About teh internets and stuff.
55th Valokuvatorstai photo challenge, “Kas kummaa”, probably best translated as “WTF?”. I took this pic at Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki. This creature is an axolotl, a neotenic mole salamander, arguably the weirdest creature on our planet. Looks like an alien from outer space, a monster from a bad science fiction novel. Perhaps this is an unfinished prototype or a cruel joke from God? A genetic experiment gone horribly wrong? Creepy.
Aksolotlihan se siinä. Kas kummaa kerrakseen!
I found this Reuters story quite unbelievable, until I saw it with my own eyes. It seems the Kinder egg stealing squirrel from Jyväskylä has a cousin in Espoo:
Funny how all these stories have a picture of a Eastern Grey Squirrel although the most common squirrel in Finland is the Red Squirrel. Perhaps the grey squirrel most resembles a global stereotype of a squirrel and is therefore better for a news story. Who cares what color squirrels are in Finland anyway?!?
In more disturbing wildlife news, a camel kills wild ass at Helsinki Zoo. Tempting, but I’m not going to photoshop that chain of events.
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