On this season's deer opener, a Minnesota woman shot one of the rarest kinds around; an albino deer.
Mary Rakotz of Avon got the 6-point buck on Saturday in Mille Lacs County.
She said it was thrilling to see the rare animal, but 100 times more exciting to be able to actually take it home.
"I had heard that it might be in the area, so I thought that here was my chance of a lifetime. So I had to creep a little bit, probably about 40 yards, to get a good place where I could steady myself a little bit. But then I did that and shot and it went right down," said Rakotz.
(Albino deer are so uncommon that it's actually illegal to hunt them in at least seven states.)
Is it any wonder that so many creatures have been hunted to extinction with idiots like this in the world?
An
Indian man who believed he had been cursed for stoning to death two dogs has atoned for his sin by marrying another dog in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony.
P. Selvakumar, a 33-year-old farm laborer from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, married the four-year-old stray
bitch female dog after it was bathed and processed to his village temple dressed in an orange sari and garlanded with flowers.
Remember that
cute video of the sweet little otters floating and holding hands?
"Awww," you said, "aren't they adorable!"
That's exactly what
Susan Martin of Merrit Island, Florida, said about the otter in her yard. She noticed its cute little face and how innocent it seemed to be. Then while she was looking at it, it bit her - twice!
Yup, all that sweetness & innocence, it's all been an act.
Another otter attacked poor little Taz, the 10-year-old Westie who fought off the frothing otter to keep it away from the Linnett family.
The dog came out bloody, but Animal Control got the otter. "Took 'em a while. He was mean."
Environmental Graffiti follows up on a previous article on non-native species in the UK, with a list of the 5 worst non-native animal species worldwide.
So, who's number one?
The Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus, houses three of the world’s largest cockroaches: the Death Head (Blaberus cranifer), collected from a bat roost in Panama; Peppered or Peruvian Cockroach (Archimandrita tesselata) from Peru; and Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) from Madagascar.
Bohart Museum scientists have maintained terrariums of Madagascar hissing cockroaches for some 30 years. At any given time, the museum has hundreds of them. It’s the most popular display among the kids, because of three reasons: the hissing sound they make, their size and their appearance.
More about cockroaches from the Smithsonian
National Zoo.
Photo: Kathy Keatley Garvey
The Greyhound Adoption Center is one of the only greyhound rescue groups that accepts all greyhounds, not just those from the racetrack. Greyhounds adopted directly from racetracks or from other adoption groups with a "no-return" policy frequently wind up at the pound or some other shelter. GAC accepts pound greyhounds and greyhounds with no racing tattoos, as well.
GAC's open-door policy includes ill or injured dogs. As long as they have space, no greyhound is ever turned away, regardless of its age or physical condition. They will keep any dog for as long as it takes to find just the right home.
