October 10th, 2006 at 12:01 am
McMoose?
Single college moose seeks fun, attractive moosette
A moose that wandered onto the Northern Michigan University campus and broke a dormitory window might have been looking for love in all the wrong places.
City police chased the animal away one evening last month after the incursion at Magers Hall, Detective Capt. Mike Angeli said. It was unclear whether the moose got inside the building.
“It’s not unusual for a moose to do something like this now,” said Dean Beyer, a Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist who has an office at Northern Michigan. “We’re in the middle of the mating rut right about now.
“Moose, especially a young bull moose, will move long distances,” he said. “They could be searching for a cow to mate with, or simply be a young bull dispersing after being chased away from its herd and looking for a new home range.”
We’ve had experience with moose wandering over to our cottage and looking in the windows, but none have ever managed to get inside. Moose are huge animals, I certainly wouldn’t want one wandering around my rooms, particularly if it were rutting season.
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September 23rd, 2006 at 12:01 am
This Weeks Theme is EYES:
Now that’s one sick mind who thought to put sunglasses on a dogs behind! With that stubby tail as a nose the dogs behind sure does look like a face doesn’t it?
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February 4th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Pigs may not be able to fly just yet, but they have moved up another step on the evolutionary scale. At least three pigs on this planet can glow from the inside out.
Researchers in Taiwan have bred pigs with a fluorescent material created by jelly fish. The pig embryos were injected with a fluorescent green protein taken from jelly fish. The scientists hope that these glowing pigs will help their stem cell research effort. Researchers hope that the glowing pigs will help them monitor tissue changes over time as the cells would show up during stem cell treatments of diseased organs, aiding physicians in monitoring the healing process.
The pigs are fluorescent green inside and out. Their heart and internal organs glow. When observing one of these pigs they glow with a light green tint, particularly their eyes, snout and hooves.
If the glowing pigs don’t work out for research I can think of another use for them. Horror Movies! Can you imagine a scary scene with a flash of glowing eyes and snout? These pigs could be the first fluorescent movie stars.
For more information on Glowing Pigs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4605202.stm
http://www.animationnation.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=001559;p
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ap_060115_glowing_pigs.html
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