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Feeling Green? Buy Paper Made Out of Poo
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsFinding your desk covered in animal dung doesn't have to be a bad thing. When it's in stationery form, at least. Whenever entrepreneur Michael Flancman talks about his business, there's usually an elephant in the room. That's because he runs the Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Co., a unique, environmentally conscious company based in Thailand that specializes in turning elephant dung into paper goods and stationery. Alternative Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. On any given day, Thailand-based entrepreneur Michael Flancman can be found scooping up elephant or cow poo at conservation parks ...
Genetically Modified Cows Produce 'Human' Breast Milk [VIDEO]
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This 'Sea Cow' Gives Milk
By not in system - AOL NewsOne Australian artist is giving manatees some competition. For his latest "surreal sculpture," artist Andrew Baines is posing cows in the surf at Abbey Beach in Busselton, Australia. Baines worked with a group called the South West Dairy Farmers to train the bovines to stand in the ocean for periods as long as 10 minutes so he could complete his work of art. Baines has made a name for himself by staging similar bizarre scenes with businessmen reading newspapers in the surf and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra playing tunes in shallow water. ...
Drunk as a Skunk? 5 Most Famous Soused Animals
By Anna Rothschild - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- A troop of baboons on a bender has been causing a ruckus in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, and around the Web due to their unruly behavior. After feasting on the sauvignon blanc grapes fermenting in the sun in Cape Town's wine country every day for the past few weeks, the bacchanalian horde has destroyed property, pelted a child with fruit and killed a Great Dane. Schalk van Zuydam, AP Baboons run past a vineyard on the Constantia Uitsig wine estate on the outskirts of Cape Town in March. Baboons are already accused of car-jacking Cape Town tourists in search of food. ...
Holy Cow! Cattle Embroiled in Violent Incidents
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(July 29) -- It's a bad time to be a cow. The often-docile farm animals known mainly for meat, milk and mooing have been involved in a number of violent incidents in recent days -- including several deadly confrontations. Reports of fatal encounters between "killer cows" and hikers in Switzerland have changed the public's perception of the seemingly placid livestock, leading Swiss authorities to release behavioral guidelines intended to help protect trail users from cattle. Toby Talbot, AP How now, multicolored cow? Sculptures of cows in Burlington, Vt., have been targeted by vandals. After ...
Conklin Dairy Farms Animal Abuse Video Goes Viral
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyNew video footage of employees savagely beating cows with tools and their fists at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio (near Columbus) has attracted enormous attention from the Web and prompted the farm's owner, Gary Conklin, to release a statement condemning the display and calling for the immediate termination of those involved. "We intend to cooperate fully with authorities in this situation. Further, our farm will institute immediate retraining of all those who remain on the farm and who work with our animals," Conklin said, according to the Dayton Business Journal. WARNING: The ...
In Alps, Bovines Battle to Be 'Queen of the Queens'
By Ed Mazza - AOL News(May 20) -- If you want to be queen of this cowtown, you better be ready to lock horns. Every year, the bovine beauties of Aproz in the Swiss Alpine county of Valais engage in a shoving contest to determine which will earn the title of "La Reine des Reines," or "the queen of the queens." That's because while they may be cows, the Herens of the Val d'Herens are known to establish a solid pecking order in their herds. Aggressive cows -- or would they be mad cows? -- will lock horns and keep on shoving until one has been declared the alpha dog. ...
Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo Love Cows
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsWatching the Red Sox play baseball on NESN is usually an enjoyable experience for viewers at home whether they're actually Red Sox fans or not. The combination of Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo in the booth makes for the most entertaining booth in baseball by far, as the two men often spend their time making fun of themselves, fans, and others.Of course, sometimes they have too much fun while calling games and can't even talk. This is what happened on Sunday afternoon. So what set off the laughter? Cows, of course.Well, last Sunday, in the break prior to coming back to the start of the game, Russ ...
Ken Griffey Jr. Will Put a Cow in Your Office
By Eamonn Brennan - AOL NewsSeriously, don't test him. Just ask Lou Piniella:Never, ever lose a bet to Ken Griffey Jr. The outfielder pays off, but in strange ways -- like the time manager Lou Piniella won a bet with him during spring training when both were in Seattle. "It was batting practice, and I had three swings left," Griffey said. "Lou bet me a steak that I couldn't hit a home run to each field on those three swings. I hit one to right and I hit one to center, but I missed the one to left. So I paid up." Oh, did he. Piniella got his steak on the hoof. Griffey had a live cow put in Piniella's office while he was ...
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