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Offbeat News tagged with animal

The Gruesome Power of Raptor Talons
Offbeat  (tags: Animal, Raptor Talons, claws, Study )

Katie
- 10 days ago - wired.com
The most thorough study to date of raptor talons reveals their feet to be extraordinarily specialized hunting tools, perfectly suited to their gruesomely amazing killing strategies.
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Do Wild Pigs Know the Daylight Savings Time?
Offbeat  (tags: nature, animals, animal, pig )

Katie
- 45 days ago - treehugger.com
You bet animals know what time it is! Wild pigs have a highly acute sense of time. What they don't know is this: humans swing their daily schedule up an hour in the Spring and back an hour in the Fall.
6 comments
Unidentified Beast Washes Ashore in Jersey
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, photos, pictures, interesting, off-beat, bizarre, animal, monster )

Maria
- 496 days ago - current.com
This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak. A tipster says that there is "a government animal testing facility very close by in Long Island,"
21 comments
'Unicorn' Deer Is Found in Italian Preserve
Offbeat  (tags: Unicorn deer, rare, animal, Italy )

Bea
- 545 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
ROME - A deer with a single horn in the center of its head -- much like the fabled, mythical unicorn -- has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday.
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REAL LIVE BABY EWOKS FOUND!!! & A MUSICAL LOBOTOMY!!! ^_^   video
Offbeat  (tags: unknown cute little monkey type creature, great german kids song, depleted uranium, youtube censorship, unusual, interesting, off-beat, bizarre, odd, animal, human, society, culture, photos, technology, americans, world )

Anne
- 605 days ago - youtube.com
love this song ^_^ love these cute little... whatever they are ^_^ but mostly i would LOVE to see an end to the use of depleted uranium wepons! please download this banned youtube video and REPOST IT! http://media-convert.com/convert/?xid=15-tqzabsxn
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Big World
Offbeat  (tags: animal, small, world, interesting, creatures )

Zivan
- 606 days ago - fun.ql4.org
Pictures of small animals.
7 comments
Shouting Macaw Scares Off Burglar at Pet Store
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, animal, bird )

Julia
- 695 days ago - reuters.com
BOSTON (Reuters) - Watch dogs are a pretty common first line of security for U.S. homes and businesses. Watch birds not so much. But that didn't stop Merlin, a seven-year-old blue-and-gold macaw who scared off a burglar..
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Meet Ewe-Dini, the Sheep That Can Open Her Locked Pen... With Her Tongue
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, funny, unusual, animal, sheep )

Cathryne
- 739 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A sheep called Lottie has proved that not all of her kind are stupid by regularly letting herself out of her locked pen... with her tongue. Staff at Swansea Community Farm, south Wales, were baffled when Lottie and her three pen-mates started escaping
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Baby Piglet Found in Toilet Paper Delivery
Offbeat  (tags: offbeat, animal, AnimalWelfare, animals, rescued )

Echo
- 751 days ago - news.yahoo.com
A piglet nicknamed Andrex is recovering after being found in the back of a lorry full of toilet paper at a supermarket. two or three weeks old, was discovered in a delivery at a Tesco...
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Blue Cat Trains to Be Croupier
Offbeat  (tags: animal, animals, pets, family, funny, humor, video )

Judyth
- 755 days ago - newsblaze.com
When he first mentioned he wanted to be a croupier, we bought him a practice unit.
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For Canines (and People, Too)
Offbeat  (tags: humans, interesting, animal, animals, dog, dogs, GoodNews, pets, interesting )

Angel
- 774 days ago - washingtonpost.com
For Canines (and People, Too) Dog Parks Are Becoming the Preferred Place to Meet and Greet By Daniela Deane Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 28, 2007; Page C01 Sherrard Foster's marriage of 30 years broke up recently, and she's now
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Bear Takes Stroll Through Calgary Yards
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, animal, off-beat, interesting, entertainment )

Jim
- 834 days ago - canada.com
CALGARY - A young bear roaming the city's south end on Sunday seemed to delight in evading its would-be captors -- the nonchalant little guy led officials on a rain-soaked chase that lasted the better part of the day. As rain pelted Fish Creek Park
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4-Foot Mummified Bone From Extinct Species of Walrus Highlights Interest in Artifacts
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, unusual, interesting, bizarre, animal )

Jim
- 836 days ago - iht.com
LOS ANGELES: Among all the fossils, skeletons, meteorites and gemstones for sale Sunday at the I.M. Chait Gallery natural history auction, lot #127 stands out. It's a mummified baculum, or penis bone, from a species of walrus that went extinct 12,000
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Abandoned Mansions Pets Left Behind
Offbeat  (tags: americans, culture, environment, family, health, humans, usa, abuse, animal, animalabuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalneglect, animals, animalsuffering, habitat, pets, rescue, abuse, contamination, health, humans, safety, toxins, americans, bizarr )

Echo
- 856 days ago - azcentral.com
"Many of them are disgusting: trash and animal feces everywhere, rotting food in a refrigerator crawling with maggots. We even find pets left in the house."
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Chocoholic Squirrel Steals Treats From Finnish Shop
Offbeat  (tags: animal, unusual, funny, chocolate, squirrel )

Maggie
- 861 days ago - news.yahoo.com
A Finnish squirrel with a sweet tooth heads to a Finnish grocery shop at least twice a day to steal "Kinder Surprise" chocolate-shelled eggs.
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