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Lioness Fitted With Contact Lenses
Offbeat  (tags: lioness, inherited bad sight at birth, fitted, contact lenses )

Simone
- 2 days ago - dnaindia.com
A lioness has become the first in the world to be fitted with contact lenses. The big cat, by the name of Elsa, was losing her sight to cataracts, and she was refusing to eat and was losing dangerous amounts of weight, reports the Daily Star. But the
Kung Fu Monkeys Turn Tables On Trainer
Offbeat  (tags: martial arts monkeys, trainer, revenge, same treatment, shoppers )

Simone
- 2 days ago - news.peacefmonline.com
A Chinese man who trained monkeys martial arts to entertain shoppers was shocked when they turned the tables on him. Lo Wung's taekwondo monkeys have become a regular feature outside a shopping centre in
Readers' Rescue Animal Photos (Slideshow)
Offbeat  (tags: rescue animals, family members, stories, slideshow, love, bonding, kangaroos, adoptions )

Simone
- 2 days ago - treehugger.com
From a female Eastern Grey Kangaroo trapped in a sediment pond saved by a reader in Australia to a giraffe adopted at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, readers sent in photos of their rescue animals. Click through for photos of a cat found in a grocery store;
Coyote Found Frozen In Its Tracks
Offbeat  (tags: discovery, near road, wildlife, frozen coyote, odd, unusual )

Simone
- 2 days ago - thedenverchannel.com
A Silt, Colo., man made an amazing discovery this week: a coyote frozen solid in its tracks, standing upright next to a road near his home. Seth Wettlin told TheDenverChannel.com that he ran out of gas on the way home Wednesday night and saw the
Tribal Nature and 'Palestine, New Mexico'
Offbeat  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Russell Means, Arts & Entertainment, Theatre, culture, society, interesting, interesting, performance )

Kat
- 2 days ago - latimes.com
Tribal thinking and tribal identity factor heavily in Richard Montoya's new play "Palestine, New Mexico," running through Jan. 24 at the Mark Taper Forum. There's the close-knit tribe otherwise known as the U.S. military. An American Indian tribe that...
Mmm, McBlood.
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, McDonalds )

Cher
- 14 days ago - animalrights.change.org
My friend and animal advocate Larry Sullivan snapped this disturbing photo earlier today and captioned it "BBQ sauce? Looks more like blood splatter to me...which makes more sense." How right he is. This looks exactly like a disgusting pool of blood.
Huge UK Cave Spiders Returned Home
Offbeat  (tags: environment, cave spiders, returning )

Cher
- 14 days ago - all-creatures.org
A colony of huge cave spiders are finally heading home after 10 years
When Have You Noticed Animals in Nature or Your Pets Displaying a Sixth Sense?
Offbeat  (tags: animals, companion animals, wild animals, nature, sixth sense, perceptions, feelings )

Simone
- 43 days ago - blog.seattlepi.com
We live in a houseful of sniffers. Anything new, in a different place, or that could possibly be food gets sniffed by our two cats and dog. The bird checks out the new and unusual with his calls and screeches. As we observe how the animals who share
Veolia Environnement's Wildlife Photo Contest
Offbeat  (tags: photo contest, photography, wildlife, ranthambore tigers, velolia environment )

Simone
- 79 days ago - ft.com
Ranthambore National Park, India. Machali, a female tiger, is mobbed by jeep-loads of tourists.
Tesco Accused of Being Pedigree Chumps as Dog Food Vouchers Used for Booze
Offbeat  (tags: tesco, pedigreed dog food, online vouchers, used for booze )

Simone
- 79 days ago - dogmagazine.net
Hundreds of shoppers have used dog food vouchers, meant to be redeemed against Pedigree dog food, to cash in on booze, clothes and even TVs in a blunder that is set to cost the supermarket thousands. Pedigree had offered the vouchers online and the
 
 
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