Cute Spiders are strutting out in Paris...

Over 40.000 known species worldwide,
5.700 in Europe and around the Mediterranean basin,
1.600 in France... and all different.

The predatory behavior of the spider gives him bad press. Yet the properties of its silk
thread, of its venom, as well as its voracious appetite for many insects make the spider
a valuable ally for the human race.
Spiders are therefore the subject of numerous scientific studies, because they are still
far from having revealed all their secrets.

Follow this Parisian arachnid and don't miss the 'Au Fil des Araignées' exhibit,
opening today at the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle.


Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle - Grande Galerie de l'Evolution
36, rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - Paris V
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More spiders, now?

New Spider Found in Paris, France

[2011 © Dr Gattus]

As dusk was approaching, at the end of yesterday's afternoon, Dr Gattus was
finishing his daily routine search around the Griset's spot background when, all
of a sudden, there he was: the French variety of the 'Grey Garden Recluse',
the - Grisetianus maculatus - Dr Gattus was spending his life to find.
[To appear soon on worldwide scientific press].

Are you frightened by the spider running on this page?
Then, close the page or take a hammer, aim, hit!
[Be careful! the screen may be damaged].

- SPIDERS OF NORTH WEST EUROPE
- NAME A SPIDER WITH THE BEATY MUSEUM!

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The Goliath birdeater tarantula*, Theraphosa blondi [Latin America], is one of the biggest
spiders in the world,say the size of a dinner plate. They don't like being handled and like
all spiders, they can bite and its hairs can provoque allergic reaction. However, short of
allergic reactions, a Goliath bite feels like a couple of bee stings,but there may be more
pain than the average bee sting.
Most Goliaths will demonstrate rather aggressively when disturbed. They will put on quite
a show, even hissing sometimes.

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* How to take care of your Tarantula pet : HERE

Dogs in the City, aka Urban Dogs

I've spent a few days early October 2009in Sanremo and Nice on the coast,
and recorded what is just a little number of the dogs I've seen all around the
streets ! Looks like there would be 1 dog per 30 inhabitants or so...

Citizen Dogs...

(G@ttoGiallo).

Music: Ricky North, The Entertainer, Cascades.
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Secret life on a balcony...

The pigeons arrived in my granny's village sometime in the eighties.


Nowadays I think there are more pigeons than sheeps, cows and goats all together
and they breed faster than flying rabbits !


I discovered these two chicks in the old granite house's balcony, while doing
the yearly clean up routine - checking the windows still close and fighting back
the ivy which obstinately tries to sneak inside.
I think they were less than one week old.


Three days later, some grey feathers mixed up to the previous yellow...


Last time I went to check their growth, six days later, eyes were wide open and
size had doubled. Good luck chicks !
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Hugest Spiders in the World... are French !

Born in Nantes, France
and created by
Compagnie La Machine
...
(see slideshow)...



(photo Matthew Andrews).

Last seen in Liverpool/08...


(click for more Pink Tentacle pics & video).

... the robot spider will perform in Japan for
the 150th Yokoama Port Opening Anniversary.

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Another french huge spider is...


(photo G@tto)


(photo GMG)

... the fantastic spider sculptures of Louise Bourgeois, here shot in Beaubourg
and in Bilbao (2008).

And that's all, folks ! for the moment.
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Portrait in an Italian garden.

"Teenagers on a red table".
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(G@tto's Archives)

Lights, Motors, Indiana, Action !

Extreme Cat Show...















Once more, but faster... Action !

gifninja.com!... this is the end, folks !

PPG loves Sloths !

A baby sloth and his favorite environment,
from a tv reportage.

















Unable to survive outside the tropical rainforests of South and Central America,
within that environment sloths are outstandingly successful creatures:
they can account for as much as half the total energy consumption
and two-thirds of the total terrestrial mammalian biomass in some areas.
Of the six living species, only one, the Maned Three-toed Sloth
(Bradypus torquatus), has a classification of "endangered" at present.
The ongoing destruction of South America's forests, however, may soon
prove a threat to other sloth species.

















(Sloths on Wikipedia)

Simon's Cat is always hungry !

3 - TV Dinner

(simonscat)
A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to gain its owner's attention.

2 - Let me in

(simonscat)
A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to get indoors.

1 - Cat man do

(simonscat)
A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to wake its sleeping owner.

Histoires naturelles - Battue de chasse à la mygale

Il s'agit là d'une des activités les plus prisées par les patients du Projet d'Aide à la Reconstruction
de la Base Ludique (PARBL) du mew profond.












Elle s'adresse très particulièrement aux félins qui ont vu leur espace vital usurpé et leurs privilèges
historiques annihilés par l'arrivée, au sein de la cellule familiale, de composants "alien" et qui, de
ce fait, sont tombés dans un substratum dépressif profond qui, faute de traitement adapté, pourrait
conduire à une hypnoconduite opaque à sens unique.

Félins Grisétiens

Nos animaux de compagnie sont hautement civilisés...



















Ils ont de la classe...



















Partagent nos loisirs...



















Soignent leur personne ...



















Parfois ils ont des différends...
















... mais toujours une vie de famille intense.
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