| August 8, 2008 | - A U.S. biologist in Barbados claimed to have discovered the world's smallest snake, which, at less than 4 inches long, may be the smallest that snakes can possibly be. Barbadians insisted that they already knew about the animal, which they call a “thread snake.”
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BBCNews.com
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CNN.com
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| July 18, 2008 | - A toad in Australia ate a three-foot-long snake,.
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Mail Online
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| May 23, 2008 | -
Rats, it was discovered, are more likely to cannibalize their young if their cages are clean.
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New Scientist
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| May 6, 2008 | - The Humane Society of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, increased to $1,500 its reward for information about the torture and murder of a ten-year-old blind pony named Kahlua.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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| April 26, 2008 | -
Black squirrels, which exhibit higher levels of testosterone than gray or red squirrels, were overrunning parts of England
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Guardian
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| November 12, 2007 | - It was reported that Blake Miller, the “Marlboro Marine” made famous when a photo of him smoking in Fallujah was widely published, now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and lives in a trailer behind his father's house with a dog named Mudbone tied in the yard. Miller, unable to discuss certain things that happened in Fallujah (saying only that “to kill the snake, we had to cut off its head”), is recently divorced and remains a heavy smoker.
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The Los Angeles Times
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| November 10, 2007 | - At an Ibero-American summit in Chile, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Spain's former prime minister a fascist, adding, “fascists are not human. A snake is more human.” “Why don't you shut up?” asked the king of Spain.
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BBCnews.com
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| November 2, 2007 | - Friday marked Mexico's Day of the Dead, which was celebrated as hundreds of thousands of people attempted to flee the flooded state of Tabasco by boat, helicopter, jet ski, tractor, or by swimming through murky, snake-infested currents.
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AP via Yahoo!
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| October 19, 2007 | - 5 of the world's 350 remaining Asiatic Lions were found dead next to an electric fence in India.
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New York Times
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| October 19, 2007 | - 5 of the world's 350 remaining Asiatic Lions were found dead next to an electric fence in India.
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New York Times
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| October 7, 2007 | - In England, American gray squirrels were bullying diminutive, mild-mannered indigenous red squirrels.
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NYT
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| August 22, 2007 | -
Scientists in England determined that Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun a professional soccer player.
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BBC
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| August 10, 2007 | - In India police killed a protester at a riot of flood victims, and the monsoon death toll climbed above 2,000, with many of the fatalities blamed on snakebites. “Everyone is crammed in together,” said an expert, “and the chances of running into snakes, stepping on them, grabbing them, and sleeping on them is much, much more.”
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Washington Post
Source 2:
IHT
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| July 16, 2007 | - In China, where flooding has killed hundreds of people this summer, the rampant Yangtze River had caused Dongting Lake to overflow, leading two billion rats to flee to the Hunan countryside, where there are few predators to reduce their numbers, as the snakes have been eaten by southerners and the owls have been used for medicine. Besieged farmers were poisoning the rats, beating them with hammers, and sending them, live, by truckload to restaurants in Guangzhou, where diners pay 136 yuan for a kilogram of ratmeat.
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National Geographic
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ABC News
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Sydney Morning Herald
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| June 21, 2007 | - An eight-year-old two-headed hermaphrodite albino rat-snake named “We” died of natural causes at the City Museum in St. Louis.
- An eight-year-old two-headed hermaphrodite albino rat-snake named “We” died of natural causes at the City Museum in St. Louis.
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St. Louis Post Dispatch
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| May 29, 2007 | -
Elephants were fleeing war in Sri Lanka, while at least one elephant in eastern India was robbing motorists.
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Reuters via Daily Times (Pakistan)
Source 2:
Reuters
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| May 27, 2007 | - Nazi-released raccoons continued to wreak havoc from the Baltic Sea to the Alps. “We like the United States of America,” said retired German orthodontist Dieter Hoffmann, “but we do not like your Waschbaeren!”
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Washington Post via Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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| May 26, 2007 | -
Cairo customs officials prevented a smuggler from carrying 700 snakes onto a plane bound for Saudi Arabia.
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USA Today
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| April 19, 2007 | - A 12-foot-long minke whale spent two days frolicking near the polluted waters of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York, then died. “These are days for tears,” said an onlooker.
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New York Times
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| April 10, 2007 | - In Hong Kong, race horses suffered the worst outbreak of equine herpes in the region's history.
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Times UK
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| April 6, 2007 | - A South African farmer received a 20-year sentence for killing a man he mistakenly believed to be a baboon.
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BBC News
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| April 3, 2007 | - The market price for children in India slipped below that of buffalo.
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Reuters
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| March 27, 2007 | - It was suggested that Yan Yan, a panda at the Berlin Zoo, died from stress in the wake of intense publicity generated by Knut, his polar-bear-cub neighbor.
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Guardian
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| February 27, 2007 | - Female koalas in Australia were ignoring males in favor of five-bear lesbian orgies.
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The Advocate
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| February 23, 2007 | - José, the first native beaver seen in the city in 200 years, was spotted swimming up the Bronx River.
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Yahoo News
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| February 15, 2007 | - A Japanese
dolphin was fitted with an artificial tail.
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DailyMail
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| February 14, 2007 | - The Navy announced that specially trained dolphins and sea lions may patrol a military base in Washington State that is vulnerable to attack by swimmers and scuba divers; the sea lions are trained to clamp cuffs around swimmers' legs so that the swimmers can be reeled in.
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AP
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| February 1, 2007 | - Elephants in Thailand were head-butting and robbing trucks.
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Reuters via iol.co.za
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| January 29, 2007 | - The Indian
Army was preparing to hunt down man-eating leopards in Kashmir.
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Mumbai Mirror
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| January 26, 2007 | - Veterinarians at Aquatopia in Antwerp announced that Mozart, an iguana that has had an erection for a week, would have to have one of his two penises amputated.
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Reuters via the Australian
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| January 25, 2007 | -
Scientists in Jena, Germany, who had been using spaghetti and cucumbers as bait to make a sloth climb up and down a pole, gave up after three years.
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AP
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| January 20, 2007 | - Drought was driving tens of thousands of snakes into Australian cities.
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BBC
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| January 16, 2007 | - Zookeepers in Thailand put their male panda on a diet. “Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast,” said a zookeeper, “and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him.”
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AZcentral.com
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| January 15, 2007 | - A German breeder was selling giant rabbits to North Korea in the hope of relieving famine.
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Reuters
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| January 13, 2007 | - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney attended a gun show. “As a boy, I worked on a ranch in Idaho and shot
rabbits with a single shot .22 rifle,” Romney said. “After a while my cousin said, 'You're not very good at that. Try using this semiautomatic.'”
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NewsMax
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| January 10, 2007 | - Depressed American zoo animals were taking Prozac.
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L.A. Times
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| December 28, 2006 | - In Mombasa, Kenya, a young hippo named Owen and a 130-year-old tortoise named Mzee celebrated a year of friendship.
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Yahoo! News
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| December 15, 2006 | - A hunter in Wisconsin shot a seven-legged deer.
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Yahoo News
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| December 14, 2006 | - The baiji, a species of blind white dolphin extant for 20 million years, was declared extinct.
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AP via NYT
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| December 14, 2006 | - Two dolphins who had swallowed toxic plastic were saved by the world's tallest man, who used his long arms to retrieve shards from their stomachs.
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BBC
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| December 4, 2006 | - A forty-three-foot-tall Swedish straw Christmas
goat was doused with flame-retardant chemicals so that only its hooves could be burned.
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Associated Press via nj.com
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| November 30, 2006 | - Sheriff's deputies in Polk County, Florida, rescued a naked, drug-addled man from the jaws of an attacking alligator.
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CNN
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| November 28, 2006 | -
Scientists said that a “primordial meteorite” may hold clues about the “raw organic molecules needed for life,” that humpback whales may be every bit as intelligent as humans, dolphins, and great apes, and that women speak three times as much as men.
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BBC
Source 2:
The Age
Source 3:
Daily Mail
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| November 21, 2006 | -
Chinese
scientists revealed that showing pornography to pandas has helped increase the captive panda population; Vassar scientists said that they had successfully mated robot
fish.
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AP via Australian
Source 2:
Xinhua
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| November 19, 2006 | - A Danish
artist named Kristian von Hornsleth was giving animals to Ugandan villagers who agreed to take his name. “Africans adopting European names for gifts—that's nothing new,” said George Sabadu Hornsleth, who received a pig. “We've been doing that since colonial times. Why do you think I'm called George?”
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Yahoo! News
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| November 16, 2006 | - A sea lion in San Francisco bit 14 people.
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SFGate.com
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| November 12, 2006 | - Zama Ndebele, the wife of Premier S'bu Ndebele of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, promised to return her herd of Nguni cattle to the state in the wake of a cows-for-favors corruption scandal.
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Business Day
Source 2:
IOL
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| November 5, 2006 | - Researchers in Japan captured a dolphin with legs.
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Chicago Tribune
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| November 3, 2006 | - Rising floodwaters trapped a herd of 100 horses on a Netherlands islet.
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New York Times
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| October 26, 2006 | - Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, mufti of Sydney, Australia's largest mosque, compared unveiled women to “uncovered meat.” “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside,” said the mufti, “and the cats come to eat it . . . whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”
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Guardian
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| October 20, 2006 | - In New York a developmentally disabled handyman was hospitalized after two teenagers sodomized him at a bowling alley with a plumbing snake,.
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WNBC
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| October 19, 2006 | - The king of Spain denied that he had shot and killed a drunken bear.
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IHT via New York Times
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| October 17, 2006 | - A Gypsy pressure group filed suit to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest film from being shown in Germany. The group accuses him of antiziganism, or hostility to gypsies; Cohen's fictional alter-ego Borat claimed that Gypsies had molested his horse.
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Reuters via Yahoo
Source 2:
Wikipedia
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| October 15, 2006 | -
Donkeys were increasingly popular with Mexican farmers.
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Christian Science Monitor via Arizona Daily Star
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| October 11, 2006 | - In Uganda, a mob armed with spears, machetes, and clubs killed a lioness, mutilated the carcass, and imprisoned the remains.
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The Monitor via allAfrica.com
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| October 10, 2006 | - Thousands of villagers in the Indian state of Jharkhand fled their homes in order to avoid a herd of rampaging elephants. “The elephants,” said a forestry official, “are out to avenge.” “They destroy our crops in the field,” complained a farmer. “Sometimes they damage our houses also.”
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Reuters
Source 2:
ANI via DailyIndia.com
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| October 8, 2006 | - Researchers found that Human-Elephant Conflict, or H.E.C., was on the rise. “Where for centuries humans and elephants lived in relative peaceful coexistence,” said professor Gay Bradshaw of Oregon State University, “there is now hostility and violence.” Bradshaw hypothesized that elephants are suffering from species-wide chronic stress brought on by poaching, habitat loss, and other traumas, which may explain why young male elephants have been observed raping and killing rhinoceroses.
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The New York Times
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| October 6, 2006 | - Swiss researchers in Syria discovered the remains of an extinct species of giant camel.
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iol.co.za
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| September 29, 2006 | - Men boxed kangaroos in Shanghai's fourth annual Animal Olympics.
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Daily Mail
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| September 20, 2006 | - Hybrid lions were dying from a mystery disease in northern India.
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The Drudge Report
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| September 15, 2006 | - A Nigerian man accused of murder explained to authorities that he had actually killed a rogue goat with an axe, but the dead goat had then turned into the corpse of his brother.
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AP via the Buzz
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| September 15, 2006 | - More polar bears
drowned in the Arctic.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 3, 2006 | - Tropical Storm Ernesto killed at least six people and four seals in the United States,.
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Washington Post
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| September 3, 2006 | - Police broke up a ring of badger-baiting gangs in Scotland.
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Sundaymail.co.uk
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| September 1, 2006 | - Forty Australian
seals were killed in a drive-by shooting.
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The Australian
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| August 30, 2006 | -
Danish researchers reported that pollutants may shrink the genitals of polar bears, foxes, and whales.
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local6.com
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| August 29, 2006 | - Marine biologists said that manatees are not stupid so much as unmotivated.
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New York Times
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| August 29, 2006 | -
Swiss hikers were warned not to hug cows.
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Independent Online
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| August 10, 2006 | - In Texas a truck carrying zoo animals overturned, immediately killing one penguin; three more penguins were killed by oncoming traffic. The octopus was not harmed.
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The Guardian
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| August 10, 2006 | - In Florida a man was missing after a large turtle pulled him into the sea.
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Local6.com
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| August 4, 2006 | - Racer Cristiano da Matta's Champ Car collided with a deer in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
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cnnsi.com
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| August 2, 2006 | -
Wild bison took over a small Canadian town. “Try and get an insurance claim done after your car was kicked by a buffalo,” said one local resident. “The adjustor will just laugh at you.”
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Mail and Guardian
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| July 31, 2006 | - A study conducted at Texas A&M University found that cigarette smoking reduced the impact of alcohol on inebriated rats. “I hope people won't interpret that as a good thing,” said lead researcher Wei-Jung Chen.
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Seed Magazine
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| July 31, 2006 | - Hot weather killed 141 people (as well as 25,000 cattle and 700,000 fowl) in California, at least 170 people in France, Italy, and Spain, and dozens of racing dogs in Oregon, and shut down MySpace.
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CBS
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| July 30, 2006 | - It was reported that Private Steven D. Green, who is charged with raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then killing her and members of her family, had said that, in Iraq, “killing people is like squashing an ant, I mean, you kill somebody and it's like, 'All right, let's go get some pizza.'”
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Washington Post
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| July 27, 2006 | - A man in Sumatra was squashed by an elephant.
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news24.com
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| July 25, 2006 | - The Israeli military deployed llamas in southern Lebanon.
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Ynetnews
Source 2:
JTA
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| July 24, 2006 | - A Tennessee
elephant named Winkie was found not to have killed her handler on purpose.
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AP via Forbes
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| July 17, 2006 | - Thieves stole a 14-foot inflatable sheep from a store in Rochester, Minnesota.
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WCCO.com
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| July 10, 2006 | - It was feared that the West African black rhino was extinct.
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BBC News
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| July 7, 2006 | - The world's oldest crow died in Bearsville, New York.
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Associated Press
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| July 6, 2006 | - President Vladimir Putin of Russia explained that he had recently kissed a young boy on the stomach because he “wanted to stroke him like a cat.”
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Agence France-Presse
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| June 27, 2006 | - Bruno the bear was shot and killed by German authorities, ending his seven-week rampage through Germany and Austria; Bruno, officially tagged Rampant Brown Bear JJ 1, had killed sheep and rabbits, stolen honey, eluded Finnish bear trackers and elkhounds, and squashed a guinea pig. “Sexual frustration,” said a German official, “may be a reason for the random killings.”
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Times Online (U.K)
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| June 26, 2006 | - A three-foot-long escaped porcupine named Twinkle was captured in Langwathby, England.
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BBC
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| June 26, 2006 | - Scientists in Borneo found a snake that can spontaneously change color from reddish-brown to white.
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Reuters
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| June 24, 2006 | - Lance Corporal William Windsor, a billy goat in the British army, was demoted for “lack of decorum.”
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BBC
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| June 20, 2006 | - Researchers in Texas successfully convinced fringe-lipped bats that poisonous sympatric cane toads were edible.
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Washington Post
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| June 18, 2006 | - In India an autopsy determined that the rogue elephant known as Master Killer died from multiple organ failure. “I had lost my two children,” said the elephant's distraught trainer. “But when I discovered this naughty tusker . . . I thought, 'Here's a newborn that will help me forget my own loss.'”
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The Peninsula
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| June 18, 2006 | -
Baboons in Saudi Arabia ruined a picnic.
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Arab News
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| June 17, 2006 | - In Thiruvananthapuram, India, the recently captured rogue elephant Master Killer died in a cage.
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The Hindu
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| June 14, 2006 | - In Rangamati, Bangladesh, villagers fled in boats after their town was destroyed by rampaging elephants.
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Reuters via MSNBC
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| June 14, 2006 | -
Archaeologists said that ancient Mexicans wore decorative dentures made from wolves' teeth.
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AP via MSNBC
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| June 9, 2006 | -
Florida's
wildlife officials decided to remove the manatee, which has a mild taste that readily adapts itself to recipes for beef, from the state's endangered-species list.
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New York Times
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| June 6, 2006 | - It was reported that scientists have created a new type of synthetic snakebite antivenom.
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New Scientist
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| June 2, 2006 | - A Baghdad pet market was bombed, killing 5 people and several doves.
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Guardian Unlimited
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Canada.com
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| June 2, 2006 | - Officials in south India said that they had captured an alcohol-abusing, homicidal rogue elephant named Master Killer.
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New Kerala
Source 2:
The Peninsula
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| June 2, 2006 | - A snake bit a woman at a Wal-Mart in Florida. “Thank goodness for sweat pants with elastic,” said the woman, “because he tried to climb up my britches' leg.”
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WFTV.com
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| June 2, 2006 | - A woman married a cobra in the Indian state of Orissa. “Though snakes cannot speak or understand,” said the bride, “we communicate in a peculiar way.”
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Breitbart
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| June 1, 2006 | - A zoo in Vancouver was charged with cruelty to a hippo.
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The Calgary Sun
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| May 30, 2006 | - The first wild bear seen in Germany since 1835 continued to attack farm animals and elude capture. “For security purposes,” said Bavarian Environment Minister Werner Schnappauf, “the permission to open fire must be maintained.” Authorities said the brother of the bear had killed Swiss
sheep last summer.
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Fox News
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| May 30, 2006 | - A senior citizens' community in Washington was overrun by marmots.
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Yakima Herald-Republic
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| May 24, 2006 | -
Senator Bill Frist helped give a gorilla a root canal.
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The Washington Post
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| May 23, 2006 | - In Australia, a psychiatrist named Stephen Allnutt testified that financier Brendan Francis McMahon had believed he was helping animals when he mutilated 17 rabbits and a guinea pig while under the influence of methamphetamine. "I wonder," McMahon reportedly said, "if I made a mistake because I never asked the rabbits?"
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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| May 23, 2006 | -
Scientists in North Carolina said that they could grow new, functional rabbit
penises.
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Fox News
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| May 22, 2006 | - In Norway a grevling, or badger, wrecked a man's bedroom.
| Source:
Aftenposten
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| May 18, 2006 | - A rogue elephant was on the loose in Rwanda.
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IOL.co.za
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| May 18, 2006 | -
Scientists in Germany said that apes can plan ahead.
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AP via Breitbart.com
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| May 17, 2006 | - A camel ran amok on the Trans-Israeli Highway.
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YNetNews.com
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| May 17, 2006 | - In Alaska an elephant named Maggie was refusing to use her $100,000
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