# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/121 "2009-05-27T13:59:17Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > [Komodo Dragons Maul Man to Death](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/24/man-mauled-death-komodo-dragon). Well, at least it’s a novel way to go out. That was just the start. It seems the lizards are trying to take back their domination of the world. [Komodo dragon attacks](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521611,00.html) are on the rise. Next on Fox, _When Dragons Attack!_ ---
**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:** [May 28, 2009, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/122 "2009-05-28T12:16:29Z")
[In bed with a wild hippo](http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8070000/8070972.stm) > [@](#): > > “In a lifetime working with animals, this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen,” ---
**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:** [May 29, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/123 "2009-05-29T03:03:10Z")
We have a pair of pandas on loan from China up in the North, in the Chiang Mai Zoo. They’ve been trying to get them to mate for years, even to the extent of showing them panda porn on video. That didn’t seem to work, but something did, as the female, Lin Hui, gave birth to a girl panda on Wednesday morning. Stories [here](http://www.nationmultimedia.com/search/read.php?newsid=30103762&keyword=panda) and [here](http://www.nationmultimedia.com/search/read.php?newsid=30103845&keyword=panda). ---
**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:** [June 3, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/124 "2009-06-03T02:46:03Z")
And they’re holding a contest to name the panda cub. Story [here](http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/06/03/national/national_30104233.php). You can see a photo of her there, too. Not sure when it was taken; she’s a week old today (Wednesday), so just a few days anyway. I’m not sure if the contest is open to people outside of Thailand, but it looks like the prizes are “at least” 1 million baht (US$29,000) and MAYBE a car (sounds like they’ve not really thought this out completely), plus a trip to China to see pandas there. And: [Scientists track penguin poop from space](http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/02/penguin.satellite.images/index.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:** [June 4, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/125 "2009-06-04T04:51:53Z")
[“Deepest ever” living fish filmed](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7655358.stm) ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/126 "2009-06-04T16:10:24Z")
“Wildlife crossings in Montana help deer & bear cross safely”. This article has some cute photos - wildlife camera snapped a bear, some deer, bobcat, otter - and one surprising creature using the crossings. [Link](http://www.contech-cpi.com/bridges/about/News/June_2009_Newsletter/MultiPlate/867). ---
**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:** [June 11, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/127 "2009-06-11T04:28:11Z")
Our baby panda just turned 15 days. And [a cute little bugger](http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/06/11/national/national_30104875.php) she is, too. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/128 "2009-06-11T04:43:13Z")
[Rain of frogs](http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090610/tod-it-s-raining-tadpoles-in-japan-town-c359f57.html) (tadpoles if you want to be pedantic) in Japan. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/129 "2009-06-13T01:11:59Z")
And another lobster is saved from the pot, this time because of its skin color, the racist bastards. Story [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/06/12/massachusetts.yellow.lobster/index.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:** [June 13, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/130 "2009-06-13T01:35:54Z")
The young lady I was seeing at the time rescued a blue crayfish from the pot when we caught a bunch of brown ones in Rock Creek. 🙂 ---
**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:** [June 13, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/131 "2009-06-13T03:42:17Z")
[300,000 Stray Dogs Roam the Streets of Bangkok](http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/273918) I believe it, too. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/132 "2009-06-18T03:38:24Z")
[Mekong River Dolphins at Risk of Extinction](http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/cambodia.dolphins/index.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:** [June 23, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/133 "2009-06-23T19:42:45Z")
[World’s Rarest Insect Found on Rocky Spire](http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/19/worlds-rarest-insect.html) The Lord Howe Island stick insect, which has mysteriously popped up on Ball’s Pyramid in the Pacific. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/134 "2009-06-27T01:21:37Z")
[Stoned wallabies are making crop circles](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm) \*\*"Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around ‘as high as a kite’, a government official has said. “Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.”\*\* ---
**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:** [June 27, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/135 "2009-06-27T01:43:47Z")
I’d like it better if they were stoned Koala Bears falling out of trees. They catch the little suckers by knocking them out of trees with a twenty foot pole, and they land on their fat little asses and just bounce. But from the link: “I have seen a stoned wallaby but I don’t know about them making crop circles. The one I saw was slurring his words and asking me for a dollar as he was trying to get the boat to see his brother in New Zealand” ---
**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:** [June 29, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/136 "2009-06-29T04:19:37Z")
This could have gone into the elephant thread, but it is truly odd, so I’m putting it here. The panda cub in the Chiang Mai Zoo has been garnering SO much attention that to get the tourists back, mahouts have taken to painting their elephants to resemble pandas. Story [here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1195683/Will-stop-pandamonium-Thai-elephants-painted-look-like-pandas-black-white-bears-steal-fans.html). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/137 "2009-06-29T11:38:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > This could have gone into the elephant thread, but it is truly odd, so I’m putting it here. > > The panda cub in the Chiang Mai Zoo has been garnering SO much attention that to get the tourists back, mahouts have taken to painting their elephants to resemble pandas. Story [here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1195683/Will-stop-pandamonium-Thai-elephants-painted-look-like-pandas-black-white-bears-steal-fans.html). That is too funny! I do like the look though. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/138 "2009-06-29T13:15:52Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > [Stoned wallabies are making crop circles](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm) > > \*\*"Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around ‘as high as a kite’, a government official has said. > > “Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.”\*\* This has already been covered 3 times. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/139 "2009-06-30T03:35:16Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > This has already been covered 3 times. D’oh! ---
**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:** [June 30, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528/140 "2009-06-30T04:01:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > This could have gone into the elephant thread, but it is truly odd, so I’m putting it here. > > The panda cub in the Chiang Mai Zoo has been garnering SO much attention that to get the tourists back, mahouts have taken to painting their elephants to resemble pandas. Story [here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1195683/Will-stop-pandamonium-Thai-elephants-painted-look-like-pandas-black-white-bears-steal-fans.html). LMAO! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-animal-news/461528.md?page=8)