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Everyone is familiar with those shows where animal control is called to take home dangerous animals, such as alligators or bats. Depending on where you live, that sort of thing may be perfectly normal to you. But these stories are examples of animals that were arrested by the actual police, actually being detained in prison. [...]
Posted by Simon Griffin on Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Bizarre · Tagged animal control, Animals, Cat, cat burglar, cats, Cow, Crime, crimes, dangerous animals, Drugs, elephant, Goat, monkey, parrot, police
When not scratching doors, yowling, making hairballs, or biting, cats can be neat and cute pets. Problem is, they usually don’t want to. However, when they choose to, the resulting stories can be worth all of the scratches, yowls, etc. Well, maybe not ALL of them, but certainly a good percentage. 10. The Cat Super [...]
Posted by Dustin Koski on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Nature · Tagged Cat, Cat behavior, cat heroes, Cat intelligence, cat stories, cats, Dustin Koski, Feral cat, pet
Halloween is upon us, and with it we see all the standard Halloween decorations and symbols – Jack O’ Lanterns, scarecrows, etc. Did you ever wonder where these symbols come from? When did Halloween actually start? Why does it mean we have to buy candy, or dress up in costumes? All your Halloween questions are [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing on Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Holidays · Tagged All Saints Day, bats, black and orange, cats, corn husks, costumes, ghost stories, ghosts, Gregory III, halloween, Halloween around the world, Halloween folklore, Halloween party, Halloween symbols, haunted houses, hay, irish culture, irish folklore, jack o lanterns, Jack O'Lanterns, orange and black, Samhain, skeletons, spiders, stalks of wheat, Trick-or-treating, witches
Before Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first man in space on April 12, 1961, a long succession of non-human astronauts had already been shot through the atmosphere in order to determine if life forms could survive spaceflight. Even after manned space missions became routine procedures, many different animals continued to be used for [...]
Posted by Brandt on Friday, April 9, 2010 at 1:16 am
Filed under Animals, History, Science · Tagged Animal, Animals, animals in space, Cape Canaveral, cats, doctors, Dogs, first man in space, fish, Fruit, guinea pig, guinea pigs, human astronauts, Human spaceflight, ivan ivanovich, manned space missions, monkeys, Monkeys in space, NASA, newts, Orbiting Frog Otolith, parachute recovery, pig space, plants and animals, rocket flight, skylab 3, Smithsonian, space, space experiments, space exploration, spiders, technology, Yorick, yuri gagarin
