Monthly Archives: July 2015

Man Shocked to Discover Puppies are Actually Black Bears

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1. Take a look at picture A. What do you see?

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Picture A: Can you name the animal?

2. Now take a look at picture B. What do you see?

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Picture B: Can you name the animal?

Hopefully, if you have a set of functioning eye balls and a rudimentary knowledge of the animal kingdom your answer to questions 1 and 2 would have been bear and dog respectively. See, it’s not that tough really is it?

Well try telling that to Wang Kaiyu.

Mr Kaiyu bought two puppies while on a trip to Vietnam back in 2013. At least, he thought they were puppies; it turned out that his new pets, which were described to him as “very lively, not picky about food and friendly with human beings”, were in fact baby black bears. Awww.

The penny finally dropped TWO YEARS LATER! when the man, who works as a banana farmer in China – at least he thinks they are bananas, perhaps they are watermelons – saw a wildlife protection poster warning about black bears on the loose, which looked suspiciously like his own little pooches.

Needless to say, he could bear-ly believe what had happened. Mr Kaiyu had no choice but to contact the local public security bureau and give up his beloved dogs/bears, which were promptly sent to a rescue centre.

The pair of pets, one female and one male, reportedly weight 50 kilograms each and according to China.org they are both in good health… probably all that fetch they were playing.

Now check out this waving dog…

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Study Links Eye Colour to Alcoholism

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People often say their partner’s eyes are the part of them that they’re most attracted to. Well make sure you get a proper look at them, because a new study has suggested that eyes are more than the gateway to someone’s soul.

According to scientists at the University of Vermont, there is a clear correlation between someone’s eye colour and their propensity to become an alcoholic. And to summarise the three years of hard genetic research they’ve completed, what the boffins found is that people with blue eyes are more likely to enjoy a tipple or two… or three… or 10.D

awei Li, the university’s assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics led the study along with Arvis Sulovari, a doctoral student in cellular, molecular and biological sciences.

The research began back in 2012, when Li attempted to create a data base of 10,000 Americans of mixed descent who had all been diagnosed with at least one psychiatric illness or an addiction like alcohol dependency. As the study progressed Li whittled the sample size down to the 1,263 people who had struggled with alcohol addiction.

It was at this stage that Li made the discovery that there was a link between eye colour and an addiction to booze. However, Li states that his team still don’t know why people with blue eyes are more likely to be alcoholics, with him and the team now preparing to do further research into why this might be the case.

Meanwhile, for those with blue eyes, it’s probably best to keep a lid on that drinking habit… ah screw it, being drunk is fun!

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Scientists Discover Animal that Changes Sex When it Gets Warm

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First there was Caitlyn Jenner and now the Australian Central Bearded Dragon: sex changers have been all over the news in recent weeks.

In the case of the latter, scientists have just discovered that the cold-blooded reptile has chromosomes that can change depending on the weather. This means, to put it in simple terms, the temperature at which the bearded dragon’s eggs are incubated at will dictate whether you have a boy or a girl.

All Australian Central Bearded Dragon begin life with two Z chromosomes – making them genetically male – but at warm temperatures this genetic make-up changes and they are born female. It had been seen in the lab before, but for the first time ever it has taken place in the wild.

Exciting, head-scratchingly interesting news, yes. But scientists also say that the discovery raises some concerns. Namely, with global warming pushing temperatures higher and higher, it is foreseeable that more of the lizards could make the transition to become female.

However, while this has been making the news, gendering altering animals are nothing new; there have been various extraordinary discoveries of species that are able to switch between being male and female to adapt to their surroundings.

Hawkfish, Parrotfish and Clown anemonefish all have the ability to choose their gender depending on the balance of males and females in the area. Sluts.

But none of these can compete with our favourite sex-changing animals. No, no. That prize goes to the cleaner fish.

Back in 2011 a team from the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society London published a groundbreaking study which found that female cleaner fish, if they eat too much can actually turn into men. What better motivation than to not eat that last tub of ice cream than the risk of a penis popping out?!

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