Fujitsu is teaming up with a Japanese forest research institute to learn how animal populations grow. The pair will look into Sika deer, a creature that's causing plenty of environmental damage due to overgrazing. Traditionally, these sorts of studie...
If you read our site much, you know we post stories about weird science stuff on occasion. Most of that stuff is cool and doesn’t creep me out at all, unless we are talking about robots that look like Hector from Saturn 3. This story I find more than a bit creepy.
As it turns out, Bambi and her kind aren’t strictly the herbivores we thought they were. A number of years back, scientists studying certain types of birds in North Dakota found that deer often supplement their diets with birds. The thought of a deer gnashing on a live bird really disturbs me for some reason.
The scientists recorded videos of deer walking up to a “Mist-net”, which is a net used to capture birds and bats alive for study and tagging, and eating the birds alive. They ate the birds right off the net! The team also recorded deer eating nesting birds right out of nests they could reach near the ground. I’ll never look at deer the same way again.
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I’m not sure if these masks fall under “really cool” or “really creepy” (or maybe both?) but they’re definitely unusual. These Animal Masks, designed by Soroche, come in three styles- bear, fox, and deer. Each one is made of from thick 400 gr environmental blank paper. What does the fox say? “Weird stuff”. Now dance fox, dance.
These 3D animal heads are created by folding and then gluing the flat paper into the animal shapes (it’s a bit unclear if they come pre-assembled or if you have to do the gluing yourself; I suspect the latter). You can wear them as masks or even hang them on the wall like mounted trophies.
They all come in white and you can obviously paint or otherwise decorate them in any way you see fit. Or just leave them white like some odd ghost animal. The masks are all die cut on a small mechanical press by hand. I’d wear one everywhere I go from the grocery store to the mall to the ice cream shop (those are the only three places I actually go to) but I think my oversized head is way too jumbo to fit inside one.
All masks are made by hand, die cut with a small mechanical press that was adapted for this purpose, and packed in a beautiful kraft paper box, screen printed in a local workshop.
Really Odd Paper Animal Masks
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