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REPORT: Prairie Dogs Are Lousy Secret Keepers
REPORT: Prairie Dogs Are Lousy Secret Keepers
According to new research from Pepperdine University, prairie dogs are among the worst at keeping secrets in the entire animal kingdom. The species topped the list of most loose-lipped animals.
“Prairie dogs are loquacious by nature,” said study author Dr. Greg Papprikash. “They love to gossip and they can’t help trading juicy bits of information. As a result, they’re really crummy at keeping confidences.”
Also in the top five: whales, moths, polecats and arctic puffins.
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Guinea Pig Wins Homemade Taco Competition
Guinea Pig Wins Homemade Taco Competition
An area guinea pig named Nacho has won a national homemade taco competition run by the Food Network. His recipe for a bacon, lettuce and tomato taco won raves among judges and will be featured in an upcoming Food Network cookbook.
“Everyone loves bacon, so putting bacon in was almost like cheating. It’s like putting truffle oil on something,” explained judge and Food Network producer Wiley Kinnis. “So we probably actually judged Nacho’s entry harder than the others.”
But Kinnis said that Nacho really knocked it out of the park with his chipotle aioli.
“Man the [expletive] aioli,” he said. “I still have dreams about it.”
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Hamster Uses Vine App to Make Creative Videos
Hamster Uses Vine App to Make Creative Videos
A hamster named Snowball has been messing with Twitter’s new video app called Vine, with impressive results.
“He’s made a few videos from inside his ball, inside his tubes,” says Frank Shankman, a source familiar with the situation. “Not sure how he fits his iPhone 5 in there with him, but it just works.”
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Hamster Credits Paleo Diet With Increased Upper Body Strength
Hamster Credits Paleo Diet With Increased Upper Body Strength
Croatian weightlifter, Ljubić has been training hard to compete for his country in the Hamster Olympiad next fall. That’s why he’s been very careful about what he puts in his body.
“He’s been sticking to the Paleo diet,” said trainer Štefek Vuković. “He says he is in the best shape of his life, and he recently bench pressed seven ounces!”
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