Animalistic Wierdities

For some reason, these wierd animal items all all popped up at ppretty much the same time.
At least this gives a lot of grist for the mill of the “Crypto-news” department of the late-night talk show COAST-TO-COAST AM.

Yeti ‘photo-fit’ shows ‘potentially explosive’ evidence of elusive mountain beast

Yeti ‘photo-fit’ shows ‘potentially explosive’ evidence of elusive mountain beast

Wildlife painter Polyanna Pickering was shown what is believed to be a 100-year-old yeti scalp at a remote monastery in the Himalayas. At least one expert believe it could be the most important proof yet that the giant apelike beast is more than mere folklore.

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Ms Pickering was gathering material for a new exhibition in the remote Bhutan region of the Himalayas when she made her chance discovery

Next, from the Jersey shore:

Montauk Monster: Mystery animal corpse becomes web sensation

A fearsome sea monster that has trawled the depths of the oceans without discovery for millennia, or just a dead dog?

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Not much comment. Read the story…the Chief inclines towards a decaying dog hypothesis.

Ever wonder who collects the “data” for those studies on bovine digestive gas emissions cow farts that the envirowackos are talking about taxing?
This picture from the London Telegraph is worth 1000 words…or something else, like a scientific grant renewal.

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There are possible early reports of gay activists and P.E.T.A. issuing conflicting opinions as to whether  or not this constitutes animal cruelty, or an acceptable lifestyle choice.  Any further word on this will be watched for.

The Chief is sure you will agree that this story has a somewhat different shading:

Purple squirrel baffles experts

A purple squirrel which appeared at a school has baffled experts who are unable to explain its colour.
Teachers and pupils at Meoncross School in Stubbington, Hants, were amazed when they saw the creature through the window during a lesson.

Since the squirrel, now nicknamed Pete, was first seen, it has become a regular fixture at the school but no one has been able to say whether the animal has fallen into purple paint, had a run-in with some purple dye, or whether there is another explanation.

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No, really! ThisIS  a real news story!