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Bull Charges Through Home and Exits Through Front Door
Not the actual bull, above image taken in Pamplona by Eneko Alonso No, this isn’t bull – excuse the pun. No, like something from a cartoon or an indoor Pamplona bull festival, a German family were left gob-smacked when one of the beasts charged into their house [...]
Continue reading...Screwed: World’s Most Evil Worm Invades Yemen
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Screw Worm Larvae. Image by the US department of agriculture. Up until now the list of worms that has made men curse with fear has pretty much been limited to tape worms.
Continue reading...Sex in the Moonlight, How Do Lemurs Tell Each Other Apart?
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Image from Belgianchocolate Lemurs, the small, fuzzy primates that inhabit the forests of Madagascar, have a love life that even the most daring of swingers might be surprised by.
Continue reading...PETA Says Horseracing = Dog Fighting. They’re Wrong.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Image from Wikimedia Commons Anybody that saw the Kentucky Derby Saturday was treated to a spectacular race, and then immediately robbed of that memory with one of the most heartbreaking sights in racing. Eight Belles, the first filly running in the race since 1996, which having just turned [...]
Continue reading...5 Extremely Expensive Exotic Pets
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Image from law_keven It is, in case you haven’t noticed and if you don’t live in Kentucky, you likely haven’t, it’s Derby Week, which is kind of a big deal to horse racing people. Horse racers represent an odd little subculture: the horses race for three or four [...]
Continue reading...Awwww Save The Cute Endangered Monkeys
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Article by Kevin Peterson. All photos used with kind permission from Christina Craft When a troop of Mono Titi pass through it is like a band of wild teenagers on a holiday bash. Even Hugh Hefner would be jealous of their sex lives. They’re fun, happy [...]
Continue reading...Are the Stripes on Bees a Little Prisoner’s Uniform?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
He’s being a good citizen. Other ones, not so much. Image from aussiegail. Well, flatly, no, they’re not–but maybe they should be, according to Ellouise Leadbeater, a researcher at Queen Mary, University of London. The behavioral ecologist got her idea from one of Darwin’s journals, [...]
Continue reading...Farming Chickens in a Manhattan Basement
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
He lives in New York, so is better than you. Image from joyseph A 62-year old man is raising chickens in the basement of the Manhattan high-rise that he’s superintendent for, a posh building near the UN that has many condos starting at 1.8 Million US.
Continue reading...Operation Knife n’ Fork: 5 Endangered Species We Could Save By Eating
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Image from Paraflyer There are often multiple ways of looking at a problem, and lateral thinking is probably the only way progressive decisions by governments are ever made.
Continue reading...PETA’s Meat: Worst. Meat. Evar?
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Oh dear, not PETA again… Image from Flickr This time, they are not doing one of their usual stunts. Interestingly, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have announced an ambitious competition and prize,
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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