Lest anyone wonder why they studied the effect of mobile phones on rabbits’ sex lives, Nader Salama, Tomoteru Kishimoto, Hiro-Omi Kanayama and Susumu Kagawa spelled out their reasons. Many scientists had tried (though for the most part failed) to prove that repeatedly holding a mobile phone against a person’s head causes damage to the brain. The [...]
June 25, 2010
ATLANTA — A caged, 2-inch turtle traveling with a 10-year-old girl caused a crew to turn around a taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters off the flight and tell them they couldn’t bring their pet along. The sisters threw the animal and cage in the trash and returned to their seats crying Tuesday [...]
June 20, 2010
Is it necessary to create a horse not much bigger than a chihuahua? Or even small enough to fit in a human hand? When does meddling in the gene pool of animals reach an extreme to be considered animal abuse? In April a horse weighing only six pounds was born on a farm in New Hampshire. [...]
June 2, 2010
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — An Australian kookaburra bird is undergoing personal training after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages. The kookaburra got into trouble with her weight when residents at a Sydney park began feeding her sausages at barbecues. The porky kookaburra weighed in at 565 grams (1.2 pounds), nearly 40 [...]
May 28, 2010
Finding a tick usually involves a squeamish self-examination – carefully rubbing fingertips through the scalp, meticulously scanning the body, and groaning “eyeww” if a little bloodsucker is discovered. Now, there’s a new way to find the pesky, disease-laden critters–via satellite! University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate students Nathan Renneboog and Stephen Firsing are pioneering the [...]
May 11, 2010
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has said a restaurant or two in New York City is serving a dish called san-nakji (live octopus). The story was first reported by the New York Daily according to UPI. PETA has been picketing the restaurants and issued letters to legal authorities about the alleged practice. Some say that [...]
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