And right the fuck on. A Maryland man was who kept his cat indoors for nine years and then decided to make it an outdoor only cat was convicted of four counts of animal cruelty. He has appealed. (The cat is okay... now.)

I bring you Hatebeak, a grindcore death metal band whose lead singer is a parrot. They also have a MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/beak666

I really just wanted to share this sentence.

"Now, in the most detailed analysis yet of duck and goose vaginas, researchers have established that females of these species have evolved vaginal features to thwart unwelcome males."

I should warn you, there are some kind of gross images...

A newly-discovered spider has been named after rock star David Bowie, in an effort to raise awareness about the number of arachnid species threatened with extinction. The Heteropoda davidbowie is distinguished by its large size and yellow hair, and is only found in parts of Malaysia.

I'm putting it under pets, because we don't have a livestock category...

Sometimes a ram wants to get into the adjacent field of the lady-sheeps, and will climb any number of utility poles to get there. Or, hell, maybe he thought it was a zip wire. Who knows.

The awesome thing is, it's happened more than once!

[...]Santino, a chimpanzee at the zoo in the city north of Stockholm, collected the stones in a calm state, prior to the zoo opening in the morning. The launching of the stones occurred hours later - during dominance displays to zoo visitors - with Santino in an "agitated" state.[...]
Santino was observed gently knocking on the "boulders", hitting harder to detach bits that were loosened and adding those to his stashes of ammunition.

I love how they extract every bit of information from this case, EXCEPT that Santino wants them to leave him the fuck alone! Seriously. He'll hit you in the face with a rock, even.

I for one welcome our new feline overlords, and feel I can prove useful crushing the human resistance.

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another.

This article talks about a puppy who got flushed down the loo by a 4 year old boy.

There is a sewer-cam picture of the puppy in question. I guess it's amazing the puppy lived, but what I can't figure out is why the journalists would print the blatant lies being told here.

A fox in Föhren, Germany has taken 120 shoes as chewtoys for her cubs. And also? Love the photo caption.