When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame — until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.
THIS is one side of Bambi the Disney corporation never wanted you to see. Red deer on a Scottish island are supplementing their normally vegetarian diet by snacking on live seabird chicks.
For the folks at home - in the U.S. and Australia - a look at my world. My office at the UJ Corporation.
Also from Metafilter (see post below for link) a Web site where you can read old books. I mean like flip through the pages and all. Books like T.S. Arthur's Great Temperance Stories: Six Nights with the Washingtonians.
I saw this very cool story somewhere on the intertubes today but I can't remember where. I'll update with a link if I remember. (For now, via.)
A series of holes, usually about 24 inches across and in neat rows of from nine to twelve, stretched for almost a mile in Peru. It starts at the base of a mountain and then climbs up the side and meanders up and down, over some of the roughest terrain.
Very, very strange:
A GERMAN man obtained enriched uranium and buried it in his garden, raising concerns about the security of Germany's nuclear reactors.
“How do (uranium) pellets get out of a nuclear reactor? That's not supposed to happen,” said ministry spokeswoman Jutte Kremer-Heye.
She said it was unclear when the man, a resident of the northwestern German town of Lauenfoerder, got hold of and buried the 14 low-enriched uranium pellets, which he had sealed in a steel container wrapped in a plastic bag.
I've written about these two before. Nice to see updates.
Reuters | Friday, 2 March 2007
NEW YORK: A giant tortoise and an orphaned baby hippo who forged an unusual friendship after the 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia are the stars of a new website so fans can follow their progress.
Mzee, a 130-year-old Aldabran tortoise, became a surrogate parent and inseparable friend to hippo Owen who was washed out to sea off the coast of Kenya, rescued by villagers and taken to a wildlife park where the tortoise lived.
You think I'm kidding? Read. Weep.
Receptionist Irina Legova said that Mr McCarney had told her that the donkey was a breed of “super rabbit” which he was bringing to a pet fair in the city. The court was told that the donkey went berserk in the middle of the night and ran amok in the hotel corridor, forcing hotel staff to call the gardai.
McCarney was found in the room wearing a latex suit and handcuffs, the key to which the donkey is believed to have swallowed.
