Unseasonably warm weather blamed for man’s outbreak of ‘face apples’
A man amazed to find a full crop of apples growing on his face at this time of year has put the blame squarely on ‘an unseasonably warm December’.
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God releases Crab 2.0 featuring forward motion
‘In the old version you never knew if the crab was coming or going, so this is a considerable breakthrough for crustacean technology. However, we have had to compromise the design with a rear-view mirror so they can get used to new methods of navigation.’
Conservationist delighted with successful reintroduction of Neighbour’s Cat
‘I tempted the cat back with a sandpit and was overjoyed the first time my kids came in covered from head to toe in cat shit. It was a sure sign they’d returned!’
Over-trimming reduces Brazilian rainforest to narrow North-South strip
A study by conservationists has found that changing attitudes to deforestation by fashion-conscious logging firms has led to the curious spectacle of the almost total denuding of the Brazilian treeline, apart from a thin north-south strip which is trimmed back enthusiastically at the first sign of it spreading.
Captive breeding programme established to halt decline of ginger gene
Conservation scientists across the country have been put on red alert in response to a Wikipedia entry that claims the ginger gene is in serious decline across the UK. The website’s assertions that gingers have been included on the most recent IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has led to a number of zoos setting up captive breeding programmes to reverse the decline. London Zoo will spearhead efforts after playing a key role in the successful breeding programmes and subsequent reintroduction of orangutans, red pandas and Eskimos.
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