Debate Continues: Did Your Seafood Feel Pain?: The scientific debate on the subject has intensified recently, with a team of British researchers proposing this month that electroshock tests suggest crabs indeed feel pain. But the study has drawn scrutiny, while another study late last year pushed back on the idea that fish, more closely related to humans than are crabs, feel pain.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Debate Continues: Did Your Seafood Feel Pain?
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Fortean Times:Runaway Deer In Chelmsford: Woman Injured
From Fortean Times, this incident in England of a deer "hurdling" a woman:Runaway Deer In Chelmsford: Woman Injured
Indiana couple fights charges over rescuing injured baby deer | Fox News
Indiana couple fights charges over rescuing injured baby deer | Fox News. "Drop Charges Against Connersville Police Officer," on Facebook.
Couple saved a dying deer they found on private property, now they face 60 days in jail, the"putting down" execution of the deer, and a $500.00 fine.
Couple saved a dying deer they found on private property, now they face 60 days in jail, the
Friday, February 1, 2013
Non-Bigfoot Blood Lust
Just my personal little war on a Bigfoot blog that shall not be named nor linked to, but once again I see they have posted footage (vintage TV) of someone killing a deer with his bare hands and drinking its blood, or some such. Details don't matter. What does matter is that this has nothing to do with Bigfoot, and everything to do with animal porn, to drive visitors to their site. Not the first time they've posted this type of blood lust crap; won't be the last. Their excuse, as they once posted, was something along the lines of (paraphrasing, naturally) "Bigfoot probably eats like this in the wild so why not it's all good."Disingenuous bullshit.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Coon Dong: Root and Bone Apothecary
If you need a raccoon penis bone for you spell doings, here's the place:Root and Bone Apothecary
Monday, January 14, 2013
Dogs: The Latest in High Tech Para-tainment
My new Trickster's Realm column is up now at Tim Binnall's place. Be sure to read all the great columns over there. Plus, Greg Bishop is the most recent audio guest. Lots to explore at Binnall of America:
binnallofamerica.com: Animals react to the strange in their own eerie ways. UFO lore, ghost tales and Bigfoot stories are full of examples of how their animals, mainly dogs, reacted to "something." Something usually unseen by the human witness. Barking wildly at something out there. Or, cowering under the bed. Cats hiss and flee, sometimes the family dog takes off and is never seen again. Sometimes their bodies are found; tragic demise; from Sasquatch?
Dogs, cats and other animals alert us to something...something alien, something ghostly, something definitely weird. We watch and listen to the animals, waiting, wanting, hoping to see what they see. Often times we never do see what it is they're reacting to. We just know they are. We too often sense something is wrong, something is there, and heed the animals in our lives, listening to their anomalous responses to this ... something.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
11 killer whales free after being 'locked' in ice, mayor says - World News
11 killer whales free after being 'locked' in ice, mayor says - World News
Eleven killer whales that were “locked in” by ice in a Canadian bay, with only a small area of open water for them to surface, are now apparently free, possibly due to a change in current that helped break open a path to the sea, the mayor of a nearby village said Thursday.
Two scouts sent to check on the killer whales around 8 a.m. local time found a passage of water had been created in Hudson Bay all of the way to the open sea – nearly 25 miles away -- and the ice hole that the marine mammals had been trapped in was empty, said Petah Inukpuk, mayor of Inukjuak, a remote Inuit village home to 1,800, in Quebec.
“They are free. They are no longer here. When there is a new moon, the water current is activated. It could have helped … completely trap them, but in this case it caused an open passage out to the open water,” he told NBC News, adding that they probably were freed overnight. “It was mother nature that helped them. ... They are no longer icelocked.”
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Birdsong Stirs Birds' 'Emotions' Much As Music Affects Humans, Brain Imaging Study Suggests
Of course they do!
Birdsong Stirs
Birds can sing. They can dance. And they may even experience an emotional response to music similar to humans.
A new study from Emory University in Atlanta found that when birds hear birdsong, their brains show activity similar to that seen in humans when they listen to music.
Birdsong Stirs
Birds' 'Emotions' Much As Music Affects Humans, Brain Imaging Study Suggests
Birds can sing. They can dance. And they may even experience an emotional response to music similar to humans.
A new study from Emory University in Atlanta found that when birds hear birdsong, their brains show activity similar to that seen in humans when they listen to music.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Wild Dolphins Give Humans Gifts : Discovery News
At an Australian resort, wild dolphins bring offerings of food to humans:Wild Dolphins Give Humans Gifts : Discovery News
Thursday, December 27, 2012
College student's turtle project takes dark twist - Yahoo! News
This study is a sad and sick glimpse into human nature. Mentioned is Hal Herzog's book "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat," mentioned in the article. Haven't read it but sounds interesting and it's now on my long list of books to read.
College student's turtle project takes dark twist - Yahoo! News: CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson University student Nathan Weaver set out to determine how to help turtles cross the road. He ended up getting a glimpse into the dark souls of some humans.
Weaver put a realistic rubber turtle in the middle of a lane on a busy road near campus. Then he got out of the way and watched over the next hour as seven drivers swerved and deliberately ran over the animal. Several more apparently tried to hit it but missed.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
MonsterTracker.com since the year 2000 has been investgating cryptozoology, cryptids, and other mysterious creatures. | MonsterTracker.com since the year 2000 has been investgating cryptozoology, cryptids, and other mysterious creatures.
Just a reminder to check out Monster Tracker, a cousin site if you will to UFO Digest, both brought to you by Dirk Vander Ploeg:MonsterTracker.com since the year 2000 has been investgating cryptozoology, cryptids, and other mysterious creatures. | MonsterTracker.com since the year 2000 has been investgating cryptozoology, cryptids, and other mysterious creatures.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
FDA Soon Ready to Approve Genetically Modified Salmon for Human Consumption :
FDA:"The genetically modified (GM) fish poses no foreseeable risk to nature."
Remember this name: AquaBounty, the company the FDA "...will likely grant approval" to to market the Frankenfish.
FDA Soon Ready to Approve Genetically Modified Salmon for Human Consumption
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Mystery animal attacking livestock - wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather & Sports
Mysterious and sad animal mutilations in Kentucky. Seems to be primarily the ears of goats and cattle that are being chewed on, but sadly, causing much damage in some cases -- some animals have had to be put down. Attacks seem to happen at night.
Mystery animal attacking livestock - wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather & Sports: SHELBY COUNTY, KY (WAVE) - A community of farmers in Shelby County have been terrorized over the past few weeks by a mystery animal.
The creature has been attacking, but not eating, livestock such as goats and calves.
Kevin Cox, a farmer in the area, had already had one animal fall victim to an attack and he said his dogs alerted him of a second, "I heard the goat the dogs going off and I ran out there and I looked and saw the goat laying on the ground."
His goat, Polka-dot, is now missing all of one ear and almost lost both of them.
Cox explained, "I noticed my whole steer bull looking a little different. It was covered in blood. Then my other two bulls come up and they had their ears all chewed up."
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Venomous Primate Discovered in Borneo
Venomous Primate Discovered in Borneo: Beware the Slow Loris
Like all slow lorises, N. kayan has a toxic bite—one of the few mammals that do, noted Munds, who worked with Susan Ford of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and Anna Nekaris of Oxford Brookes University in the U.K.
To access its poison, a slow loris rubs its hands under glands near its armpits—"kind of like Molly [Shannon] from Saturday Night Live," Munds quipped. Then the animal applies the poison to its teeth, and the resulting bite can put a person or predator into potentially fatal anaphylactic shock.
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