THE TOP TEN SHUKERNATURE POSTS OF ALL TIME AS OF MAY 2011

Time, I think, for another look at the Top Ten ShukerNature posts of all time. I didn’t post a listing last month (April 2011) because, remarkably, not only did that listing contain exactly the same ten posts as the previous month’s (March 2011), but even the relative rankings of those ten posts were the same too. But what a difference a further month has made!

This latest, May 2011 listing contains no fewer than four new entries, and all are recent posts. Clearly, therefore, there must be particular interest out there in movie mystery cats, winged cats, and explanations for belief in the Little People. Even certain of the fictitious cryptids featuring in the Doctor Dolittle novels of Hugh Lofting (namely, the great pink sea snail, a living dinosaur, and a gargantuan freshwater turtle) make an appearance at #10. So here, to baffle and amuse you, is the latest ShukerNature Top Ten (with rankings from the previous listing in red brackets). And if anyone can spot a subtle trend or pattern in it, please do let me know, as I’ve long since given up trying to find one!


#1: The mystery blue spider of Yorkshire (25 August 2010) (1)

#2: Behold, Trunko!! (Trunko exclusive #1) (6 September 2010) (2)

#3: South Africa's hairless blue horse (24 March 2010) (4)

#4: Archangel feathers (3 February 2011) (3)

#5: Enchanted by the enchantress (16 March 2011) (-)

#6: The genetics of fairies (10 March 2011) (-)

#7: Two more Trunko photos (Trunko exclusive #2) (9 September 2010) (5)

#8: The wings of a winged cat (5 April 2011) (-)

#9: Dragons of Babylon and dinosaurs of the Bible (18 January 2011) (6)

#10: The cryptozoological world of Doctor Dolittle, Part 2 (21 March 2011) (-)

SHUKERNATURE - THE NEW TOP TEN MOST-VIEWED POSTS

On 2 February 2011, I posted a listing of the Top Ten most-viewed ShukerNature posts of all time - which attracted a considerable number of views itself, and also threw up some surprising results. Not least of these was the extraordinary discovery that if a ShukerNature post happened to feature a blue-coloured animal, it stood a much greater than average chance of attracting an exceptionally large number of views - but why?

I still have no satisfactory answer to that question - but what I do have is the latest listing of the Top Ten most-viewed ShukerNature posts, which is presented below. And as you will see, even in just a month, there have been some interesting changes, not least of which is the debut very near to the top of the chart of a post that was only uploaded during the past month, and yet which has proven so popular that it has effortlessly exceeded the viewing counts of almost all of the other one hundred-plus posts that I have uploaded here during the past two years since my ShukerNature blog was launched. But again, I have absolutely no idea why this particular post's subject has proven so inordinately popular.

Consequently, please cast your eyes over this list, and see what conclusions you can draw. The positions occupied by the Top Ten entries from the previous month's list are presented in red.


#1: The mystery blue spider of Yorkshire (25 August 2010) (1)

#2: Behold, Trunko!! (Trunko exclusive #1) (6 September 2010) (2)

#3: Archangel feathers (3 February 2011) (-)

#4: South Africa's hairless blue horse (24 March 2010) (4)

#5: Two more Trunko photos (Trunko exclusive #2) (9 September 2010) (3)

#6: Dragons of Babylon and dinosaurs of the Bible (18 January 2011) (5)

#7: Blue tigers (17 May 2009) (8)

#8: Smethwick devil (4 September 2010) (6)

#9: Orang pendek (24 November 2010) (7)

#10: A diversity of devil-fishes (6 March 2009) (10)


If nothing else, archangel feathers have certainly attracted very appreciable attention, and the blue connection is still very much alive - so make of that what you will!