The Oldest Cat Video of All Time?
This 1894 film, one of the earliest produced by Thomas Edison’s Black Maria movie studio, features two cats boxing. Obviously it’s not actually a video, but it’s certainly evidence that even at the dawn of cinema, over a century before YouTube, cats ruled the moving image.
But is this the first recording of a cat in motion? That credit, it seems, goes to…
because, Boxing Cats
(via theatlantic)
I recently posted a video showing how hummingbirds dry off in a fashion remarkably similar to dogs. The 8-ounce birds throw off water droplets by whipping their bodies around at a rate of 132 times per second, and rotating their heads an astounding 202 degrees in either direction. All the while, the hummingbird has to, ya know, continue flying. Well, Robert Krulwich of NPR has done me one better and posted some pretty epic photographs of dogs drying themselves off, taken by Carli Davidson.
Don’t laugh - it’s for science!
amazing…and sad…
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William Lovell Finley - American Kestrel [Falco sparverius] on a post, circa 1900-1909, Gelatin silver print
[via the OSU Archives]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvtg2i60U91qzhl9eo1_500.jpg)
William Lovell Finley - American Kestrel [Falco sparverius] on a post, circa 1900-1909, Gelatin silver print
[via the OSU Archives]
