BIG-GAME hunting has returned to Britain with gunmen paying £550 apiece to shoot captive wild boar on a country estate. At two recent trial drives, 20 “hunters” killed a total of 51 wild boar. “It is an adrenaline high as a 16-stone boar charges at you through the undergrowth,” said Dave Corner, a hunter who [...]
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Mooody Cows
May 9th, 2013 · No Comments · News Around
A Swedish university has received £300,000 in research funds to discover how much greenhouse gas is released when cows belch. About 20 cows will participate in the project run by the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences. Project leader Jan Bertilsson said 95 per cent of the methane released by cows comes out through the mouth. [...]
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Parrot dead
May 4th, 2013 · No Comments · News Around
Alex the parrot was used by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg in a 30-year experiment designed to prove that birds could understand the meaning of words rather than just mimicking. Pepperberg claimed that Alex could associate words with colours and shapes and that he had the intelligence of a five-year-old child, claims disputed by other scientists. [...]
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Swine
April 29th, 2013 · No Comments · News Around
French police have riddled a wild boar with bullets after it got into a clothes shop in the city of Poitiers, forcing customers to flee. The boar, weighing 90kg (198lb), was shot after it began charging at police, the French news agency AFP reported. Fifteen people were evacuated and the shop reopened two hours later. [...]
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The Fall of the Wild
April 20th, 2013 · No Comments · News Around
An American couple have survived unscathed after their minivan was crushed – by a falling cow. Charles and Linda Everson were driving back to their hotel when Michelle, a 600lb rodeo cow, landed on their bonnet. Chelan County fire chief Arnold Bake said the couple missed being killed by a matter of inches in the [...]
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A new low
April 20th, 2013 · No Comments · Hearsay and Gossip
A man in Missouri has been arrested for possession of a hallucinogenic toad.Police in Kansas City say David Theiss planned to get high by licking the Colorado River Toad’s venom glands. The FAT (Frog and Toad) Police Squad swooped on Mr Theiss as he was wining and dining the toad in a local French restaurant. [...]
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