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Outdoors in Chicago? Watch out for the blackbirds

CHICAGO - Experts are telling Chicago residents to beware of the birds.
The fiercely territorial behavior of red-winged blackbirds is being blamed on several recent dive-bomb attacks. The birds peck at unsuspecting bicyclists and pedestrians and swipe their hair.
Just ask Holly Grosso. The businesswoman says she was pecked in the head. She calls the incident "so bizarre."
Field Museum ornithologist Doug Stotz says the birds favor parks and vacant lots near ponds and Lake Michigan.
Relief may come in late July, after their nesting season ends.

<blockquote>Outdoors in Chicago? Watch out for the blackbirds

CHICAGO - Experts are telling Chicago residents to beware of the birds.
The fiercely territorial behavior of red-winged blackbirds is being blamed on several recent dive-bomb attacks. The birds peck at unsuspecting bicyclists and pedestrians and swipe their hair.
Just ask Holly Grosso. The businesswoman says she was pecked in the head. She calls the incident "so bizarre."
Field Museum ornithologist Doug Stotz says the birds favor parks and vacant lots near ponds and Lake Michigan.
Relief may come in late July, after their nesting season ends.</blockquote>



HAHAHAHA! AWESOME!!! The Birds have come to my town!!!

oh there's more...

Work-shy Myanmar buffaloes add to farmers' woes

DEDAYE, Myanmar (Reuters) - With a planting deadline looming, rice farmers in cyclone-hit parts of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta have hit a problem -- donated oxen and water buffaloes are refusing to work because they are stressed.

"Thanks to donors and arrangements by the government, we are getting buffaloes and oxen, and in some cases small tractors and tillers, almost free of charge," said Ko Hla Soe, a farmer in Dedaye, 50 km (30 miles) southwest of Yangon.

"Now, to our surprise, the problem is that most of the buffaloes and oxen will not work hard. They cannot immediately be used effectively," he told Reuters.

As well as leaving 134,000 people dead or missing when it ripped into the delta on May 2, Cyclone Nargis killed around 200,000 farm animals, 120,000 of which were used by farmers to plough fields in the former Burma's "rice bowl".

The military government and U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has identified replacing these draught animals as a priority to allow farmers in the devastated areas to start growing their own food again.

The task has not proved as simple as it sounds.

The few animals that survived the storm are understandably traumatised and reluctant to work, farmers say, and those brought in as replacements are taking a long time to settle in to their new surroundings.

"Animals can get stress too," Ohn Kyaw, a senior official at the Ministry of Livestock Breeding and Fisheries, told Reuters.

"The change of owners and environment is having a psychological impact on them. They've had to travel for days by sea or by land and they are bound to suffer from stress," he said, although he added that they should get over it.

The government had donated 1,971 draught animals as of June 22, and was working on distributing another 600 donated by the FAO as soon as possible, he said.

FAO expert Albert Lieberg said getting enough replacements into the delta was a major logistical operation, especially since working pairs of buffaloes need to be kept together.

"You have to make sure that these two animals stay together up to the very end," he told a news conference in Bangkok last week. "It is a lot of psychological stress for the animals."

Unfortunately for the farmers, who prefer buffaloes to mechanical tillers due to a lack of fuel, time is not on their side.

"Unless our rice is planted by the end of this month, it will be too late," Ko Hla Soe said. "And even if we get it in on time, we cannot expect as big a crop as before."

CDC expert gets West Nile bug -- LITERALLY...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- All Lyle Petersen wanted to do was get his mail.

In the time it took him to walk down his driveway in Fort Collins, Colorado, chat briefly with a neighbor and return to his house, Petersen got infected with a potentially serious mosquito-borne illness called West Nile virus. Within hours of being bitten, he said, he began to feel symptoms he recognized.

And how was he sure so quickly? Petersen, as director of the division of vector borne diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is one of the foremost experts in the world on the condition. A blood test confirmed his suspicion.

"From my own experience, I can tell you it's not a very mild illness," Petersen cautioned. "It will ruin your summer."

Experts are expecting another epidemic of the disease this summer. The incidence of West Nile virus has remained the same for the past four years, and Petersen says he doesn't expect this year to be any different. It should reach its peak between mid-July and mid-September. Health Minute: More on West Nile virus risk »

"People tend to discount this as a significant problem," Petersen said, "but more than 1.5 million people have been infected so far in the United States, and about 300,000 have had West Nile fever."

West Nile virus emerged in the U.S. nine years ago. The virus is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes contract the illness by feeding on infected birds.

The CDC reported that in rare cases, West Nile virus has spread through blood transfusions, organ transplants and breastfeeding. The disease is not spread through casual contact....

A squirrel...The other day....Walked up to me and kicked me right in the nuts.
Fortunately I hadn't opened the can yet, but if I had...They'd have gone everywhere.
What's with these animals?

the giraffe is a mastermind. the dude planned the whole thing. it was the animal version of a prision break. only their prison had the in-mates jumping through hoops of fire for peanuts. somebody had to make a change...

In the movie...Charles Bronson should have played the giraffe.

LMAO at the captions....But yeah....fuck poachers!

PS what the hell is that little dog attached to? Or is that a branch?

Yeah.....Put them in a electricly fenced off area and hunt them in trucks with lots of hoot and hollars.

:)