It's me again. Guess what topic we'll be talking about. Yeah, more animal stories up ahead but now it's different. We will be talking about 'funny' ones. So prepare some tissues because you will cry of laughter.
1. Researchers at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Centre have been dressing up in panda outfits in an effort to fool a cute panda cub.
The four-month-old cub is the first to be trained for reintroduction into the wild by the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan province, China.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2010/12/06/wolong-giant-panda-researchers-dress-up-in-panda-costumes-to-fool-cub-599989/#ixzz4Lua5jLhy
2. A disabled pig may constitute an unlikely tourist attraction, but Chinese travellers from miles around are flocking to see one particular porker who walks on its two front legs.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2010/09/30/two-legged-pig-in-china-a-tourist-hit-530646/#ixzz4LuagE4Ze
The 10-month old piggy is somewhat of a celebrity and the local villagers have fondly named her ‘Zhu Jianqiang.’
Zhu Jianqiang means strong-willed pig, in English, and it seems a rather apt name for such an incredible animal.
Young Zhu Jianqiang is lucky to be alive though. As a piglet in a nine strong litter, there were calls for the wee piggy to be put out of her misery.
Wang Xihai, the pig’s owner, told the Telegraph: ‘My wife asked me to dump it but I refused as it’s a life. I thought I should give it a chance to survive and unexpectedly it survived healthy.’
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2010/09/30/two-legged-pig-in-china-a-tourist-hit-530646/#ixzz4LuawOUkP
3. YouTube video showing a deer ‘stealing’ a man’s wife has become an instant internet hit.
Do you remember the one about the octopus that stole an underwater camera from a diver, while it was recording ?
Or how about the dog that stole a truck ?
Well, this young buck trumps the lot.
The nine-second clip starts off innocently enough, with a confused-looking man and woman pictured in a snowy scene.
Events take a turn for the worse for the couple though, as randy Rudolph charges across the terrain with the alarmed woman in a tight embrace.
YouTube users have immediately taken to the clip, with one gushing: ‘I cant stop watching this… almost crying laughing!’
Twitter users have also been heavily tweeting about the subject, ‘beautiful’ and ‘it does exactly what it says on the tin’ being the most common refrains.
One member of the editorial team in Metro Towers even admitted: ‘It’s probably the best nine-second video clip I’ve ever seen.’
All you need to to do now is judge for yourself…
DEER STEALS MAN’S WIFE: WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO BELOW:
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2010/08/05/deer-steals-mans-wife-youtube-video-is-web-hit-470318/#ixzz4LubQ5Vjt
4.
Miniature pinscher Lu Lu proved to be an unlikely doggy diva – insisting on walking on two legs and carrying a handbag.Despite having four fully-functioning limbs, Lu Lu strode through the Chinese city of Zhumadian on her hind legs.Paw outstretched, she strutted across town with a teddy bear bag on her ‘arm.’ Classy.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2010/12/15/top-ten-animal-stories-of-the-year-2010-612835/#ixzz4LucBJdSh
5. Polar bears: big, yellowy-white, lots of teeth, partial to the odd seal. Cows: big, black and white or brown, lots of stomachs, partial to the odd field of grass. Pretty difficult to mistake one for the other, you’d think. Unless you’re a TV newsreader covering Cornwall.
Naomi Lloyd sent wildlife officials scampering to the Cornish coast after reporting live on air that the body of a polar bear had washed up on a beach.
Some feat when you think it’s about 4,300km (2,700 miles) from the North Pole and the Arctic, where polar bears roam, to Cornwall.
The ‘extraordinary’ news of the stranded beast was broadcast to viewers in Devon and Cornwall on ITV’s West Country bulletin at 7.55am yesterday. It appeared alongside video footage, shot from a cliff-top by a viewer, of a large white animal lying on the shore.
Lloyd told viewers: ‘A walker in Cornwall has caught an extraordinary sight on camera. A polar bear has washed up on a beach near Bude.
‘The bear comes from the Arctic Circle and an investigation is under way as to how it could have ended up there.’
Officials who went to investigate discovered the animal was a cow – whose skin had been bleached white by the sea water. How it died and how tides brought it there is a mystery.
A spokesman for ITV West Country said they had dropped the article after the morning bulletin when they discovered the animal was a cow.
He added: ‘It was a bit embarrassing. When we realised what it was, we pulled the slot straight away.’
6. The mysterious human desire to paint its pet dogs so that they look like other animals which are not dogs has reared its head once more, with a selection of painted dogs being displayed in China.
The painted dogs in question were on display in Zhengzhou, in eastern China’s Henan Province, at what appears to have been a veritable festival of dog painting.
As well as the tiger-dog, there were a number of rather adorable fluffy panda-dogs being shown to the crowd.
Panda-dogs will be familiar to the long-term readers of this site, as one of their kind has featured before . We’ve also covered the extreme transformations that take place in America, in which dogs are not merely transformed into turtles, but into mutant ninja turtles .
Exactly why people are so keen on the trans-species decoration of their dogs is not especially clear, but the effort is appreciated. Except, perhaps, by the dogs.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2010/06/07/dogs-painted-to-create-panda-dogs-and-dog-tigers-362738/#ixzz4Ludfmsul
7. A marijuana farm in western Canada has been raided by police, but officers were left shocked when they found bears guarding it.
Around 13 black bears strolled around the fields but police soon realised that they showed no signs of aggressive behaviour and were in fact tame.
They are thought to have been lured into the British Columbian farm by dog food and officers said they might have to be put down if they’ve become used to living around humans, the BBC reported.
Police uncovered two separate outdoor marijuana crops of about 2,300 plants in total.
The five police officers were called to the marijuana plantation, near Christina Lake, to dismantle the farm and arrested two men in the process, while stumbling across the bears.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant Fred Mansvield, said: ‘They (the bears) were tame, they just sat around watching.
‘At one point one of the bears climbed onto the hood of a police car, sat there for a bit and then jumped off.’
8. Meet the red squirrel whose hero is clearly Saturday Night Fever’s
John Travolta, as he shows off the film star’s famous pose.
He was snapped by wildlife photographer Marek Paluch, who captured the fuzzy squirrel near Opole, Poland, demonstrating just what a mover and a shaker he is.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2010/08/13/red-squirrel-does-saturday-night-fever-impression-478849/#ixzz4Luf8aqPR
9. A crime-fighting parrot saved his owner from a house robbery by frightening off the intruders with his all-mighty squawk.
Kuzya the parrot is the pet of Russian interpreter Gennadi Kurkul, who lives in the Isle of Dogs, London, and said that he’s delighted with his crime-busting pal.
‘It must have been about 4am when we heard Kuzya let out a massive scream. The noise he made must have terrified the burglars because they ran straight out of the house. You could hear it all over the Docklands’, Mr Kurkul told local newspaper The Docklands.
Despite the thieves nicking off with his wallet by reaching through a window, when they managed to open the door and enter the house, Kuzya made sure to scare them off before they could take anything else.
His owner continued: ‘He’s a fantastic bird. He follows me all round the house like a dog.
‘I don’t keep him in a cage, he just finds a spot at night where he likes to sleep and settles down there – sometimes under the stairs.
The Lorrie parrot’s name translates as ‘house spirit’, which seems appropriate after his recent escapade.
Tower Hamlets Police in London are continuing to investigate the burglary, which took place on Tuesday night, and warned residents that it’s important to keep their doors and windows securely shut.
10. If you’ve got a bugged bunny who’s getting a bit bothered by a trip to the vet, you need the Hopnotist. Meet Cliff Penrose, who claims to be Britain’s only rabbit whisperer.
The 60-year-old says he can put anxious Thumpers and Funnys into a trance so they actually roll on to their backs, legs in the air.
‘You can tell when a rabbit is under because his back legs completely relax. The creature is unable to move, in a trance-like state, sometimes for up to ten minutes,’ said Mr Penrose.
‘You have to be confident when holding the animals; if you are scared or nervous or stressed then the rabbit will sense that – they are extremely intelligent animals.
‘Once I’m holding the animal, it is only a matter of seconds before they are totally relaxed and sparked out.’
He is able to hypnotise bunnies by applying pressure and massaging certain parts of the body, including the belly, which relaxes them.
Mr Penrose then bows to the rabbit by lowering his head so it does not feel threatened, before shutting its eyelids, leaving it in a trance.
He also treats ‘problem’ rabbits with behavioural issues and can make them less aggressive.
‘They emerge from a trance a happier, more relaxed pet,’ he added.
Mr Penrose, of St Austell, Cornwall, has bred rabbits for 30 years and began developing his technique while recovering from a heart attack that forced him to quit work.
He says he has put hundreds under and has a hotline for stressed owners with yobbish rabbits.
That's all for the funnies. I'm sorry it's not long, I'm not good with finding informations nor writing. I hope you can understand and hope you enjoy this. I'll be writing the same thing tomorrow. It's just heads up, 'kay? See you soon~
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