five more trakrs to love
we here at sacred bird love dogs (and other animals too) so we found this story about the cloning of a rescue dog interesting. trakr was a german shepherd who was trained as search and rescue dog and is credited with locating the last survivor from the building rubble of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in [...]
hard-headed and cute
viral videos are the new black. check out the one of the most popular videos floating around the net this last week. none of the wittle kitties were injured in the making of this video. happy monday!
that’s a lot of crap
according to the youtube blog, 20 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute. 1200 minutes of video content for every 1 minute. in mid 2007, it was 6 hours of content for every 1 minute. in january 2009, it grew to 15 hours of video for every 1 minute. it won’t be long [...]
flight or fight
speaking of violent crime, the birds are starting to fight back. researchers at the university of florida found out that mockingbirds can remember faces that they think pose a threat to them. birds recognized and attacked students that had fiddled with their nests but left alone other groups of students that hadn’t messed with them [...]
monday morning laughs
anderson cooper, on a treadmill.
don’t get too excited, it’s just one of andy’s many namesakes.
Embedded video from CNN Video
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9021-uh-oh
after 7 long years, an animal shelter group called “zoo to you” finally settled a lawsuit with a donor they claimed owed a lot of dough. tom and marguerite nunn, the donors in question, sued the organization when the organization refused to an accidental donation of $93,447. the story goes like this:
the nunns love the mission [...]
don’t put lipstick on that pig!
’cause you might catch something. the pig has had quite a year. first, the now president of the united states took one for the team when there was a claim that he called sarah palin, then candidate for the vp job a “pig” (he didn’t). now, the latest flu epidemic is the swine flu. what [...]
