The 16-year-old who admitted to torturing and killing cats in Gothenburg is being hounded on the internet, with threats directed at the teenager and his family on forums like Flashback, which was also instrumental in the police investigation. Original post on thelocal.se Comments on reddit.com
What happens to animals when their forest is cut down? If they can, they migrate to different forests. But in an age when forests are falling far and fast, many species may have to shift to entirely different environments. A new paper in Folia Primatologica theorizes that some 60 primate species and 20 wild cat species in Asia and Africa may be relying more on less-impacted environments such as swamp forests, mangroves, and peat forests. Original post on mongabay.com Comments on reddit.com
A man suspected of killing at least nine pet cats in western Sweden was arrested by Gothenburg police on Thursday afternoon. Original post on thelocal.se Comments on reddit.com
Two memes are 1) registered trademarks and 2) used in a new Scribblenauts game. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
By Heather Gautney, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Heather Gautney is an assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University, and author of ‘Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era.’ The views expressed are her own. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
By Megan GannonLiveScience It seems counterintuitive that castration could help save a species facing extinction. But through removing the ovaries of a female Iberian lynx, scientists say they were able to collect and preserve embryos from the world’s most endangered wild cat fo … Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
The UK’s first-ever cat café is coming to London in the next couple of months after members of the public donated over £100,000 to make one cat lover’s dreams a reality. Original post on metro.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Domestic cats in the United States kill billions of birds and mammals a year, according to a new report, a rate that is much higher than previous estimates. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Heidi Moore: Adding serious journalism in between the cat pictures is paying off for Jonah Peretti’s popular social site – and its advertisers Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Physicists have probed a delicate quantum state without destroying it – the equivalent of taking a peek at the metaphorical cat without killing it Original post on newscientist.com Comments on reddit.com
In 2005, Alexis Ohanian started a little site called Reddit, which is now one of the most trafficked sites on the web. Today, he has more than fifty startups in his portfolio, including Evernote, Grubwithus, and Visual.ly, making him one of the most prominent investors and mentors in tech. Alexis is also the founder of Breadpig, a Original post on lifehacker.com Comments on reddit.com
From the blog Trending Now: Like us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending. Want a furry feline companion, but your living situation will not allow it? A new website, iPet Companion may be the solution for you. It allows you to virtually interact with cats in shelters across the country using a live-stream feed. Here’s how it works: [...] Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
The short-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla chinchilla) once inhabited a range including the mountainous regions of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru, but today the species survives in only a handful of areas in northern Chile and Argentina. Worse still, evidence of the Argentinean populations are restricted to remains discovered in the droppings of their natural predators. But, since 2011, Pablo Valladares from the University of Tarapaca in conjunction with the National Forestry Corporation of Chile (CONAF) has been searching Tres Cruces National Park for previously undocumented populations, and it has finally paid off: Valladares and colleagues discovered two new colonies with remote camera traps. Original post on mongabay.com Comments on reddit.com
Mozilla, reddit, lawmakers, even a Tea Party activist team to protect the Web. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
A live cat was found recently half-buried in concrete, and the man who rescued the kitten believes it was a message from a pro-polygamy religious group. The incident happened recently in Colorado City, Ariz., a major center for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon sect that split off in the early 20th century in order to continue the controversial practice of plural marriage. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
By David GallowayLifehacker Does your cat love to sit on your desk (or computer) while you’re trying to work or go on MMORPG raids? Reddit user rimcrimp suggests using a board game box to give your cat a home on your workspace. Cats love boxes. If your cat wants to sit near you … Original post on msn.com Comments on digg.com
With all that fur on their skin cats need an even more extreme way to cool off in the summer. What’s better than sticking your face into the freezer? These cats Original post on wildammo.com Comments on digg.com
A neural network of computer processors, fed millions of YouTube videos, taught itself to recognize cats, a feat of significance for fields like speech recognition. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? A biologist’s science- fiction hunch is gaining credence and shaping the emerging science of mind- controlling parasites. Original post on theatlantic.com Comments on reddit.com
Feline Physics: Why Cats Can Survive Falls From Great Heights Cats have an innate ability to reorient their bodies during a fall. This is how they do it. Original post on mentalfloss.com Comments on digg.com
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