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Scientists: Treat Dolphins Like People

Dolphins are so smart, it’s morally criminal to keep them locked up in tanks. In fact, we should be treating them as “non-human persons”, say scientists who have been studying the animals’ intelligence and behavior.
The researchers say that these sea mammals are brighter than chimpanzees, with many key brain features that are associated with high [...]

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Frog Devours Snake in Bizarre Food Chain Twist

While predators become prey often enough – whenever there’s a bigger, hungrier animal around – the opposite is pretty rare. But one brown tree snake in Mackay, Australia found that the tables were turned when a green tree frog decided to have an unusual meal.
Ian Hamilton discovered the frog, with half of a snake stuffed [...]

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Wild Dogs Turn Green After Eating Toxic Waste

It’s bizarre, to say the least: a pack of wild dogs in Russia, which previously had reddish fur, are suddenly emerald green after supposedly consuming toxic waste that had been dumped in the area. Photos and video show the animals, thought to be former guard dogs, sporting green-tinged fur.
From NineMSN.com:
“Either local residents or a factory [...]

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Potty-Trained Pigs – Solution to Farming Pollution?

Livestock waste is a major source of pollution, draining from farms into waterways and contaminating water sources. But what are farmers to do – train their pigs to relieve themselves in litter boxes?
It sounds crazy, but that’s exactly what one Taiwanese farmer did with his hogs, and he’s advocating that others do the same.
From Treehugger:
Earth [...]

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Weird, Yet Awesome: Helmet Hummingbird Feeder

Hummingbirds are so fun to watch, with their colorful little wings that move so fast they’re a blur – but it can be hard to see them up close. One wacky new product allows you to see hummingbirds like you’ve never seen them before – an inch from your eyeballs.
From The Daily Mail:
A new helmet [...]

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Shocking Photos: Bird Bodies Full of Plastic

Lighters, bottle caps, plastic bags and milk jugs. Fishing net, fishing line, zip ties, remnants of food containers. All of this and more floats in a massive vortex of trash in the Pacific Ocean – and in the stomachs of the birds who search for food amid the debris.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice [...]

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