News 1-29-09

Victim of Chimp Attack in ‘Critical but Stable’ Condition
A well-known chimp named Travis attacked a woman of 55 years of age. The lady was put into critical condition after the mauling, where she received massive damage to her hands and face, taking doctors and plastic surgeons seven hours in the operating room to correct the damage. The chimp went after a policeman when he was in his cruiser, the police shot and killed the animal and now its body has been sent to get an animal autopsy while his head is being searched for rabies.
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“Extinct” Bird Seen, Eaten
Extinct animals are supposed to be nonexistent, right? Wrong a television crew spotted a rare quail in the market. It was later sold and slaughtered. This was the first sighting of the bird for decades.
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Monkeys Can Subtract, Study Finds
Man is not the only mammal that can subtract and use numbers after all; monkeys are now joining us in using number sense. Researchers used shapes such as a square and dots to find out if the monkeys could really know numbers. These newly discovered skills are said to help the monkeys out in the wild.
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Record-length Fingernails Broken in Crash
Ever tried to be in the Guinness Book of World Records? Well a Salt Lake City woman lost the reason why she was in there when she got into an accident. She lost up to 28 feet of nails when she was ejected from the car in the crash. She received serious but nothing life threatening in the crash.
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