Blind Cave What???

United States
March 24, 2007 9:03am CST
Okay - this was several years ago, is a cave system in Western Arkansas called Devil's Den. I was on an AP Field Biology trip to study the cave habitat. We had gotten into the caves and saw bats, bugs, assorted creatures, but the coolest one was the blind cave fish. It is a translucent fish that has no eyes, as it has lived in the pitch black waters of a cave for thousands of years. Well, we were scooping these fish into little nets, to take a look at them when one classmate snags something. She calls out, "hey everyone, I got a blind cave fish"! Well, it turned out that it wasn't a blind cave fish, it was a floating piece of human excrement. Immediately, being 17 y/o men, we dubbed it a new species and called it a blind cave turd...and stories have followed, even 10 years later. Has anyone got a funny story involving something in nature?
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
24 Mar 07
A blind cave turd. LOL I am sure she felt like crap for a while with y'all teasing her. hahahaha Him...something funny. I guess the humor would depend on the person's point of view. :) How about this...I lived in Florida the year the state was hit with back to back hurricanes. And at my uncle's house, there was a squirrel nest 30 something feet up in the tree. However, during the hurricane, the momma was blown out of her nest and killed...leaving the baby squirrels on their own. One made its way down and my family called me to help. I was able to find a squirrel rescue group that took in baby squirrels...because one should really not try to hand feed them. It is too easy to push air into a baby squirrel's tummy and kill them. But while I had the squrrel..the thing decided to climb on top of my head. neither of us were very happy about it! LOL I was left to stand there with the baby screaming on top of my head while my partner tried to take it off me without hurting it. It seemed the baby liked being on top of my head and didn't want to let go! But the story does not end there. Another baby squirrel made it down from the nest and I had to go get that one too. So, to ensure that there were no more babies up there, someone had to climb the tree and check out the nest. Since my aunts, mother, and uncle were too scared to climb the tree...your's truly had to climb the tree. *sigh* The tree was not that stable at the top and I had my seven children watching me from below. To make matters worse, my uncle proceeded to call everyone he knew on the phone to tell them that a 30 year old woman was climbing his tree. Now, I didn't find that all too amusing when I was up there...but the story he tells everyone else about me climbing the tree and it being the first time he had ever seen a 30 year old woman climb his tree was pretty funny. And I am sure that I will be the last 30 year old woman that he will find climbing his tree. ha ha
@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
25 Mar 07
that's hilarious and will live in infamy. Now me, nothing crazy like that, but my wife..oh..my wife and nature are not necessarily friends. this is the best story i've heard about her....and she'd kill me if she knew i was spreading it. it involves cows. LOL my wife has always been a city girl and never really a good friend to nature, she moved out to a tiny little place with a gas station and THAT'S IT. Well, down in the valley were cows, which my wife had never seen up close. One day the cows escaped and were ambushing the house...she screamed when she looked out the window and came face to face with one. LOL she refused to leave the house until they were gone. to this day, she's sure that the cows are plotting against the world. LOL so she gets teased about her cow issues ALL the time.