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Day Of The Animals: Tales Of Man Vs Beast (And Man Suffers)

Before you know it, they'll be on bikes!
 
He has hopped off.

Roger, a kangaroo who won global fame for his enormous size and impressive physique, has died at the age of 12.

The roo was rescued as a joey after his mother was killed in a car accident, and grew up at the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs in Australia.

And he grew up a lot - ending up more than 2m (6ft 7) tall and weighing 89kg (196lbs).

The sanctuary announced his death from old age at the weekend, saying they had lost their "beautiful boy".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46503284
 
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As a big guy, I would have thought Roger would have lived longer, that's about as long a dog usually lives, if not shorter. RIP anyway (if kangaroos are bothered about the phrase RIP, that is).
 
GNC said:
But blue whales live for decades... elephants can have hefty lifespans too. Then there's the giant tortoise, not elephant-sized but big for tortoises.
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But are those whales, elephants, tortoises etc. large examples for their particular species?
 
Mythopoeika said:
But are those whales, elephants, tortoises etc. large examples for their particular species?
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They're large for their, wotsit, genus? Is that the right word? Although I seem to recall Great Danes are huge dogs that live a short time, so...
 
A faithful friend. Vid at link.

A dog’s devotion to his home is making national headlines after his owner found him guarding the property weeks after the residence and the surrounding area was burned to the ground by Northern California’s Camp Fire.

Now-viral video shows Madison, an Anatolian shepherd dog, reuniting with 75-year-old Andrea Gaylord on Wednesday ― the first day she was permitted to return to her land in the town of Paradise.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...cid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__121018
 
Robot Wolf Keeps Wild Boar Away From Crops In Japan

A robot wolf designed to protect farms has proved to be such a success in trials that it is going into mass production next month.

It's been designed to keep wild boar away from rice and chestnut crops, and was deployed on a trial basis near Kisarazu City in Japan's eastern Chiba prefecture last July.

When it detects an approaching animal, its eyes light up and it starts to howl, Asahi TV says. Its manufacturers say the robot wolf uses solar-rechargeable batteries and has a range of howl noises so that animal threats don't get used to it.

The Japan Agricultural Cooperatives say that crop losses have noticeably decreased in areas where the Super Monster Wolf has been present. Beforehand, farmers around Kisarazu were resigned to giving up at least part of their crops to wild boar every year.

Speaking to the Chiba Nippo news website, Chihiko Umezawa of the agricultural cooperative says that the device has an effective radius of about one kilometre, suggesting it is more effective than an electric fence.
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Real wolf news:

Wolves in Denmark

Denmark is to tag its first wild wolf pack in 200 years with GPS trackers, in order to keep tabs on the wolves and protect them from hunters.

Danes thought their last wolves had died out in the early 19th century, until one was spotted in Jutland six years ago. The female later mated, and Denmark announced last year that it now has a fully-fledged pack. Copenhagen University's wolf programme, which was set up to monitor the pack, believes the first pair moved to Denmark from the forests of eastern Germany.

But the reasons for the tagging are not purely scientific. Environment Jakob Ellemann-Jensen acknowledged that farmers in Jutland are concerned that the wolves are varying their standard diet of deer with the occasional sheep.

"The arrival of wolves in Denmark has prompted considerable public concern, and I understand that," he said, adding that tagging will help scientists learn more about the wolves and "hopefully make Danes feel safer," the Dagens news site reports.

This comes after a member of the public was filmed shooting a wolf dead in May, in a case that caused nationwide outrage.

Peter Sunde of Aarhus University told DR that tagging will help scientists spot any signs of rogue behaviour among the wolves.

He also assured the public that malicious hunters will not be able to use the programme to track the animals down, as details of the wolves' movements will only be made public after a one-month delay.
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More communicative animals can cause mayhem by means other than physical attack, etc. ...
Parrot uses owner's Alexa to order ice cream, raisins
A British parrot with a fondness for Amazon's Alexa has been trying to use the virtual assistant to order treats and toys, his owner said.

Marion Wischnewski, who works at the National Animal Welfare Trust sanctuary in Berkshire, said she brought Rocco to live in her home in Oxfordshire when officials became concerned about the bird's use of profanity in front of visitors.

She said Rocco quickly started talking to her Amazon Alexa-enabled smart device, using its capabilities to tell jokes and play songs.

Wischnewski said she quickly discovered Rocco had also figured out he could use Alexa to order some of his favorite items, including watermelons, raisins, broccoli and ice cream.

The owner, who said she has started going over her Alexa logs each day to cancel Rocco's purchases, said the bird also tried to buy a kite and a light bulb.
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SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/1...exa-to-order-ice-cream-raisins/7111545060871/

VIDEO (From separate site):
 
 
Would you pay £10,000 for penguins you saw advertised on Facebook?

A man who helped police return two stolen penguins to a zoo has said he was "heartbroken" when he learned the birds had been taken illegally.

Reece Oliver, 27, from Strelley in Nottinghamshire, paid nearly £10,000 for the pair of Humboldt penguins after seeing an advert on Facebook. However, their microchips showed they had been taken from South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria. On making the discovery, Mr Oliver called the police to return the birds. A 23-year-old man from Preston, arrested on suspicion of burglary and theft has been released under investigation, Nottinghamshire Police said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-46949713
 
ramonmercado said:
In Cromer people have to worry about giant bat attacks rather than seagulls.
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Oh, crap ... :doh: Yet another example of Cromer's being behind the times ... :roll:

I would have sworn all the giant bat batteries had been decommissioned and removed when the Cold War (supposedly) ended.

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Your cat will make you mad.
Toxoplasmosis infection causes psychic disorders:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159118306998?dgcid=raven_sd_aip_email

Large-scale study of Toxoplasma and Cytomegalovirus shows an association between infection and serious psychiatric disorders
Common infectious pathogens have been associated with psychiatric disorders, self-violence and risk-taking behavior.
In conclusion, our study finds that T. gondii infection might be a contributing causal factor for schizophrenia. Moreover, T. gondii infection was borderline significantly associated with traffic accidents. CMV infection may be a risk factor for developing any psychiatric disorder, especially neurotic, stress-related, and somatoform disorders, or for experiencing self-violence in the form of attempting or committing suicide.
 
Tehran is going to the dogs or rather the dogs will be going from it.

Iran's capital city has banned the public from walking pet dogs, as part of a long-standing official campaign to discourage dog-ownership.

Tehran Police Chief Hossein Rahimi said "we have received permission from the Tehran Prosecutor's Office, and will take measures against people walking dogs in public spaces, such as parks". He told the Young Journalists Club news agency that the ban was due to dogs "creating fear and anxiety" among members of the public.

As if this were not draconian enough, Brigadier-General Rahimi added that driving with a dog in your car was also banned. "It is forbidden to drive dogs around in cars and, if this is observed, serious police action will be taken against the car-owners in question," he told the agency, which was set up by Iran's state broadcaster to train young journalists.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47041611
 
ramonmercado said:
Tehran is going to the dogs or rather the dogs will be going from it.

Iran's capital city has banned the public from walking pet dogs, as part of a long-standing official campaign to discourage dog-ownership.

Tehran Police Chief Hossein Rahimi said "we have received permission from the Tehran Prosecutor's Office, and will take measures against people walking dogs in public spaces, such as parks". He told the Young Journalists Club news agency that the ban was due to dogs "creating fear and anxiety" among members of the public.
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So this a long-standing cultural thing in Iran? If so, then who are the dog owners, foreigners? I say this because we have a considerable population from Nepal and India around here and they seem to be terrified of dogs. I mean petrified even of small ones. They just are not used to them and according to their own sentiments, will never acclimate to them. I do see the little kids rather curious after they get over the initial reaction.
 
Sharon Hill said:
So this a long-standing cultural thing in Iran? ...
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I've never quite understood the details, but ... Yes - there's a more-than-mythic aversion to dogs in the Middle Eastern region. In some areas it seems to derive from problems with wild / feral canines. In some places the aversion is attributed to dogs being considered 'unclean'. I've heard about this aversion from people whose places of origin ranged from (e.g.) Israel and Egypt eastward to Iran and Pakistan.
 
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