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POPSThe hippo who ditched his muddy waters to catch some sun and surf
'Hippos don't take well to darting' Mr van Schoor explains, 'they die of stress and this one would drown if we darted her in the water, and if we tried to dart her on the beach, she would run into the water for safety and again drown when the drug takes effect.' Hippos are usually captured using passive methods such as monitoring paths that they use regularly and setting up enclosures to lure them into. But Mr Van Schoor says that this hippo's only hope is to stop moving South. He added: 'If the hippo moves any further south there is huge risk, he is moving into residential areas and towards Durban where food for the hippo will become a problem'. Hippos are considered to be one of the most dangerous and aggressive of all animals and with this one coming into contact with humans and domestic animals, it could soon become a problem. Sadly If the hippo does not retrace his own steps and move back north, KZN says there is little hope for him.
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POPSWill giant vegetables help solve world food shortage? Scientists have yet to offer a definitive explanation of why space causes the seeds to mutate but they believe that cosmic radiation, micro-gravity and magnetic fields may play a part. Mr Lo said: "After space travel the genetic sequence may change from 1,2,3,4 to 1,2,4,3 or a gene may even disappear so 1,2,3,4 becomes 1, 2, and 4. "We don't think there is any threat to human health because the genes themselves do not mutate, just their sequence changes. "With genetically-modified crops you have seen environmental problems because they have added genes that can damage other organisms. "But with space seeds they don't gain genes, they can only lose them."
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POPSBizarre Foods Unbelievable what people will eat watch the vids you will not believe your eyes.
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POPS10 Amazing Things You Didn't Know about Animals After reading the comments at the source page, several people have suggested that some of this information is not quite accurate. There seems to be a lot of typos in the article, too. So I'm not sure what's going on at LiveScience. I'm not sure about parrot linguistic processing being near the level of a 4 to 6 year-old......hmmmm
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POPSCheck out these cans! Architect and engineers compete to see whose team can build the most spectacular structure using little more than cans of food at Canstruction, the 13th annual NYC Design and Build competition in New York . All these cans will go to the food bank afterwards…
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POPSVultures in Europe 'attacking humans for the first time' For centuries, the Pyrenean farmers of Spain lived in symbiotic harmony with Gyps fulvus, the magnificent griffon vulture. Wheeling over their flocks and fields, the birds were seen as neither a threat nor even a nuisance, but as a vital part of the ecosystem. For when farmers had to dispose of an animal carcass, they simply took it to one of the hundreds of "maladares", carcass dumps, scattered across the mountains. There, the vultures would gather to do their work. It was a system that benefited both man and bird. But, prompted largely by the BSE crisis in the late Nineties, the eurocrats of Brussels decided to ban this age-old system. This has caused a crisis for the vultures, which are flying to new areas in search of food. So far, they have got as far as northern mainland Europe - indeed, as far as Finland. It is unlikely they will come here, says Grahame Madge, as they hate flying over large bodies of water.
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POPSEating Weeds Eating naturally growing food is a good skill to have and can be fun and tasty.
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