weird animals in the news thread

[Shawn Swain]

Thought I'd weigh in on this pig thing, Sad to hear it was a fake but after hogzilla , the media should have been suspicious, still that is a big pig. On the National Geograpic channel they did a story about hogzilla and in it they stated that even a tame pig when released to the wild can revert to the ferrel state in around 13 days. If this pig was given to this "hunting" outfit and put in a pen? NOT ferrel !! AND shot in a pen? That's called a canned hunt .
I hunt. This is not hunting it's akin to a slaughterhouse. I wondered how a kid could hit something with a 50. caliber handgun but to take so many shots to kill an animal is just sad at least in a slaughterhouse it is quick and in the head! But then it would not look like a real hunt would it?! Pigs that size are not worth eating by the way and that is why the family is turning it into sausage.

[suryrony]

and now for the regular deep sea monsters..i hope all those creepy stuff is at least cookable
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/06/uni ... -creature/

[Doh]

and now for the regular deep sea monsters..i hope all those creepy stuff is at least cookable
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/06/uni ... -creature/

As long as there exists butter, garlic and a frying pan, ANYTHING is cookable.

[Scripe]

This dog looks awesome. To bad it's a birth defect.... If only I could have had that defect.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=467985&in_page_id=1770

[suryrony]

it's kinda sad , but the owner claims she's happy .

[RandyPanTheGoatBoy]

Poor lass...Whippets are lovely dogs by nature, skittish but v.docile, nothing like how her appearance would suggest. I suppose because of the nature of her defect it means her heart is more likely to pack up???
Fascinating stuff though, I've been around dogs of all sorts most of my life but I've never heard of that condition before.

[Doh]

I didn't know that Mark McGuire had a dog.

[extremophile]

It's likely to be myostatin deficiency. Search for myostatin in google images and the result will be a few pictures of hulkesque animals, and at least one person.

Myostatin is a protein involved in natural degeneration of muscle tissue, without that, the muscles grow a bit too much.





The legs of the muscular baby:

The story:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2004/06/ ... 40623.html

I've read somewhere else that at this early age he was able to lift something weighting about 1 to 3 kg, sticking the arm totally to the front, more or less as if he was performing a "front raise" with a dumbell.

[HellboyOne]

I didn't know that Mark McGuire had a dog.

BAM!

[Kelly Tindall]

Four-legged duck finds love.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... to=newsnow

[extremophile]

The animals aren't really that weird, neither it's quite "news", but I've found it weird (actually surprising) and it's new to me (as "surprising" somewhat implies)

Lions can kill elephants

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7SbjicdzY[/youtube]

Not only "babies", but actually subadults, 4-15 years old are better victims since they're not as protected by the group as the younger ones.

http://www.go2africa.com/botswana/chobe ... eaters.asp

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/lif ... ion_2006.w

There's really a reason why the jungle is called a jungle..... well, actually it's a savanna but I don't care not even that the joke is lame so it will stay as it is.


Someone said to me that tigers can kill rhinos...

[extremophile]

From CBC's "quirks and quarks"




Dr David Blackburn has spent several field seasons in Africa studying rare and new frog species. Nothing surprised him quite so much, though, as when he picked up a large frog and ended up with deep and painful scratches. Frogs, you see, aren't supposed to have claws, but this one did, and the claws on this frog were very strange. They were, he discovered, bone spikes that can pierce the frog's skin when the frog is seriously threatened. Dr. Blackburn, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, is hoping to discover more about how the frog manages the injuries that result from deploying its claws.

Listen to or download:

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/media/2007-200 ... -07_02.mp3

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/media/2007-200 ... -07_02.ogg




http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/07-08/jun07.html

[Elliotanimated]

It's the frog Wolverine...

[Nofret]

Put your skeptic hats on guys.
Two men claiming they've got a Bigfoot corpse, put in in a freezer and sent DNA for testing.
Results so far: DNA finds none too conclusive, photo can be easily faked. They're supposed to give the corpse for autopsy, so we'll see if it makes it or if it mysteriously disappears very soon, as Bigfoot tends to do.


http://ecanadanow.com/news/curiosity/bi ... 80815.html

[Elliotanimated]

I believe this has already been disproven, but I can't recall where I read it.
Probably on boingboing.org