According to biologists at Harvard University, some African frogs can morph their toes into claws by puncturing their own skin with sharp bones. The bones are sharp enough to wound predators and protect the frogs from danger, but obviously it’s using sparingly since it requires the bone to pierce the skin on their feet. These [...]

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Remind us to never go swimming with some friends at Nubbin Slough, a canal near Lake Okeechobee in Florida please. Ever. Because that’s Kasey Edwards, an 18-year-old, was attacked by a wild alligator. Edwards was face to face with the ferocious animal at first, staring for what must have been some of the scariest 10 [...]

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Fort Collins, Colorado is in the middle of a civil debate concerning chickens as pets. Many in the town are pushing for chickens as a source of food, and just want “them to be treated just as any other household family pet would be.” Other household pets don’t lay eggs we eat or get chopped [...]

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Nicknamed “Osama bin Laden,” a raging elephant in India managed to kill at least 11 people and injure several before being shot by enough bullets to take it down. For months the elephant had been terrorizing towns, and forest officials and police worked together in hunting down the wild animal. We’re not sure why Indian [...]

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We admit, we love animals doing things we’d never expect. Well an amateur fisherman in Australia stumbled upon a clash of titans: a nine-foot-long saltwater crocodile fighting a shark in the Daly River. Fighting is probably not the operative term, killing is probably more correct. The crocodile dragged the flailing shark onto dry land, where [...]

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Don’t get Donkey mad Shrek!
A Mexican donkey named Blacky was recently released from jail after spending three days imprisoned for biting and kicking two men near a ranch in the southern state of Chiapas. Apparently the authorities felt that the donkey acted maliciously, and felt that a few days of jail would help correct his [...]

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We’ve featured stories of dogs making amazing returns home, but they wouldn’t have had to try so hard if they only knew how to talk. Mr. Yosuke Nakamura, a parrot, flew out of its cage and became lost, rescued by police two weeks ago from a neighbor’s roof. The parrot spent a night at the [...]

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Warden Burl Cain of the Louisiana State Penitentiary has one guard he’s particularly proud to have at his prison: a 400-pound black bear. He considers it the same as “having another guard at no cost the taxpayer,” disregarding the fact that it’s a wild animal that could easily kill any of its human keepers! The [...]

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