This is Why You Don’t Own Monkeys
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t the Cleveland Clinic is Charla Nash of Stamford, Conn., who was attacked by a friend’s chimpanzee in February. She lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids, and will be blind, doctors said. Clinic officials said it is premature to discuss the possibility of a face transplant for her.”
Via MSNBC
Doping Horses, Four-Eyed Cats
First things first, four horses were banned from jumping the Olympic final for doping. The people who did this should really get banned for life. But it still sounds a little funny to hear that it reported this way – what did the horses do? Use their hooves to pick up a needle and inject themselves? Crack open a bottle of pills and chomp on it?
In other news about animals, I am LOVING Tara Ariano’s ongoing series about mutant animals. I’ve been endlessly entertained with two-headed cats, two-headed lizards…My favorite so far is a pig with the shape of a rabbit and the face of an ape. WTF, right? Today’s animal is…a four-eared cat who looks like Yoda!
This Guy’s Going To Have Identity Issues
This was in Tara Ariano’s “Freak Animals” series, and it takes the cake. It’s a monkey? A piglet? An ape? A Guillermo Del Toro creation that he’ll use in his next movie? Oh, you know he would love any excuse to introduce something like this into The Hobbit prequel.
Monkeys Like Snickers, Too.
So says a study by a team of neuroscientists at Emory, where this study is a part of their research on human junk food binges. One of the major differences, they say, is that humans tend to feel guilty about binging on junk food whereas monkeys don’t. Oh stupid humans and their feelings.
Squid Attack!
One of the reasons why I really enjoy both Yahoo and BBC’s science headlines is because they never fail to provide inspiration for some cheesy B-horror/thriller flick. Check it out: squid beaks! Yeah, sure this’ll lead to medicine or whatnot, but this is the part that interests me most:
“Squids can be aggressive, whimsical, suddenly mean, and they are always hungry,” Waite said. “You wouldn’t want to be diving next to one. A dozen of them could eat you, or really hurt you a lot.”
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