Kitten boom litters shelters
March 9, 2007
Mild weather in early winter meant more cats outdoors, more frisky antics, and a population explosion in the GTA
Mar 09, 2007 04:30 AM
Carola Vyhnak
Staff reporter
It’s raining cats and climate change is to blame.
Milder weather in cold seasons means cats are outdoors more, doing what comes naturally, say animal workers on the frontlines. The result is a population explosion that’s stretching GTA pounds and shelters beyond their limits.
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100 dead sheep found in downtown back yard
February 26, 2007
Feb 24, 2007 05:47 PM
Nick Kyonka
Staff Reporter
Residents of a downtown neighbourhood woke up today to the stench of 100 dead sheep wafting in from the back yard of a nearby rooming house.
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Darwin at work?
February 1, 2007
Female intuition key to correct weather prognostications by Michigan groundhog
Canadian Press
HOWELL, Mich. (AP) - Woody has something most other prognosticating groundhogs don’t.
Female intuition.
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Yep, They’re Gay
January 31, 2007
Friday, Jan. 26, 2007
By John Cloud
Zoologists have known for many years that homosexuality isn’t uncommon among animals. (My own cat has raised suspicions ever since he tried to mount a cowering male dachshund.) But I was surprised to learn recently that male sheep exhibit homosexuality at least as often as humans: roughly 8% of rams turn out to have sex exclusively with other rams.
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Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists
December 27, 2006
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short.
The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
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My Favourite Kind of Ingenuity
December 14, 2006
World’s tallest man saves choking dolphins
Dec. 14, 2006. 11:22 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — The long arms of the world’s tallest man saved two dolphins in northeast China by reaching inside of them to remove plastic they had swallowed, state media reported Thursday.
The dolphins at an aquarium in Fushun, Liaoning Province, had fallen sick after swallowing the plastic from the edge of their pool, and attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastic failed because of the contraction of the dolphins’ stomachs in response to the instruments, the China Daily newspaper reported. Read the rest of this entry »
