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11 unusual facts about Animal


Animal-borne bomb attacks

In 1862, during the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War a Confederate force approached the ford at Valverde, six miles north of Fort Craig, hoping to cut Union communications between the fort and their headquarters in Santa Fe.

In 2004 a donkey in Ramadi was loaded with explosives and set off towards a US-run checkpoint.

Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?

Sixty years later Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? is still being modelled in archaeological events.

The show included appearances by archaeologists such as Glyn Daniel and Sir Mortimer Wheeler.

However, on the Christmas special, Glyn Daniel and Mortimer Wheeler selected the item and it was for Attenborough to examine.

Changeling: The Lost

Beasts: Changelings that share qualities with animals both mythical and mundane.

Creature Catalogue

This includes six sections: Animals (including giant and extinct varieties), Conjurations (such as elementals and golems), Humanoids, Lowlife (including insects, plants, and jellies and slimes), Monsters (a catch-all category), and Undead.

Lee Spetner

Spetner was inspired by the rabbi David Luria (1798 - 1855), who calculated that according to Talmudic sources that there was 365 originally created species of beasts and 365 of birds.

Mr. Lee Grant

By the time Mr. Lee Grant had completed the Animals, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich tour five weeks later, "Opportunity" was at number one on the charts in May 1967.

Reference Manager

For example, one could specify that "Animal" is a synonym of "Animals", so that in searches for references containing "Animal", references containing "Animals" are also returned.

The Devouring

The entries refer to demonic creatures called Vours who steal people's souls on the night of the Winter Solstice, known in the book as Sorry Night.


African bush elephant

The North African elephant (L. a. pharaohensis), also known as the Carthaginian elephant or Atlas elephant, was the animal famously used as a war elephant by Carthage in its long struggle against Rome.

Andacollo, Neuquén

The main activities in the zone are the agriculture and the Animal husbandry with species such as Capra, Ovis and Cattle.

Animal Hospital

Animal Hospital was a television show starring Rolf Harris that ran on the BBC from 1994 until 2004.

August Specht

Specht's brothers were the wood engraver Carl Gottlob Specht and the animal painter and illustrator Friedrich Specht.

Bernadette Kanter

Animal sculptor, she created in 2002 Dogs of the bridge guard at Mantes-la-Jolie (near Paris), two bronze sculptures guards the entrance to the city after the bridge Peronnet, and a realization in 2004 for Aérospatiale, an aircraft-bird Nungesser and Colis.

Bon Bon Reserve

Threatened animal species either known or thought likely to be present on Bon Bon include Plains-wanderer, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, Thick-billed Grasswren and Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat.

Brown-Séquard syndrome

French physician, Paul Loye, attempted to confirm Brown-Séquard's observations on the nervous system by experimentation with decapitation of dogs and other animals and recording the extent of each animal's movement after decapitation: Death by Decapitation journal The American Journal of the Medical Sciences in the year 1889, Volume 97, Issue 4, Page 387.

Canción Animal

Canción Animal (Spanish for Animal Song) is the fifth album released by the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, released in December, 1990 (see 1990 in music).

Carlos Enríquez Gómez

A transposition of the Rape of the Sabine Women to the Cuban fields, it is said that Enríquez had a horse brought to his workshop, tied Sara Cheméndez (his female model at the time) to the horse and had the animal lashed, in order to have a more realistic scene for the painting.

Colasanti's Tropical Gardens

In 2005 the World Society for the Protection of Animals inspected the animal attractions at Colasanti's.

Costa Mesa High School

Dan Mathews (Class of 1981) - Longtime champion of animal rights and Senior VP of Media Campaigns for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Crocoduck

The crocoduck is an imagined hybrid animal with the head of a crocodile and the body of a duck proposed by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron.

Delalande's Coua

What is known with certainty is that in 1932, large sums were offered to well-connected animal dealers in Antananarivo for specimens of Delalande's Coua, but they were unable to procure any.

Domestic sheep predation

The only wild animal known to attack sheep in New Zealand is the rare, unusual kea parrot endemic to the country's South Island.

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

The ability to "piggyback" or use various animal companions, called "Animal Buddies", returns from its predecessor, such as Squitter the Spider, Glimmer the Anglerfish, Rambi the Rhino, Rattly the Rattlesnake, Nerk the Seal, Enguarde the Swordfish, and Squawks the Parrot, which can boost the gameplay experience, proving advantageous at certain points in a level or the whole level overall.

Eddie Chong

Bak Mei emphasizes the movements of the Tiger, but Bak Mei also uses the other four animal styles associated with the Henan Shaolin Temple as well such as the Tiger, the Crane, the Leopard, the Snake and the Dragon.

Green museum

For instance, Disney's Animal Kingdom cites Richard Louv's Nature Deficit Disorder as one justification for their Kids' Discovery Clubs, which focuses on encouraging children to not only learn about animals but also find out what they can do to help wildlife.

Gypsy horse

All of the North American Gypsy Horse and Drum Horse registries employ the Animal Genetics Research Laboratory of the University of Kentucky to perform DNA analysis and maintain a database of registered horses' DNA markers.

Hamlyn's monkey

The name "Hamlyn's monkey" and the scientific epithet "hamlyni" come from the animal dealer who first brought this species to the London Zoo.

Hank the Cat

However, they were instead given to Animal Allies, a rescue group, and Hank was adopted by a family in Springfield.

Hatari!

Hawks was inspired by the famous animal photographer Ylla, so he had his script writer, Leigh Brackett, change the script to create one of the main characters based on Ylla.

Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

In addition, the album namechecks many things commonly associated with glam rock, such as drugs, art and fashion; "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" alludes to Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and specifically mentions Georges Bataille's novella Story of the Eye.

Honey Claws

The band became known when one of their songs, Digital Animal, from their first record was featured in the episode "Thirty-Eight Snub" of the TV show Breaking Bad, gaining the band many fans internationally.

James Haven

Since 2006, Haven has been the executive board director of Artivist, a festival in Los Angeles that highlights films addressing human rights, animal rights, and environmental issues.

King Creosote

Anderson also contributed to the Cold Seeds collaborative album along with Frances Donnelly of Animal Magic Tricks, and Neil Pennycook and Pete Harvey from Meursault; which was released on the Edinburgh-based indie label Song, By Toad Records.

Laurien Berenson

In the Melanie Travis series of murder mysteries, the primary protagonist is a school teacher, Melanie Travis, who owns and shows several full size pedigree Standard Poodles.

Lucarno

Retired to stud for the 2009 season, Lucarno will stand at Wood Farm Stud in Ellerdine, Wellington, Shropshire, where he will be covering predominantly National Hunt mares, his size, strong physique, soundness and excellent conformation making him eminently suitable for that role.

Marcia Theophilo

The Amazon rainforest is the topic of Marcia's life and work: its river, people, myths, the animal and plant life, and the effort and persistence to save The Amazon's natural and cultural heritage.

Marnie Weber

An animal often found in her work is the bear, which is linked to the Greek goddess Artemis.

Mechanical horse

Mechanical bull, a machine that replicates the sensation of riding a bucking animal

Neural stem cell

Galectin-1 is expressed in adult NSCs and has been shown to have a physiological role in the treatment of neurological disorders in animal models.

Noblesse oblige

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts uses the phrase disparagingly in his majority opinion concerning the government's assertion that it will selectively prosecute animal cruelty videos based on their own interpretation of The First Amendment in United States v. Stevens.

Old Crow, Yukon

A large number of apparently human modified animal bones have been discovered in the Old Crow area, notably at Bluefish Caves, located near the shores of the Arctic Ocean, that have been dated to 25,000-40,000 years ago by carbon dating, several thousand years earlier than generally accepted human habitation of North America.

One Lucky Elephant

The film focuses on the extraordinary human-animal bond between Circus Flora founder, Ivor David Balding, and Flora an endangered African elephant, and their journey to find her a permanent home that leads them to The Elephant Sanctuary (Hohenwald).

Peter Carstens

Peter Carstens (September 13, 1903 in Brunsbüttel – January 1945 in Poznań) was a German geneticist and animal breeder and SS-Oberführer for the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Pierre-Jules Mêne

Mêne produced a number of animal sculptures, mainly of domestic animals including horses, cows and bulls, sheep and goats which were in vogue during the Second Empire.

Rich Nye

Using his abilities in commodity trading to earn the money for starting his own practice, Nye and two other exotic animal veterinarians founded Midwest Bird and Exotic Animal Hospital in Westchester, Illinois in 1985, which was the first exotic-only specialist practice in the United States.

Rizal, Cagayan

Mount Malaueg: The Eco-tourism mountain still developing for becoming a pure habitat for rare animal-plant species.

Ronald L. Phillips

In 2006/7, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture along with Michel A. J. Georges of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

Segojan Earthcaller

Segojan's relationships with burrowing mammals is so close that emissaries of the animal lords of the Beastlands often pay visits to the Gemstone Burrow.

Sobek

Sobek is, above all else, an aggressive and animalistic deity who lives up to the vicious reputation of his patron animal, the large and violent Nile crocodile.

Stone pine

The wing is ineffective for wind dispersal, and the seeds are animal-dispersed, originally mainly by the azure-winged magpie, but in recent history, very largely by humans.

Sydney Park

Stormwater retention ponds constructed in the eastern section of the site have been transformed into wetland habitats, partially recreating the original character of the eastern part of the site, and this has attracted a wide variety of bird and animal life including Dusky Moorhens, Australian Magpies and Pelicans.

Theta rhythm

In rats, hippocampal theta is seen mainly in two conditions: first, when an animal is running, walking, or in some other way actively interacting with its surroundings; second, during REM sleep (Vanderwolf, 1969).

Ubsunur Hollow

Animal species that inhabit both mountains and tundra, such as the Siberian roe deer, and Altai snowcock, flourish here.

University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid

Veterinarian ophthalmologist Ned Buyukmihci of the University of California, Davis, and founder of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, said after he examined Britches that the sutures used were too large, the monkey's eye pads were dirty, and that, in his view, there was no justification for what he called a sloppy, painful experiment.

US Microbics

Robinson’s application of microbic technology for the hospitality industry ranged from the pioneering cleanout of the fuel holding tanks on the RMS Queen Mary during its "transplant" as a Long Beach tourist attraction in the 70’s, to the grease trap maintenance for odor and grease buildup at the world famous Pea Soup Anderson Restaurant (in Buellton, California), to the Buellton Wild Animal Park’s odor and runoff control.

WSPA

World Society for the Protection of Animals, an international non-profit animal welfare organisation

Your Worst Animal Nightmares

Your Worst Animal Nightmares is a 2009 television show made by John Stainton broadcast by Animal Planet for The Discovery Channel.