Welcome again to the Wonderful World of Uninteresting Animals, and, for the third insipid instalment in the series, we're going to talk a bit about the Three-toed Sloth, and how it has come to be known as the laziest bastardo in South America. Ind...
Welcome to the second - and quite possibly, the last, if current interest is anything to go by - episode in our series about uninteresting animals. This week, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the Duck-billed Platypus, but only a little, be...
Geoff Grunt is an Australian zoologist whose love of animals has taken him throughout the world. He spoke exclusively to TheSpoof about his new TV series, Wild Fuckers. “It was an intense year filming that show. We wanted to capture nature in all...
In what's become an almost regular occurrence in some parts of Africa, a group of zebras has been attacked by a pride of lions this morning, leaving two dead. The attack took place in northern Tanzania where the animals tend to hang out. The zebra...
Polar Bears, the big, beautiful 'White Warriors of the North', are adapting to climate change in a totally unexpected way that was unforeseen by scientists, in that they are changing their color. The bears, who live almost 'unseen' in the totally...
There was a fleeting moment of real anxiety for one man as he traveled home from work in Battambang this afternoon, when a huge snake slithered across the road right in front of him, the immediate result of which, was a crude brown skidmark on his un...
Wildlife Sanctuaries across the UK are feeling the effects of the heatwave, with many more animals than usual crossing their thresholds every day. One Sanctuary ,"Debbies Donkeys" in Wales said that every morning seagulls are queueing by the door...
A man watching a wildlife documentary about Saltwater Crocodiles on cable TV, found it remarkable the number of times the narrator said the word 'copulation' or derivatives of it, and the relish with which he said them. The show, 'Animal Planet' c...
Sir David Dimpleby, the famous naturist has appealed to drivers to take care when round shaped spikey animals cross the road and to try to avoid driving over them. According to a survey among drivers, most people think that hedgehogs are flat animals...
Detroit - Rabbits' feet have proven to be unlucky for what used to be the world's largest car maker. The key chain charms have been fingered by General Motors engineers as the cause for sudden ignition shutdown that could affect millions of vehicles.
Esther Montgomery Mellencamp says that her husband, Homer Cougar Mellencamp is a wild animal in bed at night. She told The Georgia Dudley Tribune, a small newspaper in a small town, that she didn't mind telling this to us by phone as all their nei...
Pocono, Pennsylvania -- Gwendolyn Shopworn, a food researcher from Boston, expired earlier today while attempting to cross Pennsylvania's famous Bushkill Falls on a high wire. "This is a real tragedy," said Pocono Sheriff Snuffy Anastasia. "She'...
Washington DC: The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has removed the North American Blue Tailed Nimby from the Endangered Species List (ESL). A spokesperson for the USFWS indicated that removing the Nimby from the ESL was predicated on an unex...
A hedgehog widely reported to have been saved after being stuck in a crisp packet in Weston Super Mare has hit back at his rescuers, saying he had never asked for help. The hedgehog, given the name Crispin by the team that extracted him from a rai...
Madagascar (Rooterz) - Shocking news from Madagascar, the country that's named after the Guns N' Roses song of the same name, all over the country matches are being attacked by tiny lizards. Prof. Bliught Woilido, proffesser of Lizardry at Togwart...
NEWBY NATURE NOTES: by Billy Murray What do birds and bats have in common? Eyes. Birds enjoy flying around and not bumping into things, but bats don't use their eyes for the same purpose. Bats use a type of radar in order to achieve the same result. However, since the discovery of the white-nose syndrome in bats found living in Newby village, Isle of Wight, there is a possiblity...
Television Legend David Attenborough has revealed the ideas behind his next series. It is to be called 'Life in my backyard'.
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