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Woman Hit With Cruelty Charges After Trying to Send Puppy Via Airmail
A woman from Minneapolis has been hit with animal cruelty charges after she allegedly tried to relocate a puppy to friend in Atlanta, via airmail. Image credits Stacey Champion handed staff at her local post office a small cardboard box and, without saying the box contained a four-month-old puppy, she just told them to be [...]
Filipinos Eat Golden Cakes to Celebrate Year of the Rabbit !!!
Today is New Year’s Eve in China and some other countries in Southeast Asia.. and tomorrow begins the Year of the Rabbit, according to Chinese zodiac. Image credits The New Year celebration begins with the new moon on the first day of the lunar year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. Following [...]
Could It Be Love? Wild Bald Eagle Visits Zoo-Kept-Female Every Day !!!
A wild bald eagle has his sight set on a female bald eagle kept in captivity at the Orange County Zoo. Image credits Is that romance, friendship, loneliness or just curiosity… nobody knows, but the fact is that since last weekend the eagle has made daily appearances at the zoo just outside the exhibit of [...]
Lab-Grown Meat: Product That Could Help Solve Food Crisis !!!
A South Carolina scientist has been working for a decade to grow meat in a lab, hoping it help solve the global food crisis. Vladimir Mironov, 56, a developmental biologist and tissue engineer at the Medical University of South Carolina has been working for years to make meat in a lab and claims to be [...]
Monkey Who Bit 120 People in Japan Escaped Captivity !!!
A Japanese macaque who bit about 120 people last year has escaped captivity. Image credits The monkey known as Lucky slipped out of the government-run nature park in Mishima City, where it had been kept since its capture last October. Lucky took its chance to escape while a keeper was cleaning its cage. The city [...]
Snake And Scorpion Wines Treat Different Health Problems !!!
A village in Vietnam is producing bottles of wine containing snakes and scorpions and and shipping it worldwide, with the rare beverage available to order online. The wine is said to be a natural remedy used to treat a number of conditions. It is used as a natural medicine to treat different health problems such [...]
Cell Phone Rings From Crocodile’s Stomach !!!
Beleive it or not, a crocodile in Ukraine swallowed a woman’s cell phone… and now it’s ringing in her stomach. 14-year-old crocodile called Gena at a Ukrainian aquarium has been refusing food and acting listless, after he ate a phone dropped by Rimma Golovko while she was trying to photograph him, the Associated Press reports. [...]
Japanese Scientists Plan to Bring Wooly Mammoth Back to Life !!!
According to The Daily Yomiuri, a team of Japanese scientists plans to clone a wooly mammoth in the next four of five years, resurrecting the hairiest beast from 10,000 years of extinction. “Preparations to realize this goal have been made,” said the head of the team and professor emeritus of Kyoto University, Akira Iritani. It [...]
World’s Most Extravagant Yacht ‘Streets of Monaco’ Worth $1.1 Billion !!!
A British boat designer, Yacht Island Design, has floated the idea of creating a world’s most extravagant yacht called “Streets of Monaco.” Although the developers aren’t yet sure if the city on the sea will ever move across a real horizon, they have drawn plans for a four-level, 500-ft. long yacht that would cater for [...]
Never Happened in Sweden Before – First Gigant Anteater Born !!!
A giant anteater at a Swedish zoo became the first ever to give birth in the country. “This is extremely rare. As far as I know it’s never happened in Sweden before,” said Parken Zoo’s chief zoologist Helena Olsson. Olsson told The Local that mother anteater called Benita gave birth unexpectedly on December 23. When [...]
Latest Internet Animal Superstar – Cross-Eyed Opossum Heidi !!!
Altough she hasn’t even made her public debut at the Leipzig Zoo, the cross-eyed opossum Heidi has became biggest media sensation in Germany. The 2-1/2-year-old gray-haired opossum has over 100,000 fans on Facebook. It even has inspired a German song on Youtube and will soon star as a plush toy. “The Heidi sensation was surprising [...]
Man from China Grows Weird Horn on His Head !!!
A man from China has grown a weird 3-inch horn on his head which is still growing. 84-year-old Huang Yuanfan of Ziyuan in southern China said that the weird growth started two years ago as a small bump but it continued to grow. “I tried picking at it and even filing it but nothing changed [...]
Two-Headed Calf, With Three Ears and Four Eyes, Born in Georgia !!!
A cow in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia has given birth to a two-headed calf. The calf’s owners said they thought initially that the mother cow had given birth to twins. Farmer and calf’s owner Irakli Dzhgarkava said that the cow is refusing to allow the calf to suckle, so they are giving it [...]
