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Shark Petting
Shark petting? Shark feeding!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 06, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Museums, Nature, Children
Weird Wildlife
It's a law of nature that when you've got to go, you've got to go. So if you happen to be a penguin out on the antarctic ice, well, that's where you've got to go. Which turns out to be an extremely useful fact for scientists, who have used piles of penguin poo identified on satellite images to locate where penguin colonies form. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey hope to use the new technique to follow the penguins over many seasons and determine how much impact global warming is having on the species (Telegraph).Meanwhile British beekeepers must be cursing that not all animals can be tracked by satellite so easily after an outbreak of bee-rustling has swept the coutryside. The spate of thefts has been provoked by rises in the price of honey combined with a shortage of bees brought about by disease. In the largest bee-heist so far, 18 hives containing over a million bees were stolen from a strawberry field they had been pollinating. According to John Howat of the Bee Farmers Association, pulling off such an audacious crime would require "inside knowledge" (BBC News).
And it's not just beekeepers who are missing their wildlife. A UK radio station that has broadcast nothing but a repeating loop of birdsong for 18 months as "filler" has finally shut down to make way for a new commercial station, and raised howls of protest from many of its half a million regular listeners. The twenty year-old recording, made in a wiltshire garden and used by the radio station free-of-charge, became a massive hit with people from all over Britain, including author Terry Pratchett, who found it a relaxing alternative to the usual radio fare. The replacement broadcast, Amazing Radio, plays music by unsigned bands uploaded to amazingtunes.com (Pocket Lint).
Finally, here's one story that almost missed the boat (ark?), swimming with stingrays may be harmful... for the stingrays. Scientists monitoring the sealife around the Camen islands have found that tourist excursions to pet the wildlife around the islands is leading to weaker immune systems and poorer health in the animals. Christina Semeniuk, an ecologist at Simon Fraser University in Canada, cited collisions with boats, overcrowding and hand-fed squid forming an greater part of their diet as the main suspects. She pointed to other studies on bears, penguins, dolphins, and apes which also showed increased stress and illness due to wildlife tourism (Guardian).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Tue Jun 02, 2009 -
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Category: Agriculture, Animals, Crime, Science
The Missing Link
Now I don't generally have a problem with thinking that my great, great, great (many greats) ancestors were apes. Especially judging by some of the men I've dated. But lemurs? Did any of you see the movie, Madagascar?
Posted By: Nethie - Tue Jun 02, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, History, Science, More Things To Worry About
Monkey-eating Eagle
If I were a monkey and I saw a Phillipine Monkey-eating Eagle dive-bombing me, I'd probably die of a heart attack and save the eagle the trouble of killing me.Maybe even in my human state!
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 25, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, South Pacific, Natural Wonders
The Largest Terrestrial Arthropod
Posted By: Nethie - Tue May 19, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Nature, Pets, Science, Hermits
Mysterious Worms Invade China
Posted By: Nethie - Sun May 17, 2009 -
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Category: Agriculture, Animals, Nature, Science
Moose Fall From the Sky, I Don’t Know Why..Stormy Weather?
The man who spotted the falling moose was quite excited to see a moose fall from the sky
Bangor Daily News
Posted By: hickory_johnson - Wed May 13, 2009 -
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Category: Animals
New Montauk Monster Found!!
Montauk Monster web site
Posted By: dherlich - Mon May 11, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Unsolved Mysteries, Video
Beware the Worm Lizard!
Every day the news brings me reports of some horrible locale outside my safe and beloved New England, where people are subject to floods, volcanoes, earthquakes--and "worm lizards"...?!?Yes, it's not bad enough that the poor citizens of a certain region in Brazil have to battle flooding, they also have to contend with the evil Worm Lizard!
You can read about their troubles here. The key sentence:
Like 218,000 others across a swath of northern Brazil three times the size of Alaska, the neighbors have fled the worst rainfall and flooding in decades, braving newly formed rivers teeming with anacondas, alligators and legless reptiles known as "worm lizards" whose bite is excruciating.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 10, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Destruction, Disasters, Horror, South America, Natural Wonders, Weather
Norman Bates He Aint
But apparently he's just as scary. A woman from Abbeville, Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart because the local store allowed their pet Nutria to run loose without alerting the shoppers. Rebecca White was so freaked out when she spotted Norman that she jumped back and her cart rolled over her foot, breaking two bones. This begs a number of questions... What's a Nutria? It's a large furry rodent (pictured, right). Why was one running around the store? Why did the employees name him Norman? And what the heck did she have in her cart that was so heavy? You can read more about it here.
Posted By: Nethie - Fri May 08, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Lawsuits
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