This takes my breath away. This is so stunningly awful that I really am despairing.

Who in the city of Dis doesn't know that bread and beer come from grains? How can you not know that bacon comes from dead pigs? What did you THINK cheese was made of? Never mind that a lot of urban kids haven't visited a farm themselves, never mind that I personally think a commercial slaughterhouse should be required viewing before you're allowed to eat meat, how can you not even know what meat is?

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Opposition political parties demand Shambo's slaughter

His keepers are breaking the law and, as a secularist, I think the bull should be killed because religious groups deserve no special treatment.

But as an animal lover and pet owner, I think the law should be reviewed.

There should be some kind of exception for pets (which is what Shambo is), given appropriately stringent safeguards. Onus on pet-owner to treat and quarantine the animal. I don't know a thing about the epistemiology of bovine TB, but if it's treatable then there should be that option for cases like this, where he's not going to be killed for commercial meat and, as far as I'm aware, isn't used for stud services.

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If I was lying dying and a teddy bear head swam into view, I'm not sure I'd be reassured. But hey, robots!

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Details of animal abuse warning.
It seems slow lorises really are too cute for their own good. (Yeah, as though it's their fault.)

Incidentally, the wildlife agencies are on the ball with this one. I would be no less sickened if these things were done to a common-as-muck rabbit or puppy, which I'm sure they are since these animals aren't even as 'valuable' as exotics. Animals must be protected by law, all animals, not just this (group of) species. More importantly, the law needs to be enforced.

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Air guitarists: out of the bedroom and into Finland for the finals! (video)

The last sentence of the commentary is sheer hilarity.

(A little dumbed-down, though. In previous years I feel a last line like that would have been more lightly ironic rather than overobvious.)

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If you prick me do I not bleed / Even if my blood is green?

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China's alligator centre 'full' (video)

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T. rex was 'slow and clumsy' (video)

With exciting and cute footage, of course, but they should tell us where (and when!) those computer reconstructions are from. Because the story is about people having to revise their earlier model of the animal's movements.

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Send 'em down. Scum.

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This is more the sort of animal story I like to read. (This is the sort of thing that comes off to me as charmingly English, though I'm not sure how it seems to everyone else.)

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Look at these daft fashion victims with their robo-hats. Aww!

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Tigermosaic!

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How they check for epilepsy triggers in TV programmes. Pretty fascinating.

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Big Brother dicsussion on the Have Your Say boards...

Top-rated comment currently = "I can hardly contain my indifference." WIN.