-old Zhang Jiao, who told CNN he fell into the panda pen Wednesday while trying to catch a small toy thrown by his young son.
"My son and I were playing with a panda doll, throwing it to each other, when I dropped with the toy" into the pen, Zhang said.
The barrier around the pen is about 5 feet tall, but on the other side is a drop of 9 to 10 feet, and Zhang says he could not climb out.
That's when Gu Gu went on the attack.
The 240-pound giant panda sunk his teeth into Zhang's left leg before moving on to the right leg.
"The panda is a national treasure, and I love and respect [him], so I didn't fight back," Zhang said. "The panda didn't let go until it chewed up my leg and its mouth was dripping with my blood."
Zookeepers needed to use tools to pry open Gu Gu's jaws.
Zhang said he never imagined a panda could be so vicious.
"I always thought they were cute and just ate bamboo," Zhang said.
According to Dr. Wang Tianbing, who treated Zhang, his wounds were severe, especially the damage done to the muscle and ligaments in his left leg.
"Normally, we think the panda is very tender animal, but actually it's a bear, not a cat. If the animal thinks it will be hurt by human beings, it is very dangerous."
Wang should know. In 2007, he treated another one of Gu Gu's victims, a 15-year-old boy who climbed into the pen to get a closer look. A year earlier, state media reported that a drunken tourist tried to hug the panda, who bit him. In an odd twist, the tourist reportedly bit back.
But being an endangered species and much-loved national icon means there's no "three strikes and you're out" for Gu Gu.
In fact, there's a possibility Zhang may face charges for entering the panda pen.
Zoo officials did not respond to CNN's request for an interview but are reportedly considering new measures to keep tourists out of Gu Gu's pen.
Courtesy of Ben Trumble
Flavio Togni
Is anybody aware of what sequence behavior Flavio is training in these pictures? Sequence behavior being one behavior after another(like a liberty act) without the traditional return to the seat as one behavior is finished, and coming back out for the next behavior?
Courtesy of Vincent Manero
European feline transport units
Does anybody have any photos of these units in the winter time. I have seen that personally, but I have never seen a photo of one.
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