Animals

A Cat’s 200-Mile Trek Home Leaves Scientists Guessing

Nobody knows how it happened: an indoor housecat who got lost on a family excursion managing, after two months and about 200 miles, to return to her hometown.

Even scientists are baffled by how Holly, a 4-year-old tortoiseshell who in early November became separated from Jacob and Bonnie Richter at an R.V. rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., appeared on New Year’s Eve — staggering, weak and emaciated — in a backyard about a mile from the Richters’ house in West Palm Beach.

Giant rats eat two babies in South Africa townships in separate attacks

‘I can’t forget how ugly my child looked after her eyes were ripped out’ says dead baby’s mother.
Rats can grow up to three-foot long. Such giant rats as big as cats have killed and eaten two babies in separate attacks in South Africa’s squalid townships this week.

Size matters for ‘sex cheat’ frogs

Smaller treefrogs are more likely to “cheat” their way to a mate, French scientists have found.

Oregon farmer eaten by his pigs

Authorities are investigating how a farmer in the US state of Oregon was devoured by his pigs.

Viral photo helps 19-year-old arthritic dog recover

A photograph of a man wading in Lake Superior with his 19-year-old arthritic dog captured the hearts of millions when it was posted online last month–an outpouring that inspired the dog’s owner to launch a foundation to help low-income families care for their aging canines.

John Unger says Schoep’s Legacy Foundation has raised more than

Washington zoo’s panda cub had abnormalities

A week-old giant panda cub that died at Washington DC’s National Zoo had fluid in its abdomen and liver abnormalities, an initial necropsy has found.

Over-affectionate novice hunting dog shoots master

A  leaping  dog  inadvertently  shot  his  master  in  the  hand  by  catching  the  trigger  of  his  shotgun  during  a  hunt  in  the  Dordogne,  south-western  France.

Top 10 Luxury Foods

These 10 foods are generally the most expensive things you can eat. The ordering is based partly on price and partly on how luxurious they are considered to be.