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A feathery friend found a very un-wise place to hide.
Virgin Australia engineers found a critter that didn’t give a hoot where it napped!
The cute little guy was found during pre-flight checks in Melbourne, Australia. The owl was rescued and examined before being safely released back into the wild.
Don’t you wish you had a therapy llama to help you with stress when you were in shool?
The llamas visited campus last Tuesday and interacted with students for several hours. Associated Students of Stanford University Co-Director of Mental Health and Wellness Jennalei Louie, a student, says that the event was part of a greater push by the university to improve the mental health resources available to students.
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New York is apparently no longer the big cheese.
The Second City has been dubbed the "rat capital" of America according to apartment search service RentHop, which said Chicago had the highest amount of rat-related complaints of four major U.S. cities.
The abundance of garbage and buildings in The Windy City makes it a great location for these rats to seek shelter and food for survival," according to RentHop. "The presence of these furry critters poses a threat to city dwellers due to the fact that they are capable of spreading diseases and cause allergic reactions to humans and animals."
The worst neighborhoods in the Windy City were Logan Square, Englewood and West Ridge.
There were over 100,000 carrier pigeons used as messengers during the WWI. It was really quite simple, Pigeons always fly home, so the trick was to make sure the pigeons' nests were located where the troops needed to send messages.
Pigeons were far more reliable than any man-made machinery when it came to getting secret messages sent safely during WWI. According to records, the birds delivered 95% of their messages correctly.
The carrier pigeon vehicles (pictured above) were converted double-decker London city buses.
From a report at the link below:
Mark Zuckerberg has spent the past few years pinky swearing that Facebook wouldn’t do exactly what The New York Times discovered that Facebook has been doing: sharing data about users and their friends with third-party device makers without users’ knowledge.
The Times reported on Monday that a partnership agreement Facebook struck with mobile device makers like Apple, Samsung, and BlackBerry allowed them to access private data about Facebook users’ friends.
In one experiment carried out by the paper, a Blackberry device was able to pull information about 295,000 people tangentially connected to a Times reporter’s on the social media app.
The revelation runs counter to the promises that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given Facebook customers for years—that Facebook users have complete transparency and control over who sees their data.
So when can we trust the words of Mark Zuckerberg? Answer: when he is not talking.
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A monkey in Indonesia picked up a camera and took selfies that went viral. One of the selfies is pictured below.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) jumped in and demanded all revenue generated from the selfies go to Naruto the monkey who took the photos.
“Naruto was a seven-year-old crested macaque that lived—and may still live—in a reserve on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia,” the court explained in its ruling. “In 2011, a wildlife photographer, David Slater, left his camera unattended in the reserve. Naruto allegedly took several photographs of himself (the “Monkey Selfies”) with Slater’s camera.”
The unanimous, three-judge panel upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed the lawsuit by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against a photographer whose camera was used by a crested macaque to take the photos in 2011. U.S. copyright law does not allow lawsuits that seek to give animals the rights to photographs or other original work, the court said.
“We conclude that this monkey—and all animals, since they are not human—lacks statutory standing under the Copyright Act,” the ruling said.
The ruling marks the latest chapter in a long-running legal dispute over the images, which include a selfie of the smiling monkey that went viral.