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A CRUSTACEAN OF A DIFFERENT COLOR New Hampshire lobsterman Bill Marconi, 52, caught a rare cobalt-blue lobster in one of his 400 traps last week off the Isle of Shoals. Blue lobsters are better than others at processing astaxanthin, an antioxidant with pigment derived from algae and, according to the New England Aquarium, only one in 5 million lobsters is blue. Marconi donated his lobster to the Seacoast Science Center.
Photo reblogged from The Animal Blog
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Leisure-loving moose is insta-celebrity
A wandering moose in Saratoga Springs, New York, gained instant celebrity yesterday when it wandered through the downtown area before visiting the race course.
As breathlessly reported by the Albany Times Union, the 500-pound female “moose in the city” with “floppy ears and a long muzzle” “enjoyed more than eight hours of nightlife and morning fun in this horse town.”
Around midday, officials stuck the animal with two tranquilizer darts and loaded it onto a trailer for release in the Adirondacks, but not before the moose had indulged in some “modeling and relaxation,” captured in the shot above.
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The First Pooch is sitting pretty
This morning’s Washington Post has the scoop on White House dog Bo’s lavish lifestyle. Not only has Milk-Bone offered the Portuguese water dog a lifetime of biscuits, but the Ritz-Carlton has volunteered to provide a doghouse. The hotel commissioned interior designer Skip Sroka to create a replica of the White House in wood and canvas etched with black ink. Inside, the pillowy floor is upholstered in cobalt-blue silk embroidered with golden eagles.
CBS news calls the secretive selection of Bo “Washington’s biggest mystery since Watergate” (video HERE) and fills in all the details for anyone who missed them. In short: Bo is hypoallergenic, six months old, a gift from Ted Kennedy (who owns Bo’s brother) and the name “Bo” is taken from Malia and Sasha’s cousin’s cat, and also a reference to Michelle Obama’s father, who was nicknamed “Diddley” after the singer Bo Diddley.
Picture from the White House blog.
