Yipes, stripes
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This week's breaking news is that we (still) don't know what zebra stripes are for! A new study says, rather unshockingly, that they probably aren't much use as camouflage.
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/Pine Point Beach, Maine (click to enlarge)
(I didn't really say it out loud.)
Backyard sheep
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Nairobi, Kenya
Dec. 19 update: this sheep and its two companions, along with 20 chickens, just provided the main course at a wedding celebration.
Beached As
/Ah, noo!
Gull and boats at low tide, Scarborough, ME
Video by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Still here
/Day 1, rising tide
Day 2, two tides later
(Scarborough, Maine)