These villages know how to prevent further crocodile attacks: Scare other crocodiles by parading around their kinsman’s corpse on the hood of Nissan. From NEWS.co.au: Papua New Guinea youths have captured a massive crocodile terrorising their village and reportedly killing seven locals over the past several years. A piece of meat was used to lure [...]
If you’re heading to Malaysia for an island getaway, be careful which uninhabited mangrove idyll you pull up to. The Associated Press reports: MORE than 300 stray dogs that were dumped on isolated islands turned to cannibalism after weeks of starvation, animal welfare activists said on Thursday. The plight of the dogs cast away by [...]
Sounds like a certain village in China has been learning from old episodes of The Simpsons. From UPI: What appeared to be an invasion of snakes scared residents of a Chinese village as the reptiles were spotted crawling on roads and climbing trees. The snakes appeared in the village in the Zhuhai special economic zone [...]
For American foodies, getting back to basics has been the latest thing for a few years. (File under: nose-to-tail dining, the 100-mile diet, Omnivore’s Dilemma and so on.) If you’re a Canadian foodie, “back to basics” means tucking into seal meat: Seal, hunted as food for generations in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence, is now [...]
First, they wanted to knock off killer crocs in the north. Now, Australians are turning on the very animal that represents their country. (No, not the koala.) From The Straits Times: Officials in Canberra have threatened to shoot the country’s best-known marsupial en masse… Authorities have tried giving them vasectomies and oral contraceptives, but to [...]
