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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Revenge of the birds	Adam Browning	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Here's an avian friend making the point that 'infestation' is a matter of perspective:
Topics: funnies, wildlife (all these topics)

Grin and ferret Wildlife writer discusses being plagiarized by a romance novelist	Sarah K. Burkhalter	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Did our writeup of a romance novelist's plagiarism of a wildlife magazine pique your curiosity (or anything else)? Read a hilarious firsthand account of the action by Paul Tolme, who originally wrote the description of black-footed ferrets that romance writer Cassie Edwards lifted for pillow talk between a libidinous Lakota chieftain and a provocative pioneer. 'It is said their closest relations are European ferrets and Siberian polecats,' says the ravish ...
Topics: books, funnies, sex, wildlife (all these topics)

Birds fight back Beaked inhabitants of the world, unite	Adam Browning	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In a disturbing development, there are indications that birds, apparently pissed at the concerted assault on their habitat, are organizing to fight back against the man they hold responsible. Also at issue are what birds claim are repeated efforts to shoot them in the head.'It's happened so many times that the old 'Sorry, I was drunk and cleaning my gun' routine just doesn't cut it anymore,' said Mal R. Duck in a recent interview. "He shoots his buddy and it ma ...
Topics: funnies, wildlife (all these topics)

Tastes like chicken T. Rex with feathers	biodiversivist	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Yahoo News puts it this way: Based on the small sample we've recovered, chickens may be the closest relatives (to T. rex),' says geneticist John Asara of Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, co-leader of a team reporting the discovery of faint traces of chicken-like bone lining preserved inside a dinosaur drumstick. Science says it this way: To address this latter possibility, we generated aligned sequences obtained from chicken collagen 1t1 (the most closel ...
Topics: biodiversity, funnies, wildlife (all these topics)

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