Goodness gracious me.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/22/2011 11:12:04 AM PST by The Comedian
Goodness gracious me.
Too long for a thread title.
Pellet guns........
Watch for dead bears tomorrow!
Several years ago I asked a buddy if he wanted to go ice fishing with me. He answered only if the ice was thick enough that he could go out there and chip them out of the ice..........
Only if you post a recipe.......
Trapped in ice, ‘thousands’ of fish die in Detroit River
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/221876-Trapped-in-ice-thousands-of-fish-die-in-Detroit-River
Bird Death is spreading: Ducks mysteriously found dead in Norway
Thousands of dead herring wash ashore on Vancouver Island
24 beached pilot whales die on New Zealand beach
Mass global animal die-offs sparking extinction fears
New Zealand – Little penguins are dying in their hundreds, leading conservationists to fear they are starving as a result of the La Niña weather system. Other seabirds are washing up dead on beaches, raising concerns that species could become extinct if climate change causes extreme weather events to become more frequent.
Yes, ping-worthy. Unfortunately.
Rabbits and Piggies beware! I am hungry!!!!
Deadly H5N1 virus confirmed in chickens in Japan
January 22, 2011 -TOKYO — Japan has began slaughtering some 10,000 chickens at a poultry farm in western Miyazaki prefecture in a bid to contain an outbreak of bird flu, according to the local government. Officials in the prefecture, 900 kilometres (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo...
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Hong Kong – A Large-billed crow and an Oriental magpie robin were both recently found dead in Hong Kong. Lab results from tests on the dead birds confirmed both birds died from progressive stages of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus.
Two positively dead deer in Texas.
(I couldn’t resist)
I saw one dead squirrel on the road that goes past my house....
I have a theory....squirrel vs motorized vehicle
squirrel lost
Thanks TC.
Probably not its own ping list, but you could take on the meister duties of the old Cryptobiology ping list, of which this makes a nice cognate topic. The Cryptobiology pingmeister was dragonblustar; she (? if memory serves) handed off the duties to someone else, and I’ve managed to lose track of who.
Anyway, great idea having a standalone topic for this.
A new generation of pesticides could be to blame for Britain's vanishing honeybees, a study has shown. The chemicals, which are routinely used on farms and garden centres, attack the central systems of insects and make bee colonies more vulnerable to disease and pests, researchers say. The claims, which appear in an unpublished study carried out at the US Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory, add to the evidence that pesticides are partly responsible for the mysterious decline of one of the world's best loved insects. 
Wildlife campaigners today called for urgent research into the links between the chemicals and the collapse of bee colonies around the world.
Scientists are baffled by Britain's disappearing honeybees. Since the 1980s numbers have fallen by half.
The new study, led by Dr Jeffrey Pettis, one of the U.S.'s top bee experts, found that exposure to a class of pesticides called neo-nicotinoids makes bees more susceptible to infection - even at doses too low to be detected in the creature's bodies.
Neo-nicotinoids, which were introduced in the 1990s, are applied to seeds and are found in low levels throughout a growing plant - including in its pollen and nectar.
They were introduced to replace controversial organo phosphates because they appeared to be harmless to mammals and people and are used on oil seed rape, wheat, sugar bed and garden centre plants.
The U.S. research has yet to be published, but is discussed in a new documentary film The Strange Disappearance of The Bees.
Neo-nicotine insecticides attack the central nervous system and are absorbed by every part of plants that are treated with them. Bees and other pollinating insects can absorb them and carry them back to their hives or nests.
Well, that sucks.
Brazil- Thousands of dead fish in the Pantanal
MATO GROSSO DO SUL/AMAZON Region – At Aquidauana, pantanal region of the Mato Grosso do Sul state, shoals of painteds, pacus, golden fishes, cacharas - and even stingrays, are floating dead in Rio Negro, one of the largest in the Amazon River basin.
The estimated Environmental Policy is of that several tons of fishes died, adding that the authorities and experts, they still do not have the scale of the ecological disaster.
(more at link)
SEBASTIAN, Fla. — WPBF.com
Biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said they believe a lack of oxygen is what caused thousands of fish to die at Sebastian Inlet State Park.
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