“Zoology” on The Daily Caller

While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a menace to birds, a new study shows that a far greater threat may be posed by a more familiar antagonist: the pet house cat. (more)

At the London restaurant Archipelago, diners can order the $11 Baby Bee Brulee: a creamy custard topped with a crunchy little bee. In New York, the Mexican restaurant Toloache offers $11 chapulines tacos: two tacos stuffed with Oaxacan-style dried grasshoppers. (more)

Nothing solves a problem like a summit, especially a national summit. The 2nd National Bed Bug Summit, for instance, solved the problem of coming up with a plan to tackle a nation-wide “epidemic.”  It also solved the problem of insomnia. (more)

While I’m guest posting here, I feel the need to speak out on a certain issue. Some blogs — and I won’t name names — have been promoting discrimination and ridicule against one of society’s most vulnerable groups — pandas. (more)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Attackers wielding bats or clubs slaughtered two dozen fur seals, including newborn pups, over several days at one of New Zealand’s most popular sanctuaries for watching the animals, officials said Monday. (more)

The rare, ribbon-shaped sea creature was far from home when it washed ashore in Malibu this week. (more)

Dog bites that send humans to the hospital are on the upswing, according to new data. The number of people admitted to the hospital because of dog bites grew by 86% from 1993 to 2008 — 5,100 cases in 1993 and 9,500 in 2008. (more)

Customs officials seized eight rare falcons at the Moscow airport after a woman tried to smuggle the wrapped, boxed birds out of the country, the International Fund for Animal Welfare reported. (more)

While the Food Network offers thousands of recipes of every shape and size year round, they go double-time with their offerings over the holidays. (more)

It’s either a politically incorrect misstep or a deviously successful public relations ploy. (more)

In a resounding victory for economic liberty, horse teeth floaters are back at work in the Lone Star State after beating back a four-year campaign by state-licensed veterinarians and the state vet board to put them out of business. (more)

So farwell…Paul the Octopus; famous for predicting football results (more)

Bedbugs are getting to be big business, judging by the swarm of vendors, housing officials, entomologists, television-news crews and bug-sniffing dogs that crammed into a hotel convention center here Tuesday. (more)

Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast that can lay claim to the dubious title of the horniest animal ever to walk the Earth. (more)

SANTA FE, N.M. — Santa Fe Police are investigating a drive-by shooting that resulted in the death of a pet goat. (more)

When I first started bowhunting for elk, I was so worried about using the wrong call or sending the wrong message that I often found myself paralyzed with indecision. If an elk hunter ever had a worse case of performance anxiety, I sure do pity the guy. (more)

I lived, hunted and guided part-time in Alaska from 1991-2005, and before moving north, I made two other hunting trips there, taking every big-game species available on that barren tundra multiple times except a musk ox. I’ve also made five hunting trips to sub-Saharan Africa, shooting everything from Cape buffalo, lion and leopard to many different plains-game species. (more)

Self-interest and humanitarianism (more)

Paul the ‘psychic’ octopus (more)

SAN DIEGO – Nick Afanasiev, a 20-year-old Hollywood actor, has the longest tongue in the United States. (more)