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Calls for mass duck cull in France as bird flu hits foie gras industry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/08/calls-for-mass-duck-cull-in-france-as-bird-flu-hits-foie-gras-industry
The highly pathogenic H5N8 virus was first detected in a bird in a pet shop on the Mediterranean island of Corsica in November before spreading to duck farms on the mainland in December.Several European countries have reported cases of infection, five years after a major outbreak prompted the slaughter of millions of ducks in France.
The number of outbreaks in France had now risen to 124, the ministry of agriculture said on Thursday, adding that about 350,000 ducks had been slaughtered since 24 December.
Earlier this week the government’s chief veterinary officer, Loic Evain, said more than 200,000 ducks had already been slaughtered and that a further 400,000 birds were set to be culled, out of about 35 million reared each year.
He described the virus, which is not harmful to humans, as “very, very contagious”.
Officials in Belgium said on Thursday they had culled three contaminated poultry flocks – one in Menin, in the west of the country, another in Dinant in the south and a third in Dixmude in western Flanders.
Belgium’s federal food safety agency AFSCA, which has ordered poultry owners to lock up their animals to avoid contamination, said that 20 cases of the virus had been found in wild birds.
Herve Dupouy, a French producer who heads the local poultry section of the FNSEA farmers federation in the Landes department, a bastion of the foie gras industry, said “the situation is out of control.”
He called on the state to cull all poultry flocks in the area and impose a two-month production freeze. “There’s no other solution,” he said.
So far the authorities have been culling all ducks and geese within a three-kilometre radius of an infected flock. Free-range chickens and turkeys within that range have also been slaughtered.
Producers of foie gras, a pate made from the livers of force-fed ducks or geese, fear a repeat of the devastation wrought by two previous waves of bird flu in the winters of 2015/2016 and 2016/2017.
More than 25m ducks were culled in the first outbreak, followed by 4.5m the following year, causing a steep decline in foie gras production.
Besides France and Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Britain and Ireland have also reported bird flu outbreaks since the winter began.
Dutch authorities culled 190,000 chickens in November after the discovery of the virus at two farms.
Outbreaks have also been reported in India and South Korea. In India, tens of thousands of poultry will be slaughtered after an outbreak of deadly avian influenza was found to have killed scores of birds across the country.
At least six Indian states have stepped up efforts this week to contain two strains of bird flu – H5N1 and H5N8 – after the deaths of thousands of migratory birds, ducks, crows and chickens.
South Korea’s agriculture ministry said on Thursday that it had so far culled 14.9m poultry since identifying its first farm-linked, highly pathogenic bird flu case in late November.
Don't eat duck, then.
Trăm cá voi không được một bát nước sáo:
Minke whale trapped in nets in Japan for two weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/07/minke-whale-trapped-in-nets-in-japan-for-two-weeks
Japanese media reported that attempts were being made to free the four or five metre long whale but fishermen claimed its size and strong tidal currents were making it difficult to guide it into open water.Ren Yabuki – an animal rights activist who has been filming the whale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR3bKUOyADJgdqBon5C_CRnq3s8J3Bh5UDP 5655V13AIZl9a0CzM7s2l-Fs&v=2DfP-HAg1dY&feature=youtu.be) with a drone every day since it became trapped on Christmas Eve – said fishermen had made only one brief attempt to release the animal, adding that its fate appeared to have been decided.
If they slaughter the whale, fishermen would be able to sell its meat after taking a DNA sample, Yabuki added. “Allowing the whale to starve to death would be the worst possible end to this, so the only other option would be to draw in the net and send divers into the sea to kill it with spears.”
Georgie Dolphin, animal welfare (https://www.theguardian.com/world/animal-welfare) programme manager at Humane Society International [HSI] in Australia, said the whale had become “increasingly distressed and agitated, ramming the nets and deep diving in an effort to escape”.
In a rare interview, fishermen told the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/not-ashamed-dolphin-hunters-of-taiji-break-silence-over-film-the-cove) that the hunts were legal under Japanese law and provided a vital source of income for the town, located on a remote part of the Pacific coastline.
Don't eat whale.
Sốc vì sóc:
‘It was angry, vicious’: spate of squirrel attacks leave NYC neighborhood in fear
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/08/squirrel-attacks-nyc-neighborhood-fear
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/08/squirrel-attacks-nyc-neighborhood-fear)
At least three people in Rego Park, in the borough of Queens, have been jumped upon and bitten by the possibly deranged squirrel in recent weeks. The tree-based rodent’s reign of terror has made some people in the area afraid to go outside without being armed with pepper spray or other anti-squirrel weaponry.
“A few people are quite scared,” Micheline Frederick, a local resident, told Guardian US. Frederick was herself targeted by the squirrel in a bloody attack on 21 December, when she was holding her front door open for furniture movers.
“Suddenly the squirrel ran up my leg and I thought ‘it’s a small rodent, how bad could this be’, so I stood completely still and they next thing I knew the blood started to fly. It was a wrestling match that got very bloody very quickly,” Frederick said.
It’s unclear what has prompted the highly unusual behavior from the squirrel, although the animals can act atypically if suffering from disease or overly used to being fed by people.
Don't eat people.
Triển
01-08-2021, 10:34 PM
Sốc vì sóc:
Các biên phúc công tử giá lâm....
Flying foxes: Australia's love-hate relationship with fruit bats
[B]Australian towns have made headlines complaining of "bat tornadoes." But ecologists say flying foxes are vital to preserving forest and need protection from climate change and habitat loss.
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The Australian grey-headed flying fox is an important pollinator for Australia's forests
Earlier this year, the term "bat tornado" started appearing in the Australian and international media. It all started with a BBC report from the town of Ingham in the north eastern state of Queensland, where the population of flying fox bats had apparently "exploded" over the last two years, leaving residents fed up with their noise and smell.
And Ingham residents are not the only ones. Complaints are also coming from other Australian towns that have long played host to large flying fox "camps."
"It looks like a thunderstorm is coming when they fly over, thousands of these winged flying foxes arriving at dusk, just one after the other," said Justine Taylor, a retail worker who lives near the town of Grafton, New South Wales, which can host more than 100,000 flying foxes at a time.
The sound can be overwhelming. As can the stench from their urine. And flying foxes can also carry the rabies-like Australian bat lyssavirus, and Hendra virus.
The Australian Department of Health insists there is negligible health risk to humans from any bat. But the idea that they are carriers of disease hasn't helped their image.
"I used to dread them, hoping they would roost in someone else's garden," said Taylor. "They'd screech and chatter, you just couldn't sleep. Even in the day, if you were by the river, you'd hear them."
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The town of Grafton can host more than 100,000 flying foxes at a time
Travelers in search of wood and water
The Australian mainland has four species of flying fox — also known as fruit bats — two of which are listed as nationally protected species. Some can reach a wingspan of 1.5 meters.
Flying fox camps have been likened to railway stations, where crowds of the animals come and go each day. They may travel up to 50 kilometers (30 miles) in a single night, and 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) seasonally, depending on food availability.
They also need a good source of water, drinking small amounts frequently to stay hydrated without weighing themselves down in flight. Susan Island, located in the middle of the Clarence River that runs through the city of Grafton, has become an ideal congregation spot.
But climate change and deforestation are making their movements less predictable. As their habitat is lost or water sources dry up, they seek refuge in urban or suburban areas. "They're being forced into areas they would not normally be," said Tim Pearson, an ecologist and chair of the NGO Sydney Bats.
And while some Australian towns may be seeing an influx of flying foxes, nationally, their numbers have dropped significantly.
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The forest provides a natural shelter from the heat for the animals
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The wingspan for some flying foxes can be as much as 1.5 meters
Perishing in the heat
Extreme temperatures over recent years have wiped out thousands — sometimes even tens of thousands — of animals at a time, with media reports showing heaps of corpses where they have fallen from trees suffering extreme heat stress.
Australia experienced the hottest November on record this year, with temperatures reaching the mid-40 degrees Celsius in some regions.
And bats are more exposed to heat in towns and suburbs where they don't have the protection of thick forest.
"This latest catastrophe to befall some of Australia's largest bat species is a symptom of a much larger problem — Australia's deforestation crisis," said Matt Brennan, head of Tasmania-based Wilderness Society. "Eastern Australia is now a designated global deforestation hotspot, alongside places like the Amazon, the Congo and Borneo."
Extending a helping hand
Some towns are trying to help them. Yarra City council in Melbourne has installed sprinkler systems where flying foxes come to breed in huge colonies on the Yarra River, to try and keep them cool.
And along the Parramatta River in Sydney, the New South Wales state government has helped fund a project to plant trees to provide the bats with more habitat and shade.
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Flying foxes like to stick together
However, these well-intentioned interventions don't always hit the mark. Pearson says sprinklers can startle heat-exhausted animals, increasing their stress levels. And ultimately, making urban environments more hospitable to bats is no substitute for preserving the forests where they are naturally at home.
"You can plant trees to give the flying foxes more habitat, but the real problem is climate change and ongoing deforestation," said Pearson.
Bats need forests, and forests need bats
While flying foxes suffer from loss of trees, loss of fruit bats is, in turn, bad news for trees. As flying foxes pop their heads into flowers to feed on nectar, or consume fruit and excrete the seeds, they help eucalypts, melaleucas, banksias and many species of rainforest trees and vines, to reproduce.
Pearson warns that if we don't address climate change and halt deforestation, Australia's flying fox numbers will fall so low within the next few decades, they will no longer be able perform this vital role.
"I think they will survive in some pockets along the coast where there is food and water," he said, "but they will not be acting as the pollinators and seed dispersers that are so necessary for our forests to survive."
Learning to love our winged neighbors
Pearson is among the flying fox's fiercest defenders. He's studying their vocalisations and says the din their human neighbors complain about is actually the highly developed communication of an intelligent and intensely social species.
He wants the public to stop seeing them as disease-carrying invaders and start appreciating fruit bats for the extraordinary animals they are: "It's through educating people, raising awareness about how important these flying foxes are for ecosystem health that we may be able to save them."
In Grafton, spectators now sometimes gather to watch them on their nightly search for food.
"When I realised people were coming from around Australia just to see the bats here out of curiosity, I started to find out more about them, appreciate them," said Taylor. "People actually row out to the island to see them!"
"I guess the bats are kind of funky," she admits.
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Hồi đó qua Úc có thấy con này, to cỡ con chó chihuahua trong mấy quảng cáo của Taco Bell, còn bận thêm cái poncho, bay la đà khoảng 3 mét để ăn quả trên cây.
Úc hồi xưa ít có các loại quả ngọt như nhãn, mít, xoài, mãng cầu, chôm chôm. Dân Á châu di cư qua bển ngày càng nhiều rồi bắt đầu trồng mấy cây đó nên dơi tha hồ ăn, còn đem về hang để cúng "cầu nhãn đủ xài" (vì loài dơi hay bị mắt kém).
Don't eat bats.
Triển
01-08-2021, 11:00 PM
Don't eat bats.
Dân Đồng Nai có món "Dơi xào lăn" á. :z34:
Dơi thì sao ngon bằng "nai Hố nai".
Don't eat deers and does.
Triển
01-08-2021, 11:09 PM
Dơi thì sao ngon bằng "nai Hố nai".
Don't eat deers and does.
Cho nên chỉ có nai bảy món chớ đâu có dơi bảy món.
Triển
01-09-2021, 10:50 PM
How South African police are tackling pangolin smugglers
Quiet, solitary and nocturnal, the pangolin has few natural enemies, but researchers believe it is the most trafficked mammal in the world. The tough scales covering its body are sought after for use in Chinese medicine, in the erroneous belief that they have healing properties.
The animal has also been of interest to researchers during the coronavirus pandemic. Related viruses have been found in trafficked pangolins, though there is continued uncertainty around early theories that pangolins were involved in the transmission of the virus from animals to humans.
BBC Africa correspondent Andrew Harding followed South African police as they seized a pangolin from suspected smugglers, and met vets as they tried to save the animal's life.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av-embeds/55592290/vpid/p093hhw3
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The tough scales covering its body are sought after for use in Chinese medicine, in the erroneous belief that they have healing properties.
Tin ba cái thứ thuốc Ba tàu thấy cũng giống tin ba cái giả thuyết âm mưu.
Don’t eat pangolins.
Deerly unbeloved:
Wild deer set to wreak havoc in UK woodlands as venison demand plunges
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/10/wild-deer-set-to-wreak-havoc-in-uk-woodlands-as-venison-demand-plunges
Game dealers have lost a large part of their business in the last 10 months. Alan Hayward, who co-owns Vicars Game in Newbury, Berkshire, said he usually took in 200 deer carcasses a week but now he was only getting in between 40 and 50.
“There’s no demand, with all the restaurants closed,” he said. “I’m telling everybody to cut back and stop shooting.”Hayward, one of the country’s biggest game dealers, said the price had dropped by a third since March: “Farm shops are a little bit busier but it doesn’t compensate for the loss of catering, which is 70 to 75% of my business.”
Wild deer herds grow by up to 30% each year, with the population expanding by 600,000 between May and June. With deer stalkers not culling as many animals, concerns are growing that already large herds could eventually devastate woodland habitats for other species.
Gareth Fisher, an RSPB ecologist, said excessive deer populations had a detrimental impact on the habitats of many birds, including nightingales, warblers and willow tits. “If you’ve got lots and lots of deer then you tend to get more uniform habitats where there are fewer niches for the other species,” he said. “That’s the big issue.”
Fisher said that if deer were not controlled, species such as nightingale would lose out. “We are not looking to completely remove deer,” he said. “We very much appreciate that deer are an important part of the ecosystem, but the deer population needs to be sustainable. There are no natural predators that are going to keep the deer population in balance so humans have to take on that role.”
Martin Edwards, head of deer management at the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, which represents thousands of stalkers, said it was crucial to cull the female deer in the winter months.
Venison is increasingly regarded as a healthy, sustainable and readily available alternative to other types of red meat. “Deer are the most amazing sustainable food asset in Britain,” said Robinson. “You’ve got this large protein which has no cholesterol and is full of antioxidants… with none of the health issues that come with red meat.”
The British Deer Society, which promotes deer welfare, argues that culling should be carried out humanely and only where there are problems. “We recognise the need to keep deer numbers in check,” said Charles Smith-Jones, the society’s technical adviser. “But we are concerned about the means. It has to be done humanely. You don’t just go out and shoot any deer you see – there has to be a process.”
Bán qua Việt lam cho dân nhậu làm nai 7 món. Hay bán cho Tàu làm thuốc Bắc.
Triển
01-10-2021, 10:12 AM
Deerly unbeloved:
Bán qua Việt lam cho dân nhậu làm nai 7 món. Hay bán cho Tàu làm thuốc Bắc.
Từ "toa Minh Mạng": Nhung hươu Siberia cơ! Hàng Anh không có trong toa Minh Mạng. :z13:
Uy Long Đại Bổ Tửu đang là một trong những bài thuốc “gối đầu giường” của phái mạnh hiện nay. Trong cuốn tài liệu Châu bản Triều Nguyễn đã đề cập đến một công thức bí mật giúp tăng cường mãnh lực nam giới. Công thức này được chắt lọc từ những tinh túy trong bài thuốc Minh Mạng Thang của vua chúa Triều Nguyễn.
Trong riêng bài thuốc ngâm rượu đã chứa tới hơn 10 thành phần quý hiếm nhất gồm: Sâm Ngọc Linh, Ba kích, Đông trùng hạ thảo, Nấm linh chi, Nhung hươu Siberia, Dâm dương hoắc, Thỏ ty từ, Tang phiêu diêu, Đỗ Trọng, Sâm cau ngâm với rượu và một số thành phần quý khác. Những loại thảo dược này đều là “thần dược” tốt nhất trong việc tăng cường sinh lý cho nam giới.
(trích không để nguồn :z13: )
Từ "toa Minh Mạng": Nhung hươu Siberia cơ! Hàng Anh không có trong toa Minh Mạng.
Lấy tên công ty thịt nai là “Siberia Deer” rồi dán nhãn hiệu là nhung hươu Siberia. Ai dám kiện? Trừ phi đem vô mục Phiên âm kiện vì gọi nhung hươu là “thảo dược”.
Minke whale trapped in nets in Japan for two weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/07/minke-whale-trapped-in-nets-in-japan-for-two-weeks
Fishermen kill whale trapped for 19 days
https://news.yahoo.com/fishermen-kill-whale-trapped-19-050748446.html
“There were two ships that worked together to put a rope around the tail fin and force the whale’s head beneath the water”, Mr Yabuki told The Telegraph. “They kept it alongside the boat and it took about 20 minutes for the whale to drown.
“That’s a really bad way for an animal to die and I’m shaking with sadness at what I have seen this morning."
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Đắc khỉ ho gà:
Gorillas at San Diego Zoo test positive for Covid in apparent first
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/11/gorillas-san-diego-zoo-coronavirus
The park’s executive director, Lisa Peterson, told the Associated Press on Monday that eight gorillas who live together at the park are believed to have the virus and several have been coughing. Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, confirmed at his Monday news briefing that at least two gorillas had tested positive while three were symptomatic.
It appears the infection came from a member of the park’s wildlife care team who also tested positive for the virus but has been asymptomatic. The safari park confirmed the presence of Covid-19 through fecal samples from the gorillas, and the test results do not “definitively rule out the presence of the virus in other members of the troop”, the zoo said in a statement.
Veterinarians are closely monitoring the gorillas, who will remain in their habitat at the park, north of San Diego, according to Peterson. “Aside from some congestion and coughing, the gorillas are doing well,” she said. “The troop remains quarantined together and are eating and drinking. We are hopeful for a full recovery.”
In zoos, large cats have been the most common animal to get infected. A four-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia tested positive (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/bronx-zoo-tiger-tests-positive-for-coronavirus) at the Bronx zoo in New York in April, and shortly afterward, three other tigers and three lions at the zoo tested positive (https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/14084/Update-Bronx-Zoo-Tigers-and-Lions-Recovering-from-COVID-19.aspx) as well. Bashir, an 11-year-old Malayan tiger at the Knoxville zoo in Tennessee, tested positive for coronavirus in October and went into quarantine with the Malayan tigers Arya, 6, and Tanvir, 11, who were also displaying mild coughing, lethargy and a decrease in appetite. Last month, NeeCee, a five-year-old snow leopard at the Louisville zoo in Kentucky, tested positive (https://louisvillezoo.org/louisville-zoo-female-snow-leopard-tests-positive-for-sars-cov-2-media-release/).
All have recovered.
The gorilla cases are believed to be the first reported from a zoo in the US and possibly the world. For now, the San Diego park’s wildlife team is closely monitoring their behavior. They are being given vitamins, fluid and food but no specific treatment for the virus.
The zoo officials are working closely with experts who have been treating the coronavirus in humans in case the animals develop more severe symptoms.
Cúm người, cúm ngợm, cúm đười ươi.
Triển
01-11-2021, 09:24 PM
Lấy tên công thịt ty nai là “Siberia Deer” rồi dán nhãn hiệu là nhung hươu Siberia. Ai dám kiện? Trừ phi đem vô mục Phiên âm kiện vì gọi nhung hươu là “thảo dược”.
Dám đổi nhãn hiệu, ai chắc rằng nhung hươu không phải là plastic. Đem vô sở Thú kiện tội phỉ báng thành phần con nai.
Triển
01-11-2021, 09:26 PM
Gorillas at San Diego Zoo test positive for Covid in apparent first
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/11/gorillas-san-diego-zoo-coronavirus
Muôn sự tại thiên thành sự tại nhơn.
Triển
01-13-2021, 08:40 PM
"Thực trùng"
EU food agency approves mealworms as human food
Mealworms, whole or as powder in pasta, have become the first insect-based food approved by the EU's food safety watchdog. The EU Commission has yet to endorse the decision.
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The darkling beetle larvae are already commonly used as food for pet reptiles and fish
Mealworms got approval for EU plates Wednesday from the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA), based in Italy's city of Parma — better known for its tasty pasta, tomatoes, ham and cheese.
Actually larvae of the darkling beetle (Tenebrio molitor) and typically fed to pet reptiles and fish, the yellow grubs could soon be the first "novel food" cleared for sale across the EU, assuming the European Commission adds its endorsement.
Rich in protein, fat and fiber, they could be eaten whole or as a powdered ingredient in snacks and noodles, assuming their original fodder was free of contaminants, concluded the Italy-based EU agency.
Interest 'great' in food sector
EFSA food scientist Ermolaos Ververis said interest was high among the "edible insect sector" of the food industry and the scientific community.
Mealworms are the first species approved among 15 insects subjected to risk assessment procedures delegated to the EFSA in 2018 under a 2015 EU regulation.
The EFSA food agency has 156 applications for "novel food" on its plate. Those also include algae-derived edibles.
'Yuck factor' could dwindle
For many Europeans, eating insects still triggered a "yuck" reaction, said Giovanni Sogari, a consumer researcher at the University of Parma.
"With time and exposure, such attitudes can change," he speculated.
Elsewhere in the world, including Africa and Central America, chewing on insect crisps, cooking with them, even mealworm burgers, have long become norms, so-called entomophagy, alongside massive meat consumption blamed in part for climate change.
Two EU nations, Austria and Germany, already have special dispensations for insect-based snacks.
Answer to food insecurity?
Around the world, thousands of insects are potential candidates —prompting the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2013 to speculate that "eating insects can help tackle food insecurity."
Fed even on bio-waste, insects used significantly less water than livestock, and could be farmed more easily, said the FAO.
"For example, pigs produce 10-100 times more greenhouse gases per kilogram (pound) than mealworms," the UN agency said.
Experts warn that some insect species could become extinct globally over the coming decades — largely due to habitat loss as land is converted to intensive agriculture, as well as urbanization and the use of pesticides.
The EU's EFSA cautioned Wednesday that insect proteins were sometimes overestimated and a watch had be kept for potential allergies.
ipj/dj (Reuters, dpa, AFP)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl-HDijgMWc
Cũng giống ngoài Bắc ăn cà cuống với sá sùng.
- sá sùng: từ chữ SA TRÙNG nghĩa là con sâu trong cát
Eat more worms.
Triển
01-14-2021, 09:14 AM
Nè, dĩa này tặng Táo Oát sinh tơn, nhậu đỡ dĩa nhộng này đi. 2 lon bia thì không đủ mồi nhưng mà là hương là hoa thôi..
https://hellobacsi.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nhong-tam-1-e1548645033272.png
Angie
01-14-2021, 09:23 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxZXYp4MCmU
Belgian restaurant tops pizza with insects3,911 views
•May 14, 2014
Nè, dĩa này tặng Táo Oát sinh tơn, nhậu đỡ dĩa nhộng này đi. 2 lon bia thì không đủ mồi nhưng mà là hương là hoa thôi..
https://hellobacsi.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nhong-tam-1-e1548645033272.png
Vô trễ nên không còn cái dĩa luôn.
Australia to kill US pigeon that crossed Pacific
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55660592
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55660592)
The bird reportedly went missing during a race in the US state of Oregon in late October, before turning up in Melbourne almost two months later.
But officials say the pigeon, which has been named Joe, poses a "direct biosecurity risk" to Australia's bird population and poultry industry.
The bird will be caught and euthanised.
Tại sao không đặt tên chim là Jim? Nhưng hình như là có tin vui giữa giờ tuyệt vọng:
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55660592)
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55660592)'Fake' US leg band may get pigeon a reprieve in Australia
https://apnews.com/article/australia-to-kill-pigeon-from-oregon-faae5a66c336c8b2dc902b1ed4270345
(https://apnews.com/article/australia-to-kill-pigeon-from-oregon-faae5a66c336c8b2dc902b1ed4270345)
A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk may get a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band was fake.
The band suggested the bird found in a Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 was a racing pigeon that had left the U.S. state of Oregon, 3,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) away, two months earlier.
On that basis, Australian authorities said on Thursday they considered the bird a disease risk and planned to kill it.
But Deone Roberts, sport development manager for the Oklahoma-based American Racing Pigeon Union, said the band was fake.
The band number belongs to a blue bar pigeon in the United States and that is not the bird pictured in Australia, she said.
“The bird band in Australia is counterfeit and not traceable,” Roberts said. “It definitely has a home in Australia and not the U.S.”
“Somebody needs to look at that band and then understand that the bird is not from the U.S. They do not need to kill him,” she added.
Counterfeiting bird bands is “happening more and more,” Roberts said. “People coming into the hobby unknowingly buy that.”
Chắc từ giờ cũng hết tin dân Úc.
Vô trễ nên không còn cái dĩa luôn.
Australia to kill US pigeon that crossed Pacific
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55660592
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55660592)
Tại sao không đặt tên chim là Jim? Nhưng hình như là có tin vui giữa giờ tuyệt vọng:
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55660592)
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55660592)'Fake' US leg band may get pigeon a reprieve in Australia
https://apnews.com/article/australia-to-kill-pigeon-from-oregon-faae5a66c336c8b2dc902b1ed4270345
(https://apnews.com/article/australia-to-kill-pigeon-from-oregon-faae5a66c336c8b2dc902b1ed4270345)
Chắc từ giờ cũng hết tin dân Úc.
Cái vụ này, trong ngôn ngữ chính trị người ta gọi là "Chim__Giả" đó thầy Ốc.
Thằng Hà Bá vật nào gắn cái "leg band" giả này mà khôn (vặt) được thêm chút xíu nữa, thay vì gắn chim giả (í, quên...) gắn "leg band" giả, nó mà quấn lá cờ USA ngang bụng con chim bé nhỏ đó (như quấn cờ tử sĩ)... thì dân Mỹ còn lấy gì để cãi chứ a!
Cờ Mỹ quấn ngang lưng ngờ ngờ ra đó thì là gốc Mỹ Chicago chính hiệu rồi!
Bởi, tui nói... :24: :24:
__o0o__
How are you, Mr. Ốckipedia? Bên bển mấy hôm nay ra đường vắng hoe hả?
Hello anh Tám, anh Triển, anh Đậu, anh 6Quit.
DC thiệt ra lại náo nhiệt hơn tháng trước. Buổi giao thời mà. Một phe dọn ra, một phe dọn vô, UHauls chạy rần rần như Trâm binh chạy vô văn phòng Pelosi. Chỉ có White house là vắng hoe. Gone with political wind.
Triển
01-15-2021, 07:35 AM
Cái vụ này, trong ngôn ngữ chính trị người ta gọi là "Chim__Giả" đó thầy Ốc.
Trời, chim mà cũng giả được hả? :z2:
Tại sao không đặt tên chim là Jim? Nhưng hình như là có tin vui giữa giờ tuyệt vọng
Bên tui có nhiều loại chim "di dân lậu" từ Châu Phi sang trú ẩn trốn cái nóng từ tháng 4 tới tháng 8 vào mùa Hè rồi mùa Đông ở đây tới thì chúng bay riết về Phi Châu "di dân lậu" tiếp, lậu qua lậu lại. Một số loài thì bay sang Ý, Tây Ban Nha, Bồ Đao Nha. Thú vật làm gì có quốc tịch, chỉ có con người nhốt chúng lại biến thành "thú cưng" rồi chia phe, lập đảng.
O.C. man gets prison time for again smuggling endangered songbirds from Vietnam to the U.S. (https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/21/o-c-man-gets-prison-time-for-again-smuggling-endangered-songbirds-from-vietnam-to-the-u-s/)
May 21, 2018
https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/bird2.jpg?w=600
Sơn ca này tới nơi tắt thở luôn chớ nói chi tắt tiếng hay ca hát gì nữa.
Bee kịch:
Quarter of known bee species have not been recorded since 1990
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/quarter-of-known-bee-species-have-not-been-recorded-since-1990
Researchers analysed bee records from museums, universities and citizen scientists collated by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (https://www.gbif.org/), (GBIF) a global, government-funded network providing open-access data on biodiversity.
They found a steep decline in bee species being recorded since 1990, with approximately 25% fewer species reported between 2006 and 2015 than before the 1990s.
Although this does not mean these species are extinct, it may indicate that some have become so scarce that they are no longer regularly observed in the wild.
Có thể tại vì sữa ong chúa bị Nguyễn cao Kỳ duyên đem bán hết trơn.
Vẽ đường cho hươu chạy:
Sweden to build reindeer bridges over roads and railways
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/20/sweden-to-build-bridges-for-reindeer-to-safely-cross-roads-and-railways
The public broadcaster Sveriges Radio said the transport authority aimed to start work on the first of the new bridges, named “renoducts”, a portmanteau from ren (reindeer) and viaduct, later this year near the eastern city of Umea.
The dozen bridges planned in the northern counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten should ease the situation – and also mean authorities are no longer obliged to close the main north-south E4 motorway when a herd is on the move.
“I’m looking forward to us being able to cross undisturbed,” one reindeer herder, Tobias Jonsson, told the broadcaster, adding that he and his fellow herders were consulted on both the bridges’ location and their design.
“We were able to make sure, for example, that the bridges were open on the top,” he said. “There are 2 metre-high fences on the sides, so the reindeer cannot jump off. But it was important for them that it did not look like they were going into a tunnel. They do not want to be trapped.”
Thay vì xây cầu thì khuyến khích dân xài xe hươu kéo, giống ông già No en, bớt lái xe hơi.
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a reindeer open sleigh
Những con ve ẩn mình chờ chết:
billions of cicadas set to emerge across eastern US
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/26/cicadas-emerge-eastern-us
(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/26/cicadas-emerge-eastern-us)
Billions of cicadas that have spent 17 years underground are set to emerge across large areas of the eastern US, bringing swarming numbers and loud mating calls to major towns and cities.
The periodic cicadas – bugs with strikingly red eyes, black bodies and orange wings – burrow underground as nymphs and suck fluids from the roots of plants as they grow, eventually bursting into the open as adults in mass synchronized events.
The last such event for 15 states including New York, Ohio, Illinois and Georgia occurred in 2004. The cicadas emerge in a 17-year cycle, meaning they will appear this year once temperatures are warm enough, expected to be mid-May.
The noise made by the enormous swarms will be noticeable, however, with males emitting mating calls that can reach 100 decibels, the same sound as standing next to a motorcycle revving its engine. The males produce these mating “songs” by vibrating their tymbals, two rigid, drum-like membranes on the underside of the abdomen.
Experts say if people are able to forget about the noise and the surprise of surroundings covered with cicadas, they will be able to appreciate a rare wonder of the natural world.
- ve: từ chữ VER (https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ver#Tiếng_Pháp) trong tiếng Pháp, nghĩa là sâu bọ
- sầu: từ chữ SÂU thêm dấu huyền
(còn tiếp)
Triển
01-26-2021, 09:10 PM
- ve: từ chữ VER (https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ver#Tiếng_Pháp) trong tiếng Pháp, nghĩa là sâu bọ
- sầu: từ chữ SÂU thêm dấu huyền
(còn tiếp)
"Dục phá thành sầu duy hữu tửu".
Cho nên ve sầu là những đệ tử lưu linh.
VE là cái chai. Ve sầu là buồn quá tu vài chai, ca bài ca con ve.
Triển
01-26-2021, 09:11 PM
Tái bút: đời sau gọi ve sầu là hũ hèm.
Nhất nhật tại nhà, lá mọc tại phố:
Barcelona embraces its wild side
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/31/bat-boxes-greened-streets-and-insect-hotels-barcelona-embraces-its-wild-side-aoe
The Urban Butterfly Monitoring Scheme found that in May and June there were 28% more species per park and 74% more butterflies than the same period in 2019, including new species not previously seen in the city such as the rock grayling (Hipparchia semele) and lesser purple emperor (Apatura ilia).
Once the gardeners went back to work, the question was whether to return everything to its neat and tidy state, or let nature take its course?
The answer is neither. Parés says the council spent the previous two years working on plans to “naturalise” or rewild the city – and was about to announce this change of policy when the pandemic struck. By the time the lockdown ended, it was a lot easier to sell rewilding to a public craving fresh air and open spaces.
The city is now in the process of creating 783,300 sq metres of green open space, including an area around the landmark Sagrada Familía basilica, and 49,000 sq metres of “greened” streets.
The city is also encouraging bird and insect life with around 200 nesting towers for birds and bats, 40 beehives and around 80 plantings designed specifically as insect “hotels”. The council has also published a biodiversity atlas (https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/ecologiaurbana/en/barcelona-biodiversity-atlas) listing all the city’s flora and fauna.
Take a walk on the wild side, Barça!!
(Lou Weed)
Beexit:
Beekeeper stung by post-Brexit ban – and threat to burn 15m bees
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/02/beekeeper-stung-by-post-brexit-ban-and-threat-to-burn-15m-bees
Patrick Murfet wants to import the baby Italian bees for his Kent business and to help farmers pollinate valuable crops. But new laws that came into effect after the UK left the single market mean bringing bees into the country is banned.
Since the end of the transition period, only queen bees can be imported into Great Britain, rather than colonies and packages of bees. However, confusion over whether bees can be brought in via Northern Ireland (https://www.theguardian.com/uk/northernireland) has caused a legal headache.
For decades, bees have been imported to replenish stocks, strengthen breeding lines and as early awakening pollinators for fruit and honey farms in the UK.
But the ban could put this in jeopardy, Murfet said: “It’s a monumentally stupid situation for a country supposed to be standing on its own two feet and exporting round the world.”
In an effort to avoid the import ban and abide by the new laws, Murfet arranged for his usual importation of 15 million bees to arrive via Northern Ireland in April, but said he had been told they may be destroyed if he tries.
Ong ơi ta bảo ong này
Ong ra ngoài ruộng ong bay vòng vòng
Hút mật vốn nghiệp nhà ong
Ong bay đi lấy ta ngồi cướp công
Real life Aces Ventura:
Pet-loving sleuths hailed after tracking down stolen van with 12 dogs inside
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/portland-dog-van-stolen-found
The van was stolen on Tuesday as Sunni Liston, the owner of the Coopers Dogpatch dog daycare business, unloaded a client’s dog.
Liston told the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/04/doggy-daycare-theft-portland/) she saw a man slip into the front seat of the van and speed away – she had left the keys in the ignition – as she handled the dog.
The thief had made away not only with the van, but also the phone, purse and the 12 dogs it contained.
Coopers Dogpatch picks up dogs from owners in Portland, Liston said, and drives them to a daycare center outside the city, where the dogs have space to run free and frolic.
Liston told the Post that a quick-thinking employee used an iPhone tracking app to locate her phone, which was inside the van. The amateur sleuths were able to locate the van in a neighborhood Liston was familiar with – her friend lives there.
Liston called the friend, who reportedly “dropped everything” to search for the dog van. The friend eventually found it and pulled her car up behind it, preventing escape.
Police, who Liston had called from a bystander’s phone, soon arrived at the scene, only to find that the thief had fled. He had taken Liston’s purse and wallet, the Post reported, and several hundred dollars. But he had left the dogs.
“That 40 minutes was the longest 10 hours of my life,” Liston said.
Ở Portland có mấy trự Mít đặc mất bữa nhậu?
Don't eat dog.
Cắc kè là con cắc ké:
Seed-sized chameleon found in Madagascar may be world's tiniest reptile
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/05/seed-sized-chameleon-madagascar-world-tiniest-reptile
Two of the miniature lizards, one male and one female, were discovered by a German-Madagascan expedition team in northern Madagascar.
The male Brookesia nana, or nano-chameleon, has a body that is only 13.5mm (0.53 inches) long, making it the smallest of all the roughly 11,500 known species of reptiles, the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich said. Its total length from nose to tail is just under 22mm (0.87 inch).
The female nano-chameleon is significantly larger, with an overall length of 29mm, the research institute said, adding that the scientists were unable to find further specimens of the new subspecies “despite great effort”.
The species’ closest relative is the slightly larger Brookesia micra, whose discovery was announced in 2012.
https://i.imgur.com/0Pz1Hwb.jpg
Don't eat chameleon.
Em hùng xa lộ:
marsupial gets behind the wheel after being rescued from Australian freeway
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/08/quite-a-calm-koala-marsupial-gets-behind-the-wheel-after-being-rescued-from-australian-freeway
A koala crossing one of South Australia’s busiest freeways has led to a six-car pile-up as drivers abandoned their vehicles to mount a rescue of the “calm” marsupial.
A male driver reportedly was the first person to stop his car to try to rescue the koala before 7am. His car was then hit from behind, causing a chain reaction.
The volunteer released the uninjured koala back into the wild a kilometre from the freeway.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/02/08/08/39016084-9235569-image-a-14_1612771874619.jpg
Giỏi hơn heo bên Đức, lấy chiếc xe chứ lấy láp tóp làm gì?
Triển
02-11-2021, 08:16 PM
Giỏi hơn heo bên Đức, lấy chiếc xe chứ lấy láp tóp làm gì?
Ve vãn lấy luôn Tiên Dung chứ lấy xe là chuyện nhỏ ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5jTvGPiH8
Triển
02-11-2021, 08:19 PM
Nhộng cháy, tằm bảy món, châu chấu xào lăn...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVoFmCOAjmY
Thiệt ra mấy con cua, con ghẹ, con tép, con tôm, con lobster hay tôm tích thì cũng là sâu bọ thôi.
Đậu hũ, dưa cà, khoanh ớt đỏ
Mắm tôm, đường cát, lát chanh xanh
https://i.postimg.cc/9fpjNvJP/F05-BD4-E1-85-CC-42-AF-92-C9-1-BC094-BD26-AE.jpg
Triển
02-12-2021, 09:34 PM
Thiệt ra mấy con cua, con ghẹ, con tép, con tôm, con lobster hay tôm tích thì cũng là sâu bọ thôi.
Đậu hũ, dưa cà, khoanh ớt đỏ
Mắm tôm, đường cát, lát chanh xanh
https://i.postimg.cc/9fpjNvJP/F05-BD4-E1-85-CC-42-AF-92-C9-1-BC094-BD26-AE.jpg
Ngày tết bày mâm cúng đúng theo truyền thống thiệt: Đông bình Tây cỗ.
Phiên âm: chữ "mâm" từ tiếng Đức mà ra, mampfen là ngốn.
Dân Bắc kỳ đạo gốc phải kiêng thịt ngày thứ Sáu chứ. Một bữa nhịn chín bữa lành.
Củ cải, xì dầu, ly rượu trắng
Kim chi, xà lách, chén cơm nâu
https://i.postimg.cc/C11Wx9vs/9-D0-EFDA8-AD88-4-FEB-9-AAB-CA505-ED9674-E.jpg
Triển
02-14-2021, 09:29 PM
Thật ra mỗi thứ Sáu ăn chay cũng phải tưởng niệm Chúa Jesus bị đóng đinh thì cái kiêng cử đó mới có ý có nghĩa. Hồi đó nhà tui ở sát nách nhà thờ Đồng Tiến, chiều nào 4 giờ nhà thờ cũng đổ chuông, hàng xóm những nhà theo đạo Chúa ơi ới gọi nhau đi lễ. Tội nhất là các đứa trẻ, vừa đi vừa càu nhàu. Không biết những đứa trẻ đó lớn lên bây giờ còn đi nhà thờ mỗi chiều hay không. Nhưng khuôn viên nhà thờ Đồng Tiến bự chảng, chúng tớ thả diều bị các ông thầy Sáu rượt chạy rất vui. Các ông thấy dữ, nhưng mà hiền. Rượt bao giờ cũng sắp tóm được thì lại vờ bị đau chân hay hụt hơi.
Có lẽ các thầy Sáu lười vào trong
... đọc kinh cầu nguyện giữ cho linh hồn
Linh hồn phải giữ linh hồn
Đến khi bị chết được lên thiên đàng....
Tèng tèng tèng.
Nhà hàng công ty của mình thứ Sáu nào cũng ăn chay, cho nên tụi mình qua American Diner, một cái quán cốc dán nhãn Mỹ cạnh công ty mà ăn. Đạo Chúa là quốc giáo xứ Đức mà. Tớ rành sáu câu vọng cổ. Tuy nhiên kiêng là một chuyện làm, nhưng chuyện nghĩ trong đầu là việc khác.
Bên Đạo Phật các bà các cô các anh sùng đạo, ngày rằm cũng ăn chay. Các tiệm ăn chay khắp Sài-Gòn từ xưa đã đông đúc. Tuy nhiên cũng y hệt vậy thôi. Mọi sự làm từ sự tự nguyện và tự tâm thì mới có ý nghĩa. Cả việc tự ép mình cũng không có ý nghĩa gì.
Bà Tư đi chợ gặp bà Sáu bán con cá tươi rói. Bà không mua vì hôm nay ngày rằm, bà Tư dặn bà Sáu, rộng con cá lại mai bà tới mua, về nhà bà Tư khoe bà Năm biết tu là cội phúc.
Bà Tư đâu biết đơn vị thời gian trong sách giáo lý Phật giáo là sát-na. Bà ấy tính theo ngày là sai số bậc hơi bự. :)
Bên Mỹ ngày thứ Sáu hàng tuần nhiều tiệm ăn quảng cáo có bán món ăn với cá cho dân Bắc kỳ đạo gốc ăn trưa. Tiệm sushi Nobu của anh Robert de Niro mỗi ngày chỉ mở cửa buổi tối nhưng thứ Sáu thì mở thêm mấy tiếng giờ ăn trưa.
Có cá đổ vạ cho kiêng.
Trời sinh lạc đà, trời sinh cỏ:
Feral camels rounded up in Australian outback and sold online for weed control
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/16/feral-camels-rounded-up-in-australian-outback-sold-in-online-auction-for-weed-control
The camels were sold in seven lots, with prices ranging from $300 a head for three groups of mothers with calves at foot, to $200 a head for cows without calves.
A lot of 32 bull camels sold for $240 a head.
Owner Scott Blackett told the ABC the cow and calf groups were sold to a buyer in Winton, western Queensland to be used for weed control.
They are reckoned to be particularly effective against prickly acacia, a thorny shrub imported to Australia from India that is ranked as one of the 20 worst weeds in Australia.
Camels were introduced to Australia in the 1840s as pack animals for British explorers. As of 2015 there were an estimated 1m feral camels in Australia, with the population at risk of doubling every nine years without culling.
They are effective against thorny weeds because they eat everything – according to the Northern Territory government, camels feed on more than 80% of the available plants in central Australia, causing significant damage to desert ecosystems and damaging fragile sand dunes. They have also been known to cause significant damage to manmade infrastructure in search of water, by pulling up pipes and destroying toilet blocks.
Last year South Australian officials approved the culling of up to 10,000 camels on Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands because the drought had caused camels to converge on settlements in search of water.
The APY board member Marita Barker told the BBC at the time that the camels left the Aboriginal community “stuck in stinking hot and uncomfortable conditions, feeling unwell, because all the camels are coming in and knocking down fences, getting in around the houses and trying to get water through air-conditioners”.
- đậu lạc: từ chữ LẠC ĐÀ vì có hình dạng như hai cái bướu của lạc đà
(còn tiếp)
Triển
02-16-2021, 09:56 AM
- đậu lạc: từ chữ LẠC ĐÀ vì có hình dạng như hai cái bướu của lạc đà
(còn tiếp)
đậu lạc là 2 cái bướu trên lưng, còn lục lạc là ....?
Triển
02-16-2021, 09:59 AM
Black panther sightings near Bari prompt ban on outdoor activities
https://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/05/38/13/62/773x435_cmsv2_7df9c31f-f886-5393-9bc0-75a478442940-5381362.jpg
By Euronews • Updated: 16/02/2021 - 15:03
Italian authorities in Bari have warned the public to avoid the countryside after several local sightings of a black panther.
On Saturday, the mayor of Acquaviva delle Fonti, Davide Carlucci, banned outdoor activities in the area where the animal had been spotted.
But in a Facebook post showing one sighting of the panther, Carlucci also stated that "there is no cause for alarm".
"I have signed an ordinance prohibiting cycling and pedestrian transit and the carrying out of any sporting or agricultural activity by citizens on all country roads and roads outside the town of Acquaviva."
"In order to avoid frightening the feline and cause aggressive behaviour, owners of domestic and farm animals must keep them safe ... to protect them from possible attacks."
Italian forestry police, under the coordination of the prefecture of Bari, have been patrolling the local area over the weekend using drones. They had confirmed the presence of the animal after finding footprints.
"Clearly the operation is delicate and dangerous," said Carlucci. "We'll do anything we can to capture the animal and put it to sleep without harming it."
A similar emergency order was also issued on Saturday by the mayor of Adelfia, Giuseppe Cosola, after a "panther sighting".
Meanwhile, authorities in the nearby town of Castellana Grotte had been on alert since 4 February after reports of a large black cat "roaming the countryside".
"The panther was definitely spotted between Acquaviva and Casamassima," Mayor Francesco De Ruvo said on Saturday.
"In the light of this, unless in the exceptional case of new, proven sightings in the area of Castellana Grotte, I will revoke my emergency order on Monday".
Vets from a local zoo are also on the scene to monitor sightings of the animal. It is not yet clear where the panther came from.
"We received a communication from the Enalcaccia Animal Protection Unit of the possible movement of the panther in the "Parco delle sorbe" area ... between Casamassima and Sammichele di Bari," said Giuseppe Nitti, mayor of Casamassima.
"There is no alarm, but citizens are asked to pay the utmost attention, especially in that area," he said on Facebook.
In 2019, a black panther was spotted climbing rooftops in a northern French town before it was captured and transferred to an animal protection organisation.
The animal had been kidnapped overnight from a zoo in Maubeuge, authorities later revealed.
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Triển
02-16-2021, 09:31 PM
Thầy Ốc có quen em này không, em này chắc là một trong 50 con theo Lạc Long Quân xuống biển bỏ quên cái vỏ lại trên bờ.
A census of sea slugs is helping scientists to track climate change
https://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/05/37/89/70/945x531_cmsv2_ebc08b3f-f1e8-5b6b-8076-2bbb8587c7c2-5378970.jpg
A Spanish Shawl nudibranch, also known as a Flabellina iodinea. - Copyright Creative Commons / Jkirkhart35 licensed under CC BY 2.0
Sea slugs in the waters around Australia are being used to help researchers better understand climate change.
Since 2013 the Sea Slug Census, a citizen science programme powered by volunteers, has documented observations of these gastropods along the Australian coast. It was established by Professor Steve Smith of Southern Cross University in New South Wales and more than 40 census events have taken place so far.
The scheme has recorded more than 630 species, helping improve distributional data for sea slugs and even the discovery of new species too.
Nudibranchs, which are a group of colourful and striking molluscs, have been particularly useful in understanding the impacts of global warming. This is because they typically have a life span of less than a year, which means they respond more rapidly to changes in their environmental conditions.
"We think they are a fantastic group to target for citizen science-based monitoring of marine health,” Professor Smith told ABC News Australia.
So far over 60 species have been found significantly further south than their usual distribution boundaries. This could show shifts in both water temperature and food supplies, as well as the strength of currents.
"Some of these are 2,500 kilometres further south than they've been recorded before,” added Smith.
"The East Australian Current is a great mechanism for transporting organisms in their larval stages. One of the things forecast to happen under climate change is the increasing strength and frequency of the East Australian Current.
"So it means potentially we have this conveyor belt of tropical species which is going to come into our coastal waters more frequently.”
Warmer temperatures could mean more nudibranchs
Australia isn’t the only place using sea slugs to learn more about climate change.
A particular species, the Hopkins’ Rose nudibranch, turned California’s central and northern coastline pink a few years ago.
Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, UCSB, UCSC, and Bodega Marine Laboratory began tracking the unusually high distribution of this bright pink sea slug in January 2015.
Though Hopkins’ Rose nudibranchs are a common sight in southern California, it is unusual to see them in significant numbers further north, as the water temperature is usually too cold to sustain large populations.
The presence of this particular species of sea slug is thought to be indicative of major climate shifts, and unexpected population booms could be used to measure future changes.
"While we are thrilled to see this beautiful bloom of normally-rare nudibranchs, we are concerned about the long term consequences of our changing coastal environment," said Dr. Terry Gosliner, Academy Curator of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology at the time.
"Our current climate conditions are great for some of my favourite slugs, but we can't ignore that warming seas mean less food for sea birds, and adverse impacts for all marine ecosystems. California's unique marine life can't always adapt to so much instability."
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Thầy Ốc có quen em này không, em này chắc là một trong 50 con theo Lạc Long Quân xuống biển bỏ quên cái vỏ lại trên bờ.
Lâu lâu cũng có họp mặt họ hàng ốc trên bàn nhậu nhưng chưa gặp em này trên dĩa.
Trong tiếng Hán Việt, vỏ của ngao xò ốc hến là "xác" (殼), vậy mà mấy con cua lấy vỏ ốc làm nhà thì lại gọi là "ốc mượn hồn". Đáng lẽ phải kêu là "cua mượn xác" mới đúng.
Warmer temperatures could mean more nudibranchs
Rùa chạy đua với thời tiết:
thousands of 'cold-stunned' sea turtles in Texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/17/texas-winter-storm-sea-turtles-cold-stunned
(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/17/texas-winter-storm-sea-turtles-cold-stunned)
The South Padre Island convention center started pitching in Monday when its neighbor, Sea Turtle Inc, could no longer handle the number of sea turtles being dropped off, and their mostly outdoor operation had lost power. He said the convention center itself didn’t have power or water till early Wednesday morning.
Caum said that with another cold front approaching, they don’t know when they will be able to return the sea turtles to the water.
Temperatures in the area on Wednesday afternoon were in the 40s (about 4C). He said it might be Saturday – when temperatures are expected to reach the low 60s (above 15C) – before the turtles can be released back into the Gulf.
He said with power returned they have been able to bring the convention center’s temperature to 60F (15C).
“We’re trying to do the best we can to save as many turtles as possible,” he said.
Thuở trời tuyết phủ lên Tét xịt
Mấy con rùa nhiều nỗi truân chuyên
Triển
02-19-2021, 09:19 PM
Thanh khuyển
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZO9aCcqqs
Chó đó chắc có gien của dân xì trum. Tí cầy.
Hồng hạc:
Cyprus urged to ban hunting at coast to protect flamingoes from shotgun pellets
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/21/cyprus-conservationist-seek-hunting-ban-coastal-wetlands-migrating-flamingo-lead-shotgun-pellet
Martin Hellicar, the director of Birdlife Cyprus, said flamingos were at risk of ingesting the tiny pellets lying on the lakebed as they fed. Like other birds, flamingos swallow small pebbles to aid digestion but cannot distinguish between pebbles and the lead pellets.“Last year we had tens of losses of flamingos,” Hellicar said.
Cyprus is a key stop on the migration path for many types of birds flying from Africa to Europe (https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news). Larnaca Salt Lake, a wetlands network of four lakes, typically welcomes as many as 15,000 flamingos from colder climates. They stay through the winter and leave in March. Other water fowl to frequent the lake include ducks, waders and seagulls.
Hunting is banned around most of the salt lake, but hunters are still allowed to shoot ducks in the network’s southern tip.
The government’s game and fauna service said that in the first two months of last year, 96 flamingos were found dead in the Larnaca Salt Lake wetlands as a result of lead poisoning. Panayiotis Constantinou, a Cyprus veterinary services official who has conducted autopsies on flamingos, said lead from the pellets poisoned the birds.
The high number of deaths is mainly attributed to heavy winter rain two years ago that stirred up the lake sediment and dislodged embedded lead shot.
A sport shooting range near the lake’s northern tip closed nearly 18 years ago and authorities organised a cleanup of lead pellets in the lakebed there.
But Hellicar said the cleanup was apparently incomplete. A European Union-funded study is under way to identify where significant amounts of lead pellets remain so they can be removed. Preliminary results of the study showed very high lead levels in the wetlands’ southern tip, and Hellicar said continued duck hunting there could compound the problem.
“The problem is pronounced,” he said. “The danger is real for the flamingos and other birds that use the area.”
Con cò mày đi ăn chi
Nhậu phải đạn chì lộn cổ xuống ao
(Cò dao)
Triển
02-21-2021, 08:21 PM
Elizabeth Ann - Hắc cước hồ: Thú nhân tạo trong Tối thế ký.
Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago.
The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann was born in a Colorado facility Dec. 10 and announced Thursday.
Elizabeth Ann is a genetic copy of a ferret named Willa who died in 1988 and whose remains were frozen in the early days of DNA technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Er63gAnMs
Alain De Lông:
Baarack, a sheep rescued in Australia with over 75 pounds of wool, is 'getting more confident every day'
https://news.yahoo.com/baarack-sheep-rescued-australia-over-135949204.html
A sheep named Baarack received a much needed shearing after rescuers in Australia found the abandoned animal with more than 75 pounds of wool weighing it down.
Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary, an animal rescue and sanctuary on a farm in Lancefield, north of Melbourne, rescued the sheep earlier this month and shared video of his transformation on TikTok that has more than 18.5 million views.
It was "a property maintenance man who spotted Baarack in the forest that adjoined the boundary of a property he was working on. This chap then contacted us to see if we could assist Baarack," said Kelly Dinham, who works on community engagement and advocacy at the sanctuary, in an email to USA TODAY.
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/0plRY2knEWvxfjxIlWz5EQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQ3MA--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ovOEzhcZ7q16rZff_LvMUA--~B/aD00MDAwO3c9NjAwMDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/usa_today_news_641/b20a6f71c989d3c729fb025ff475a852
Kyle Behrend, also with the sanctuary, told Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-sheep/baarack-from-the-brink-wild-sheep-rescued-in-australia-shorn-of-35-kg-fleece-idUSKBN2AO0CW) that it appeared that the animal was once owned, having an ear-tag that appeared to have been torn out by the thick matted fleece near his face.
Sheep need at least yearly shearing to keep their coats light enough for the animals, otherwise it will continue to grow, Dinham told USA TODAY.
"This is a result of domestication as the ancestor of modern sheep, the wild mouflon was a self-shedding animal whose coat/fur grew and shed in accordance with the seasons," she said.
After rescuing Baarack, sanctuary staff gave him the long-overdue shearing and found the fleece clocked in at 35.4 kilograms, or about 78 pounds.
Despite his heavy fleece, Baarack was actually underweight after being sheared, Dinham said.
The wool around his face impaired his vision, too. Dinham said they found grit and debris "pooling in the gap between his cornea and the lid." And a grass seed stuck in there had caused an ulcer.
One positive was that Baarack's hooves were in good conditions having been in the forest with rocks to run over for some time, Dinham said.
Baarack Lambama.
Một con bò đau, cả tàu bỏ mạng:
Cattle stranded on ship in Spain must be destroyed, say vets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/27/cattle-stranded-on-ship-in-mediterranean-must-be-destroyed-say-vets
More than 850 cows that have spent months aboard a ship wandering across the Mediterranean are no longer fit for transport any more and should be killed, according to a confidential report by Spanish government veterinarians.
The cows have been kept in what an animal rights activist called “hellish” conditions (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/24/cattle-stranded-at-sea-for-two-months-are-likely-dead-or-suffering-hell) on the Karim Allah, which docked in the south-eastern Spanish port of Cartagena on Thursday after struggling for two months to find a buyer for the cattle.
The animals were rejected by several countries (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/25/cattle-stranded-at-sea-face-slaughter-if-ship-docks-in-spain-says-manager) over fears they had bovine bluetongue virus. The insect-borne virus causes lameness and haemorrhaging among cattle. Bluetongue does not affect humans.
The vets’ report, which was seen by Reuters, concluded that the animals had suffered from the lengthy journey. Some of them were unwell and not fit for transport outside of the European Union, nor should they be allowed into the EU. Euthanasia would be the best solution for their health and welfare, it said.
The insect-borne bluetongue virus causes lameness and haemorrhaging among cattle but does not affect humans. The Spanish ministry’s report counted 864 animals alive on board the Karim Allah this week. Twenty-two cows had died at sea with two corpses still onboard, it noted, adding that the remains of the others that died were chopped up and thrown overboard during the journey.
Masramón said although he was not an animal health technician, he did not agree with the official Spanish veterinary report released on Friday. “From what I understand, none of the diseases [noted in the report] are worth euthanizing the cattle for. They are normal after two months at seas and the animals could recover.”
In an interview, a source close to a second cattle ship, the Elbeik, which has similarly been at sea for two months since leaving the Spanish port of Tarragona with a cargo of nearly 1,800 cows, said he was watching the Karim Allah developments closely.
The Elbeik is currently moored off the Turkish Cypriot port of Famagusta having loaded animal fodder and straw. The source
said that once the loading was complete, the Elbeik would probably sail to Greece to load bunker fuel for the ship.
Asked about apparent moves by the Spanish authorities to begin unloading and killing the cattle, the source said the health problems identified by the official Spanish vet report could “easily heal”. He said the decision, if taken, to kill all the animals was “amazing”. He added: “If the animals can heal why would they want to do that?”
Poor cows.
Tránh voi chẳng xấu mặt nào:
Elephant kills Spanish zookeeper with one hit from trunk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/26/elephant-kills-spanish-zookeeper-with-one-blow-from-trunk
The female elephant weighing around 4,000kg (8,800lb) hit the 44-year-old with her trunk on Wednesday morning at the Cabarceno Natural Park near the northern city of Santander, the zoo said. The man was rushed to hospital where he died from his injuries some three hours later.
At the time staff were cleaning the elephant stables as part of their daily duties and the elephant was with her calf in the compound.
“We’re talking about unpredictable animals,” said Javier Lopez Marcano, the tourism minister in the regional government of Cantabria which owns the zoo.
“The force of the strike was tremendous, of a magnitude that one could not survive.”
Police and the zoo said they had opened an investigation. It is the first such incident in the park’s 31-year history.
Cabarceno Natural Park is home to almost 120 animal species including wolves, tigers, lions and jaguars that live in large enclosures where one or more species co-exist.
Last year a 46-year-old keeper was mauled by a 200-kilo gorilla at Madrid Zoo Aquarium, leaving her with two broken arms and chest and head injuries.
Ru con con ngủ ngon lành
Để mẹ gánh nước rửa bành con voi
Muốn coi lên net mà coi
Coi trong sở thú đừng coi làm gì.
(Ca cẩm)
Triển
02-27-2021, 10:17 PM
Baarack Lambama.
35 kí lô lông thì là sư tổ của Alain Đờ Lông Beng rồi.
Tìm chim như thể tìm em:
Bird trafficking in Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/01/looking-for-a-flamingo-iraqs-lucrative-bird-trafficking-industry
Bird poaching can be a lucrative business in Maysan, which is located between the Ahwar marshes – a Unesco world heritage site – and the border with Iran, putting it at the forefront of bird trafficking. The region is a poor one and the illegal trafficking of birds is a lifeline for many families.
In his small bricked house in Amara’s suburbs, Ali admits selling various species of birds, mostly to rich Iraqis or foreigners from the Gulf states. “They travel all the way here from countries such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia or even Qatar,” he says.
On his rooftop, he opens the gate of a large cage full of chattering flamingos. “People want them to decorate their gardens, or to put them in their private zoos. I’m the one supplying many Iraqi buyers.
“Many flamingos die in my cage, especially during warm summer days,” he admits, adding: “I sell between one and 10 of those birds every month during winter, the peak season. They buy them dead or alive, because people also eat them.”
It is during the winter months of October to February that the birds migrate towards the southern Iraqi marshes, where temperatures are milder and there is an abundance of food. Those that are captured are sold for 30–40,000 Iraqi dinars (£15–£20).
Holding a flamingo tightly under his arm, Ali says the police are no threat to his business, despite a local decree banning flamingo poaching. Nonetheless, he remains cautious, adding: “I don’t bring flamingos into my shop. No need … people know where to find me, and if they do want one, they meet me at home or I can deliver the bird directly to their place.”
Dr Hamoudi knows this area well. “Each year, thousands of birds are captured in the marshes. I know the hunting grounds well, so I sometimes give information to the environmental police in order to help them in their operations. They’d be unable to conduct them otherwise,” he says. He also regularly buys wild animals on the black market only to release them afterwards. “So far, I’ve freed 17 flamingos and many other animals from poachers.”
Cái cò lặn lội bờ sông
Lặn lội tìm chồng tiếng khóc nỉ non.
Triển
03-09-2021, 09:08 AM
Tiền trảm hậu phát. Thầy Ốc có gặp bạn này trên bàn nhậu chưa? Bạn này có tuyệt kỹ à nha: Trảm đầu công!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFYqjp3E3G8
A sea slug’s detached head can crawl around and grow a whole new body
Yes, planarians too regrow bodies but don’t have as many fancy organs such as a heart
https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/030521_sm_sea-slug_feat.jpg
The detached head of a sea slug (Elysia cf. marginata) glides by its still-living, leaf-shaped body a day after separation. That body, 80 percent of the animal’s weight, is out of luck. It’s the head that survives, growing a new body.
S. Mitoh
March 8, 2021 at 11:00 am
Losing your body from the neck down can be just another one of life’s annoying, but temporary, setbacks — at least for two kinds of rippling, green-tinged sea slugs.
Heads of young Elysia cf. marginata sea slugs can pull themselves free from their bodies and just keep crawling around while growing a new body, report ecologists at Nara Women’s University in Japan. Within a few hours, some separated heads start nibbling on algae again, Sayaka Mitoh and Yoichi Yusa report March 8 in Current Biology. And within about 20 days, a third of the young sea slugs they watched had grown their bodies back, heart and all.
That’s the first time anyone has reported such dramatic “whole-body” regeneration in any sea slug “as far as we know,” Yusa says.
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After disconnecting its head from its body (far left, arrow points to the heart), a process that can take several hours, an Elysia cf. marginata sea slug gradually grows a whole new body. By day 7 (second from left), the heart has begun to regenerate. The rest of the body follows suit (day 14, second from right) until regeneration is complete (day 22, far right).S. Mitoh and Y. Yusa/Current Biology 2021
Other creatures can regenerate, too. In one sense, planarians, the little cross-eyed flatworms that biology students mince up to study regeneration, “are better,” Yusa says. They can regenerate the whole body from multiple cut pieces. Yet their body plan is simpler, and they don’t have hearts.
A group of tubelike sea squirts called ascidians might be considered the most complex of whole-body regenerators. Yet ascidians also lack a heart. And vertebrate regenerators, like salamanders regrowing a tail left in the jaws of a predator, don’t regrow a whole body from a severed head.
Mitoh first noticed the sea slugs’ extreme regeneration by chance in some Elysia slugs in the lab. “We were really surprised to see the head crawling,” Yusa says.
Just which Elysia species can turn into crawling heads isn’t clear yet. Marine biologist Sónia Cruz at the University of Aveiro in Portugal works with two other Elysia species but hasn’t seen anything like it. She does caution, though, that she hasn’t done systematic tests.
The head of a sea slug can take several hours to rip itself loose from its body, so Mitoh and Yusa doubt that de-heading helps when predators attack. Instead, a detachable body could give the sea slug a drastic, but effective, way of dealing with parasites. In a batch of wild-caught E. atroviridis sea slugs, the few that ditched their bodies were parasitized by copepods. So were those that just lost pieces of their body, some of which also regrew.
On close inspection, the researchers found that sea slugs have a slight groove looped on the back of the head region that seems to work as a break-here zone. The bodies left behind can still move on their own for days or even months. An abandoned body, however, doesn’t regrow its head. The leaf-shaped remnant instead turns pale and weak and eventually dies.
What might help Elysia slugs manage such extreme regrowth is their ability to steal the tiny green sunlight-trapping energy factories called chloroplasts from plants, the researchers muse. Very young slugs don’t have any chloroplasts. “They need to pierce the cell walls of sea algae and sip the contents,” Yusa says. The grazing slugs can keep the chloroplasts alive for weeks or months.
Biologists debate what the stolen chloroplasts do for their kidnappers besides provide a pretty, green tinge. Yusa, however, has linked the looted chloroplasts to such consequential matters as improved reproduction. If chloroplasts are more than cosmetic, maybe that energy boost is just what a severed head needs to get (more than) ahead.
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Chưa. Hàng hiếm chắc chỉ có ở bên Nhật.
Cua gãy càng cũng mọc lại được cho nên người ta bẻ một càng rồi thả cho nó về nhà trị thương, vài bữa mọc ra càng mới. Thần điêu đại hiệp chưa học được võ công thượng thừa "faire la cua" này.
Animal farm:
Rancher guards irradiated cattle near Fukushima
https://sports.yahoo.com/rancher-guards-irradiated-cattle-near-072047126.html
The cows raised in Japan's Ranch of Hope can never be sold.
They live just miles away from what was once the Fukushima nuclear station, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
In its wake, Japan's government ordered a widespread cull of livestock exposed to radiation.
But for the past decade, rancher Masami Yoshizawa defied that order, and kept his cows alive.
"I've been exposed to radiation, but I chose to stay here. By keeping these cattle, I'm hoping for a world without nuclear power plants."
Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes a decade ago following the disaster.
Many cows starved to death as a result.
But Yoshizawa stayed - and took in animals left behind.
Now he guards more than 200 cattle as protest against the government and Tokyo Electric Power, or Tepco, which owned the Fukushima nuclear plant.
"I hope that more people see these cattle stay alive for a long time - as a memorial of the disaster, and as a symbol of anti-nuclear power."
Yoshizawa says it costs about USD$74,000 a year to feed them. That mostly comes from donations.
He even drives a bulldozer every day to pick up rotting vegetables from supermarkets, and food waste from factories to feed his cows at a lower cost.
While he's received compensation from the disaster, he is also critical of what Tepco has contributed to local residents.
And every month, he takes his protest straight to the utility company's doors.
Yoshizawa says he's probably the only rancher taking care of the affected cattle.
But he also says he isn't slowing down, any time soon.
Nhờ có phóng xạ mà không bị người ta ăn thịt.
Có biết đâu niềm vui đã nằm trong thiên tai.
Những phường bán cá lăn dưa:
seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/15/revealed-seafood-happening-on-a-vast-global-scale
(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/15/revealed-seafood-happening-on-a-vast-global-scale)
Many of the studies used relatively new DNA analysis techniques. In one comparison of sales of fish labelled “snapper” by fishmongers, supermarkets and restaurants in Canada, the US, the UK, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, researchers found mislabelling in about 40% (https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12573) of fish tested. The UK and Canada had the highest rates of mislabelling in that study, at 55%, followed by the US at 38%.
Sometimes the fish were labelled as different species in the same family. In Germany, for example, 48% of tested samples purporting to be king scallops (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956713520304904) were in fact the less coveted Japanese scallop. Of 130 shark fillets bought from Italian fish markets and fishmongers, researchers found a 45% mislabelling rate, (https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/9/9/1194/htm) with cheaper and unpopular species of shark standing in for those most prized by Italian consumers.
Still other samples proved to be not entirely of aquatic species,with prawn balls sold in Singapore frequently found to contain pork (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/826032v1.full.pdf) and not a trace of prawn.
The highest restaurant mislabelling rates – ranging from 40% to 50% – were in Spain, Iceland, Finland and Germany. Fish (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/fish) such as dusky grouper (“mero”) and butterfish were among the species most frequently mislabelled, while for pike perch, sole, bluefin and yellowfin tuna, there was a 50% chance customers did not get what they had ordered.
Sometimes fish are substituted with similar species – one type of tuna for another, for example. Often, however, the replacement is an entirely different species. A very common stand-in is little known and inexpensive shark catfish, or pangasius. This group of fish is widely farmed in Vietnam and Cambodia, and has a similar taste and texture to other whitefish, such as cod, sole and haddock.
Mập mờ đánh lận con tôm
Bao nhiêu cũng bấy nhiêu tiền mất toi
(Thị trường tân thanh)
Chuột không túi:
Three hospital patients bitten as mouse plague sweeps western NSW
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/18/three-hospital-patients-bitten-by-mice-as-absolute-plague-sweeps-western-nsw
Large swathes of inland New South Wales have been “inundated” with mice and rats, with the rodents getting into homes, hospitals and hotels.Hospitals across western NSW are stepping up baiting and trapping procedures, laying down odour repellents, and blocking up door and window seals to ward off the rodent wave.
NSW Health confirmed that three people, who were attending hospital for non-rat or mice-related reasons, were bitten by mice while being treated at Tottenham, Walgett and Gulargambone in regional NSW.
Farmers across the state are also battling the rodents, with one farmer being given approval to fly a drone that drops poisoned bait to kill them.
Roger Woods, a Queensland farmer who had flown Black Hawk helicopters for 20 years, told Guardian Australia earlier this month that the NSW Environment Protection Authority had approved him to conduct the drone strikes on farms that wanted them.
Alan Brown, a farmer in Wagga Wagga and member of the NSW Farmers Association, told Guardian Australia on Thursday that “it is an absolute plague in the northern half of the state”, with the potential to spread further.
Brown said that he knew of friends and fellow farmers who were “inundated with the things [rodents]”.
“They are causing serious problems now, with people getting bitten,” he said. “Rats are at a nuisance level, but the mice are in plague proportions, particularly in the north and west and south-west of the state.”
Brown said one farmer he had spoken to had lost a crop, worth $200,000 to $300,000, to the insatiable creatures.
“He had a thousand tonne crop of grain sorghum, and it is a complete write-off. They ate the lot. They baited it five times to try and suppress the mice, but they just ate the lot.
“What they were doing is they were climbing up the stalks, chewing the grain heads off, and there were more mice on the ground to clean it up.
“There is a motel in the south-west of the state who closed because they couldn’t keep the mice out of the rooms. Just a disaster. And these are people in the tourism industry already struggling … They [the mice] are doing huge damage.”
The public health director of the Western NSW local health district, Priscilla Stanley, told the ABC that she had received one report of lymphocytic choriomeningitis, a mouse-related illness.
“The disease is linked to mice but it’s very rare,” she told the ABC. “People described sore red eyes as a symptom.”
Brown said the plague would get worse before it gets better.
“It is a plague that has a way to run yet,” he said. “It is developing still. Conditions are still ideal for mice to breed. Conditions are just right for them.
“A mature female can breed every three weeks, they can pump them out. And that’s what is going on, it is building up to a massive plague.”
Đại thử do thiên, tiểu thử do người.
Triển
03-21-2021, 09:13 AM
Chuột không túi:
Three hospital patients bitten as mouse plague sweeps western NSW
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...ps-western-nsw
Chuột rô-ti nè.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2_fVvxOVA
Toàn dân nghe chăng
Sân nhà nguy biến
Nhện thù đằng đằng
Biên thủy rung chuyển...
swarms of spiders flee into homes – and up legs – to escape NSW floods
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/22/horrific-swarms-of-spiders-flee-into-homes-and-up-legs-to-escape-nsw-floods
Macksville resident Melanie Williams was also shocked by a swarm of spiders climbing the outer wall of her home as they fled for higher ground. “I occasionally see spiders around the place but never anything like that, it was just insane,” she told the ABC.
The spiders outside her home were “horrific” but her neighbour told her there were twice as many inside his garage, she told Guardian Australia.
Lovenfosse said he had witnessed the same phenomenon in a flood 20 years ago this month, when he was seven.People would be happy if the rain helped end NSW’s ongoing mouse plague, but experts say that is uncertain.“It’s a bit of a tough one to predict,” a CSIRO research officer, Steve Henry, said.
“Certainly areas west of the divide are not getting nearly the same amount of rain as places to the east are getting. Unless we’re getting rainfall of a magnitude that will fill the [mice] burrows with water, we don’t think it will have a significant effect.”
For example, the 86mm of rain reported over the weekend at Gilgandra was a good fall but “unless it’s enough rain to flood out burrows, they’re just going to hunker down, wait for the rain to pass and be back in business”.
Rain would “make conditions less favourable for mice”, Henry said, but “whether this is the precursor [to the end of the plague] is uncertain, unfortunately.”
When floods did kill off mice, it usually happened quickly. “Farmers talk about the mice disappearing virtually overnight,” the research officer said. “They get to such high numbers they become quite stressed … they start to run out of food, which facilitates the spread of disease, they start eating the sick ones, they turn on the babies, and then it’s all over. It’s quite a grizzly story.”
Mấy tụi nhền nhện thì làm món gì?
- nhện: từ chữ ARAIGNÉE (https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/araign%C3%A9e#Tiếng_Pháp) tring tiếng Tây
El condor pasa: I'd rather be a condor than a snail....
Endangered condors return to northern California skies after nearly a century
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/26/california-condor-reintroduced-yurok-tribe
The condor once soared from British Columbia to Mexico, but habitat loss, overhunting and, most significantly, poisoning from hunting ammunition drove the birds to near extinction.By the early 1980s, these threats had caused such a precipitous decline in the population that only 22 remained in the wild. In an effort to regrow their numbers, biologists captured the remaining birds and began a breeding program.
Since then, the condor has been reintroduced to south and central California. Its population has expanded into parts of Utah, Arizona and Baja California in Mexico, with experts estimating the number of free flying birds at more than 300.
Now, the bird will be reintroduced in northern California. The reintroduction efforts there have largely been led by the Yurok Tribe, whose ancestral land encompasses large swaths of forest and coastline in northern California and parts of Redwood national park that were once home to the condor.
The tribe has planned for the bird’s return for over a decade, and its proposal was accepted on 24 March by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
For the Yurok people, the return of the condor presents a milestone. The condor plays a critical role in the people’s tradition and culture, and the return of the bird to ancestral territory brings with it a sense of renewal for both people and the land, said Tiana Williams-Claussen, the director of Yurok Tribe’s wildlife department.
In 2003, the Yurok elder community identified the bird as the single-most important land animal to bring back to ancestral land. The reintroduction program was born only a few years after that decision, according to Williams-Claussen.
“When I actually see a condor in the sky again,” Williams-Claussen said, “it’s just mending that wound that was carried by my elders, is carried by me and that, at least in part, is not going to be carried by my children.”
Trăm năm trong cõi trần gian
Chữ người chữ thú cũng cần giúp nhau
Triển
03-28-2021, 08:27 PM
Mấy tụi nhền nhện thì làm món gì?
đem chiên bưa liền...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6upj9Cv0apE
Giun sán...g:
Glow-worms
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2021/mar/29/glow-worms-as-soon-as-you-think-youve-seen-them-they-blink-off
Outside at the restaurant, I see my first glow-worms. It is possible that they are fireflies, but they’re still: on the branches of what I hope are hibiscus trees, but then again, I would happily plant a hibiscus in every memory I have.
I had read about them in James and the Giant Peach. The centipede tells James, “Glow-worms are never worms. They are simply lady fireflies without wings.”
“Never worms” is what they are like; you’re not sure of what you’ve seen, they pulse so strangely and each configuration of lit-up worms is so different from the last – so unlike stars, or fairy lights or candles. As soon as you think you’ve seen them, they blink off. As soon as you’re sure you imagined them, on they go again.
Glow-worms are, of course, quite ugly. And being insects, their lives are harrowing and strange in the way only insects’ lives can be. Europe’s common glow-worm injects poison into slugs and snails, liquifying the – why yes, I am prepared to use this term – slug/snail meat. Wikipedia describes it as a “brown broth that the larva can lap up”. The poison doesn’t kill the prey, and sometimes they just slide away.
In New Zealand, there are caves filled with glow-worms patrolling thin strings of goo decorated with fine droplets. These droplets catch midges, which the glow-worms eat. They need to eat a lot, because the glow-worms eventually transform into “primitive flies” – fungus gnats – whose mouth parts don’t function, which means they are unable to eat anything at all.
The flies are a kind of purgatory stage of the insect – a hungry ghost, a lost soul – and then they mate and enter the afterlife.
Glow-worms, fireflies and lightning bugs remind me of thinking, memory and writing. There is the way an idea will appear seemingly by itself, and vanish if you don’t record it. The jump from one scene in your mind to another that “can communicate before it is understood”.
The glow-worms laying down their sticky traps: early sentences ready to catch the perfect word – a gnat suspended in a droplet – to reel it in, chew it up, and start again. Is there another gnat, a better gnat?
And yes, desire and distraction. All the glow-worms in England – “Ye country comets, that portend / No war nor prince’s funeral” – couldn’t help a lovestruck Andrew Marvell 400 years ago.
Như con giun sáng trên trời, như trăng sao vời vợi, làm sao nói được loài giun...
(Phạm Giuy)
Như con giun sáng trên trời, như trăng sao vời vợi, làm sao nói được loài giun..(Phạm Giuy). Làm sao thấu hiểu được loài giun?
Có nghĩa gì đâu tật thích bùn
Cứ thế vọc lên
............. trầy với trét
Để rồi ướt nhẹp, đứng run run
(Phạm Xô]
Giun mà đứng chắc xài chân giả.
Tìm chim như thể tìm ma:
The $10,000 search for New Zealand's 'ghost' bird
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/26/the-search-for-new-zealand-ghost-bird-aoe
Spurred on by the successful recovery of the North Island kōkako – a large, long-legged songbird with a blue wattle and haunting call – they are searching the South Island for its close relative, though many already believe it to be lost.
Kõkako were widespread in New Zealand’s ancient forests and known for their squirrel-like movement, hopping and leaping between trees. But their numbers plummeted after human settlement due to predation by introduced species.
Now the North Island kõkako survives in low (if increasing) numbers while the South Island species – almost identical but for its orange wattle – is widely assumed extinct. But one band of devotees is refusing to give up hope.
In 1977, ecologist Rhys Buckingham heard a “staggeringly beautiful” bird call in Fiordland that he was certain was that of the South Island kõkako – sparking a 40-plus year mission. With fellow conversationists Ron Nilsson and Nigel Babbage, in 2010 Buckingham co-founded the South Island Kõkako Charitable Trust to expand the search.
Still without certainty, the trust has found sponsorship to offer a substantial reward: $10,000 (£5,122) for conclusive evidence that the bird exists.
Its wild west-style posters show the South Island kõkako in profile, looking every bit a masked bandit beneath the woodcut font: “Wanted: Preferably alive”. These are displayed in DOC-managed visitor centres and huts, rural shops and pubs, tramping and hunting clubs, and conservation groups.
The search has been enhanced by tech, with artificial intelligence used to identify individual species from photos and sound recordings of possible habitat.
From a speaker, solar panel, bike battery and smartphone (“a Heath Robinson get-up,” says Perkins), one trustee built a device that plays the call of the North Island bird at dawn and dusk, and records any response. It has been planted in the Grey Valley, south of Reefton – a hotspot for reports.
https://cdn.unitycms.io/image/ocroped/400,400,1000,1000,0,0/qyxdFzUfEyY/6vP5KWAcqasAn3Fl-co0sr.png
Nghĩ điều trời thẳm vực sâu
Bóng chim tăm cá biết đâu mà tìm
(Kokakiều Truyện)
Khỉ xút chuồng chạy rông:
Monkeys thought to have escaped private collection on loose in Cincinnati
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/08/monkeys-cincinnati-on-loose-ohio-private-collector
(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/08/monkeys-cincinnati-on-loose-ohio-private-collector)
At least five monkeys are on the loose in Cincinnati after being spotted swinging from the trees in a graveyard in the Ohio (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ohio) city’s West Side neighborhood.
Police told the local Fox 19 Now television channel that the animals may have escaped from a private exotic animal collector’s home.
In 2011 large numbers of exotic animals escaped a preserve in Zanesville in the state. Local officials eventually gave up trying to capture most of them – which included tigers and bears – and opened fire.
In the end 49 animals were shot, including 18 Bengal tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, two grizzly bears, three mountain lions, two wolves and a baboon. The massacre sparked widespread outrage.
Ổ khỉ ở Ổ hải âu?
Chôm chôm biển:
California’s rampant sea urchin problem
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/11/california-purple-sea-urchin-uni-kelp-forest
But these vibrant little aliens – purple sea urchins, in actuality – have become a major headache for the Pacific west coast. Their population has exploded by 10,000% since 2014 (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/24/sea-urchins-california-oregon-population), with scientists blaming the decline of sea otter and starfish populations – two of the urchin’s natural predators.
Hundreds of millions of purple sea urchins now blanket the coast from Baja to Alaska, where they have been devouring the region’s vital kelp forests, doing untold damage to the marine ecosystem in the process.
In California, it is estimated that 95% (https://www.npr.org/2021/03/31/975800880/in-hotter-climate-zombie-urchins-are-winning-and-kelp-forests-are-losing#:~:text=Lonhart%20%2F%20NOAA%20MBNMS-,Purple%20sea%20urchins%20have%20boomed%20off%20No rthern%20California%2C%20destroying%20kelp,that%20 provide%20a%20crucial%20ecosystem.&text=Kelp%20forests%20provide%20a%20crucial,entire %20stretch%20of%20California%20coast.) of the kelp forests, which serve as both shelter and food to a wide range of marine life, has been decimated and replaced by so-called “urchin barrens (https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/kelp-forests-norcal.html)” – vast carpets of spiked purple orbs along the ocean floor.
It shouldn’t have been a hard sell. Sea urchin, or uni in the sushi world, is considered a delicacy in the fine dining circles. “The two main descriptors I would use are sweet and briny, similar to an oyster, similar to a clam,” said culinary scientist Ali Bouzari. “They taste like the sea because they live in the sea. They’re sweet, umami and a little bit salty. The texture is very creamy. It’s very similar to room-temperature butter.”
During the pandemic, however, fine dining has been harder to come by. And the retail costs, which range from $9 to $12 per urchin at your local fishmonger, isn’t something every home cook can justify.
Sea urchins are essentially a ball of hard purple spikes containing five egg sacs, which is what we eat – in the culinary world, they’re described as the tongues, the roe, the uni.
They have no eyes or brain, but they do have mouths, which they use to suck up everything in their way, kelp or otherwise. Bouzari calls them the “Roombas of the ocean”.
Chiên bơ?
Triển
04-11-2021, 09:58 PM
Chiên bơ?
Súp hải sản đi..
https://source.tastespirit.com/img/20180611103420.jpg
Triển
04-11-2021, 10:12 PM
Helmuth trai trẻ nhưng "thiếu vận động" tại sở thú
Gelsenkirchen (Đức) nên hơi quá kí-lô, cân nặng 100 kg.
Hiện nay Helmuth đang được làm "vật lý trị liệu", "bò bộ"
trên ván:
https://www.facebook.com/wdrlokalzeitdortmund/videos/1547568502119253/
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Triển
04-12-2021, 10:04 PM
Biên phúc lạp thủ: virus hunters
Philippines: Studying bats might help prevent another pandemic
After dark in the Philippine province of Laguna, scientists use big nets to catch bats. They study the animals in an effort to prevent the next pandemic.
https://static.dw.com/image/57129289_303.jpg
Casting their nets
The researchers, who call themselves "virus hunters," are out to catch thousands of bats for a simulation model. They hope that this will help them prevent another pandemic on the scale of the COVID-19 crisis in the future.
https://static.dw.com/image/57128910_303.jpg
Untangling bats
In the dense rainforest, it can take hours for the "virus hunters" to find what they are looking for. Once they have detected the bats, they carefully place them in cloth bags so they can be examined and measured.
https://static.dw.com/image/57128944_303.jpg
Swabbed for science
The researchers log all the details for further analysis, including saliva and fecal samples. Then, the animals are returned to the wild.
https://static.dw.com/image/57129323_303.jpg
Avoid the next pandemic
"What we’re trying to look into are other strains of coronavirus that have the potential to jump to humans," according to Phillip Alviola, the ecologist who heads the science team that has studied bat viruses for more than a decade.
https://static.dw.com/image/57128876_303.jpg
Isolate the viruses
"If we know the virus itself and we know where it came from, we know how to isolate that virus geographically," Phillip Alviola said.
https://static.dw.com/image/57128842_303.jpg
More data needed
Researchers from the University of the Philippines in Los Banos, located about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southeast of the capital, Manila, plan on continuing the Japan-funded project over the next three years. They hope that more information about bats will give them more insight into coronaviruses, also with regard to climate, temperature and how they transmit to humans.
https://static.dw.com/image/57129221_303.jpg
Bat-borne viruses
"What we’re after is finding out if there are any more viruses from bats that can be transmitted to humans," Phillip Alviola said. Bat-borne viruses include pathogens like those that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS). The World Health Organization (WHO) suspects that bats may have been the first hosts of Sars-CoV-2.
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Mấy hình ảnh này mai mốt thế nào cũng sẽ được fake news xài để chứng minh dân Á châu bắt dơi nấu cháo. Dân Á châu đọc xong lập tức rủ nhau phát tán tin chấn động. Một triệu thạch-chính-lệ-vô-danh thả ra con vi trùng tinvịt.
Triển
04-13-2021, 09:38 PM
Mấy hình ảnh này mai mốt thế nào cũng sẽ được fake news xài để chứng minh dân Á châu bắt dơi nấu cháo. Dân Á châu đọc xong lập tức rủ nhau phát tán tin chấn động. Một triệu thạch-chính-lệ-vô-danh thả ra con vi trùng tinvịt.
#AsianLiveMatter (https://stopaapihate.org/)
https://www.nguoi-viet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/DP-Khong-so-thu-ghet-goc-A-3.jpg
Snake eater:
shoppers in Australia find venomous snake in Aldi fresh produce bag
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/14/snakes-and-lettuce-australian-couple-find-venomous-snake-in-their-aldi-fresh-produce
A Sydney couple received a fright when they discovered a rare venomous snake in a bag of supermarket lettuce – but recovered and later used the fresh produce in a salad wrap.
The juvenile pale-headed snake, Hoplocephalus bitorquatus, was tucked into a two-pack of cos lettuce which Alexander White and his partner, Amelie Neate, purchased from an Aldi (https://www.theguardian.com/business/aldi) supermarket in Sydney on Monday.
“It was moving around and flicking its little tongue out,” White said. “It was actually its tongue which let me know it wasn’t a giant worm. I would have been more comfortable with a worm, to be honest.”
The reptile was about 20cm long and appeared to have been sleeping peacefully in the lettuce in the supermarket’s refrigerated grocery cabinet until White picked it up, carried it around the store, then jostled it in his backpack for the 10-minute bicycle ride home.
The snake emerged as they were unpacking their groceries at home. They called wildlife rescue organisation Wires and were advised the snake was possibly a baby eastern brown – one of the most venomous and aggressive species in Australia.
But after an extensive amount of snake photography, it was identified as a pale-headed snake, a species that a snake expert told the couple was “medically significant”.
“I thought that meant it had medicinal properties,” said White. “Apparently it means that if you are bitten you have to go to hospital pretty quickly.” They bite repeatedly when provoked, said Neate.
According to the Australian Museum, pale-headed snakes are a “shy but nervous species, easily agitated if cornered”. There have been no recorded fatalities, but the museum states “an envenomation can produce some unpleasant symptoms, including severe headache, blurred vision, localised pain, and abnormal bleeding”.
White said the juvenile snake was quite cute. He and Neate spent some time videoing it and conducting video calls between the snake and their children, who were away for school holidays, while awaiting expert assistance.
The snake and lettuce were moved to a Tupperware container “but we were opening the lid a bit because we were worried about it running out of air”.
A snake handler from Wires arrived at 10.30pm to retrieve the animal, which was transferred to a heated container. With the help of Aldi, they traced the origin of the lettuce back to Toowoomba, and are attempting to organise transport home for the snake.
Wires left the lettuce behind and White ate it for lunch.
“We’ve worked with the customer and the team at Wires to identify the snake’s natural habitat, which is certainly not an Aldi store,” a spokesperson said. “We thank Wires for their support on this.”
Aldi said it was working with the produce supplier to “investigate how this incident could have possibly occurred”.
Không thấy nói là ALDI đền cho khách hàng một gói rau khác.
Triển
04-14-2021, 10:30 PM
Snake eater:
Không thấy nói là ALDI đền cho khách hàng một gói rau khác.
Người Đức vốn dĩ tiết kiệm mà. Chỉ ăn miếng sà lách
mà trở thành thanh xà bạch xà đẹp gái khỏi cần đi thẩm
mỹ viện còn đền gì nữa.
https://sites.google.com/site/miniemao/_/rsrc/1390696527353/tat-ca-san-pham/cosplay/-miniemao---costume-thanh-xa-bach-xa/txbx-450k%2C600k%2C150k%2C180k%28%20chat%20lieu%20vai%2 02%20em%20khac%20nhau%20%29%20%28FILEminimizer%29. jpg
Chắc là cốt rắn thiệt, ngó thẳng đooong thấy... hông muốn năng vận động.
Triển
04-15-2021, 08:44 PM
Rắn có rắn độc, rắn lành. Rắn lành nên thẳng ngay.
Tướng tại tâm sanh mừ. Thời nay đừng có thấy điện nước
rồi tưởng thiệt ngọ ngọe vận động nha. Nhiều khi "hàng giả"
chớ răng.
Philippines: Studying bats might help prevent another pandemic
Phi nhân:
Philippines seizes illegally harvested giant clam shells worth $25m
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/17/philippines-seizes-illegally-harvested-giant-clam-shells-worth-25m
Around 200 tonnes of illegally harvested giant clam shells worth nearly $25m have been seized in the Philippines (https://www.theguardian.com/world/philippines) in one of the biggest known operations of its kind in the country.
Conservationists have expressed alarm over the surging illicit trade in the endangered creatures, which are used as a substitute for ivory following a global crackdown in the trade of elephant tusks (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/28/africas-elephant-poaching-is-in-decline-analysis-suggests).
The Philippines is home to most of the world’s giant tropical clam species, and Friday’s raid took place in the western province of Palawan, considered a poaching hotbed.
The coastguard said four suspects were arrested on the remote Green Island in the Sulu sea that turned up the largest ever giant clam shell haul by law enforcers in the area.
“Taking the giant clams from their natural habitat is a form of inter-generational crime,” Jovic Fabello, spokesman for the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development said.
“It will permanently affect the marine ecosystem and future generations will be deprived of the benefits accruing from it,” he added.
He said the seized shells included those of the Tridacna gigas, the world’s largest clam.
Growing up to 1.3m (4.5ft) wide and weighing up to 250kg (550lbs), the clams host marine algae which are a basic food source for many of the fish species consumed by humans.
Conservationists say giant clam shells are used as an alternative material for products ranging from earrings to chandeliers as ivory becomes scarce.
Fabello said the illegal trade in giant clams has been growing in Palawan and several other areas of the Philippines in the past three years.
The coast guard estimated the value of the latest haul at 1.2bn pesos ($24.8m).
Vi phú bất nhân, vi nhân bất phú
(Sách Mạnh tử)
Ăn vụng: anh hùng xực điêu?
Clandestine feast featuring dozens of songbirds
https://news.yahoo.com/italians-caught-police-tucking-clandestine-112736331.html
Police in the north of the country are investigating around 20 council officials who sat down to a lunchtime meal of illegally hunted birds, including chaffinches, goldfinches, siskins and bramblings.
The employees, from the villages of Valle Trompia and Gardone Val Trompia near the city of Brescia, are being investigated for contravening wildlife protection and hunting laws.
They are also accused of breaking Covid-19 lockdown regulations, which prohibit gatherings of more than a few people, when they convened for the illegal feast in a council building.
Their clandestine meal allegedly included some rarely-seen species such as hawfinches and red crossbills. More than 60 birds were found by Carabinieri officers – around three tiny bodies for each diner.
The Anti-Hunting League called the incident “shameful” but not surprising, saying that the region around Brescia is “the worst in Italy, and one of the worst in Europe, for poaching.”
Eating diminutive songbirds may not appeal to many people but it is seen as a delicacy in some parts of Europe. Gourmets in France are notorious for their love of eating ortolan buntings, tiny birds which are captured alive, fed grain, drowned in a vat of Armagnac and then roasted whole.
Diners drape their heads with linen napkins as they crunch their way through the birds’ bones. The napkin is to preserve the aroma of the roasted birds – and, it is said, to hide the diners’ shame from the eyes of God.
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Đất lành chim đậu
Chim lành người nhậu.
Ăn vụng: anh hùng xực điêu?
........
Đất lành chim đậu
Chim lành người nhậu.Còn Gà lành (hiền khô) thì sao đây thầy Ốc? ("Thì như làm vậy.... " :24: Kha,kha,kha)
Gà lành treo cao đợi giá. (Tục ngữ)
Chó lành đợi dân Hố nai tới lãnh về nuôi (cho mập):
Stolen dogs in mugshot line-up as UK police try to locate owners
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/20/stolen-dogs-in-uk-mugshot-line-up-as-police-try-to-locate-owners
The police recovered 83 dogs in March, including at least three spaniel puppies, a young Dachshund and a sheepdog due a trip to the dog groomers.
Since seizing the dogs following the police investigation, officers have been trying to identify the owners of the 83 canines. However, due to the lack of identifying features and information, the process has proved challenging. As of Tuesday none of the animals had been reunited with the owners.
Now the investigation team is asking potential owners, who have not contacted the constabulary, to get in contact.
Six people were initially arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to steal following an operation last month which discovered the 83 dogs, of various breeds and ages, at an address in West Meadows, Ipswich, Suffolk.
All six individuals, a 39-year-old man, two 34-year-old men, and three women, aged 46, 41 and 35, were taken to Martlesham police station for questioning. They were released on bail until 16 April, pending further enquiries. All were from the Ipswich area.
Four of the six – the men aged 34 and 39, and women, 41 and 46, – later had their bail date extended to 17 June.
https://vimeo.com/538575606
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https://vimeo.com/538575606
Chó gầy hổ mặt chủ xị.
(Ăn tục ngữ)
Octopuscar: không thày đố mày làm phim.
My Octopus Teacher, heartwarming nature film, wins best documentary Oscar
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/26/my-octopus-teacher-wins-best-documentary-oscar
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/24/octopus-love-story-netflix
(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/24/octopus-love-story-netflix)
Directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, My Octopus Teacher (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/24/octopus-love-story-netflix) follows film-maker and diver Craig Foster as he explores an underwater kelp forest near Cape Town, South Africa. Foster appears to bond with an octopus he encounters living in the area.
Học thày không tày học bạch tuộc.
Triển
04-28-2021, 09:11 AM
Học thày không tày học bạch tuộc.
Tượng đài thầy Paul ở Sea Life Oberhausen, nhà tiên tri thông thái mùa vô địch túc cầu thế giới 2010, sau khi giã từ gác trọ ...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Paul_the_Octopus_memorial_statue.JPG/800px-Paul_the_Octopus_memorial_statue.JPG
Cũng có thể giải thích là đội nào được nó lựa thì đội đó hên.
Bạch tuộc là chú ông trời
Ai mà nó thích thì trời giúp cho.
Triển
04-28-2021, 07:25 PM
Cũng có thể giải thích là đội nào được nó lựa thì đội đó hên.
Bạch tuộc là chú ông trời
Ai mà nó thích thì trời giúp cho.
Đừng nhẹ dạ cả tin. Khi động vật hai chân trả thù loại súc vật
lúc thua độ đá banh thì rất tàn nhẫn. Không tin coi chiếc xe này
coi, con cháu đời sau của bạch tuộc. Đã bị giết hại, xử lăn(g) trì, còn đem
treo cổ phơi nắng trước cổng trường, cho học trò thấy đó mà làm gương:
https://happynewyear.vn/uploads/2015/01/cho-hoa-nguyen-hue-34.jpg
Triển
04-28-2021, 07:53 PM
Cẩn thận. Hàng dễ nổ
Don't approach whale carcass it may explode, Swedes are warned
https://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/05/60/22/60/773x435_cmsv2_a5e9e605-4453-5dd5-b877-c1f83a0af829-5602260.jpg
The whale carcass has been beached near the south east of Öland since last week. - Copyright morbylanga.se/Christian Cedertoh
Authorities on the Swedish island of Öland have warned citizens and tourists not to approach the dead body of a beached whale which "may explode".
The humpback whale carcass has been stranded near the southeast of the island since last week, near the small town of Mörbylånga.
The local municipality issued a strong warning to locals on Wednesday morning, urging them to not wade into the water and approach the carcass "under any circumstances".
"People are reported to be staying close to the dead whale body that has floated ashore on south-eastern Öland," a statement read on Tuesday.
"This is dangerous for the individual ... [and] may cause harm".
Since being made aware of the stranded whale last week, Mörbylånga officials have been taking samples to find out how to handle the dead body.
"When the authorities work at the whale, they do so with protective equipment and helmets," said Staffan Åsén, environmental manager in Mörbylånga municipality.
"At the moment the whale is fermenting due to the decomposition process and may explode. These are great forces that should not be ignored."
The whale is currently stranded just 40 metres from the shore outside the town, which has less than 2,000 inhabitants.
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Thay trời làm sông:
15m salmon to take unusual route to Pacific: by road
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/30/california-salmon-drought-truck-road
California officials will truck more than 15 million young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the state’s Central Valley agricultural region to the Pacific Ocean because projected river conditions show that the waterways the fish use to travel downstream will be historically low and warm due to increasing drought.
Officials announced the huge trucking operation on Wednesday, saying the effort is aimed at ensuring “the highest level of survival for the young salmon on their hazardous journey to the Pacific Ocean”.
Getting the fish transported means taking about 146 truckloads to the Pacific Ocean from four state hatcheries and federal officials will do the same from one hatchery, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association, which advocates for fishers, told the Chronicle he appreciates the extra effort to save the fall-run chinook amid the drought.
But he said the underlying problem for salmon is that state and federal water officials have allowed too much water to be pulled from rivers and creeks for agricultural irrigation.
“These river conditions are made worse by decisions that put salmon last,” he told the Chronicle.
Có cơm đổ vạ cho cá.
(Cá dao)
Triển
05-02-2021, 09:18 PM
(Cá dao)
Món mới của Việt Nam (https://vnexpress.net/ca-long-tong-chien-gion-cham-mam-toi-4271174.html), bắt cá đường mương lên ăn :z34::
Cá lòng tong chiên giòn, chấm mắm tỏi
https://vcdn-giadinh.vnecdn.net/2021/05/01/Anh-1-3600-1619836731.jpg
Cá ở mương còn gọi là cá 7 màu. Cá này bự hơn chắc sống ngoài sông chứ hông phải cá mương.
- lòng tong: từ chữ LÒNG TRONG mà nói ngọng (như "con tâu tắng")
(còn tiếp)
Triển
05-03-2021, 10:23 AM
Cá ở mương còn gọi là cá 7 màu. Cá này bự hơn chắc sống ngoài sông chứ hông phải cá mương.
- lòng tong: từ chữ LÒNG TRONG mà nói ngọng (như "con tâu tắng")
(còn tiếp)
Cá 7 màu khác cá lòng tong. Con cá 7 màu nhỏ xíu bằng 1/3 cái móng tay. Con cá lòng tong bự gấp 10 con 7 màu. Nhưng là cá ở mương, cống, rãnh. Không ai ăn uống gì cái loại cá đó cả.
Thằn lằn 7 màu: thạch sùng còn thiếu mẻ kho điện tử
Iguanas with chips: Florida seeks solution to invasive reptile problem
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/03/florida-iguanas-chips-invasive-reptile-tegu-lizards
Seeking compliance with a regulation passed in February to protect against invasive species and which came into effect this weekend, the Florida fish and wildlife commission (FWC) has established tag day, actually a series of dates in the coming weeks at venues around the state.“
Just as with cats and dogs, microchipping your green iguana or tegu is one of the simplest and most effective ways to keep them safe while also protecting Florida’s native wildlife,” said Kristen Sommers, FWC head of wildlife impacts management.
The microchipping days, sure to raise eyebrows in the waiting rooms of veterinarians’ offices, are part of a 90-day grace period. After that, tegus and green iguanas must be permitted and chipped.
A further three-month period will allow owners time to comply with new requirements for outdoor caging, which also apply to the other 14 non-native species covered by the new regulation, including Burmese and other species of pythons, green anacondas and Nile monitors.
- thằn lằn: từ chữ THẠCH LONG nghĩa là rồng sống trong đá
(còn tiếp)
Squid pro quo: my kind of town!
Japanese town spends Covid funds on huge squid statue
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/japanese-town-spends-covid-funds-on-huge-squid-statue
Noto, located in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, spent ¥25m (£164,000) on the 13-metre-long marine creature, according to the Chunichi Shimbun.
The local newspaper quoted officials as saying that the flying squid was part of a tourism drive to help the area’s virus-hit economy. The pink-and-white creature features flared tentacles and an opening below its beak where people can pose for photographs.
Noto, where squid is a delicacy, reportedly received ¥800m in grants from the national government to help see it through the pandemic, according to the Fuji News Network.
Gần mực thì chén
Gần men thì nhậu.
(Phàm phu tục ngữ)
Triển
05-04-2021, 09:44 PM
Gần mực thì chén
Chó Mực Đầu Cáo
Tác giả: Viễn Châu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondzk6CSh1s
NÓI LỐI
Một bữa nọ tại miền âm phủ.
Đức Minh Vương đang ngồi ngự trước điện Sum La.
Gần tan buổi chầu bỗng có quỉ Dạ Xoa...
Dẫn vào trước án oan hồn một con chó Mực !
VỌNG CỔ
1/- Diêm Vương chưa kịp mở lời han hỏi Mực ta bỗng cất tiếng tru lên nghe du dương ai oán...khôn...cùng !
Nó cúi đầu lạy đức Diêm Vương rồi nước mắt chảy ròng ròng .
Ngưu Đầu - Mã Diện đứng hầu thấy vậy sốc tới tính nạt nộ lấy oai .
Nhưng đức Diêm Vương cản lại và ôn tồn hỏi chó mực rằng : " Nhà ngươi có điều chi oan ức ?
Cứ tự sự tỏ phân Trẫm sẽ lấy lượng biển trời rồi oan ưng sẽ liệu bề phân xử !"
2/- Khi ấy chó Mực vội vàng lau nước mắt rồi cúp đuôi ngồi xuống bên thềm.
"Muôn tâu đức Minh Vương ! Nỗi ức oan xin biện bạch trước điện tiền .
Vả chăng trong hàng lục súc dẫu chưa dám ví mình có công bằng anh Ngựa , anh Trâu .
Nhưng cũng chưa đến đổi ăn hại bằng anh Dê , anh Lợn !
Thế mà không hiểu tại sao trên trần gian họ nỡ lòng nào bắt tôi
dồn vào bao bố rồi đem trấn nước và rũ bạn bè ăn thịt tôi cho đành tâm ?!"
3/-Diêm Vương nghe qua liền vỗ bàn hét lớn : " Bớ con hắc cẩu kia ! Mi mới là kẻ ngoa ngôn xão ngữ dữ a...
Trên trần gian thiếu chi cao lương mỹ vị , có ai lại ăn thịt chó bao giờ ?"
Chó Mực liền dập đầu dưới bệ đáp rằng : " Tâu đức Minh Vương ! Kẻ hèn này tuy là súc vật mặc lòng chớ thề giữa hai bên vai vác khi nào nói dối ?"
Diêm Vương day qua hỏi mấy vị phán quan :"Nó nói vậy mà có thật không phán quan ?"
Phán quan bèn lật sổ ra coi một hồi rồi quì xuống tâu rằng :
" Tâu đức Minh Vương ! Con chó Mực này nói không ngoa, trên dương thế quả thật có người ta ăn thịt chó!"
Diêm Vương kinh ngạc một hồi lâu rồi phán rằng : " Vậy chớ tự sự làm sao ?....
Hắc cẩu mi cứ bình tâm phân tỏ cho Quả nhân đây sau trước hãn tường ! " (-)
NÓI LỐI
Chó Mực nghe hỏi liền lim dim cặp mắt .
Nó nhớ lại những hành vi độc ác của người ta .
Đó rồi nó mới vội vàng quì xuống phân qua ...
"Xin Thánh Chúa hải hà minh xét !"
VỌNG CỔ
4/- Trước hết họ đốt rơm cho có lửa ngọn rồi đem tôi hơ lên và lăn qua trở lại ...cho...đều !
Đến khi da cháy vàng tươi và mỡ chảy xèo xèo .
Trong lúc đó thì họ lo cho sẵn đủ đồ gia vị . Nào : Xả , ớt , củ hành , đậu nành , đậu phộng , dừa khô, tương Tàu , nấm mèo , chuối cây , lá cách...I , đừng có thiếu món chi hết đó nghe !
Thịt Cầy ướp bột Cà ri .
Thì mười chai rượu công - xi cũng không cũng không còn !
5/- Đến như các món ăn thì họ làm đủ thứ nào xào lăn , quay chảo , đúp lò .
Họ còn bảo rằng : " Hắc cấu bổ tâm còn Huỳnh cẩu thì bổ tùy "
Cho đến huyết thì họ đánh tiết canh, lòng thì đem chưng hột vịt , mỡ chài thì gói lá cách.
Ba sườn thì ướp Ngũ vị hương . Mỗi khi đem nướng lên thì trời ơi ! ...
Mùi thơm bay ngào ngạt thật không có thịt chi mà so sánh cho bằng !"
6/- Diêm Vương nghe vỗ bàn hét lớn : " Thôi, thôi , thôi ! Nhà ngươi đừng nói nữa, Trẫm khổ tâm lắm rồi !"
Chó Mực tâu thêm : " Tôi còn chưa kể món hầm mục măng để chan với búng nữa !"
Diêm Vương quát to : " Thôi, câm mi lại ! Nội cái việc mi tả sơ sơ Trẫm đã chảy nước miếng tự nảy giờ rồi.
Ngưu Đầu - Mã Diện đâu ? Hãy lôi nó ra khỏi điện Sum La và đuổi nó đi cho khuất mắt !
Nếu nó còn chàng ràng trước mặt Trẫm thì Trẫm sẽ bảo quỉ Dạ Xoa làm thịt bây giờ !" (-)
Khi con chó Mực bị đuổi đi nó lũi thũi một mình và gật đầu nó tự bảo :
" Thịt ta ngon lạ , ngon kỳ ?
Diêm Vương còn chịu huống chi người phàm .
/* lyric: https://lyric.tkaraoke.com/34828/cho_muc_dau_cao.html
Kafka-esque:
Giant wood moth: ‘very heavy’ insect rarely seen by humans spotted at Australian school
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/05/giant-wood-moth-found-queensland-australia-school
A giant moth with a wingspan measuring up to 25cm has been found at a Queensland school next to a rainforest.Builders found the giant wood moth, the heaviest moth in the world, while constructing new classrooms at Mount Cotton state school.
Giant wood moths are found along the Queensland and New South Wales coast, according to the Queensland Museum. Females can weigh up to 30 grams and have a wingspan of up to 25cm. Males are half that size.
They have an extremely short life cycle with adults living only a matter of days. They die after mating and laying eggs.
Steward said due to the school’s location it was not unusual to find a range of animals on the grounds such as bush turkeys, wallabies, koalas, ducks, the occasional snake and once a turtle in the library. “A giant wood moth was not something we had seen before,” she said on Wednesday.
The builders took a photo of their find before returning the moth to the rainforest.
Chiên bưa?
Báo hại:
Anger as Chinese safari park kept leopard breakout from the public for nearly a week
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/anger-as-chinese-safari-park-kept-leopard-breakout-from-the-public-for-nearly-a-week
The three leopards from the Hangzhou Safari Park were spotted by villagers as early as 1 May, according to the state-owned Global Times newspaper. However, the safari park only reported the missing leopards and alerted the public on Saturday.
Two of the leopards have already been captured, and were in good health, officials said. It is unclear how the leopards managed to escape.
The safari park said it was “sincerely sorry” for not announcing the incident sooner, according to a statement on its Weibo microblogging account Saturday. As the young leopards were believed to be less aggressive, the park said it did not make the announcement to prevent causing panic among the public.
Con thứ ba chắc là bị mấy lão nông nấu cao hổ cốt rồi.
Vết vằn trên lưng ngựa hoang...
Police use Taser on escaped zebra in Tennessee
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/08/tennessee-police-escaped-zebra-tased
According to news outlets, the Cookeville police department and Putnam county sheriff’s office assisted Triple W employees to capture the “agitated” zebra early Friday morning. Cookeville is about 80 miles (128km) east of Nashville.
Multiple methods were used to attempt to regain control of the animal. At one point, two police officers made “unsuccessful attempts” to deploy Tasers to help capture the animal.
A nearby elementary school alerted parents in a Facebook post that “There is a zebra on the loose in the Prescott area. It escaped a truck, was tased, and is mad. Do not approach. (Yes, really.)”
Ashley Danielle Francis, a Prescott South middle school teacher, told WSMV-TV that she noticed the zebra while driving to work, calling it the “craziest thing I ever think I’ve ever seen in this town”.
It took nearly three hours to corner and direct the zebra onto a transport trailer.
Zebra ký xuất phú lít nan truy.
Báo hại:
Anger as Chinese safari park kept leopard breakout from the public for nearly a week
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/anger-as-chinese-safari-park-kept-leopard-breakout-from-the-public-for-nearly-a-week.
Thả mồi bắt báo:
Chickens released as bait in hunt for escaped leopard in China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/11/chickens-released-as-bait-in-hunt-for-escaped-leopard-in-china
Residents in a Chinese city were told to stay indoors as authorities released flocks of chickens as bait to track down a leopard that escaped from a safari park, state media have reported.
The leafy lakeside city of Hangzhou has been on edge since late last week, when residents began spotting leopards roaming around local hills covered in forest and tea plantations.
The leopard is one of three that escaped on 19 April – the other two have been recaptured – a lapse that police said was concealed by the Hangzhou Safari Park’s management for nearly three weeks to avoid affecting visitor numbers during a long holiday last week.
The incident has led to a torrent of Chinese internet posts criticising the park for endangering the public, and lamenting the abysmal safety and animal-welfare record of the country’s chaotic zoos and wildlife parks.
Public outrage has also been fanned by footage of one of the big cats being mauled in a forest by a pack of hunting dogs, and another showing one of the recaptured leopards with part of its hind foot missing.
Almost 100 chickens were released to lure the cat, the Modern Express Post in the nearby city of Nanjing reported on Tuesday.
Like the other two escapees, it was born in captivity, is not used to hunting and is believed to be near starvation.
Authorities also have posted additional security near the search zone and residents have been put on alert.
Ác trả ác báo.
Cướp đêm là giặc cướp ngày là heo:
Wild boar surround woman near Rome and steal food shopping
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/14/wild-boar-corner-woman-in-rome-and-steal-food-shopping
A video posted on social media on Thursday (https://fb.watch/5tZHgE-iKp/) shows the boars approaching and cornering the woman in a supermarket car park in the village of Le Rughe.
The animals, four adults and two young boars, pursue the woman as she backs away, attempting in vain to keep them at bay. The angry woman is then forced to drop the shopping bag on the ground, which is immediately raided by the animals.
The little ones start eating the contents of the bag in the car park, others take what they can and run away.
Last October, the mayor of Rome ordered an investigation after a family of wild boars, commonplace in the city, were shot and killed by police in a children’s playground near the Vatican. The event sparked protests by animal rights activists and some locals.
In recent years, Italian farmers have protested about wild boar wreaking havoc on their land and causing fatal road accidents.
Wild boar are believed to be responsible for an average of 10,000 road accidents a year in Italy.
Cướp túi của ông Đức mập đâu có nhằm nhò gì.
Houston we had a problem...
police finally find tiger that came to a Texas suburb
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/16/police-tiger-texas-suburb
A tiger that frightened residents when it was last seen briefly wandering around a Houston neighborhood has been found after a nearly week-long search and appears to be unharmed, police said on Saturday evening.
In a short video tweeted by Houston police, Commander Ron Borza can be seen sitting next to the tiger, petting the animal and saying it has been a long week searching for it.
Authorities had been searching for the tiger, a nine-month-old male named India, since it was spotted on 9 May in a west Houston neighborhood. It was nearly shot by an off-duty deputy before being whisked away in a car by Victor Hugo Cuevas, who police allege is the owner.
At a news conference, Borza said Cuevas’ wife, Giorgiana, turned over the tiger to police on Saturday after a friend reached out to Barc.
Police are still trying to determine where the tiger was held and if any charges related to having the tiger will be filed. Tigers are not allowed within Houston city limits unless the handler, such as a zoo, is licensed to have exotic animals.
Thả hổ về chuồng.
Triển
05-16-2021, 09:38 AM
Thật ra là cốt người cơ. Không ngờ ông còn sống và đi lạc sang Hiu tơn.
Sự tích ông Ba mươi
Đã từ lâu lắm, trên cõi trời có một người có sức khỏe lạ lùng, những việc dời núi, lấp biển, đội đá, bẻ cây,… không một ai bì kịp. Nói về tài phép, ông cũng thần thông biến hóa vượt xa nhiều vị trên Thiên Đình. Đặc biệt ông có hai vành tai dài và rách, vì lúc nhỏ ông thường dùng hai tai cho nhiều người móc vào mà đu, rồi xoay họ như chong chóng. Cũng vì thế người ta quen gọi ông là Phạm Nhĩ. Vốn tinh nghịch và hung hăng quen thói từ hồi trẻ, Phạm Nhĩ không mấy khi ngồi yên. Ông thường hay gây sự đánh nhau với những kẻ mà ông thù ghét. Nhưng người ta đều tránh né ông, chẳng mấy ai dám đọ sức, vì đã từng có bao nhiêu anh hùng hảo hán không chịu nổi chỉ một cú đấm, cái gạt của ông.
Thấy mọi người đều thua tài, Phạm Nhĩ ngày một tỏ ra kiêu căng tự phụ. Ông cho rằng các vị thần xung quanh Ngọc Hoàng chẳng qua chỉ là đồ bị thịt, tài nghệ và sức khỏe không có tý gì. Và ông lấy làm bực mình vì sao bấy lâu danh tiếng mình nổi như cồn mà vẫn không được Ngọc Hoàng vời vào để trao cho một chức vị xứng đáng. Mỗi ngày lòng kiêu căng tự phụ của ông một lớn thêm mãi. Cho đến lúc Phạm Nhĩ đâm khinh nhờn cả Ngọc Hoàng, tự nghĩ rằng có sức mạnh và tài phép như mình thì nên làm vua nhà Trời mới phải. Thế rồi chẳng bao lâu ông đã tụ tập xung quanh mình một số bộ hạ cũng có sức khỏe và tài phép hơn người, thành một đội quân bất trị. Đội quân này ngày một đông, đã từng gây náo loạn ở Thiên Đình mà vì sợ oai Phạm Nhĩ nên không một ai dám bắt. Cuối cùng, Phạm Nhĩ cầm đầu đội quân tiến đến Thiên Cung đòi hạ bệ Ngọc Hoàng để cho mình trị vì thiên hạ.
Nghe tin chẳng lành, Ngọc Hoàng thượng đế vội vàng sai các bậc tướng lĩnh đem quân nhà Trời ra ngăn chặn. Có đến mười tám vị tướng, vị nào cũng lục trí thần thông, miệng thét ra lửa, tay bẻ gãy cổ thụ, chân đạp đổ núi, nhưng không vị nào đối địch với Phạm Nhĩ được lâu. Không đầy mười ngày chỉ còn ba vị sống sót chạy về.
Ngọc Hoàng lại sai năm mươi lực sĩ hầu cận, người nào cũng tài ba và sức khỏe, ra chống chọi với Phạm Nhĩ. Nhưng cũng chẳng mấy chốc ông đã làm cho bọn này nếm mùi thất bại chua cay. Quân đội nhà Trời vốn đông như kiến cỏ, không ngờ kéo ra bao nhiêu bị diệt bấy nhiêu, cuối cùng bỏ chạy tán loạn như ong vỡ tổ. Thừa thắng, Phạm Nhĩ thúc quân tiến lên vây chặt Thiên cung.
Thấy thế, Ngọc Hoàng thượng đế hết sức lo lắng. Theo lời bàn của các triều thần, Ngọc Hoàng vội sai Bắc đẩu cầu cứu đức Phật. Nghe tin cấp báo, đức Phật liền sai Chuẩn Đề đi bắt Phạm Nhĩ. Nhưng đức Phật không ngờ Chuẩn Đề tài phép cao cường là thế, lại bị ăn đòn nặng nề của Phạm Nhĩ đến nỗi lê lết chạy về, xiêm giáp tả tơi.
Sau rốt, đức Phật đành phải tự thân ra đi. Trong lúc Phạm Nhĩ đương hung hăng múa may chửi bới Ngọc Hoàng và bọn triều thần bất tài bất lực, thì đức Phật đã xuất hiện giữa không trung. Phạm Nhĩ vội xông lên toan dùng sức đánh, không ngờ sa ngay vào túi thần của đức Phật, toàn thân co rúm, không cất chân động tay được nữa. Thế là ông bị bắt. Bọn bộ hạ mất tướng như rắn mất đầu, không ai bảo ai tẩu tán khắp nơi.
Trước khi ra về, đức Phật giao lại tên tù cho Ngọc Hoàng xử trí, nhưng cũng dặn làm sao cho y hối lỗi chứ đừng giết hại. Ngọc Hoàng bèn quyết định đày Phạm Nhĩ xuống cõi trần làm kiếp vật. Nhưng trước hết Ngọc Hoàng sai cắt bỏ đôi cánh của ông để tước bớt sức mạnh, e rằng bất thần ông lại bay trở về Trời thì rất nguy hiểm. Hơn nữa, Ngọc Hoàng còn lo Phạm Nhĩ vốn mang cốt tướng nhà Trời, có thể nghe hết mọi chuyện bốn phương ngay trong giấc ngủ, mặc dù cách xa hàng ngàn dặm. Bởi vậy để làm giảm bớt trí nhớ của ông, Ngọc Hoàng hóa phép bắt lỗ tai ông mỗi khi tỉnh giấc thì khép kín lại. Tuy nhiên, thể theo lời dặn của đức Phật, Ngọc Hoàng cũng phong cho Phạm Nhĩ làm chúa tể sơn lâm để an ủi đôi phần.
Từ khi xuống trần, tài phép của Phạm Nhĩ giảm sút đi nhiều vì không còn có cánh mà bay. Mặc dầu vậy, ông vẫn còn giữ được một sức khỏe tuyệt trần, khiến mọi thú vật khiếp sợ, xứng với danh hiệu chúa tể mà Ngọc Hoàng phong cho. Cho đến sau này, dòng dõi nhà ông vẫn nối nhau làm chúa sơn lâm. Ngay loài người cũng phải kiềng ông, không dám gọi cái tên “Hổ”, mà chỉ gọi tránh là ông “Ba Mươi”. Tại sao lại gọi là ông Ba Mươi? Đó là vì khi có người nào săn được hổ thì nhà vua có lệ thưởng cho ba mươi quan tiền vì đã trừ được cho loài người một con thú hung ác. Nhưng vua cũng bắt người đó phải chịu ba mươi hèo để cho vong hồn Phạm Nhĩ được thỏa mà không tác quái nữa.
Ngày nay còn có câu:
Trời sinh ra hùm có vây
Hùm mà có cánh, hùm bay lên trời
để nhớ cuộc náo động Thiên cung của Phạm Nhĩ xưa kia.
(siêu tầm)
cuộc náo động Thiên cung của Phạm Nhĩ
Hơi giống sự tích Tề thiên đại thánh đại náo thiên cung. Ông 30 với Tôn ngộ 0 thì ai hơn ai? Bên 3 chục, người số không.
30 > 0 ???
Triển
05-16-2021, 09:08 PM
Hơi giống sự tích Tề thiên đại thánh đại náo thiên cung. Ông 30 với Tôn ngộ 0 thì ai hơn ai? Bên 3 chục, người số không.
30 > 0 ???
Ông Tề Thiên hơn là chắc chắn rồi, ổng thuộc loại Năng Vận Động,
đi thỉnh kinh ở Tây phương bao nhiêu ngàn cây số chớ gì mà số 0.
Ông 30 ít đi lại nên nhà chức trách Hiu tơn mới đau đầu hông biết
thời gian qua ổng ở đâu đó. :z67:
Lương y như từ cẩu:
Dogs can better detect Covid in humans than lateral flow tests, finds study
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/20/dogs-can-better-detect-covid-in-humans-than-lateral-flow-tests-finds-study
The trial, conducted in March and April by France’s national veterinary school and the clinical research unit of Paris’s Necker-Cochin hospital, showed dogs were able to detect the presence of the virus with 97% accuracy. The dogs were also 91% correct in identifying negative samples, the study showed.
Thử bằng mắm tôm chắc cũng chính xác. Bữa nào mở hũ mắm ra mà không ngửi thấy mùi là biết chắc bị covid nặng rồi.
Triển
05-21-2021, 10:54 PM
Thú tánh?
Mãnh sấu nan địch quần hà ... mã.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af4CfwZCAwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af4CfwZCAwc
Vô phúc đẻ con không biết lội, có tội đẻ con không biết trèo.
(Tục ngữ)
To bee or too hot to bee:
million bees was held up for weeks in a hot delivery truck
https://www.yahoo.com/news/shipment-containing-over-million-bees-152658482.html
The majority of about a million bees that were being shipped to New England died after they were kept for weeks inside a UPS truck in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, according to CBS Boston (https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/05/20/i-team-million-dead-bees-ups-truck-shipping-facility-shrewsbury/).
According to the report, the plan was for the bees to be shipped from a distributor in Pennsylvania, Mann Lake Ltd, to beekeepers in New England. However, issues with the packaging held up the process.
A beekeeper was called in this week, and a majority of the insects were dead. A beekeeper told the outlet that bees placed in shipment boxes only have enough food for a few days.
Êm đềm trướng rủ màn xe
Thùng đông ong chết ai đè mặc ai.
(Đoạn trường phong thanh)
Chết vì khủng long:
Man found dead inside dinosaur (statue)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/missing-man-found-dead-inside-spanish-dinosaur-statue
Officers were called to the statue in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a satellite town of Barcelona, after a man and his son noticed something inside the papier-machestegosaurus on Saturday afternoon.
“We found the body of a man inside the leg of this dinosaur statue. It’s an accidental death; there was no violence. This person got inside the statue’s leg and got trapped. It looks as though he was trying to retrieve a mobile phone, which he’d dropped. It looks like he entered the statue head first and couldn’t get out.
The spokeswoman said officers had called in firefighters to help cut into the statue so the body of the man could be removed.
Crouching dino hidden human:
https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SEI_80322667-e1621859808761.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644%2C357
Boo zoo!
Woman who jumped into spider monkey enclosure at El Paso zoo fired
https://news.yahoo.com/woman-jumped-spider-monkey-enclosure-171124216.html
The woman who climbed into the spider monkey enclosure at the El Paso Zoo in western Texas has been fired from the law firm where she worked as a legal assistant.
The woman has been identified as Lucy Rae, who worked in the personal injury division at Lovett Law.
“This young lady decided to hop a fence, climb through some bushes, drop down into a four-feet deep moat, walk across the moat and then try to feed the spider monkeys,” zoo director Joe Montisano told the outlet. “It was stupid.”
“She knew what she was doing was wrong. She’s very fortunate that it didn’t have a worse outcome for her or the animals,” Mr Montisano said.
“These are primates. They are strong, they have canine teeth. They can scratch. We don’t interact with them on the daily,” the zoo director told the paper. “And we don’t interact with them without a barrier in between us.”
Mr Montisano added that the zoo may have to install a taller fence to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
He said the zoo fielded phone calls from people who identified the woman. “We had about six to eight people call on Sunday. I know more about this young lady than I do about my own daughter probably,” he said.
Phụ nữ trèo vô trỏng được mà sao mấy bú dù không biết trèo ra khỏi chuồng?
- khỉ: từ chữ HỈ (喜) nghĩa là vui mừng vì mấy bú dù lúc nào cũng nhảy cà tưng.
(còn tiếp)
Triển
05-25-2021, 09:52 PM
Phụ nữ trèo vô trỏng được mà sao mấy bú dù không biết trèo ra khỏi chuồng?
Phụ nữ là di dân lậu.
Hàng nhái:
Australian scientist discovers ‘chocolate frog’ in New Guinea swamps
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/29/australian-scientist-discovers-chocolate-frog-in-new-guinea-swamps
An Australian scientist has discovered a new species of frog, the “chocolate frog”, in rainforest swamps of New Guinea.
To the untrained eye, Litoria mira looks almost identical to the Australian green tree frog – except for its glossy brown skin. It is the closest relative of the Australian green tree frog.
https://qmnblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/litoria_mira_photo_s_richards-1.jpg?w=1024
https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/images/Some_image.width-1600.4c73ba1.jpg
Ra mà xem con gì nó ngồi trong hóc
Nó đưa cái lưng ra mà cóc là con cóc...
Triển
05-29-2021, 11:08 PM
Hàng nhái:
Australian scientist discovers ‘chocolate frog’ in New Guinea swamps
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/29/australian-scientist-discovers-chocolate-frog-in-new-guinea-swamps
Ra mà xem con gì nó ngồi trong hóc
Nó đưa cái lưng ra mà cóc là con cóc...
Con kia được nắn ngày thứ Sáu con nọ được nặn ngày thứ Bảy.
(Bán mấy ký)
Đùi nhái chiên bưa...
https://cdn.tgdd.vn/Files/2020/05/27/1258812/cach-phan-biet-ech-dong-ech-nuoi-cach-lam-ech-c-760x367.jpg
Thôi tha làm phước đi. Ăn bưa nhiều mất công cao máu.
- nhái: từ chữ NHẢY tại vì viết sai chính tả.
(còn tiếp)
Triển
05-31-2021, 10:02 PM
Thôi tha làm phước đi. Ăn bưa nhiều mất công cao máu.
- nhái: từ chữ NHẢY tại vì viết sai chính tả.
(còn tiếp)
Sợ cao máu thì phải năng vận động. Chữ NHẢY hàm chỉ vận động.
Ăn một đùi nhái, nhảy ba quãng đồng
(Vận động dao)
Võ tòng bắt... hổ: 70 chưa gọi là nhiều.
Poacher suspected of killing 70 Bengal tigers captured after 20-year pursuit
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/01/poacher-suspected-of-killing-70-bengal-tigers-captured-after-20-year-pursuit
Bangladeshi police have arrested a notorious poacher wanted for 20 years and suspected of killing about 70 endangered Bengal tigers.
Saidur Rahman, the local police chief, said that Habib Talukder – nicknamed “Tiger Habib” – lived next to the forest and would flee whenever officers raided the area.
Talukder’s hunting ground was the vast Sundarbans mangrove forest area straddling India and Bangladesh that is home to one of the world’s largest populations of Bengal tigers.
The cats’ pelts, bones and flesh would be bought by black market traders who would sell them in China and elsewhere.
Mãnh hổ nan địch người Hồ.
Triển
06-01-2021, 09:26 PM
Talukder, 50, started out collecting honey from wild bees in the forest and became known for his exploits hunting the big cats and evading arrest.
“We equally respect him and are scared of him,” said Abdus Salam, a local honey hunter. “He’s a dangerous man who could fight alone with Mama [tiger] inside the forest.”
Thì ra chúa tể sơn lâm là hai cẳng chớ không phải bốn giò
Võ tòng bắt... hổ: 70 chưa gọi là nhiều.
Kể chuyện bắt cọp mà sao chưa thấy đến đoạn bị Phan Kim Liên thả dê hay hãm hiếp gì đó?
Thì ra chúa tể sơn lâm là hai cẳng
Coi lại "Sự tích ông 30" ở đây: https://dtphorum.com/pr4/showthread.php?7303-Th%C3%BA&p=273889&viewfull=1#post273889 (http://https://dtphorum.com/pr4/showthread.php?7303-Th%C3%BA&p=273889&viewfull=1#post273889)
300 hundred miles away from home... ♩♪♫♬
Authorities on alert as elephants’ 500km trek nears Chinese city
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/herd-of-escaped-elephants-leave-500km-trail-of-destruction-in-south-west-china
The movement was so unusual that authorities dispatched a taskforce of 360 people with 76 cars and nine drones to track it. State TV has spent days following their every footstep. And as of Wednesday, the hashtag #WhyElephantsTrekkingNorth had been viewed more than 16m times on Weibo.
About 500km (300 miles) into their walk, the herd were seen on Tuesday evening 3km away from the major city of Kunming, turning attention onto efforts to keep them away from populated areas.
The appearance of the animals has not always been warmly received by residents in Yunnan. Along the way, they have caused much destruction, eating whole fields of corn and smashing up barns. A car dealer in Eshan county reported last week that six visiting elephants had drunk two tonnes of water in his shop. State broadcaster CCTV has estimated the damage to be at least 6.8m yuan ($1.07m).
- voi: từ chữ VÒI tại vì nó có
(còn tiếp)
Hồ điệp mộng:
Western monarch butterflies are nearly extinct. California has a plan to save them
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/04/monarch-butterflies-california-conservation-milkweed
Monarch butterflies, known for their distinctive orange and black pattern, once flocked to California in the millions, spending the winter clumped on trees as they migrated to and from the state’s central coast.
But the population has sharply declined from 4.5 million in the 1980s, dropping to nearly 200,000 in recent decades before taking a precipitous dive in 2018. That year, the population fell to nearly 30,000, and when volunteers counted again in November, it had dropped to fewer than 2,000 – representing a 99% collapse in the last three decades.
Horrified conservationists are scrambling to plant 30,000 of the native milkweed plants, which are crucial to the butterflies’ life cycle, providing food for monarch larvae and adding the touch of poison that makes monarch colors so bright.
Monarch caterpillars are entirely dependent on milkweed for two weeks of their life cycle, munching through about 30 leaves before they transform into jade green chrysalises to eventually emerge as butterflies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS6laNdMOXA
Ca li chốn đây milkweed chưa gặp bướm hoàng gia...
(Văn Cali)
Triển
06-04-2021, 09:43 PM
Hồ điệp mộng
Không có bưa, không ngại máu cao:
"Mùa Xuân con nhộng đưa cơm
Xào, rang chín rục rồi làm mấy ly"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3SBYzCuEgY
Con tằm đến thác cũng còn chiên bơ
(Đoạn trường tàm thanh)
Con tằm kéo kén thành nhộng thì người ta đem trần sơ để lấy tơ, cho nên câu tục ngữ "trần như nhộng" có thể là chơi chữ. Mấy chữ tằm, nhộng, kén, tơ... đều có nguồn gốc Hán Việt.
Gieo Thái sơn nhẹ tựa hồng mouse:
Magawa the mine-sniffing rat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/05/magawa-the-mine-sniffing-rat-ends-career-in-cambodia-on-a-high
The African giant pouched rat has been the most successful rodent trained and overseen by a Belgian nonprofit, APOPO, to find land mines and alert its human handlers so the explosives can be safely removed.
And for the first time, it won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery last year, an honour so far exclusively reserved for dogs.
Magawa is part of a cohort of rats bred for this purpose. He was born in Tanzania in 2014, and in 2016, moved to Cambodia’s north-western city of Siem Reap, home of the famed Angkor temples, to begin his bomb-sniffing career.
Chú chuột đi làm đường xa
Qua giúp Cam bốt tìm ba trái mìn...
Chuyện nuốt không vô:
lobster diver swallowed by humpback lives to tell the tale
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/11/lobster-diver-swallowed-by-whale-cape-cod
Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, told WBZ-TV after he was released from Cape Cod hospital that he was about 45ft (14 meters) deep in the waters off Provincetown when “all of a sudden I felt this huge bump, and everything went dark”.
He thought he had been attacked by a shark, common in area waters, but then realized he could not feel any teeth and he wasn’t in any pain.
“Then I realized, oh my God, I’m in a whale’s mouth ... and he’s trying to swallow me,” he said. “And I thought to myself OK, this is it – I’m finally – I’m gonna die.” His thoughts went to his wife and children.
He estimates he was in the whale’s mouth for about 30 seconds, but continued to breathe because he still had his breathing apparatus in.
Then the whale surfaced, shook its head, and spat him out. He was rescued by his crewmate in the surface boat.
Tránh cá voi chẳng xấu mặt nào.
Triển
06-11-2021, 09:29 PM
Chưa có truyền tin dưới biển.
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Khoa học kỹ thuật chưa đủ
hiện đại. Thời con anh này chắc
không sao rồi. Rút smartphone
ra gởi nhắn tin lần cuối cho vợ
và con chớ đâu có tâm sự với
số phận bi đát như vậy.
Bao nylon chế xong rồi, chỉ còn
chỉnh sửa khúc xạ ánh sáng nữa
cho tin truyền đi không bị mất chữ.
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Một Pháp hai chim:
French man who goes everywhere with a pigeon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/18/together-because-it-feels-good-french-man-who-goes-everywhere-with-a-pigeon
The pair first met when Bouget was out near his home and saw a tiny, “almost featherless” pigeon fall to the ground as it tried to escape from a cat. But when he mentioned what he saw to his wife, she asked him why he didn’t pick up the bird. So he went back. “I came home with Blanchon in my pocket,” he said.
Any human can build a relationship with an animal, he said, “once they respect the animal for what it is, that is a living creature that shares the Earth with us.”
https://media.zenfs.com/en/reuters.com/198272ca08555d39bc583eadb2c1b6a0
Người lành chim đậu.
(Chim ngôn)
Trời sinh voi trời sinh mỏ (dầu):
New oilfield in African wilderness threatens lives of 130,000 elephants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/new-oilfield-in-african-wilderness-threatens-lives-of-130000-elephants
The plans are the latest threat to elephants in the region, hundreds of which have died mysteriously in the past year. Scientists are trying to find the cause of the deaths but believe they may be linked to a rising amount of toxic algae (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/botswana-says-it-has-solved-mystery-of-mass-elephant-die-off-age-of-extinction-aoe) – caused by global heating – in their waterholes.
ReconAfrica, a Canadian oil and gas company, listed on stock exchanges in Canada, the US and Germany, has leased more than 34,000sq km of land in the Kavango Basin. Seismic exploratory work has begun, and experts say the new oil field could be one of the biggest of recent years. ReconAfrica estimates that the “potential oil generated” could be between 60 billion and 120 billion barrels – and be worth billions of dollars to the regional economy.
Ina-Maria Shikongo, one of the group’s co-ordinators, said the region was already being hit by droughts and excessive heat and that climate refugees, looking for food and work, were becoming more common.
She said the planned oilfield – like slavery and colonialism – was based on the global north exploiting resources and people in the global south for their own ends. “Today we call it capitalism but the system has not really changed at all – it is a system based on exploitation.”
Đại phú do oil
Tiểu phú do cần
Được voi đòi ăn:
Elephant in the room: visitor crashes through kitchen wall in Thailand
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/21/elephant-in-the-room-visitor-crashes-through-kitchen-wall-in-thailand
Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon was awoken in the early hours of Saturday morning by crashing and banging. When she went to find out what had happened, she discovered an elephant’s head poking through her kitchen wall beside the drying rack.
The male elephant, named Boonchuay, appeared to be looking for something to eat. His trunk rummaged through the kitchen drawers, knocking pans and cooking paraphernalia to the floor. He chewed on a plastic bag as Ratchadawan, unsure what to do, filmed the episode on her phone.
It’s not the first time Boonchuay, who lives in Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan national park, has visited Chalermkiatpattana village. “They come to visit quite often. They always come when there is the local market because they can smell food,” said Itthipon Thaimonkol, the park’s superintendent.
Thai media reported that the same elephant had even paid a visit to Ratchadawan’s kitchen on one of those occasions, causing damage worth almost 50,000 baht (£1,140).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8HIj00GhBI
Đói thì đầu voi phải lò.
Muốn ăn phải elephant vào bếp.
Đất lành chịm đậu
Đất độc chim đau...
Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/24/birds-mystery-illness-us-south-midwest
A mysterious illness is killing birds across several states in the south and midwestern US, and wildlife scientists are rushing to try to find the cause, with many victims suffering from crusty eyes, swollen faces and the inability to fly.
According to the USGS, birds congregating at feeders and baths can transmit disease to one another. They recommend that people cease feeding birds until this mortality event has concluded, clean feeders and baths with a 10% bleach solution, and avoid handling birds.
In this new disease outbreak, people report that the birds are behaving as though they are blind, and are not avoiding humans.
According to a report from NBC News, wildlife biologist Laura Kearns of the Ohio division of wildlife has expressed that infectious disease, pesticides and even the cicada outbreak are suspects. Even cicadas have been plagued this year, with their 17-year waiting period interrupted by a fungus that alters their behavior and causes part of their body to rot away.
Uống nước đau lòng con quốc quốc
Tha mồi lở miệng cái đa đa
(Bà huyện thành quan)
Triển
06-26-2021, 11:26 AM
Đàn bò vào thành phố
Không còn ai hỏi thăm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3gRWsTAu9g
Một Pháp hai chim:
French man who goes everywhere with a pigeon
https://media.zenfs.com/en/reuters.com/198272ca08555d39bc583eadb2c1b6a0
Người lành chim đậu.
(Chim ngôn)
__ Ông già người Pháp này đội nón trên đầu, còn [đội] thêm con chim "chèo bẻo," nhìn thí thương quá hé! :z13:
Đàn bò vào thành phố
Không còn ai hỏi thăm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3gRWsTAu9g
Một con bò đau cả tàu bỏ chạy.
Sư không ở chùa:
Pet lion seized from home in Cambodia capital after appearance on TikTok
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/28/pet-lion-seized-from-home-in-cambodia-capital-after-appearance-on-tiktok
The 18-month-old male, weighing 70kg (154lbs), had been imported from overseas by the owner, a Chinese national, to be raised in his home, environment ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra said.
“Cambodian authorities started investigating this lion since we saw it on TikTok in late April,” Pheaktra said on Sunday. “People have no right to raise rare wildlife as pets.”
Sư phụ sinh sư tử?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3gRWsTAu9g
Bò lạc:
Songwriter Diane Warren Saves Cow Who Escaped From California Slaughterhouse
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cows-escape-slaughterhouse-la-diane-warren_n_60d50ee3e4b0600512a074a1
(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cows-escape-slaughterhouse-la-diane-warren_n_60d50ee3e4b0600512a074a1)
The cow became a celebrity as it vanished in the nation’s most populous county until it was spotted before dawn Thursday in the sprawling Whittier Narrows recreation area in South El Monte, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.It did not give up without a fight.
Two wranglers lassoed the cow but it knocked down and kicked one of them during the capture covered by TV news (https://ktla.com/news/local-news/missing-pico-rivera-cow-that-escaped-slaughterhouse-with-herd-resurfaces-at-whittier-narrows-park/) helicopters. At one point, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies used their patrol cars to keep the big animal from bolting into rush-hour traffic on a nearby major road.
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/60d510f32800002d226fe0f3.jpg?cache=aqjobea9ds&ops=scalefit_720_noupscale
The cow was among 40 that escaped from a slaughterhouse Tuesday evening in Pico Rivera and ran through a neighborhood, where one was shot and killed when it charged at a family and all but one were soon rounded up.
“Cows are very smart, empathetic animals. I mean, they knew there was a door open,” said Warren, who has been a vegetarian for 23 years. “This morning, I woke up and I saw there was one cow that hadn’t been caught yet — and they’re trying to catch her and getting close to her. I saw her crying out and I couldn’t unsee that.”
Warren said she has a farm animal rescue in Malibu and felt compelled to act.
Miếng ăn là miếng tồi tàn...
Operation Dumbo Drop:
13 elephants leave Kent zoo for the Kenyan savannah
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/05/elephants-leave-kent-zoo-for-the-kenyan-savannah-aoe
A herd of elephants born and raised in a Kent zoo are about to get on a plane to travel almost 4,500 miles (7,000km) to Kenya, in order to reintroduce them to the wild in a first-of-its kind operation.
The herd of 13, which includes three calves, were all but one born at Howletts Wild Animal Park, a private zoo near Canterbury.
Thả voi về rừng.
Trời sinh voi, trời sinh rừng cỏ (savanna).
Triển
07-06-2021, 10:00 PM
Cóc ma
Meet the 'zombie frog,' a new species found in the Amazon
The spooky-looking amphibian is less scary than it appears to be. But it might already be endangered, as deforestation rates continue to go up.
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The so-called zombie frog is one of three new species recently described by scientists
Everything is dark. There's no one around. The raindrops fall heavily. Suddenly, the call ― it's time to dig. The man digs with his bare hands until he is covered in mud. But he keeps going. His goal is to find the enigmatic creature making that unique call ― a sound that has never been heard before.
At first sight, this scene could be part of a horror or a thriller movie. But it has nothing to do with the zombie apocalypse. This is how German herpetologist (an expert on amphibians and reptiles) Raffael Ernst described his experience trying to identify frogs in the Amazon. And the effort paid off.
Ernst was part of the discovery of a new species, which has been dubbed the "zombie frog." Although its orange-spotted appearance is indeed quite peculiar, the 40-millimeter (1.5 inches) amphibian is no undead monster.
"Actually, we chose this name because the researchers are the ones that look like zombies when they dig out the frogs from the ground," recounts Ernst. The animals are usually active at night and make species-specific sounds.
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German herpetologist Raffael Ernst found the frog while doing field work in Guyana
"So once you hear a new call, you can be pretty sure that you actually have new species," he says. "And then you have to dig them up and you're muddy all over, because they are hidden underground, and they usually come out only when it's raining."
Discovering a new species
Ernst spent two years in the Amazon rainforest in Guyana, South America, mostly alone, doing field work for his PhD studies. His original goal was to investigate the impacts of human-caused loss of biodiversity by looking at amphibians as an example. That was when he found the frog. He describes the moment as "a mixture of knowing what to do, where to look, and a lot of luck."
Since then, Ernst has joined efforts with a group of international researchers to find out more about the animal. They ended up describing three different species, all from the same genus, called Synapturanus. The amphibians were identified across the so-called Guiana Shield, which encompasses tropical rainforest areas across Guyana, French Guiana and Brazil. Little is known about the frogs since they are found in such remote places.
"It's not so easy to find them or actually collect them because they have really short activity times," Ernst explains. Based on their research, the scientists estimate that there may be six times more species belonging to the same genus, which have not yet been spotted.
Ernst's passion for amphibians and reptiles goes way back. "I got my first snake when I was seven or so," he says. For someone so emotionally connected to the profession, it was naturally exciting to discover a new frog. However, he clarifies that in the case of amphibians, it is not uncommon to come across new species: "The amount of newly discovered species is pretty big for vertebrates, and most of the people who do fieldwork will eventually probably come across new taxa."
But the discovery brings mixed emotions, since amphibians are among the most endangered vertebrate groups. "Whenever we discover new species, we always have in mind that we are losing species at the same time, probably more than we discover, and before we even have the chance to describe them," Ernst says.
It is in fact possible that the zombie frog is endangered, even though it was just recently discovered.
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Amphibians such as the zombie frog are among the most endangered animals in the world, even in pristine environments such as the Guiana Shield in the Amazon
'The threats are multiple'
The Amazon rainforest is the world's biggest biodiversity hot spot, especially for amphibians. Most amphibian species known in the world come from the region, which is home to more than a thousand types of frogs. Because they breathe through their skin, amphibians are highly sensitive to water quality and environmental degradation, including toxic chemicals, habitat destruction, pollution, and diseases, to name a few examples. The so-called global amphibian decline, a term used by experts to designate systematic decreases in amphibian populations, indicates that around 70% of amphibian species are threatened with extinction. This phenomenon is a warning that ecosystems, even remote ones, may be out of balance.
In the case of the Amazon, Ernst affirms that there is increasing pressure, caused by numerous human activities ― most of them illegal ― such as mining, timber extraction, logging, poaching and large-scale infrastructure projects, particularly in northern Brazil. "The threats are multiple and on top of that, we have climate change problems as well," he says.
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Humble lodgings in the Iwokrama forest in the Guiana Shield, where the researchers spent about two weeks doing field work
Unprecedented destruction
The Amazon's dry season, which runs from May to September, is the time of the year when deforestation peaks. Fires spread easily, as forest areas succumb to illegal activities such as logging, land-grabbing and land clearing ― mostly to turn the jungle into cattle pastures for agrobusiness.
According to Brazil's national space research institute (INPE), May 2021 was the third consecutive month to break deforestation records: 1,180 square kilometers (455 square miles) were lost in May alone (40% more than over the same period in 2020). And the trend looks worrying for the months to come.
"We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, and the current administration in Brazil has unfortunately been a disaster for that," says Ernst.
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Ernst reportedly found the zombie frog just a couple hundred meters from this creek in Mabura Hill
Environmentalists from Brazil ― the country that is home to more than two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest ― continuously denounce the purposeful weakening of official environmental protection agencies and enforcement rules under the Bolsonaro administration. Brazil's former environment minister Ricardo Salles quit in June 2021 amid a criminal investigation of his involvement in an illegal logging scheme in the Amazon.
Environmental destruction affects all aspects of life in the Amazon, including amphibians and possibly the zombie frog. Should its habitat conditions be altered, the species ― despite its name ― will not come back from the dead.
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Cóc ma
The spooky-looking amphibian…
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https://static.dw.com/image/58162333_401.jpg
Mới ngó sơ qua thì tưởng là cựu tổng thống Mỹ.
Ngó kỹ càng thì y chang miếng buffalo chicken.
Triển
07-07-2021, 09:01 PM
Mới ngó sơ qua thì tưởng là cựu tổng thống Mỹ.
Nhiều khi cùng một giống. Có cái bụng chang bang kia hết chín phần là di truyền.
Giống cái nước da cam cam nữa.
Đồng cam cộng mập.
Triển
07-08-2021, 08:34 PM
Dịch cúm chim? Kiếp ve sầu: hát xong là chim én cũng tiêu luôn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-JFbvlAlTc
Birds are dying in the United States and no one knows why
There's a new epidemic, this time among birds. An illness is infecting them in the US capital ― and it's spreading. Experts say the cause is unknown.
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No one knows what is killing the birds in large numbers
While humans and other animals continue to grapple with COVID-19, a new epidemic seems to have hit multiple bird species in North America.
Across the United States, people have been finding dead birds. The birds appear to have been hit by a wave of mysterious illnesses since April.
Ornithologists (bird experts) say the dead or ailing aviators tend to have swollen eyes as well as neurological issues that seem to be causing the birds to lose balance.
"It’s not unusual to see birds with eye problems," says Jim Monsma, director and founder of the animal rescue center City Wildlife in Washington, D.C.
Monsma has worked in animal protection and rehabilitation within urban areas for 25 years, especially in the D.C. area.
But it took Monsma and his colleagues a while to realize that what they were seeing was "not usual."
"We didn’t know at first we were dealing with an epidemic," Monsma says.
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Birds are dying in alarming numbers in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the US
Looking for the cause
They now think that multiple bird species have been contracting an odd illness for about two months. And the illness has spread at least 965 kilometers (600 miles) from the capital, across the Midwest regions of the United States and into the state of Indiana.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) published a report on the mysterious bird deaths in early June. Details remain hazy, but experts are trying to trace the epidemic back to its origins.
"The first one we saw was in April. In the beginning of June, that's when we started sending birds to an animal center, where they were alarmed to hear our numbers at the time. Now, we're up to just under 200 that are infected," Monsma says.
Still no diagnosis
Animal centers have been examining the birds for a possible cause of death or illness, but tests have been inconclusive so far.
"West Nile [disease] is ruled out. . . Everything has been ruled out. To date, we still do not know," says Monsma, citing tests conducted by Wildlife's clinic director, Cheryl Chooljian.
The USGS is just as baffled by the epidemic.
"At this point, the USGS doesn't have updates beyond the interagency statement," says Marisa Lubeck, a spokesperson with the department.
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One theory is that birds pass the mysterious disease to each other while hanging out at bird feeders
Theories for the illness
Experts do still have their theories. And one of them links the disease with the arrival of Brood-X cicadas that made their appearance around late April to early May — the same time people started to notice the dead birds.
It's just a theory, but it is something to work on, according to ornithologists. And continued research is important because another bird flu could prove very dangerous for people as well.
"We are losing our population of birds at an alarming rate," says Monsma, including Fledglings, European Starlings, Bluejays and others.
"About a third of the species in America are decreasing rapidly. It's spreading to other species," he says. "And we certainly cannot rule out the possibility that it might spread to humans."
He says that historically and currently "when you see an outbreak among animals, it's a cause for worry. It's something you don't want to dismiss."
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Some residents in Washington, D.C. have already gotten rid of their bird feeders in an effort to contain the disease
Don't feed the birds
There is some hope for the winged creatures ― the amount of sick birds reported to City Wildlife has gone down over the past two weeks. To eliminate the spread of the disease among various species, Monsma says City Wildlife has informed D.C., Maryland and Virginia to take precautions and take down bird feeders or bird baths. Some residents have already gotten rid of their feeders, while others have taken another route and attached bird skeletons to them to ward off birds that regularly come to visit.
The United States Geological Survey advises to cease feeding birds until the epidemic is over. If feeders and bird baths are kept, they are to be cleaned with a 10% bleach solution. Pets are to be kept away from sick or dead birds.
But even with the numbers of infections decreasing, there is no end in sight yet. Experts say the public can help by sticking to the cautionary measures in order to contain the illness before it is too late.
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Chim ở DC bị chết đói vì cả năm không có ai đi làm, không ăn trưa rồi ném ngoài công viên, hàng ăn cũng đóng cửa nên không đổ cơm thừa sau hẻm. Đêm đêm thì xe cứu thương, xe cảnh sát chạy rần rần làm chim mất ngủ nên càng đuối sức. Cũng có thể chim chết vì bị trầm cảm bởi tình hình xã hội trong mùa cúm dịch. Người bịnh chim có vui đâu bao giờ.
Cẩu hùng mạt lộ:
Mystery deepens in search for killer of Cachou the brown bear
https://news.yahoo.com/mystery-deepens-search-killer-cachou-145340673.html
"Whoever it was, they hunted a deer and left its body in his path, stuffing it with sponges impregnated with honey and antifreeze," Joan Vázquez, founder of the environmental organisation Ipcena, told The Telegraph.
"It would have been a week of agony after consuming the poison, which would then have shut down organ after organ before finally affecting the brain and the nervous system," said Mr Vázquez, who thinks Cachou was the victim of an orchestrated campaign.
So far, the investigation has shown how the local authorities tried to cover up the real cause of the animal's demise.
It has uncovered a 140-strong WhatsApp group in which local landowners and forest rangers discussed killing the protected species, and has even led to the discovery of a Colombian cocaine-trafficking gang in the idyllic valley, which is carpeted with beech, oak and chestnut forests.
The chief suspects include a forest ranger, a former local politician and a horse breeder who witnesses say boasted in public about how to kill bears with antifreeze, as well as a public official.
The official, also a beekeeper, has been placed by telephone data near the area where Cachou is believed to have been poisoned. He told the judge he was checking hives he has in that area.
Người ơi thương lấy thú cùng
Tuy rằng khác giống nhưng chung địa cầu.
Triển
07-17-2021, 09:26 PM
Chim ở DC bị chết đói vì cả năm không có ai đi làm, không ăn trưa rồi ném ngoài công viên, hàng ăn cũng đóng cửa nên không đổ cơm thừa sau hẻm. Đêm đêm thì xe cứu thương, xe cảnh sát chạy rần rần làm chim mất ngủ nên càng đuối sức. Cũng có thể chim chết vì bị trầm cảm bởi tình hình xã hội trong mùa cúm dịch. Người bịnh chim có vui đâu bao giờ.
...Người ơi thương lấy Khỉ cùng,
tuy rằng khác giống cũng đi hai giò...
Không còn người dân gian thì phải vời đại thánh
"Hoa Quả Sơn Thủy Liên Động Mỹ Hầu Vương Tề
Thiên Đại Thánh" ra cứu trợ mà thôi:
Vũng Tàu bây giờ hệt như "Hoa Quả Sơn" vì bầy khỉ đói tràn xuống phố kiếm ăn
https://kenh14cdn.com/thumb_w/660/203336854389633024/2021/7/17/2186537035448555331963376807506371098224872n-16264945654121482449138.jpeg
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(coi nữa) (https://kenh14.vn/vung-tau-bay-gio-het-nhu-hoa-qua-son-vi-bay-khi-doi-tran-xuong-pho-kiem-an-nguoi-dan-lap-tuc-lam-1-viec-xem-thoi-cung-cam-dong-20210717112130313.chn)
Khỉ vô thành phố cũng thấy rồi. Chỉ có thể là điềm xấu.
Con nhím là thím ông trời
Ai mà đánh nó thì đời xử ngay!
2 former Maine police officers accused of beating porcupines to death will spend time in jail
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/us/police-beat-porcupines-sentences/index.html
Addison Cox and Michael Rolerson both pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of night hunting and one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty, Irving said.
The incidents took place in early June 2020 but were not reported until late August by another Rockland police officer, The Courier Gazette (https://knox.villagesoup.com/2020/10/06/report-officers-beat-porcupines-to-death-with-batons-while-on-duty-1872850/) reported.
Rolerson estimated (https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/us/police-porcupines-trnd/index.html) that he killed eight porcupines while Cox said he killed three in the report compiled by the Bureau of Warden Services, according to The Courier Gazette.
Giết dân thì ok.
Trại Súc Vật: thú đau thương
how vegan activists are saving Spain’s farm animals
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/24/how-vegan-activists-are-saving-spains-farm-animals
Fundación Santuario Gaia, where Pedro lives, and El Hogar are two of about 20 animal sanctuaries in Spain where vegan activists dedicate themselves to rescuing animals, creating a place where they can live without being put to work or slaughtered.
The employees and volunteers spend a huge amount of time in each other’s company. Some might call it intense: they live and work together, cook and eat together, and there are leisure activities such as movie nights and debates. The sanctuaries are connected via WhatsApp (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/whatsapp), where they share veterinary information and coordinate animal rescues.
We’re used to seeing dogs and cats saved from abuse or neglect, but at Gaia and El Hogar – around two hours’ drive apart on either side of Barcelona – most of the animals are pigs, cows, goats and chickens. Gaia co-founder Coque Fernández Abella, 43, an animal rights activist and vet, says: “We wanted it to be for so-called farm animals because they are the most forgotten. No one takes care of them because they’re seen as products.
The sanctuaries are havens for animals that, rather than being killed for meat or shackled for dairy production, live happily and freely. They are fed and exercised, given medicine if they’re sick, rehabilitated if they’re injured and – the main privilege denied to most farm animals – allowed to live long lives.
Giác Duyên nghe nói mừng lòng
Lân la tìm thú bên sông Tiền Đường
(Đoạn trường thú thanh)
Cá mắc cạn biết đâu mà gỡ?
Toa, the orphaned baby orca that enthralled New Zealand
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/25/orca
The young calf, named Toa – which means brave or strong in Māori – was thought to be between two and six months old, and became stranded on rocks (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/13/new-zealand-rescuers-try-to-reunite-stranded-baby-orca-with-pod-killer-whale) north of Wellington two weeks ago with minor injuries.
Since then, countless volunteers braved winter storms and cold water to keep it alive – bottle feeding it a special formula in a hastily built pool – while others searched for its family group.
Toa became stranded after he strayed from his pod and too close the beach when a wave flipped him on his back and then onto the rocks, according to 17-year-old Ben Norris, one of the first to raise the alarm.
However, Toa’s condition worsened quickly on Friday night and it died within an hour. Greg Norris, the father of teenager Ben Norris, who was first person to find Toa, told Stuff it was a “really emotional” night.
On Saturday, dozens attended a dawn ceremony at Plimmerton Boating Club before Toa’s body was taken away for burial by the local iwi (tribe) Ngāti Toa Rangatira. Authorities decided that Toa’s body would be treated with dignity, opting against an autopsy to understand the exact cause of death.
Di hài nhặt sắp về làng
Nào là khâm liệm nào là tang trai
(Đoạn trường ngư thanh)
Đánh chó (biển) nể mặt chủ:
Reward offered after beloved monk seal found killed in Greece
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/27/kostis-monk-seal-found-slain-near-alonnisos-greece
MOM, the Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, said it was offering a €18,000 bounty for information, or evidence, that “will lead to the arrest of the person(s) responsible for the killing of the seal, known as Kostis”.
Fewer than 750 Mediterranean monk seals remain, making them among the world’s most endangered species. The vast majority inhabit Greek waters, with most located in a marine park near Alonissos in the Northern Sporades. What is left of the population elsewhere can be found mostly off the Atlantic coast of Mauritania in north-west Africa.
Kostis was discovered floating off Alonissos last weekend, “executed at close range with a spear gun”, according to the group.
The news elicited outrage, with local people and conservationists demanding the culprit be found.
Barely three years old, Kostis was adopted by the island as a mascot. The creature could often be seen clambering on to boats moored in Alonissos’s port and posing for photographs. “He’d play with swimmers. He was very friendly, perhaps overly friendly,” Tsiakalos said. “He’d let people hug him and pet him.”
“We hope that the culprit is found, because this is a criminal act,” Panagiotis Dendrinos, who heads the organisation, said earlier. “It is not only an immoral act, it is also illegal.”
Nhân loại bất nhân xử vạn vật như hải cẩu. (Vô đạo đức kinh)
All we are saying is give pigs a chance! (Jambon Lennon)
California pig rules take effect
https://news.yahoo.com/bacon-may-disappear-california-pig-141827828.html
At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves.
National veal and egg producers are optimistic they can meet the new standards, but only 4% of hog operations now comply with the new rules. Unless the courts intervene or the state temporarily allows non-compliant meat to be sold in the state, California will lose almost all of its pork supply, much of which comes from Iowa, and pork producers will face higher costs to regain a key market.
Animal welfare organizations for years have been pushing for more humane treatment of farm animals but the California rules could be a rare case of consumers clearly paying a price for their beliefs.
With little time left to build new facilities, inseminate sows and process the offspring by January, it’s hard to see how the pork industry can adequately supply California, which consumes roughly 15% of all pork produced in the country.
Let them eat cheesecake. (Marie Antoilette)
Triển
08-02-2021, 09:26 PM
Cali sang năm tổ chức Olympigs. Tin xấu cho "hội đồng hương giả cầy". :z51:
Giò chả, thịt quay, nem chua chắc lên giá. Nhiều người sẽ nuôi heo trong nhà.
Không có gì quý hơn đàn lợn tự nuôi.
Triển
08-03-2021, 10:26 AM
đàn lợn tự nuôi.[/I]
"Làm chủ tập thể"
Triển
08-05-2021, 08:31 PM
Gấu con mắc nạn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK5Y2fLthEg
Con gấu mà đi ăn đêm
Đạp phải cành mềm kẹt cẳng trên cây...
Triển
08-07-2021, 11:43 AM
Con hoẵng là cậu con cầy
Beo mà cắn nó, là cầy rượt theo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HywDNAgqDzw
Triển
08-07-2021, 11:58 AM
Anh lừa là bạn nông dân
This is Why Farmers Sell Their Weapons and Buy Donkeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lFG1ps3wak
Năm ngoái đọc báo nhớ có chuyện nông dân giết lừa để lấy da lừa bán qua Tàu làm a giao (阿膠 (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/阿膠)) chế thuốc Bắc. Ở Việt nam da lừa để làm khô bò, khô nai.
World's donkeys being 'decimated' by demand for Chinese medicine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/21/worlds-donkeys-being-decimated-by-demand-for-chinese-medicine
It is estimated that 4.8m donkey hides a year are needed to satisfy demand for a gelatin-based traditional medicine called ejiao, according to a new report from the Donkey Sanctuary. At the current pace, the global donkey population of 44m would be halved over the next five years, the report warns.
Từ Mỹ qua Phi tay cầm cán dao
Tay kia cầm sợi dây để bắt con lừa…
(Nối vòng da lớn)
Voi về Hợp phố:
China’s herd of wandering elephants finally heads for home
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/chinas-herd-of-wandering-elephants-heads-yunnan-reserve
The 14 Asian elephants of various sizes and ages were guided across the Yuanjiang river in Yunnan on Sunday night and a path was being made for them to return to the nature reserve in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, the Associated Press reported.As of Sunday night, the herd was still in Yuanjiang County, approximately 200km (125 miles) from the reserve.
The elephants’ return completes a more than 500km odyssey that captivated the country. The highlights of their trip included the birth of a calf in Pu’er in November; causing more than 6.8m yuan ($1.07m) in damage, according to estimates by state broadcaster CGTN; and going viral for taking a nap (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/08/chinas-herd-of-wandering-elephants-takes-a-rest-after-500km-trek).
Một con tượng đi cả Tàu đứng ngó.
Ai mua trăn tôi bán trăn cho...
(Hàng mặc tử)
Snake shocks Sydney shoppers
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/17/python-shocks-sydney-shoppers-by-slithering-along-supermarket-spice-shelf
“Only in Australia!” Hilary Leigh wrote in a Facebook post when sharing a video of the large snake at the Glenorie supermarket in Sydney’s north-west.
Fellow shopper Helaina Alati was browsing spices for Monday night’s dinner when she turned her head to the right and “just 20cm from my face” saw the diamond python. “It just wanted to say hello,” she told Guardian Australia.
Previously a volunteer snake catcher, she was able to retrieve the necessary equipment from her nearby home to safely remove the non-venomous snake. She released it into nearby bushland.
Đàn kêu tích tịch tình tang
Ai mang con rắn dưới hang đem về...
Triển
08-17-2021, 09:26 PM
Ví dầu cầu ván đóng đinh
Cầu tre lắt lẻo gập ghềnh khó đi
Khó đi mẹ cõng con đi...
"...
Occurred on August 6, 2021 / Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"I was in my room studying, when I saw from my window a big possum walking on the wire. I ran to film and noticed that there were 7 puppies on top of her! I was very surprised!"
Contact licensing@viralhog.com to license this or any ViralHog video.
..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENpng18yxw
Lệnh hành quyết:
alpaca to be euthanised
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/its-agony-geronimo-owner-has-until-5pm-friday-to-euthanise-the- (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/its-agony-geronimo-owner-has-until-5pm-friday-to-euthanise-the-alpaca)alpaca
Geronimo has twice tested positive for bovine tuberculosis but Macdonald argues that the regime is flawed and has begged Defra to check again.
The end appeared to be nigh for Geronimo when on Wednesday, far away from his field in south Gloucestershire, a high court judge in London rejected a last-minute attempt to save him.
Macdonald has said she will not break the law to stop whoever comes for the animal doing what they have to do. But she has also said she will not help them, and that a live CCTV camera perched above his pen will broadcast to the world what goes on.
She also has a band of supporters on hand ready to put up a “human shield”around the creature, if it is possible to do this without breaking the law. “I’m not saying how many we’ll have here,” she said. “I don’t want to give them an advantage.”
There has been an outpouring of support from the public, with more than 130,000 people signing a petition calling on Boris Johnson to halt the killing.
Nhưng đời làm lạc đà ngã gục
Và trên lưng nó lông còn in mãi vết thù…
*
Nghe "lệnh hành quyết" cái nhảy nhỏm, sau té ra là chuyện giết thú vật.
Thú vật hổng phải người, nên người mới thong thả giết... ăn (ăn thiệt lẫn ăn chơi) ốc à.
Xứ quê điên mới xảy ra hai chuyện, một chuyện, một lệnh đã thi hành, lệnh kia chỉ mém chớ chưa kịp.
Cả hai đều liên quan tới đám nghiệp đoàn lao động đình công tranh đấu việc tăng lương.
Thứ nhứt là hãng cung cấp thịt gà.
Đình công nên hãng hổng đủ nhơn sự nuôi gà giết gà (thiếu người giết chỉ tổ tốn tiền thức ăn nuôi gà cho kịp lớn, còn thiếu người nuôi thì gà hổng lớn đủ). Cò cưa một chặp mấy tháng hổng xong, chủ hãng quyết định mang nguyên 1 triệu (VS trăm ngàn ?) con gà trong trại lên ghế điện gọn lẹ rồi chôn, khỏi vật lông vạt cánh chi cho phiền phức. Ngó hàng tấn gà nghiền vụn trong máy rồi đổ cống thiệt não lòng, bị bên ngoài lương thực thiếu thốn. Mang gà sống ra cho không sẽ là điều hổng tưởng, vì trái với luật đình công của nghiệp đoàn, chưa kể là... chắc gì đã có người nhận vì hổng phải ai cũng rành rẽ chuyện làm thịt gà - mà lại còn phải mướn nhơn viên phụ trách màn phân phát, tốn kém thêm.
Thừ nhì là hãng làm jambon hay ham.
Hãng cũng có màn nhơn viên đình công đòi lên lương. Bầy heo nuôi trong chuồng ủn a ủn ỉn, ăn no kềnh rồi lăn ra ngủ, hổng dè lệnh hành quyết đã ban ra, - xưởng ham rút kinh nghiệm hãng gà, quyết định nhanh gọn vì nuôi heo tốm kém nhiều lần hơn - Một trăm ngàn chú heo (vs 10 ngàn ?) hổng hay biết ngày hành quyết đã gần tới. Rồi... chắc cùng rút kinh nghiệm chiến trường của trận giậc gà, qua trung gian bộ lao động, chủ thợ hai bên ngồi vào bàn thương lượng, thoả thuận gọn lẹ. Sau cùng thì... đám heo vẫn chết để biến thành jambon nuôi người chớ hổng xuống mồ chôn tập thể.
Sau cùng thì... cũng là chết, nhưng vào bụng người thay vì vào lòng đất nên cái chết của heo đã noble hơn.
Ngó 1 chập rồi nghiệm ra 1 điều : loài người y hình hung hiểm nhứt hạng trong các loại động vật.
Vậy chớ mỗi lần muốn nhiếc móc chê bai nhau, chúng hay ví nhau với thú.
Vậy là sao hở 5 hở ốc ?
Lóng rày ngó thời sự quốc tế thinh không động mối thương tâm.
Lịch sử y hình là chuyện lập lại, nhưng rồi bài học thường khi chóng quên nên cứ vòng lợi cho ta học thêm, học mãi. học nữa !
Xin hết
:z51:
Ngó 1 chập rồi nghiệm ra 1 điều : loài người y hình hung hiểm nhứt hạng trong các loại động vật.
Vậy chớ mỗi lần muốn nhiếc móc chê bai nhau, chúng hay ví nhau với thú.
Vậy là sao hở 5 hở ốc ?
Tại vì người thì cũng là thú chớ hổng phải là cỏ cây, rong rêu, sỏi đá, đất cát… Chửi vậy đúng mà cũng hông nặng gì mấy.
Nhưng mà người với thú cũng chưa hung hiểm bằng vi trùng. Chị Lú chắc quên tính tới mấy con corona virus nhỏ xíu mà hung hiểm hơn loài người gấp đôi, cứ thử hỏi ai làm bác sĩ coi phải vậy hông. Chừng nào thấy chửi lộn mà ví nhau là con vi trùng cúm thì coi như đã đến nước cạn tàu ráo máng, hạ bút bất lưu tình, chừng đó 10 chị Lú vô xin lỗi cũng hổng thể bỏ qua.
Lời chửi không mất tiền mua
Lựa loài mà chửi cho vừa lòng nhau.
(Ca dao)
Lệnh hành quyết tập 2: Một con mèo lậu cả tàu bỏ mạng.
Decision to euthanise 154 cats found in smuggling operation sparks outrage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/23/decision-to-euthanise-154-cats-found-in-smuggling-operation-sparks-outrage-in-pet-loving-taiwan
Coast guards intercepted a fishing vessel from China on Thursday about 40 nautical miles off the coast of Kaohsiung, on Taiwan’s southern tip. After Covid screening, officials boarded the fishing boat the following day and discovered 62 cages containing the cats, including Russian Blue, Ragdoll, Persian American Shorthair, and British Shorthair breeds.
The animals were estimated to have a value of $10m New Taiwan Dollars (US$357,504). All were put down on Saturday, which also happened to be International Homeless Animals Day.
Taiwan has a high rate of pet ownership and a booming industry around caring for them, including accessories like prams and services like pet psychics. The news of the 154 cats, which lead many local outlets’ “most-read” lists, was also accompanied by photos of the cages all lined up in a government facility, and some close up images of kittens, prior to their destruction.
Smuggling 154 cats were killed in Taiwan #Taiwan (from Twitter).
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9ZTqf1VoAAHDRb?format=jpg&name=small
Chú mèo mà trèo lên ghe
Hỏi thăm chú Chệt đi đâu vắng nhà
Chú Chệt đi chợ đường xa
Mua mắm mua muối giỗ cha chú mèo...
(Cat dao)
Lệnh hành quyết tập 3:
US officials advise no mercy for lanternfly summer invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/24/pennsylvania-lanternfly-summer-invasion
At least five states have reported infestations and four more have recorded the presence of the nuisance flying creatures, which experts say first arrived from China between seven and 10 years ago and which are currently feasting their way through the region on crops of apples, grapes and hops, and destroying native trees such as maple, walnut and willow.
According to the US department of agriculture’s invasive species information center (https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/invertebrates/spotted-lanternfly), the insects – which can grow to about an inch in length and have an appearance similar to a moth – pose “a serious economic threat to multiple US industries, including viticulture, fruit trees, ornamentals and timber”.
As well as their destruction of plants, spotted lanternflies excrete a pervasive substance called honeydew that turns moldy and coats anything it comes into contact with, such as vehicles and children’s play equipment.
Anybody who spots one of the insects, which have gray forewings black spots and hind wings with contrasting red and black patches, is requested to contact state agriculture officials. Larger infestations are treated with insecticide.
Con này không có tên tiếng Việt nam. Chắc tại vì hông nhậu được.
Đầy rừng vang tiếng ruồi xanh
Rụng rời cội liễu tan tành gốc mai...
(Lâm trường tân thanh)
Noah's ark: Who let the dogs out?
ex-marine’s efforts to rescue 200 cats and dogs from Kabul
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/25/hope-ex-marine-rescue-cats-dogs-animals-kabul-paul-farthing
Paul Farthing, known as Pen, had already been given authorisation to get his people out but continued working with supporters to secure safe passage for 140 dogs and 60 cats they were caring for at the Nowzad shelter he founded in Kabul after serving with the British army in Afghanistan.
Nowzad supporters on Tuesday announced a privately chartered Airbus A330 – funded by donations – was on standby to fly to Kabul to rescue the group’s workers and animals.
Earlier, a Nowzad supporter in the UK, veterinary surgeon Dr Iain McGill, had said people were ready to take in the animals once brought to Britain.
McGill said that after the animals and the charity’s staff, the remaining 130 seats on the plane would be filled with at-risk Afghans.
Đàn kêu tích tịch tình tang
Ai mang con chó Afghan đem về?
Triển
08-25-2021, 09:12 PM
Con này không có tên tiếng Việt nam. Chắc tại vì hông nhậu được.
Gọi là con du côn trùng đi.
At least five states have reported infestations and four more have recorded the presence of the nuisance flying creatures, which experts say first arrived from China between seven and 10 years ago and which are currently feasting their way through the region on crops of apples, grapes and hops, and destroying native trees such as maple, walnut and willow.
Vũ khí côn trùng học.
Vũ khí côn trùng học.
Lệnh hành quyết tập 4: sát trùng
Washington state officials destroy first ‘murder hornet’ nest of the season
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/26/murder-hornet-nest-washington-state
The Washington state department of agriculture (WSDA) said it eradicated the Asian giant hornet nest on Wednesday.
The Asian giant hornets are sometimes called murder hornets because they prey on other insects, including honeybees.
They are the world’s largest hornet and are not native to North America. They prey on honeybees and other insects and can conduct mass attacks on the hives of smaller bees, who are more or less defenseless against the recently invaded species, destroying the hive in a matter of hours.
Meanwhile, in northern France, a beekeeper who was sick of his hives being invaded by murder hornets, which have been present in France for much longer, apparently arriving in 2004, devised a homemade trap for the larger insects.
In 2016 Brittany beekeeper Denis Jaffré came up with a device with a one-way mechanism like a lobster pot to catch the hornets, made from a wooden wine crate and metal mesh. His traps are now 3D-printed in plastic. After receiving a French inventors prize in 2018, Jaffré started making the traps in bulk. Demand is so high he has had stop taking orders to catch up.
Ong ơi thương lấy ong cùng
Tuy rằng khác cở nhưng chung một loài
Triển
08-28-2021, 03:51 AM
Con gì mà miệng có răng
Ngày nay lội nước, ngày xưa trên bờ
https://i5d4w3w5.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/D-50-442-WHALE.jpg.webp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5wAfpvfWgg
Triển
08-28-2021, 03:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-7eSup2N-U
Triển
08-28-2021, 10:54 PM
Đời nay mà nuôi chó lại không
cho đeo vòng GPS. Ông già
bà cả cho đeo chìa khóa GPS để
không bị thất lạc, thì con chó cũng
phải cho đeo y chang.
Chủ lớ ngớ gặp được con vật
thông minh. 2 tuổi chó bằng
mấy tuổi người?
Un chien parcourt près de 380 km entre la Savoie et le Gard pour rentrer chez lui à Bezouce
C'est l'histoire bien réelle de Pablo. Ce jagdterrier âgé de 2 ans s'est égaré la semaine dernière sur le lieux de vacances de ses maîtres, en Savoie. Il est rentré de lui-même dans le Gard, à son domicile. Récit.
https://cdn.radiofrance.fr/s3/cruiser-production/2021/08/67351e3d-ae18-4965-9705-851c7ff1d01e/870x489_pablo.webp
Catherine et Roger ont investi dans un collier GPS pour éviter de se faire une nouvelle frayeur à l'avenir. © Radio France - © Quentin Perez de Tudela
Imaginez, vous perdez votre chien sur votre lieu de vacances et il parvient à rentrer de lui même à votre domicile, pourtant situé à des centaines de kilomètres de là. C'est l'histoire bien réelle qu'un couple de gardois originaire de Bezouce a vécu avec leur chien, la semaine dernière.
Jeudi dernier, de retour d'un voyage en Italie, à bord de leur camping-car, Catherine et Roger, la soixantaine heureuse, décident de faire escale à Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, en Savoie. Pablo, leur chien, s'en va donc seul faire un tour, comme à son habitude. Sauf que cette fois-ci, le jeune jagdterrier ne revient pas.
Nous l'avons attendu des heures. Nous avons même passé la nuit sur place, en vain", indique Catherine. Le lendemain, le couple décide donc de signaler la disparition de leur toutou, notamment en mairie, avant de se rendre chez de la famille, dans l'Ain. "Cela nous permettait d'être plus proche dans l'hypothèse où quelqu'un nous rappelait au sujet de Pablo", indique Roger.
Les heures, et même les jours, passent. Ce n'est que samedi, en fin de journée, que la situation bascule. Une amie du couple, chargée de surveiller leur maison à Bezouce, leur envoie une photo par texto. "Dessus, j'ai reconnu Pablo, je n'en revenais pas, c'était un vrai moment de bonheur", se souvient Catherine, des frissons encore plein les bras. L'animal est bien Pablo, certes amaigri, mais bien en vie. "Ca nous a tout de suite décidé à rentrer chez nous", raconte Roger.
Depuis, le couple a acheté un collier GPS, en attendant d'avoir une réponse sur l'étonnant parcours de leur chien. "Il a avalé près de 380 kilomètres entre Saint-Martin-de-Belleville et Bezouce, entre ces deux axes, si quelqu'un pouvait l'avoir vu et nous contacter, ce serait super !"
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Un chien parcourt près de 380 km
Huy chương vàng môn đi bộ, ăn đứt thầy Triển.
Đoạn cuối cùng bài báo nói bà chủ hy vọng có người thấy con chó trên đoạn đường trở về nhà rồi liên lạc cho bả biết nó đi những nơi nào. Dễ mà, muốn biết thì cứ lái xe về chỗ đó, thả chó ra để nó tự động theo bổn cũ đánh hơi mò đường. Gắn thêm GPS và cái GoPro luôn để quay phim cho mọi người coi qua internet. Chó quen đường cũ.
Chó đi lạc ở Việt nam là về tới quán luôn.
Cọp đến nhà bà già cũng đánh: Hell hath no fury…
California: mother fights off mountain lion with bare hands to save 5-year-old son
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/29/california-mother-fights-off-mountain-lion-with-bare-hands-to-save-5-year-old-son
The 65-pound (30kg) mountain lion attacked the boy while he was playing near his house on Thursday in Calabasas and “dragged him about 45 yards” across the front lawn, said Captain Patrick Foy, a spokesman with the California department of fish and wildlife, on Saturday.
The boy suffered significant injuries to his head and upper torso but was in a stable condition at a Los Angeles hospital, Foy said.
Đàn bà dễ có mấy tay
Đời xưa mấy mẹ đời này mấy gan?
(Đời thường tân thanh)
Triển
08-29-2021, 09:52 PM
Chó đi lạc ở Việt nam là về tới quán luôn.
Qua được "chốt" không còn chưa biết à. Chưa tới quán đã bị hốt rồi.
__Có bị chận thì đi vài bước Michael Jackson như chú mèo ngao này, là các đồng chí sẽ cho qua chốt liền hà.
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Rừng xưa đã cháy em hãy ra đi:
How a Tahoe refuge saved owls, coyotes and raccoons from wildfire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/05/caldor-fire-animal-refuge-rescue-evacuation
This week a bear called Tender, who captured the public’s heart after his paws were covered in third degree burns in the Caldor Fire, was euthanized due to the severity of his injuries. “That’s never the result we want, but sometimes it’s the only compassionate choice,” said Kirsten Macintyre, a supervising information officer for the California department of fish and wildlife.
Macintyre said the agency had received more reports of burned animals as the intensity and frequency of California’s fires had increased. Larger animals, including black bears and mountain lions, are treated in the agency’s facility whenever possible while smaller animals such as bobcats and skunks are brought to other wildlife rehabilitation centers.
Already this year there have been more heartbreaking stories. A hawk, electrocuted by downed wires in the Dixie fire, had to be euthanized this week. An owl found by a firefighter succumbed to its injuries before he could get the bird help.
Thuở trời đất nổi cơn cháy rụi
Khách thú vật nhiều nỗi truân chuyên
(Chinh thú ngâm)
Ăn cơm nhà vác ngà voi:
Eight men convicted in French court for trafficking rhino horn and ivory
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/08/eight-men-convicted-in-french-court-for-trafficking-rhino-horn-and-ivory
French prosecutors began investigating after police stopped a BMW car in a random motorway traffic inspection in September 2015 and found four uncertified elephant tusks and €32,800 in cash.
The occupants of the car, some of whom claimed they were antique dealers, were later found to be part of an international network of rhino horn and ivory traffickers including several of Chinese and Vietnamese origin.
Detectives discovered the smugglers had two workshops in France to transform ivory and rhino horn into powder or flakes and other objects that were then exported to Vietnam and China to be used in traditional medicine.
One large horn weighing nearly 15kg was seized during the investigation. Robin des Bois said it would have been worth around €13m in exported products once processed.
Robin des Bois alleged that auction houses in Cannes, Toulouse and Le Puy had facilitated the export of tusks to Vietnam and China.
Trời sinh voi trời sinh cướp.
Thanh hải tang thương:
Outcry over killing of almost 1,500 dolphins on Faroe Islands
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/14/outcry-over-killing-of-almost-1500-dolphins-on-faroe-islands
Heri Petersen, who chairs the local Grind hunting association in the bay where the killing took place, said that far too many dolphins had been herded into the bay over too long a distance, with too few people waiting on the beach to kill them, prolonging their agony.
The Grind is significant for many Faroese people, with spectators coming out to watch from the shore, and the meat from the catch traditionally shared among the families that participated, with any excess then spread among local villagers.
But one local told the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet that there was no way that locals would want to consume this much dolphin meat.
“My guess is that most of the dolphins will be thrown in the trash or in a hole in the ground,” they said. “We should have quotas per district, and we should not kill dolphins.”
Cá heo thì nấu món gì? Pommes dolphin?
See you later, alligator:
Authorities catch 500lb alligator
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/15/louisiana-alligator-caught-death-man
A 12ft-long, 504lb alligator believed to have attacked and killed a 71-year-old Louisiana man in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath was captured with what appeared to be human remains in its stomach, local authorities said.
After his wife heard a splash, she discovered her husband being gripped in a “death roll” by a huge alligator.
She pulled him to the steps of their home and — with neither her phone nor 911 working — in a desperate move she climbed into a small boat in search of help.
But when deputies finally arrived, Satterlee wasn’t there any more.
Agents euthanized and cut open the alligator, where they discovered “the upper parts of a human body”, according to Vitter.
Alligators do not usually attack humans unless the food they tend to have stashed has been displaced, as can occur during major storms, he said.
- cá sấu: từ chữ SÂU vì ngó y chang sâu bọ
(còn tiếp)
Triển
09-17-2021, 08:06 PM
Chim xỉu lầu năm
Hàng trăm con chim chết, sau khi lao vào các tòa nhà chọc trời ở New York
Tường Vy
17 tháng 9, 2021
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Những chú chim chết sau khi đâm vào vách kính những tòa tháp chọc trời ở thành phố New York – Ảnh: Melissa Breyer/Twitter
Trong chuyến thiên cư thường kỳ, hàng trăm con chim bay qua thành phố New York trong tuần này đã chết, sau khi đâm vào các tòa tháp bằng kính của thành phố. Dòng tweet của một tình nguyện viên Audubon ở thành phố New York cho thấy Trung tâm Thương mại Thế giới đầy xác chim.
Kaitlyn Parkins, Phó giám đốc khoa học và bảo tồn của NYC Audubon cho biết, số gia cầm chết trong tuần này đặc biệt cao, nhưng chim đâm vào các tòa nhà chọc trời ở Manhattan là một vấn đề dai dẳng mà NYC Audubon đã ghi nhận trong nhiều năm.
Thời tiết mưa bão từ đêm Thứ Hai đến Thứ Ba đã góp phần vào số chim chết. Parkins cho biết:
“Chúng tôi đã gặp phải một cơn bão lớn và một loại thời tiết kỳ lạ khiến rất nhiều loài chim đụng vào cửa sổ kính rồi rơi xuống đất.”
Parkins nói thêm:
“Có vẻ như cơn bão đã khiến lũ chim bay xuống thấp hơn so với mức bình thường, hoặc chỉ làm chúng mất phương hướng. Ảnh hưởng của ánh sáng vào ban đêm đối với chim cũng khá mạnh, đặc biệt là khi đó là một đêm nhiều mây.”
Các tình nguyện viên của NYC Audubon ghi lại cái chết của chim tại các điểm có nguy cơ cao trong các đợt thiên cư vào mùa Xuân và mùa Thu.
Melissa Breyer, tình nguyện viên đã tweet về việc tìm thấy gần 300 con chim trên vỉa hè xung quanh các tòa tháp của Trung tâm Thương mại Thế giới mới, cho biết trải nghiệm này “quá sức”.
Breyer nói: “Ngay khi tôi đến các tòa nhà, những con chim đã ở khắp nơi trên vỉa hè. Các hướng Đông-Tây-Nam-Bắc đều bao phủ xác chim. Các vỉa hè được bao phủ bởi xác các loài chim theo đúng nghĩa đen.”
NYC Audubon muốn chủ sở hữu các tòa tháp của Trung tâm Thương mại Thế giới và các tòa nhà khác giúp giảm số lượng chim tấn công bằng cách làm mờ đèn vào ban đêm và bằng cách xử lý kính để chim dễ nhìn thấy hơn.
Parkins nói: “Hãy làm cho nó để chúng có thể nhìn thấy nó và nhận ra rằng đó là một rào cản vững chắc mà chúng không thể bay qua.”
Jordan Barowitz, phát ngôn viên của Tổ chức Durst, đồng phát triển của Trung tâm Thương mại Một Thế giới, cho biết trong một email, “200 feet đầu tiên của One WTC được bọc trong các vây thủy tinh không phản chiếu. Thiết kế này được chọn vì nó giúp giảm đáng kể các cuộc tấn công của chim, chủ yếu xảy ra ở độ cao dưới 200 feet và thường do kính phản chiếu gây ra. ”
Dara McQuillan, người phát ngôn của Silverstein Properties, nhà phát triển ba tòa nhà chọc trời ở Trung tâm Thương mại, cho biết, “Chúng tôi rất quan tâm đến các loài chim hoang dã và bảo vệ môi trường sống của chúng. Ánh sáng nhân tạo vào ban đêm nói chung có thể thu hút và làm mất phương hướng của chim, chúng tôi đang tích cực khuyến khích khách thuê văn phòng tắt đèn vào ban đêm và hạ rèm che bất cứ nơi nào có thể, đặc biệt là trong mùa thiên cư ”.
Không phải tất cả những con chim đâm vào cửa sổ kính đều chết. Tổng cộng có 77 con chim đã được đưa đến cơ sở của Quỹ Wild Bird ở Upper West Side vào Thứ Ba.
McMahon, người đã lên lịch cho nhân viên để chăm sóc cho một đàn chim bị thương, cho biết qua theo dõi radar, sẽ có một cuộc thiên cư lớn của các loài chim trong thời gian tới.
Các nhân viên của Quỹ Wild Bird đã cho những con chim này thức ăn, nước uống, và thuốc chống viêm để giảm sưng.
McMahon cho biết 30 con chim đã hồi phục và được thả tại công viên của Brooklyn vào Thứ Tư vừa qua.
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Triển
09-17-2021, 08:11 PM
Ngưu thánh
Hàng ngàn người dự lễ an táng chú bò 20 tuổi
Bảo Khôi
15 tháng 9, 2021
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Một ngôi làng ở Ấn Độ thực hiện các nghi thức an táng, hỏa táng cho con bò đực yêu quý đã sống với họ trong 20 năm vừa qua đời.
Hàng ngàn cư dân ở ngôi làng Kurdi, thuộc tiểu bang Uttar Pradesh, Ấn Độ, đã tưởng niệm cái chết của Babuji và tôn vinh con vật như một già làng. The Insidder dẫn nguồn tin trên The Times of India, con bò tót Babuji chết vì già yếu hôm 15 Tháng Chín.
Khoảng 3,000 người đã tham dự lễ tang của Babuji một cách trang trọng. Các tăng lữ tụng kinh cho linh hồn của Babuji, với nhiều tiền mặt và hoa, theo Insider. Cư dân trong làng nói rằng Babuji gần như là một thành viên trong gia đình đối với họ, và được coi là “món quà từ thần thánh” (gift from the divine).
Cách đây 20 năm, chú bò tót này được dân làng tìm thấy khi đi lang thang tại một thánh địa của làng. Lúc ấy chú bò còn nhỏ. Thấy vậy, một số người gọi Babuji là Nandi – một vị thần hộ mệnh trong đạo Hindu – thường miêu tả là một con bò đực.
Trong những ngày trước lễ mai táng, dân làng tiến hành các nghi thức tôn giáo và tang lễ cho Babuji, bao gồm hỏa táng và “rasam pagri” – một nghi lễ thường dành cho sự qua đời của già làng hay những người đàn ông lớn tuổi nhất trong một gia đình.
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Bò đứng trước đền thờ ở Ấn Độ. Ảnh: Bernard Gagnon – Wikipedia
Tục thờ Bò hay tín ngưỡng thờ Bò hay còn gọi là thờ Thần Bò hay Đạo thờ Bò là việc thực hành các tín ngưỡng, tôn giáo liên quan đến việc thờ cúng con bò, thuộc hệ tín ngưỡng thờ động vật ở Ấn Độ. Con bò gắn liền với tín ngưỡng thờ phượng xuất phát từ sự gần gũi và vai trò to lớn của nó trong đời sống của con người. Bò là linh vật biểu tượng có sức ảnh hưởng lớn đến các nền văn minh lớn trên thế giới như Ai Cập, Lưỡng Hà, Ấn Độ, Hy Lạp cũng như trong văn hóa một số bộ tộc người da đỏ ở Bắc Mỹ. Nó còn là vật thánh thiêng và được thờ phụng (hoặc từng được thờ phụng nhưng nay không còn) trong các tôn giáo lớn trên thế giới như Ấn Độ giáo, Do Thái giáo, Thiên Chúa giáo và Hồi giáo.
Hầu hết các tiểu bang ở Ấn Độ đều cấm giết mổ bò hoặc ăn thịt bò. Thậm chí tiểu bang Madhya Pradesh còn thành lập một khu vực riêng để chăm sóc cho bò.
Sự cuồng tín về con vật này cũng là một trong những nguyên nhân làm tăng COVID-19 hồi Tháng Năm 2021. Khi đó, một số đàn ông Ấn Độ phủ lên mình phân và nước tiểu bò với niềm tin rằng nó sẽ cải thiện khả năng miễn dịch để chống lại COVID-19.
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Bên Ấn độ chắc tìm hông ra mấy tiệm phở, bún bò, la gu…
Thời xưa Việt nam cũng cấm giết trâu để có trâu kéo cầy. Nhưng mà cấm đoán thì dân vẫn làm lén, chi bằng tôn nó lên hàng thần thánh thì người ta mới chịu kiêng khem. Phép vua thua phép trời.
Thả hổ về chuồng: land of the caged
How did America end up with the world’s largest tiger population?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/21/tiger-trafficking-america
There are about 10,000 tigers in the US. Thirty states allow private ownership of predatory exotics like tigers. The requirements are deceptively simple: a USDA conservation label form and a $30 license. Nine states require no permit or license whatsoever. This allows virtually anyone to own, breed and sell tigers.
Most of the trade is grounded in a high demand for tiger bones and products popular in the traditional Chinese medicine market – which is how I end up in Colorado, stepping through the 22,000-square-foot National Wildlife Property Repository, a mausoleum of 1.3m confiscated animal products.
Shelves of mounted tigers, skins, medicinals, gold tooth earrings, claw necklaces, skulls unfold in front of me – the scene is eerily reminiscent of the final scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, says Sarah Metzer, a US Fish and Wildlife Service education specialist. “What you’re seeing is maybe 10% of all of the seized goods from US ports of entry.” She pushes aside a zebra skin chaise longue to open a loading dock door. “There’s so much contraband we’re running out of space.”
Hổ phụ sinh hổ cốt.
Barking at the (president) Moon:
South Korean president suggests ban on eating dog meat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/27/south-korean-president-suggests-ban-on-eating-dog-meat
The South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has raised banning the eating of dogs in the country, his office said, a traditional practice that is becoming an international embarrassment.
The meat has long been a part of South Korean cuisine with about 1 million dogs believed to be eaten annually, but consumption has declined as more people embrace the animals as companions rather than livestock.
The practice is something of a taboo among younger generations and pressure from animal rights activists has been mounting.
Ăn chó phải ngó chủ nhà
(Tục ngữ dao)
Triển
09-27-2021, 07:44 PM
about 1 million dogs believed to be eaten annually,
Cấm là phải đạo rồi. Tay phải gắp thịt chó, tay trái bế bồng "thú cưng" coi
hổng đặng.
Nhưng mà vậy để không bị thâm hụt kinh tế, thịt chó thặng dư chắc Đại Hàn
phải xuất cảng bán qua Việt Nam với Gia Nã Đại.
Nghe đồn người Việt ghiền thịt chó ở Canada quá phải ăn "giả cầy" kìa.
Cấm là phải đạo rồi. Tay phải gắp thịt chó, tay trái bế bồng "thú cưng" coi
hổng đặng.
Đâu khác gì vừa nuôi cá kiểng vừa nấu cá kho.
Nuôi thú cưng cũng ác thấy mụ cố tổ, giam giữ trong nhà chật chội, cho ăn một món hàng ngày, chòng sợi dây xích vô cổ kéo, không cho cắn sủa, bắt đi toilet ngoài đường, đè ra thiến cho thành tật nguyền, con cái đẻ ra đem cho ở chỗ khác, mỗi khi chửi lộn cứ lôi thú cưng ra so sánh, vậy mà lại được tiếng là thương thú vật.
Thú cưng ta xấu với ngươi
Cưng mà như thế bằng mười hại nhau…
(Truyện K9)
Triển
09-28-2021, 09:28 PM
Thì con người sinh ra muốn sở hữu tất cả:
vợ anh nói tắt từ chữ vợ của anh.
chồng em = chồng của em
Heo em = heo của em:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfsEy_ICG9c
Đặt tên là Jăm Bông đi.
Hồi đó dân Mỹ cũng có mốt nuôi heo con, nhưng mà lúc heo lớn quá thì phải đưa ra mấy nông trại nhờ nuôi dùm vì tổ dân phố có quy định kích thước tối đa cho pets.
Dân Pháp thì nuôi heo để đánh hơi tìm nấm quý trong rừng.
Triển
09-29-2021, 09:48 PM
Đặt tên là Jăm Bông đi.
Coi chừng lộn ví ông này:
https://i.weltbild.de/p/james-bond-no-time-to-die-2022-16-monatskalender-315812529.jpg?v=1&wp=_ads-minzoom2
Shakira bị hai Jăm Bông tấn công: such pigs!
Shakira says two wild boars attacked her in Barcelona park
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/30/shakira-wild-boars-attacked-her-barcelona-park
Boars have become a widespread nuisance in cities, as urban environments have increasingly expanded. The animals have increasingly become a presence in European cities.
Just last week, Romans widely shared a video of a group of more than a dozen wild boars who roamed the trafficked streets of Via Trionfale. The video prompted suggestions that Rome should have “wild boar lanes” instead of bike lanes, and quickly became an issue in the mayoral race.
Du thú du thực.
Triển
09-30-2021, 09:09 PM
Shakira bị hai Jăm Bông tấn công: such pigs!
Đói quá rồi đó. Bình thường heo rừng chỉ tối trời
mới xuất quân "đi thực tế" thùng rác. Ban ngày
cũng "tấn công vật lý điện tử" của Shakira luôn là
Barcelona đã hết đồ ăn, thùng rác cũng trống luôn
rồi chắc.
Cũng có thể 2 em đó là fan ruột của chị ca sĩ kia, vì lòng hâm mộ nên liều mạng chạy ra xin tư trang của chỉ về hang làm tưởng niệm. Người hâm mộ cuồng nhiệt thì gọi là fan. Thú hâm mộ cuồng nhiệt thì kêu là fanimal.
Chồng ruột của Shakira là Pique, hậu vệ trong đội Barca hèn chi hông biết hộ vệ bà xã.
Pigs' family v. Pique's family: 1-0.
Triển
10-01-2021, 08:44 PM
Cũng có thể 2 em đó là fan ruột của chị ca sĩ kia, vì lòng hâm mộ nên liều mạng chạy ra xin tư trang của chỉ về hang làm tưởng niệm. Người hâm mộ cuồng nhiệt thì gọi là fan. Thú hâm mộ cuồng nhiệt thì kêu là fanimal.
Chồng ruột của Shakira là Pique, hậu vệ trong đội Barca hèn chi hông biết hộ vệ bà xã.
Pigs' family v. Pique's family: 1-0.
Bi kê vừa bị cho ra rìa ở trận trước mà. Thua là cái chắc.
Triển
10-10-2021, 09:32 PM
Coi chừng lên bàn nhậu.
https://i.imgur.com/AJuToVW.jpg
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Coi chừng lên bàn nhậu.
Man's best food.
Không hiểu người ta nuôi chó vì mục đích gì trong khi lo cho mình còn chưa xong chuyện.
Hồi đó đi vượt biên có anh kia cũng đòi mang theo chó vì để lại Việt nam sợ nó bị mần thịt. Gặp Cao ủy Tỵ nạn mà nói vậy là chắc ăn được định cư liền, nhưng chủ ghe phản đối nên ảnh phải gửi ở nhà chủ ghe. Lần đó đi hông lọt rồi lần sau vượt biên đường bộ nghe nói lại dắt theo chó. Ảnh thì đi lọt tới Thái lan còn chó thì không biết sao.
Triển
10-11-2021, 09:40 PM
Ảnh thì đi lọt tới Thái lan còn chó thì không biết sao.
Nếu ảnh đi không lọt vô vùng thiên đường thịt cầy thì không sao.
Theo báo mạng thì đặc biệt vùng Sakon Nakhon (Isan)
ở Thái Lan mê cầy bảy món "lắm luôn". Dù đa số dân Thái không
hưởng ứng thịt chó.
Con sói khóc đứng khóc ngồi
Người ơi đi chợ mua tôi đạn đồng.
Outcry after federal agents kill eight wolf cubs adopted by Idaho school
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/11/wolf-cubs-killed-federal-agents-idaho-adopted-school
Conservationists in Idaho are speaking out against the “inhumane” killings of eight wolf pups that were part of a pack adopted by a high school since 2003.
The killings were discovered after biologists who tracked the pack noticed its den was empty this spring. Obtaining a “mortality list” from the state department of fish and game, conservationists realized that agents from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) had killed the pups.
In May, the Idaho governor, Brad Little, signed a law that allows the killing of up to 90% of the state’s 1,500 wolves, a move backed by hunters and the ranching sector.
Last October, in a move that prompted backlash from conservationists, the Trump administration removed the gray wolf from endangered species protections.
Miệng kẻ săn có gang có thép
Mạng nhà sói vừa nhẹ vừa đen.
Mềm nắn, rắn tha: It takes a Wolf to catch a snake.
90 rattlesnakes found under California home
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/16/snakes-california-santa-rose-rattlesnakes
Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under houses but recently was called by a woman who said she had seen rattlesnakes scurry under her northern California house and was surprised to find more than 90 rattlesnakes getting ready to hibernate.
He used a 24in (60cm) snake pole to remove 22 adult rattlesnakes and 59 babies when he first visited the home in the Mayacamas Mountains on 2 October. He returned another two times since and collected 11 more snakes.
All the snakes were northern Pacific rattlesnakes, the only venomous snake found in northern California, he said.
He said he releases the rattlesnakes in the wild away from people and sometimes in private land when ranchers request them for pest control.
Tôi bỗng thấy lòng bâng khuâng
Vì rắn Ca li sao quá là nhiều.
(Ngô Tị Miên)
Puppy love: trốn việc quan đi nuôi chó.
CEO sparks pet ‘pawternity leave’ debate
https://nypost.com/2021/10/19/puppy-owner-sparks-pawternity-leave-debate/
A British CEO has sparked a firestorm on LinkedIn after asking the public whether he should grant “pawternity leave” to an employee who had just purchased a puppy. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerwade1/detail/recent-activity/shares/)
Roger Wade, the founder of events company Boxpark (https://www.boxpark.co.uk/), posed the question on his LinkedIn page earlier this month, stating that the employee had come to him and asked for an unspecified amount of paid time off.
Wade attached a poll to his question, giving people the option to vote on his canine conundrum.
A whopping 34,000 people voted, with a majority (61%) believing that the boss should not grant leave to the owner of the new pup.
Nuôi chó ngó chủ (công ty).
Trăm voi không được một cặp ngà:
Ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/21/ivory-poaching-evolution-tuskless-elephants-study
Researchers looked at why female elephants in Gorongosa national park in Mozambique were frequently born without tusks, and found that the animals were in effect genetically engineered by mass poaching for ivory (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/01/frontline-bloody-battle-save-africa-elephants).
Elephants with tusks were highly likely to be hunted during the Mozambican civil war from 1977 to 1992, when 90% of the elephant population was slaughtered by armed forces on both sides to produce ivory that was sold to finance the conflict. Those without tusks were left alone, leading to an increased likelihood they would breed and pass on the tuskless trait to their offspring.
- ngà: từ chữ NHA (牙) nghĩa là răng
(còn tiếp)
Đem chó bỏ chợ:
Owners offload dogs bought in lockdown
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/23/owners-offload-dogs-bought-in-lockdown-by-pretending-they-are-strays
People are pretending that dogs they acquired during lockdown are strays so that rescue centres take them in, after failing to sell them online, animal rescue charities and shelters have warned.
Figures from March revealed that more than 3.2m pets were bought by UK households during lockdown. Since Covid restrictions were lifted and people have started to return to the office, charities have reported a growing trend of people abandoning their pandemic pets as they no longer have as much time for them.
Hope Rescue, an animal charity based in Rhondda Cynon Taf, told the BBC the number of dogs being dropped off at its rescue centre in Pontyclun was the highest in its 15-year history.
Cao điểu tận lương cung tàn.
Phong toả tận lương cẩu tống.
Còn giờ còn dịch còn thương chó
Hết lo hết rảnh hết thú cưng.
(Ca dao)
Cướp đêm là gấu, cướp ngày là heo:
Italian couple find burglar is endangered brown bear
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/03/i-could-count-all-its-teeth-italian-couple-find-burglar-is-endangered-brown-bear
Annalisa Castagna and her husband, Claudio Parravano, came face-to-face with the bear on Sunday night.
The Marsican bear had climbed on to her bedroom balcony in Pescosolido, a village in the Lazio province of Frosinone, just days after a bear was spotted bathing in the fountain of a neighbouring village.
Castagna leapt back inside, while Parravano threw himself over the balcony to escape the animal, causing minor injuries. The bear fled, leaving its faeces on the balcony.
The Marsican is a critically endangered subspecies of the brown bear living in the Apennine mountains that straddle Italy’s Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise regions.
In 2019, the Italian branch of the World Wildlife Fund warned that the Marsican brown bear faced extinction. The population has dwindled during the past 25 years, with 63% of bear deaths attributed to illegal hunting or being hit by vehicles.
Thứ nhất sợ kẻ anh hùng
Thứ nhì sợ thú đói bụng liều thân...
Chửa hoang: condor lặn lội bờ sông
Female California condors can reproduce without males
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/03/california-condor-asexual-reproduction-females-males
The condors had reproduced through parthenogenesis – a form of reproduction in which an egg can develop into an embryo without being fertilized by a sperm.
Parthenogenesis is derived from the Greek words for “virgin birth” and several insect species including aphids, bees and ants are known to reproduce through the process, although the phenomenon is rare in birds.
The condor is a remarkable species that has survived from the Pleistocene era. Right now, the condor’s population growth is limited by poisoning from lead bullets, when the scavengers eat animals shot by hunters.
Meanwhile, the bird,which has risen like the phoenix from near death, is rewriting scientific understanding.
Một chim làm chẳng nên con
Hai chim nhập lại nên đàn chim non.
(Tục ngữ)
Triển
11-06-2021, 10:38 PM
Pháp nhốt chim.
France orders poultry 'lockdown'
Poultry farmers have been ordered to keep flocks indoors in a bid to stop the contagious avian disease from spreading. Europe has seen over 100 outbreaks of bird flu in recent months.
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French farmers must keep poultry flocks indoors following a new order from the government
French authorities put the country on high alert over bird flu on Friday. The upgraded status means farmers in the country must keep poultry flocks indoors.
It comes a week after commercial farms in the nearby Netherlands were issued a similar order.
The poultry lockdown measure has already been in place in certain areas in France since September.
Why has France raised the alert over bird flu?
The order cited a "rising infection rate in migratory corridors" as the reason for raising the risk level for the entire country.
"Since the beginning of August, 130 bird flu cases or clusters have been detected in wild animals or on farms in Europe," France's Agriculture Ministry said in a statement. It said three cases had been identified among backyard birds in northeast France.
The ministry explained that the measure was to protect poultry farms. So far, no cases have been found among professional poultry farmers in France.
France hopes that the lockdown will help avoid a repeat of last year, when bird flu was found in nearly 500 locations. This severely disrupted the production of foie gras from ducks in southwestern France.
The requirement to keep flocks indoors will be adapted to different farming practices, such as free-range farming, the ministry said.
Has bird flu hit elsewhere?
The Netherlands on Thursday reported a new outbreak of highly pathogenic H5 bird flu among ducks at a poultry farm in the central province of Flevoland.
To limit the spread of the disease, about 36,000 animals were culled at the farm, the Dutch agriculture ministry said.
Britain on Wednesday declared a nationwide Avian Influenza Prevention Zone, ordering farms and bird keepers to toughen their biosecurity measures after a number of cases of bird flu were spotted in wild birds.
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France orders poultry 'lockdown'
Vậy sao có gà đi bộ mà bán cho quán phở?
Một con gà đau cả đàn bỏ đi bộ.
Triển
11-07-2021, 08:14 PM
Vậy sao có gà đi bộ mà bán cho quán phở?
Một con gà đau cả đàn bỏ đi bộ.
Chắc đang chờ chích.
Chim dai sức:
New Zealand finally welcomes godwit two months after it was blown 2,000km back to Alaska
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/09/new-zealand-finally-welcomes-godwit-two-months-after-it-was-blown-2000km-back-to-alaska
This year, a female godwit, identified as 4BYWW by the bands on her legs, was confirmed as having made the longest flight ever recorded by a land bird. She travelled non-stop from Alaska to New Zealand, a journey of 12,200km that took eight days and 12 hours at an average speed of 59km/h.
But one unlucky godwit, an adult male known as 4BWRB, was forced to take a large U-turn over the Pacific Ocean, finishing up back at its Alaska take-off point after 57 hours of constant flight.
Every year, the Eastern bar-tailed godwits, or kuaka in Māori, make one of the longest avian migration flights in the world, travelling from their breeding ground in the Arctic, across the Pacific, to New Zealand.
About 80,000 godwits arrive in New Zealand each year, and move into harbours and estuaries across the two islands. Typically, the flocks are welcomed in September, sometimes to the sound of Cathedral bells.
Chim ơi như chim say mê có khi rã rời cánh nhung thôi bay
Chim ơi xin chim lúc chân mây mệt nhoài trở về lồng em thân ái…
(Lời gọi chân chim)
Sở thú chết:
Three snow leopards die of Covid-19 at children’s zoo in Nebraska
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/14/three-snow-leopards-die-covid-19-childrens-zoo-nebraska
Three snow leopards have died at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska of complications from Covid-19.
The zoo began treating the leopards and two Sumatran tigers for the virus last month. The zoo said the tigers, Axl and Kumar, have made a recovery.
Zoos across the country, including at the St Louis Zoo and the Denver Zoo, have battled Covid-19 outbreaks among their animals.
Chắc cũng vì không được chích ngừa cô vít tử tế. Lỗi tại sở thú, đem con bỏ chuồng.
Đương khi bất ý chẳng ngờ
Hùm thiêng khi đã sa cơ cũng đành
(Đoạn chuồng tân thanh)
Tề gia trị thú bình thiên hạ:
The town besieged by armadillos
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/15/its-like-hunting-aliens-inside-the-town-besieged-by-armadillos
(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/15/its-like-hunting-aliens-inside-the-town-besieged-by-armadillos)
To spot armadillos in North Carolina was, at first, incongruous. The creature has been Texas’s state mammal for more than two decades, used to the baking heat of the dry, flat state. There, they’re regularly seen as roadkill or in small-scale racing events where they are made to scurry down a 40ft track.
Armadillo meat is consumed in Central America, and to a lesser extent in the US, where it was called “poor man’s pork” in Depression-era Texas and has been tainted by the species’ connection to leprosy.
When the first armadillo was sighted here in 2019, Bullard got a call. “I just didn’t believe it,” he said. “I thought the woman had a possum and a drinking problem.” But within a year, Bullard was spending his nights at the local golf course, speeding from hole to hole on a golf cart, killing armadillos on the greens like a sort of cross between Tiger Woods and Davy Crockett.
Homeowners, perturbed at their lawns being torn up by the newly arrived mammals, initially deputized Bullard as a sort of armadillo bounty hunter, handing him $100 for every dead carcass he produced.
People in the region also employ Bullard to kill feral pigs, beavers, skunks and even otters – they eat the fish that have been added to lakes for recreational fishing – as well as the armadillos.
Wild animals live alongside us until we ruthlessly decide to unilaterally change the rules once they unknowingly cross some sort of line, such as altering the aesthetics of our gardens or simply getting in the way of our fun.
Sinh sinh chi vị diệt.
(Kinh Diệt)
Heo cảng đường:
Hong Kong begins hunting wild boar
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/18/hong-kong-begins-hunting-wild-boar-amid-public-safety-fears
Boar have at times been seen on subway trains, or waiting for the traffic light to turn green at pedestrian crossings by the harbour.
Heo qua đường?
Thú phạm: thú báo thù?
First known Covid case was Wuhan market vendor, says scientist
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/first-covid-patient-in-wuhan-was-at-animal-market-study-finds
The report (http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454), by Michael Worobey, the head of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, will reignite the debate about the origins of the pandemic, which remains unresolved and continues to fuel tensions between China and the US.
Worobey was one of the 15 or so experts who in mid-May published an editorial in Science demanding serious consideration of the thesis that the virus had leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. The latest paper, he said, “provided strong evidence of a live-animal market origin of the pandemic”.
Most early symptomatic cases were linked specifically to the western section where raccoon dogs were caged.
Một con chồn đau cả Tàu bỏ nhậu.
Free birds: Happy Turkey Day, turkeys.
Wild turkeys’ rough and rowdy ways are creating havoc in US cities
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/24/wild-turkeys-us-cities-havoc-hunting
The wild turkey has lived in what is now North America for more than 10,000 years, and was branded a “bird of courage” by founding father Benjamin Franklin in 1784.
It’s also one of the greatest conservation success stories in modern America, going from all but extinct in large parts of the country as recently as the 1970s, to so numerous that the 4ft-tall, 20-30lb, highly adaptable animals have successfully “overrun” hundreds of US cities.
Trashing homes, intimidating people and holding up traffic, earning their reputation as one of the most bad-tempered neighbours on the block.
Or, as Scientific American, put it, “ugly hooligan nuisance birds”.
Gà tây sớm gáy bên đường
Chẳng yêu thì cũng bất tường chẳng không
(Sấm Trạng Quỳnh)
Triển
11-28-2021, 05:17 AM
Tới mùa di dân. Bún riêu ế nặng.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXDcw34lqI
Cua chạy đua y như mấy cua rơ. Chắc cũng từ sự kiện này mà người Pháp mới có thành ngữ “faire la cua (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/faire_la_cour)” nghĩa là cua nhau. Tục ngữ Việt nam thì có câu: Người khôn cua khó.
Triển
11-28-2021, 08:15 PM
Tục ngữ Việt nam thì có câu: Người khôn cua khó.
Ca này khó.
Một công mà hai ba chuyện:
Roaming peacocks plague California city
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/30/peacocks-plague-california-city-tracy-birds-relocate
Dozens of feral peacocks and peahens are roaming the streets and leaping from the rooftops of Tracy, California. They claw at shingles and defecate on porches. Their calls, especially in mating season, echo through the community. They have no fear of pets nor people.
Errant peafowl have milled around the city’s Redbridge neighborhood for years – some believe they originally came from a now-defunct nearby dairy farm – but the numbers have increased as the birds keep multiplying. Now they’re everywhere, and ruffling some residents’ feathers.
“If this were a pack of 100 rats that were scuffling around the yard or on the roof, no one would wait to deal with that problem,” said Dave Lieberman, president of the Redbridge Homeowners Association. “Unfortunately the peacocks are beautiful birds, you want to admire them, but in these numbers they can be destructive.”
“They have a peculiar kind of cry that sounds like a baby wailing. It’s a little distressing,” Lieberman said. “It starts early in the morning, it’s loud and then they land on the roofs.”
Residents have taken issue with the peafowl because of damage to their houses, scratches on cars and the noise from their squawks and rooftop roosting. And then there is the rampant defecation.
Con nhà công không giống lông cũng giống cánh.
(Tục ngữ)
Rắn báo oán: mềm thì nắn rắn thì tha
Homeowner trying to smoke out snake infestation burns down own house
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/04/homeowner-snake-infestation-burns-down-own-house-maryland
A homeowner in Maryland tried to fight a snake infestation with coal, only to burn their own house down, causing more than $1m in damage. Nobody was injured.
In Maryland, fire officials said: “Status of snakes undetermined.”
Chẳng phải liu điu cũng đốt nhà
Rắn nhiều ổ bự quyết chẳng tha
(Lê quý Đốt)
Triển
12-05-2021, 09:48 PM
Sao không cưới Thanh Xà hay Bạch Xà về là hết chuyện. Lấy độc trị độc.
Cứu sư phụ:
A US activist took a sick goat from a meat farm – now he faces seven years in jail
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/06/wayne-hsiung-activist-goat-animal-welfare-trial
In a landmark case that could predict the future of the right to rescue distressed animals, he faces up to six and a half years in prison for felony charges of larceny and breaking and entering, based on what the video shows him doing next.
In darkness, Hsiung and othersfrom the activist organization he co-founded, Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), make their way past the farm’s electric fences towards a barn. After placating the guard dogs withvegan peanut-butter treats, Hsiung finds what he’s after: a baby goat – sick, he believes – in a small pen with its mother. They escape with the goat unharmed, but Hsiung accidentally drops a piece of crucial evidence: his driver’s license.
Should Hsiung be acquitted of charges in his current trial, it could set a legal precedent for the “right to rescue” agricultural livestock. Thirty-one states have right to rescue laws primarily aimed at protecting people from being sued if they break into hot cars to save distressed dogs. Hsiung and other activists want to see more protections provided for those who rescue any animal in distress – not just pets.
Nhớ câu kiến nghĩa bất vi
Làm người thế ấy cũng phi anh hùng
(Lục vân Tiên)
Triển
12-06-2021, 09:42 PM
Cứu cầu thủ:
Russian football team wins hearts after walking on field with shelter dogs; video goes viral (https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/russian-football-team-wins-heart-after-walking-in-field-with-shelter-dogs-7655607/)
https://images.indianexpress.com/2021/12/football-team-shelter-puppies.jpg
Chồn thành tinh:
otters attack British man in Singapore park
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-otters-attack-british-man-in-singapore-park
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-otters-attack-british-man-in-singapore-park)
Spencer told The Straits Times (https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/i-actually-thought-i-was-going-to-die-man-who-was-attacked-by-otters-at) he was approaching the gardens’ entrance on 30 November when he spotted about 20 otters crossing a path in front of him.
The animals were moving quietly but “went crazy” after another man ran towards them, Spencer told the paper. The runner was able to avoid the animals but Spencer was not as lucky.
He said they lunged at him, biting his ankles, legs and buttocks and causing him to fall over.
Spencer’s friend, who was about “15 paces” away from him, ran up screaming in a bid to scare away the otters.
Thứ nhất sợ kẻ anh hùng
Thứ nhì sợ thú nổi khùng cắn chân
Trâu về họp phố:
return of wild bison to UK
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/11/gentle-giants-rangers-prepare-return-wild-bison-uk
The rangers will manage the first wild bison to roam in the UK for thousands of years when four animals arrive in north Kent in the spring of 2022. The bison are Europe’s largest land animal – bulls can weigh a tonne – and were extinct in the wild a century ago, but are recovering through reintroduction projects across Europe.
The crow brought the message
To the children of the sun
For the return of the buffalo
And for a better day to come…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5a2fzrXuNc
Con sâu làm rầu plastic:
Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-across-globe-are-evolving-to-eat-plastic-study-finds
The explosion of plastic production in the past 70 years, from 2m tonnes to 380m tonnes a year, had given microbes time to evolve to deal with plastic, the researchers said.The study, published in the journal Microbial Ecology (https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02155-21), started by compiling a dataset of 95 microbial enzymes already known to degrade plastic, often found in bacteria in rubbish dumps and similar places rife with plastic.
Nearly 60% of the new enzymes did not fit into any known enzyme classes, the scientists said, suggesting these molecules degrade plastics in ways that were previously unknown.
The first bug that eats plastic was discovered in a Japanese waste dump in 2016. Scientists then tweaked it in 2018 to try to learn more about how it evolved, but inadvertently created an enzyme (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidentally-create-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic-bottles) that was even better at breaking down plastic bottles. Further tweaks in 2020 increased the speed of degradation sixfold (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/28/new-super-enzyme-eats-plastic-bottles-six-times-faster).
Another mutant enzyme was created in 2020 by the company Carbios that breaks down plastic bottles for recycling in hours (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/08/scientists-create-mutant-enzyme-that-recycles-plastic-bottles-in-hours). German scientists have also discovered a bacterium that feeds on the toxic plastic polyurethane, which is usually dumped in landfills.
Sâu ơi ta bảo sâu này
Sâu ra đống rác sâu cày cho ta...
Rồng đất: Địa long thập bách chưởng
new species with more than 1,000 legs discovered in Western Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/16/the-first-true-millipede-new-species-with-more-than-1000-legs-discovered-in-western-australia
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/16/the-first-true-millipede-new-species-with-more-than-1000-legs-discovered-in-western-australia)
The first ever millipede with more than 1,000 legs been discovered in Western Australia.
The species, which is the first “true” millipede, has 1,306 legs and was found up to 60 metres underground in a mining area in the Eastern Goldfields region of WA.
It breaks the previous record set by Illacme plenipes, which is found in central California and has up to 750 legs.
In 2013, a Portuguese millipede infestation was reportedly responsible for a train collision in Perth.
Giun ơi ta bảo giun này
Giun chui xuống đất giun cày cho ta...
Jaws: cá lớn nuốt cá mập
crocodile eats shark
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/dec/21/boofhead-the-crocodile-makes-a-meal-of-shark-on-fishers-line-in-queensland
According to Johnson, the crocodile is named Boofhead by locals because “he’s got a wide, ugly head on him”.
“He’s just a little local sort of celebrity,” Johnson says.
“It is crazy the power these things have, they are to be respected and admired.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xorCfuArqK8
Giữa dòng nước dẫy sóng dồi
Trước hàm cá sấu gieo mồi thủy tinh
(Đoạn trường ngư thanh)
Hạ cầy tơ:
Monkeys blamed for hundreds of puppy deaths
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/21/monkeys-blamed-for-hundreds-of-puppy-deaths-captured-in-india
Villagers in Lavool village, in the Beed district of Maharastra, reported the langur monkeys after they witnessed them engaging in what seemed to be targeted killings of the neighbourhood puppies by snatching them and taking them up to deadly heights.
The villagers claimed the monkeys were carrying out “revenge killings” after dogs had killed an infant monkey.
The monkeys were reported to have left puppies on roofs and in trees where they would die from lack of food and water, and in other incidents they would be thrown down and killed. The locals said the monkeys had been so thorough that there were no puppies left in Lavool village.
Con cầy mà trèo cây cao
Hỏi thăm chú khỉ vì sao oán thù
(Cầy dao)
As sick as a dog:
Dog saved by surgery after eating six packets of chocolate coins
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/27/dog-saved-by-surgery-after-eating-six-packets-of-chocolate-coins
Hugo, a six-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier, helped himself to the chocolate treats – poisonous to dogs – when owner Amie popped to the shops.
Hugo was assessed, sedated and had an X-ray, which revealed his stomach was full of foil, needing surgery to remove it.
“Foods including chocolate, mince pies, onions, raisins, grapes, some nuts, sage-and-onion stuffing and Christmas cake can all be harmful and should be kept safely out of paws’ reach.”
Con chó khóc đứng khóc ngồi
Mẹ ơi đi chợ mua tôi đồng tiền...
(Cẩu dao)
Ấy là hồ điệp hay là con công?
peacock butterfly
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/29/specieswatch-the-bluffing-peacock-butterfly#comments
The butterfly was beneath a log and, its sleep interrupted, flashed its wings bearing vivid blue and maroon eyespots. Most strikingly, it also emitted a series of loud hisses that viewers judged like the rustling of petticoats or a whispered “pissaff”.
It may have been a fairy casting a spell but it was also a classic example of deimatic behaviour, a sudden bluff from a defenceless animal to momentarily unsettle a predator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhkefQ92-hg
Vườn đông công bướm đi về mặc ai…
(Uyển Du)
Beware of dogs (Philippians 3:2).
Boy who died from remote NT community was mauled by dogs
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/03/boy-who-died-after-going-missing-from-remote-nt-community-was-mauled-by-dogs
The three-year-old’s family reported him missing on Friday evening after searching Hermannsburg, south-west of Alice Springs, for several hours.
Northern Territory police joined the search late on New Year’s Eve and an officer found the injured preschooler about 9am on Saturday. He was taken to the local health clinic but died before he could be treated.
Two dogs were being held awaiting forensic examination, Sharma said. The animals were pet dogs often called “camp dogs” and their owner was cooperating with investigators.
Thương lòng con trẻ thơ ngây
Gặp cơn vạ chó ai hay bất kỳ
(Đoạn trường nhân thanh)
Triển
01-05-2022, 06:07 AM
thầy Ốc lo đi đẻ đi kìa. Nam phụ thất thập nhi lập.
Pope calls couples who choose pets over having children ‘selfish’
AFP/The Local
news@thelocal.it
@thelocalitaly
5 January 2022
12:52 CET
Pope Francis risked the ire of the world's childless dog and cat owners Wednesday, suggesting people who substitute pets for kids exhibit "a certain selfishness".
Speaking on parenthood during a general audience at the Vatican, Francis lamented that pets “sometimes take the place of children” in society.
“Today… we see a form of selfishness,” said the pope. “We see that some people do not want to have a child.
“Sometimes they have one, and that’s it, but they have dogs and cats that take the place of children. This may make people laugh but it is a reality.”
(more) (https://www.thelocal.it/20220105/pope-calls-couples-who-choose-pets-over-having-children-selfish/)
Mấy bữa nay trời lạnh (cỡ ngón cái thôi) bị hắt xì hoài nên cứ tưởng là dính corona nhưng hoá ra là bị bác Francis nhắc tên.
Người Mỹ có câu “the pot calling the kettle black” nhưng tới giờ có thể sửa lại thành “the pope calling the kidless black”. Ổng đi tu tức là cũng đâu có con tại vì muốn có hai pets: Chúa và Giáo hội, God and Church.
Giáo dân hỏi: Siri, why is the pope childless?
Siri chép miệng: Because he’s selfish.
Giáo dân rủa thầm: Bye (pope).
Muốn nói ngoa làm cha mà nói. (Tục ngữ)
pet owners react to pope’s remarks on animals and children
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/insensitive-pet-owners-react-to-popes-remarks-on-animals-and-children
Pet owners have reacted angrily to the comments, made during a general audience at the Vatican. They argue that animals have a lower environmental footprint than children, enable them to lead a life that is different but equally rewarding, and compensate for financial or biological difficulties in having children, rather than directly replacing them.
On social media, people pointed out that the pope himself chose not to have children and said there was hypocrisy in such comments, coming from an institution which has grappled with a legacy of child sexual abuse.
Trong lịch sử Việt nam cũng có nhiều người nổi tiếng không có con, ví dụ như Thánh Gióng, Hai bà Trưng và một bà Triệu... Ai dám chê mấy nhân vật đó?
Tưởng tượng Nguyễn Du viết Truyện Kim Vân Ký về Thúy Vân lấy chồng, đẻ con, trồng rau, nuôi gà... thay vì kể chuyện Thúy Kiều. Ai thèm coi?
Đương khi bất ý ỷ y
Hùm thiêng gặp cúm cô vi cũng phiền
(Đoạn trường thú thanh)
Snow leopard at Illinois zoo dies after contracting Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/08/snow-leopard-dies-covid-19-illinois-zoo
Miller Park Zoo announced the death of Rilu, 11, which the zoo previously said “began coughing and had a raspy respiration beginning on 20 November”, in an Instagram post on Thursday.
In December, three snow leopards at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska died of complications from Covid-19. Two Sumatran tigers recovered.
In July, zoos in Oakland and Denver announced they would start vaccinating tigers, bears and other mammals with a two-dose vaccine first administered in March to gorillas in San Diego.
Zoetis, a New Jersey animal health company, has said it has donated more than 11,000 vaccine doses to almost 70 zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, as part of an effort authorised by the US Department of Agriculture.
Chỉ ngang mũi chích vào nghìn hang beo…
(Chích thú ngâm)
Cứu nhân nhân trả chuối:
Hero rat dies in Cambodia after stellar career
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/landmine-hunting-hero-rat-dies-in-cambodia-after-stellar-career
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/landmine-hunting-hero-rat-dies-in-cambodia-after-stellar-career)
Magawa, a giant African pouched rat originally from Tanzania, helped clear mines from about 225,000 square metres of land – the equivalent of 42 football pitches – over the course of his career.After detecting more than 100 landmines and other explosives, Magawa retired in June last year.
Apopo trained Magawa to detect the chemical compounds in explosives by rewarding him with tasty treats – his favourites being bananas and peanuts.
In September 2020, the rodent won the animal equivalent of Britain’s highest civilian honour for bravery because of his uncanny knack for uncovering landmines and unexploded ordnance.
Three Cambodian deminers were killed on Monday by anti-tank landmines that exploded as they tried to remove them, just 20 minutes after a man burning vegetation on his farm was killed by war-era ordnance in the same village.
Khen cho cái mũi tinh đời
Bom mìn đoán giữa trần ai mới già
(Đạn trường tân thanh)
Cừu đội lốt sói:
The brutal world of sheep fighting
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/16/algeria-sheep-fighting-illegal-sport-angry-young-men
Professional trainers toughen their sheep by chaining their horns to a wall: as they pull and twist to break away, the resistance thickens their sinewy necks.
The sheep are given names that inspire fear, like Rambo, Jaws or Lawyer. In the third round of one recent match, Hitler delivered a brutal defeat to Saddam.
The Algerian government’s toleration of sheep fighting is a tacit acknowledgement that outlets for male aggression are needed. “Letting these guys have their fun reduces violence in other contexts,” said Youcef Krache, a photographer from Algiers who has spent years documenting sheep fights. “Authorities prefer they get swept up in spectacles rather than politics.”
Hãy khôn ngoan như con rắn và hiền lành như con cừu. (Matthew 10:16.5)
Lòng lang dạ sói:
Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/15/finland-sweden-norway-cull-wolf-population-eu
Hunters in Sweden have already shot dead most of their annual target of 27 wolves, while Finland is to authorise the killing of 20 wolves in its first “population management cull” for seven years.
Norway will kill about 60% of its wolves this winter – 51 animals – to maintain a maximum of just three breeding pairs in the country, with its population including animals living between Sweden and Norway limited to four to six breeding pairs.
Conservationists accuse Nordic nations of creating the most hostile environment for wolves in western Europe and flouting EU laws that protect the species, which has made a comeback in recent years but remains endangered in many countries.
Từ bắc Âu châu tay cầm súng săn
Tay kia cầm sợi dây để bắt con cầy…
(Trịnh công săn)
Tôm Đức: Berlin lobster
what do you do with an invasive army of crayfish
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/17/we-started-eating-them-what-do-you-do-with-an-invasive-army-of-crayfish-clones-aoe
The marbled crayfish was first recognised in 1995, when a biology student bought a bag of crayfish – sold to him as “Texas crayfish” – from American traders at a pet fair in Frankfurt.
After becoming a burden to their new owner due to their inexplicably rapid rate of reproduction, he distributed them to friends who, in turn, dumped them in rivers, lakes and toilets, from where they spread rapidly, throughout Germany, much of mainland Europe and most profusely, the island of Madagascar, home to unique but extremely delicate freshwater ecosystems.
In Germany, where the marbled crayfish have invaded lakes and rivers, authorities have adopted a strict approach to them.
“In one year alone, I caught 42,000 of them. I was seen as a bit of a saviour, even if I say it myself,” he says. He could get €13 per kg of swamp crayfish, and received a €7 top-up from the senate. Berlin restaurants snapped up the crustaceans, serving them up to diners as the novel “Berlin lobster”.
Con tôm uống với rượu bầu
Chồng ăn vợ húp gật đầu khen ngon
(Ca dao)
Triển
01-18-2022, 01:19 PM
Tôm Đức: Berlin lobster
‘The more we eat, the better’
Con này mà ăn gì trời, tuyền là vỏ không hà. Giống phía bên cua, có con "ba khía" về miền Tây ở Việt Nam. Tụi mình hay đùa, ba khía là bia khá. Cầm lên mút mút, uống bia chớ chẳng có gì để ăn.
https://image.meovathay.vn/upload/2020/06/09/660/con-ba-khia-0.jpg
Calif-ô-nha: Quạ vô đơn chí
Crow-plagued California city
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/20/crows-california-sunnyvale-palo-
Each night, more than a thousand crows descend on Sunnyvale, California. In recent years a growing contingency of corvids have been roosting in the Silicon Valley town’s downtown district, filling the night air with a chorus of caws and painting the roads, Pollock-esque, with droppings.
“If we could just reason with crows, and tell them to spread out a bit more, that would be fantastic,” Klein said.
Swift notes that crows have few negative effects on other bird populations, and can even form bonds with humans. Put a couple of peanuts out for them on your porch occasionally, and they’ll remember you and come by again and again. “They’ll bring their mates by, and their offspring,” she said. “There’s a real bond that can happen.”
Shani Kleinhaus of the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society encourages residents to appreciate their beauty.
“In the evening, when they get moving, they create these rivers of flight across the sunset. It’s beautiful. It’s exciting,” she said. “While they are here, why not celebrate them?”
Vai em gầy guộc nhỏ
Như cánh quạ về Sunnyvale...
(Như cánh quạ bay)
Triển
01-20-2022, 09:09 AM
Calif-ô-nha: Quạ vô đơn chí
Crow-plagued California city
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/20/crows-california-sunnyvale-palo-
Vai em gầy guộc nhỏ
Như cánh quạ về Sunnyvale...
(Như cánh quạ bay)
“In the evening, when they get moving, they create these rivers of flight across the sunset. It’s beautiful. It’s exciting,” she said. “While they are here, why not celebrate them?”
Quạ mà bay thành từng đàn coi bộ hơi hiếm à nha. Tác giả này có xạo điêu không vấy? Ở xứ mình quạ như heo rừng, lục thùng rác luôn. Đen xì bự bành ky thấy bắt ghê. Quanh năm suốt tháng lúc nào cũng có mặt, chẳng thấy kéo nhau bỏ đi nơi khác để tránh nóng, tránh lạnh như các loài chim khác.
Anh 5 chắc có nghe qua hiện tượng thiên nhiên mỗi tháng 7 âm lịch mấy con quạ bu lại thành đàn để bắc cầu Ô thước cho chị Chức nữ đi thăm nuôi anh cowboy Ngưu lang. Phen này Chức nữ Cao bồi gặp nhau...
Không tin truyện cổ tích Việt nam thì đọc thử Ngõ Ô Nha ở đây:
A River Of Crows
https://blogs.massaudubon.org/distractiondisplays/a-spectacular-crow-roost-in-lawrence-ma/
Every night between November and March, a steady trickle of American Crows pours through the skies of Lawrence and Andover, MA. The trickle quickly becomes a stream. Soon, a deluge. Crows spread from horizon to horizon as they fly together to their communal roost. The number of crows varies every year, but there can be as many of 12,000 or 15,000 at a time.
Triển
01-20-2022, 01:01 PM
À vậy là cái vụ Lội Bộ Kinh Niên này là có thiệt hả. Ai biết đâu, tối ngày cứ nghe nó kêu khàn khàn, rè rè như ngỗng đực nghe bắt chán. Nhiều hôm chiều lạnh còn mưa lất phất, chiều xám xịt còn nghe mấy ổng mấy bả kẹt kẹt um sùm nổi đóa lấy đá chọi. Cũng may chưa bị ai thưa mình mưu sát động vật hai cẳng.
Người từ chăn trâu
Về ngang sông rộng...
Hồi đó nghe chuyện Ngưu lang và Vũ nữ của Tàu cũng tưởng vụ đàn quạ bắc cầu ngang qua Ngân hà là xạo, nhưng mà hóa ra có thiệt ở nhiều nơi.
Bài Hẹn hò của bác Phạm duy cũng có nhắc tới họ nhưng không có quạ bắc cầu cho nên rốt cuộc cả hai phải nhảy sông:
Một người ngồi bên kia sông im nghe nước chảy về đâu
Một người ngồi đây trông hoa trôi theo nước chảy phương nào
Trời thì mưa rơi mưa rơi không ngưng suối tuôn niềm đau
Người thì hẹn nhau sang sông mong cho chóng tạnh mùa Ngâu
Cuộc đời làm cho đôi bên yêu nhau cách một giòng sông
Hẹn hò mùa Ngâu sang sông bên nhau nhớ thuở ban đầu...
Chở khỉ về rừng:
Monkey loose in Pennsylvania
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/22/monkeys-escape-after-truck-carrying-100-animals-to-a-laboratory-crashes-in-us
Several monkeys escaped after the collision between the pickup and a dump truck but as of Saturday morning only one remained unaccounted for, officials said. The Pennsylvania Game Commission and other agencies were searching in frigid weather.
Crates littered the road as troopers searched for monkeys, rifles in hand. Valley Township firefighters used thermal imaging to locate the animals and a helicopter assisted, the Press Enterprise reported.
Khỉ chén rượu khỉ hạ cờ
Khỉ xem hoa nở khỉ chờ trăng lên...
(Lâm trường tân thanh)
Sửa mũi:
Rhino that lost horns in attack back in the wild after 30 operations
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/24/attacked-rhino-returns-to-south-african-wild-after-30-operations
(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/24/attacked-rhino-returns-to-south-african-wild-after-30-operations)
His rescuers named the bull Sehawukele, meaning “God have mercy on us”. Called Seha for short, he was found by police stumbling near a fence in a reserve, so disfigured that he could barely hear or eat.
Even after extensive surgery, Seha’s sinus cavities are still exposed, creating a risk of infection. But conservationists have opted to return him to the wild nonetheless in the hope he will mate and help increase the dwindling population.
Giang hồ quen thú vẫy vùng
Thân hình nửa tấn non sông một sừng
(Đoạn trường tê thanh)
Triển
01-26-2022, 08:52 AM
Đó, chê ảnh hoài ảnh cứu mèo thay vì cứu người cho bõ ghét.:)
Boris Johnson authorised Afghan animal evacuation, leaked email suggests (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60143279)
Hồi đó có đọc tin rước chó về bên Anh ở mấy trang trước. Chắc ảnh biết rành câu tục ngữ “Cứu vật vật trả ơn” của Việt nam. Bovid có công cứu nước Anh ra khỏi hàm cá mập Âu châu mà bây giờ lại bị cả nước đòi ảnh từ chức.
left-behind Afghans despair at dog rescue revelations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/its-a-joke-left-behind-afghans-despair-at-dog-rescue-revelations
a British embassy security guard who worked for GardaWorld in a management role, said he remembered waiting at the airport gate beside vans full of dogs.
“They got clearance, and we didn’t. We were there at the same day, waiting at the same gate,” he said.
“We’ve talked about it a lot – all the guards were very angry – they gave priority to dogs over guards who had spent years serving the British government. Our buses were full of women and children – none of us got through. It was such a bad day for us.”
Từ Á sang Âu bám càng máy bay
Trong khoang ngồi hạng sang là chó với mèo
(Nối vòng bay lớn)
Tránh voi chẳng xấu mặt nào (Tục ngữ):
Saudi tourist trampled to death by elephant on safari in Uganda
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/elephant-kills-saudi-tourist-viewing-wildlife-in-uganda
The attack happened on Tuesday at the Murchison Falls national park when the man left the vehicle he was travelling in with friends, said Uganda wildlife authority spokesman Bashir Hangi.
“They stopped along the way and the deceased went out of the car, an elephant charged at him, killed him on the spot,” Hangi said in a statement.
Thăm voi không được một bát nước sáo.
(Thành ngữ)
Tránh cá voi chẳng xấu mặt nào:
Orcas recorded killing and feeding on blue whales
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/27/new-footage-reveals-killer-whales-hunting-and-feeding-on-blue-whales-in-brutal-attacks-aoe
Female-led pods of killer whales, also known as orcas, have been recorded killing and eating blue whales in three separate attacks off the coast of Australia since 2019, according to a paper (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.12906#.Ye45RoW7z-o.twitter) published in Marine Mammal Science.
All the attacks happened off Bremer Bay in Western Australia, within 40 miles (60km) of the shore, and were observed from commercial whale-watching vessels. Many individual females were involved in all three attacks.
The attack in March 2019 was on a healthy adult whale, between 18 and 22 metres long. It was coordinated by at least 12 orcas, led by eight adult females and one male, with younger ones watching.
Cá lớn nuốt cá lớn.
(Tục ngữ)
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