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Incredible dogs

Rescue dog:

An Italian animal-lover has trained Newfound land dogs to jump out of helicopters and rescue people who are drowning in the sea. Ferrucio Pilenga, from Bergamo, has a team of expert canine swimmers patrolling Italy's beaches, where they have already saved a number of lives. A 196 lb (89 kg) Newfoundland dog is the latest recruit to the lifeguards in cornwall, England. Bilbo's training paid off when he prevented a tourist from entering dangerous currents by swimming in front of her to stop her going out any further to sea. Bilbo has his own lifeguard vest with safety messages written across it.

Dolphin aid:

A florida dog has been trained to sniff out dead or injured dolphins. Cloud, a female Black Labrador, works with her owner, marine biologist Chris Blankenship, who came up with the idea for a dolphin-sniffing dog after some 80 dolphins became stranded off Marathon Key in 2005. Around 30 of the animals died, mainly as a result of dehydration, but they could have been saved had they been located earlier.

Dark discovery

Scientists at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New york, have created a material so dark that it reflects only 0.045 percent of all light shined upon it, making it 100 times darker than the paint on a black car. The new material is made of sheets of Carbon rolled into microscopic tubes just one atom thick.

Researchers have spent years trying to create the ideal black material, which absorbs all the colors of light and reflects none of them. An alloy of Nickel and Phosphorus developed in London, England, in 2003, reflected 0.16 percent of light, but that was bettered in 2008 by the American team led by Dr. Pulickel Ajayan and Professor Shawn Lin.

Choosing Carbon – one of nature’s darkest materials – as their base, they built a “forest” of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, hollow cylinders made entirely of carbon atoms. Each nanotube measured about one-hundredth of an inch long – and that was 300,000 times greater than its width! After a year of experimentation, they found that the complex setup reflected only a tiny fraction of light. It is hoped that by absorbing nearly all light, the new material could be used in the collection and storage of solar energy. As it reflects very little, it could also help to improve optical instruments such as telescopes.

Dances with Buffalo "Wildthing"

Some families keep dogs, others keep cats, but the Bridges family of Quinlan, Texas, have a truly unusual pet – 1300 lb (590 kg) buffalo named Wildthing. Wildthing has his own room in the house, where he eats and sleeps, and is so tame that he follows his master, R.C. Bridges, everywhere and even used to dance with him. They are best friends and, when Wildthing turned two in 2007, the family staged a birthday party in his room, draping it in ribbons and making a cake of feed and icing shaped like a buffalo patty, topped with a candle.

R. C., a cowboy since childhood, started raising the baby buffalo in 2005. Helped by his son Lloyd, he “Halter broke” the young bull even though Wildthing could kick and push with the strength of a fully grown animal. Since then, R.C has taught Wildthing to pull a plow, and also a chariot on which he takes the family for rides. Wildthing will happily pull R.C.’s daughter Taylor along on a sleigh and another son Will has learned to ski behind him.

“Wildthing has so much energy and personality,” says R.C.’s wife Sherron, who reveals that the buffalo likes to play with basketball and to take baths. Unfortunately, Wildthing has become too big to dance with- and he still has another 700 – 800 lb (315 -360 Kg) to gain before he’s fully grown.

Botfly

Doctors thought the painful bumps on Aaron Dallas's head might have been gnat bites or shingles... until the bumps started to move. That was when they discovered five botfly larvae living in an 1/8 in wide (3 mm) pit near the top of his skull. The tiny parasites were probably placed there by a mosquito. "I could feel and hear them," said Dallas of Carbondale, Colorado. "I actually thought I was going crazy.

The botfly is a hairy fly, the larvae of which live as parasites within the bodies of mammals, especially horses. There are about 150 species worldwide, but only one-Dermatabia hominis-attacks humans. The female botfly often uses a mosquito to carry her eggs to the host body and when the mosquito bites, the eggs fall off. The heat of the host body induces the larvae to hatch and they then start burrowing into and eating off the flesh for up to eight weeks, before leaving to pupate into an adult fly. They will thrive in any warm part of the body- even in the throat and nose. Since the maggot has strong, hooked spines, it cannot be removed just by squeezing. The best method is either to use a venom extractor syringe or to cover the wound with Vaseline, forcing the maggot up in search of air, and then to pull it out with tweezers.

Crocodile attack

Veterinarian Chang Po-Yu lost his arm to the jaws of a saltwater crocodile in Shaoshan zoo in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on April 11, 2007. The vet's forearm was bitten clean through when he reached through iron railings to remove a tranquilizer dart from the 440 lb (200 kg) reptile. Two bullets were immediately shot into the neck of the crocodile, which then droppped the arm. But this story has a doubly remarkable ending. First, the crocodile was unharmed by the gunshots as the bullets didn't penetrate its hide, they merely shocked the croc into opening its mouth; and second, a team of surgeons operated for seven hours to reattach the arm- successfully!

What was it like, Mr. Chang?

"I am a veterinarian and a director of the zoo. Wehn I anesthetized and treated the crocodile, the animal took my left hand away suddenly. It was a huge shock in my mine, my limb felt pretty numb. My left arm caused extreme pain, but I told myself that I must live, I want to take my arm back, and do my best to connect it again.


My associate helped me to stop bleeding by pressing on the top of the arm until the ambulance came. When I was on the way to the hospital, the police helped me to take my arm back from the crocodile's mouth.


Right now it's still hard for me to accept this serious damage. I have gone through six large operations and countless small operations. At present, my left arm has no sensation, and the injury is still in the process of recovery- for atleast two years. Although I cant work right now, I still hope that I could continue to work in the administration or management of the zoo, the treatment of animals... and so on, in the future."

Caught on Catcam

Wondering what his pet tomcat, Mr. Lee, got up to when he went through the cat flap, Jurgen Perthold decided to find out – by fitting a tiny camera to the animal’s collar. “He goes out the whole day,” says Mr. Perthold. “Sometimes he returns hungry, sometimes not, sometimes with traces of fights, and sometimes he also stays out all night. It gave me the idea to equip the cat with a camera”.

At first Mr. Lee was not keen on wearing the “CatCam” but he soon got used to it, and his adventures around his home in Anderson, South Carolina, have attracted worldwide attention. The 2 ½ - oz (70 g ) camera, which takes one photo a minute for 48 hours, has shown Mr. Lee looking longingly at bird feeders, exploring garages, hiding under cars with other cats, and even encountering a snake. It has also revealed that the tabby has a girlfriend, although he faces stiff competition from a black tom.

Mr. Lee is not the only cat to be the star of his own feline soap opera. In Los Angeles, California, Julie Peasley has fitted a lightweight camera to the collar of her gray and white tuxedo cat, Squeaky. Within days, she had discovered that he likes to hide in the basement of the house next door. With CatCam, no cat’s secret will ever be safe again.

Mythical Beast?

When Phylis Canion found a strange animal dead outside her Cuero, Texas, ranch in August 2007, she thought it was a chupacabra, the mysterious beast blamed for killing 30 of her chickens. The state mammalogist suffested it was more likely to be gray fox suffering from an extreme case of mange.

What is Chupacabra?

Nobody knows for sure whether the chupacabra is an undiscovered breed of animal or just a myth. The chupacabra gets its name, which is spanish for "goat sucker", from its habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock. Dozens of sightings of the beast have been reported from Maine to Chile. Descriptions of it vary from a hairless dog-like creature to a spiny reptile that hops like a kangaroo and has red glowing eyes. Some witnesses claim that it has wings. In 2006, a farmer from Coleman, Texas, killed a weird creature that mauled some of his chickens and turkeys. It was described as a cross between a dog, a rat, and a kangaroo, but was thrown out with the trash. Around the same time an evil looking, rodent like creature with fangs was found dead alongside a road near Turner, Maine, but the carcass was picked clean by vultures before anyone could examine it. In 2004, a rancher near San antonio, Texas, killed a hairless dog creature that was attacking his livestock. The elmendorf beast, as it became known, was infact a coyote.

Ketchup Drinking Machine

Nicholas Huenefeld calls himself "The human ketchup drinking machine" - and with good cause. His personal best are quaffing 13 fl 0x (384 ml) of ketchup in just 33 seconds - or 46 fl ox (1.36 l) of the red stuff in six minutes.

In Huenefeld's own words....

I started drinking ketchup after a $5 bet at a local restaurant. I drank the whole bottle at the table and found it to be no problem. Drinking massive ketchup doesn't really aaffect me, unless I drink massive amounts. The only time I was affected was after drinking 46 fl oz (1 l). It took me a weekend to recover and not feel bloated anymore. I am currently training to increase my metabolism, which will help me breather quicker and drink more quickly and intensely. One of my goals is to simply hold every ketchup record there is and to be known as the world's greates ketchup drinker.

Hairy stone and Monster mushroom

The “Hair” on the stone is thought to be the remains of a type of fungus that has been attached to its surface for hundreds of millions of years. Over that period, it has gradually extended upright and evolved into a hollow, pipe – shaped invertebrate fossil that resembles strands of white hair. This stone is with thousands of 6 in long strands (15 cm) of white hair growing on its surface went on display in Dalian, China, in 2005. The stone, which measured 8 in (20 cm) long and 6 in (15 cm) in diameter, was considered to be so rare that it was valued at $1,300,000.


A monster white mushroom standing 27 in (70 cm) tall and weighing 41 lb (20 kg) was discovered growing near a coffee farm in Chiapas, southern Mexico, in 2007. The Prize specimen of Macrocybe titans had grown to twice its normal size.

Captain Cutless

A huge tank filled with more than 80 sharks and stingrays was the watery setting for for a startling performance by world renowned sword swallower Dan Meyer, aka "Captain cutless." Meyer, from Nashville, Tenessee, made history by becoming the first person in North America to swallow a sword while submerged 15 ft (4.5 m) underwater at Ripley's Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He successfully swallowed a 24 in (61 cm ) solid steel sword in a feat made many times more dangerous by being underwater and surrounded by large fish.