# Odd Animal News **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528 "2008-08-28T08:33:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/201 "2009-09-10T04:59:19Z")
[India Mulls Reintroduction of Cheetah, Decades after Extinction](http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AJKJCG0&show_article=1) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/202 "2009-09-15T17:26:18Z")
[Snake with a leg](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/203 "2009-09-15T18:25:51Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > [Snake with a leg](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html). That’s due to the toxic waste from their factories! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/204 "2009-09-16T13:17:58Z")
It seems like September is snake month. In [this heart warming tale](http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/09/15/63975_local-news.html), however, they come off second best. > [@](#): > > A PAIR of rabid rabbits has been caught killing a series of snakes near Cairns. For three weeks Armando Del Manso believed his dog was responsible for the dead snakes showing up with teeth marks all over them on his East Barron property’s lawn each morning. But it turns out it was a pair of rampaging rabbits killing the snakes. > > “These are killer rabbits man,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/205 "2009-09-17T23:03:31Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > [Snake with a leg](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html). "A more common mutation among snakes is the growth of a second head … the heads have a tendency to attack each other. " 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/206 "2009-09-17T23:55:54Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > "the heads have a tendency to attack each other. " > > 😃 They’re _snakes,_ dammit! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/207 "2009-09-18T15:20:11Z")
[Another savage rodent](http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8261000/8261364.stm) > [@](#): > > A squirrel has been seen attempting to savage a fruit bat to death. > > The bizarre incident was witnessed by zoologist Mr William Stanley, while he was conducting fieldwork in the forests of Tanzania. “No-one has recorded this type of behaviour or incident before,” says Mr Stanley, who saw the squirrel try to kill the bat in a tree above his head. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/208 "2009-09-27T02:44:21Z")
[New, bizarre species of fish found off Brazil](http://au.video.yahoo.com/watch/6021334/15649985) [Hungry monkeys storm houses in Thailand](http://en.rian.ru/strange/20090922/156218776.html) **“As the global economic crisis and political instability has cut visitors to Thailand, wild monkeys, mostly macaques, are attacking villages and even Buddhist monasteries across the country, pilfering everything that can be considered edible.”** ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/209 "2009-09-27T02:51:08Z")
I’ll be buggered! Monkeys had investments? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/210 "2009-09-30T15:28:10Z")
[Glow Frog](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216637/Pictured-The-glowing-frog-wanted-light-snack-swallowed-Christmas-bulb.html). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/211 "2009-10-03T08:41:10Z")
[Police in Kenya Seize Bangkok-Bound Ivory](http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5imAKMFUpWrUUmDezqsGsYGIEFo4w) 684 kilos of it. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/212 "2009-10-04T02:22:06Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > [Police in Kenya Seize Bangkok-Bound Ivory](http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5imAKMFUpWrUUmDezqsGsYGIEFo4w) > > 684 kilos of it. Bastards! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/213 "2009-10-04T04:12:25Z")
I saw a 4" piece of Ellen’s tusk that was broken off at the [Little Rock Zoo today.](http://www.littlerockzoo.com/default.aspx?p=19642&evtid=10412:10/2/2009) Man, I bet that hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/214 "2009-10-04T05:53:47Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > [Glow Frog](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216637/Pictured-The-glowing-frog-wanted-light-snack-swallowed-Christmas-bulb.html). I’ll see you and raise you: [Glow Kitty](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27338236/). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/215 "2009-10-04T15:06:24Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > [Police in Kenya Seize Bangkok-Bound Ivory](http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5imAKMFUpWrUUmDezqsGsYGIEFo4w) > > 684 kilos of it. > [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Bastards! :mad: The police or the smugglers? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/216 "2009-10-05T05:43:44Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > The police or the smugglers? :eek: The smugglers, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/217 "2009-10-07T05:22:08Z")
> **[Video News - CNN](https://www.cnn.com/videos)** > > Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN.com. > **[Strange Creature in Panama: Hoax?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534802)** > > Have you seen this news clip from CNN about an alleged finding by four kids in Panama? I was wondering if the Dopers may have other sources revealing any more information. Here’s a link to the CNN video clip: Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/218 "2009-10-09T03:55:04Z")
[Crab Populations in Thailand Replenished with Crab Condominium](http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southeastasia/view/1009916/1/.html) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/219 "2009-10-10T03:09:26Z")
I’m sure Siam Sam won’t mind my posting merely good news about [elephants.](http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=4945) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/220 "2009-10-11T01:13:08Z")
No, we LOVES us some good news about elephants. 😃 The arrested accomplices should be tied down for the elephants to trample on them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528.md?page=12)