Bindi

This is Bindi the Jungle Girl singing about her dad. And this reminds me of what I wish my life was like:

Fleet Farm

Poaching and hunting, THE TWO THINGS I HATE MOST! I first noticed it at Fleet farm the other day.they were selling hunting coloring books for KIDS! Do you think kids want to color a bunch of sickos murdering some helpless deer? I asked mom to take me out of there, so we went to a different section

toads

Toads are among the most amazing creatures on the planet. A toads legs and arms will allow it to crouch down and then take to air! Toads don't look like any other animals in the universe. They are unique and talented.I love toads.

elephants

Did you know that elephants can SMELL danger? Scientists recently discovered that if you get close to an elephant, it can tell if you want to harm it or not. I don't know how they tested that, because if they let somebody close to an elephant that DID want to hurt them, the elephant could be in danger. Anyway, I think it's neat - it seems like elephants have super psycho powers.

Did you know that a elephant can speak human language but japanese? No? Well now you do! Elephants are INCREDIBLY smart. Some Elephants are able to paint with brushes. Elephants are some of the smartest mammals ever.

me

My mom made this picture for me on meez.com. It looks just like me don't you think?

otters holding hands

One of these otters was saved from the Exxon oil spill. Now they live in a zoo in Canada - and you can watch them holding hands. These type of sea otters are endangered. I thought you would like this video.

non-disectable frog

Scientists in Japan have found a way to create a see-through frog. They created this amphibian by breeding a Japanese brown frog for a recessive gene. They created this frog so that people did not have to disect frogs to learn about them. HOOORAAAAAYYY!

If two of the see-through frogs breed, they will have see-through babies, BUT if those babies have babies, their babies will die in a couple of hours. The scientists don't know why that happend yet, but MY theory is they are too pale, or that maybe they are passing on another gene in addition to the paleness gene. Here is a cool picture of one - you can see it's eggs. I will try to put a video on here later.

saving animals

What is your favorite animal? is it a ...lion, a sea turtle, giant panda, Asian elephant, tiger, macaw? NAME It they're all endangered! Do you want it to stay that way? NO! Save the animals!

the spider I saw

This is a banded garden spider. My friends and I saw one just like it at ECHO today. It was huge - like two inches. I think it was looking for a place to lay it's eggs. It was not moving very fast and seemed very tired. We had a fun time at the park, but the best part was finding that spider.

Jesus Christ Lizard

Most of you were wrong - but a few of you were right, It's the Jesus Christ Lizard! It is also called a plumed basilisk. Here's a video so you can see how it walks on water.

toad rage!

I am reading a series of toad books. They are called Toad Rage,Toad Heaven, and Toad Away they are great books. Some of the best books ever!
What's your favorite book?

Treats class

A couple days ago I taught an ADULT. It was fun teaching Treats about animals and amphibians & felines, pachyderms, primates and ..... oh yeah - we were also wondering - does any one know why uncle-cares-a-lot calls himself that?

the zoo

Me and grandma went to the Como Zoo and saw tons of new animals you can look at the pictures they're so cool. We went to the children's museum too!

Hi. You guys know my name but I don't know yours. My counter says that I have 317 visitors - but I don't know who they are.

I hope your names are:
Robin Williams, Ben Stiller, Bindi the Jungle Girl and Neil Armstrong - or somebody cool like that.

But even that's not your name, you should leave me a comment and tell me who you are so we can be friends.

the winner is . . .

Uncle Rascal won the contest on the weeping Uncles Blog. I don't know how he did it because Uncle Cares-a-Lot was winning and somehow his votes were removed. So were the votes for none of the above. Uncle Rascal is pretty good at computers - and he has a lot of friends . . .well at least six . . . counting himself.

camping trip

This weekend I went camping with my family. It was really fun because I got to be with all of my relatives - but the BEST part is that I got to see tons of animals - ginourmous grasshoppers, tons of snails, a slug, and a green sheild bug. I wanted to bring the sheild bug home but it died before I could bring it home. But the strangest creatures I saw on the whole trip were soooo freaky - they let off a gassy odor, and didn't look like anything I'd ever seen before . . . they were MY UNCLES . . . . ha ha ha ha ha. I'm laughing, but I'm not kidding about the odor part. (You should vote for one of them on the Weeping Uncles blog.)

Here are some pictures from our trip. One picture is of my Weeping Uncles, and the other picture is of me and my sister.

so long little toad!

A couple days ago I let Pickles go. I will always miss him. I know he is happy & healthy in his pond that we cleaned up.

my picture

This is a picture I drew of Pickles my toad. I thought you would like to see it.

at the Jesse James Party

Here I am at the party for DJJD. I got to sit on one of the raiders horses and I didn't even sneeze because I wasn't too close to the hay. It was such a fun party.

weeping uncles

Visit my new website and take the quiz. See the link on the side!

Pickles lunch

I think that we'll get to keep Pickles a little longer than I thought. He can eat, so we'll get to keep him longer than Trever. It's cool because when you feed him live crickets, you can turn on just one light and watch his tongue ZAP and catch the bug. It's neat when you have a wild toad as a pet because can watch how they would live in the wild and use their instincts to survive.

pickles and me

my new pet

One time last night I found a toad on a road. He was kinda puny. I was dropping my friend off from the movies, and friend gave me a jar and I put him in there Then when we were driving home I found a bigger one on the road, so my mom stopped the car - she said it was OK, so I got out of the car and I picked him up and put him in the jar.

A while after that we named him Pickles, because me and my friend Meg once found a toad and we named him Pickles, but we lost him, so I decided to name this one Pickles too. I let the little one go so he wouldn't get eaten.

You should come see him. He is bigger than Trevor.

Yikes!

Normally animals don't creep me out . . .. but these do. These are camel spiders, and they live in the desert in Iraq. Just their bodies alone are about six inches long - not including their legs. They can move up to 10 miles an hour. They hate the sun, and always try to stay in the shade. If there is no shade they will follow people through the desert trying to stay in the person's shadow. So sometimes soldiers were being chased by these things. The spiders can jump pretty far, and if you run away from them and move their shade, they will keep following you. If you fall and trip they will run as fast as they can to burrow under your body for shade.

They are also cannibals - look in the picture - the bottom one is eating the top one.

We heard that some of these things actually live in North America - but only in Mexico . . . . oh yeah, and that one I put under Uncle Scott's bed.

Sweet dreams Uncle Cares-a-lot!

love, Punk

P.S. Hey Uncle Brian I know your deepest fear, so you better be nice - or you'll end up like Uncle Scott. Here is a link to show the damage camel spiders can do . . . . spiderbite
Mwaaa ha ha ha ha . . . .

about me

My name is Punk and I am 8 years old. You probably know that I really like animals -that's why I made this blog. But here are some other things about me:
• I just really think it's fun to protect and help wildlife. My favorite animals are - the african elephants, giant squids, jellyfish, dinosaurs (even though they're extinct), scarlet macaws and dolphins. Those are just SOME of my favorites.
•I really like to read - especially about animals. But I also like Harry Potter and Calvin and Hobbes. Right now I'm reading a book called "Ribsy" by Beverly Cleary -and it's really good.
• I have two pet dogs. One is named Riley - she's a German Shepherd. She's a lot more white than most German Shepherds. She has pointy ears and a blackish nose. She also has a little shade of gray on her back, and brown eyes. She is very nice. I already told you about my other dog Ozzy. They are both good dogs, but Ozzy is more wild.
• My favorite movies are: The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast,the Black Cauldron, Night at the Museum, Lion King, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Whispers and all of the Harry Potter movies.
•I dressed up like Dumbledore for a Harry Potter party, and I won a prize. Here is a picture of me:

extinction

Wouldn't it be cool if dinosaurs were around? Sure its ok if a couple elephants die now, but........soon when you're an old grandparent you will be telling you're chilldren how there WAS a such thing as a elaphants. TAKE CARE OF EARTH
where wolud we be without it?

our explore

Today my sister and I went to pick up polution - we picked it up because there was sooooo much of it by this one pond - it was so beautiful and soooo sad. The people that lived in the houses by this pond are so rich they could probably even pay people to pick up their garbage, but they didn't. All around the pond there was foam, plastic, juice pouches and milk bottles, We found a dead snake, and we are almost positive that it did not die from natural causes. It lookes like it ate something and had something stuck in it's stomach -plus we found it in a place where there was lots of pollution. It was sad. My mom found it, but I was the only one brave enough to pick it up.But we brought home two, tiny souvenirs - two tiny red beetles. They are so neat - they look like the bugs in cartoons, kind of like two,tiny sheild bugs. I put them in Trever's house, since we had to let Trever go. (But I took out the water and put in sand, rocks and leaves). They are climbing on the ceiling of their new house. We think they eat milkweed because that is the only plant we found them on. We also have some monarch caterpillars in a jar.

cryptozoology

Cryptozoology means studying creatures that MIGHT exist. Like there COULD have been a fire-breathing pterodactyl - nobody knows for sure. Scientists didn't know for sure that there was such a thing as a giant squid until they found one. And here's something I bet you didn't know - there is such a thing as an OCTOSQUID - click here to see that I'm telling the truth.
octosquid
It looks so cool, and if I were you, I'd go check it out. And who knows maybe there COULD be a lochness monster (if it's not a snorkeling elephant, or a lost plesiosaur, it's probably a brand new type of creature that scientists haven't found yet).

LOOK OUT!

Even though these creatures look fierce they don't hurt you if you don't bother them. So remember not to get too close, but still help save them and preserve their wildlife.

so long trever!

On July 8 we let Trever the toad go. I really miss him. I hope I can find him some day when he is older.

my pets

My mom helped me put these pictures of two of my pets here. I took the picture of my dog Ozzy.
Mom took the picture of Trevor in my hand.

my new pet

My sister caught a little toad in Miss Liz's pool. My mom said we could keep it, so we bought a little terrarium for him to live in. His name is Trevor, even though we don't know if he is a boy, and we are pretty sure he is an American Toad.

how to help

My friend Treats asked me how we could help elephants from right here in the USA. So here are my ideas:

Do not buy ivory. There is a South American nut that can be carved that looks and feels exactly like ivory – I saw some on my vacation this summer, it's really neat.

You could adopt an elephant at the World Wildlife Fund. My godmother adopted one for me. Here is a link: world wildlife fund

You could have a garage sale and give the money to Wildlife Warriors.

Mostly I think you should talk to people and just make them love animals. Instead of going after poachers and animal killers, you can just help turn more people into elephant lovers, because people usually don’t hurt things they love. (Elephants are really kind and gentle even though they are big. When people lay down on the ground in front of an elephant, the elephant tries not to step on the person.)

You can also help other animals too. You can help build things for the wildcat sanctuary – there are instructions on the website: wildcat sanctuary You can even make a hammock for the tigers. They also have a wish list of stuff that the sanctuary needs.

Those are my ideas to help.

CHECK THIS OUT!

Look at how happy theses elephants are in their herd. But there used to be thousands more. They're all so cool - look at them. Most of them will be gone by the time I'm old enough to drive. So we have to save them NOW!

what does endangered mean?

Endangered means that a animal has a 20 % chance of becomeing extinct in 20 years. Critically endangered means that the poor animal has a 50 % chance of becoming extinct in the next TEN years! This means we need to help these animals right away!

amazing adventures

It was so cool when I ALMOST caught a fish in the pond by the place we were exploring. Once one was one and a half inches close to me. I did catch a water bug though. My mom and I found out that fish actually eat STRAWBERRIES. We fed some strawberry bits to the fish and they ate them like MAD. We were in the carletion woods and we had a great time.

elephants

I love elephants. They're so kind and gentle. once a elephant saved a baby rhino from a sticky mud swamp. Elephants are endangered and will soon be extinct. Unless you care a whole awful lot.
Here is a picture of me feeding an elephant. The man who worked with this elephant took really good care of her.

facts and how to help the world

Read and learn about animals and about how you can help. Then tell your school how important it is to protect our enviornment. Cause its the only one we got.

believe it or not

My mom and I were reading a book that said people paid $10,00 to get a license to shoot an elephant. We didn't believe it, we didn't think it was legal to even shoot an elephant. So we looked on the computer and it said you COULD hunt elephants, zebras, lions and whales. If you don't believe me, you can check here:

hunting in South Africa or global sport safaris

That is why I want to help some of these animals. I bet some of your favorite felines, or elephants are endangered too. We should all help protect them and save their habitat.