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With the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records soon to be released, let's get acquainted with some of the most astounding, and sometimes furry and adorable subjects in the book -- the animals! These are ten animals who made the cut and set a record through their size or talent. Get ready to be amazed.
World's Tallest Dog
World's Largest Rabbit
Longest Distance By a Horse On Hind Legs
Most Bottles Recycled By a Dog
Fastest Time To Pop 100 Balloons By A Dog
Longest Tongue on a Dog
World's Smallest Cow
World's Smallest Dog
World's Smallest Horse
World's Longest Snake in Captivity (deceased)
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Walt Grayson of WLBT takes a look at Rocky, a baby squirrel in Mississippi that fell out of a tree, was placed with a litter of newborn kittens and was adopted by the mother cat. The squirrel adapted so well to his new family that he eventually learned how to purr.
via I Can Has Cheez Burger & WLBT
(CNN) -- A woman gored by a bison at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming said she is happy to be alive days after the attack.
"I thought it was the end," Cathy Hayes told CNN by phone late Wednesday.
Hayes said she was vacationing in Yellowstone on Monday with her husband and a friend. The group was driving through the park when they spotted a bison.
"My friend is from California, and had never seen a bison before," she said. "So we pulled over and went to get a closer look."
Minutes later, the bison attacked. And it was all caught on tape.
"So we're here in the park and there's a buffalo, and he's just wandering across the road," she says in the footage.
Hayes, a native of Farr West, Utah, says they were about 30 feet away from the bison when her friend decided to get closer.
"There was another group in front of us, and I never noticed it before looking at the video on my small camera, but you can see a stick fly off the back of the bison," she said. "It looks like it came from the group that was in front of him. Before that, the bison was just chillin.'"
In the video shot from Hayes' perspective, her friend falls as he runs away from the charging bison. At that point, she says, the bison turned its attention to her.
Hayes crouched behind a tree to protect herself, but it wasn't enough.
"There was a pause when I could tell that he was backing up and getting ready to ram the tree again," Hayes said. "I thought, 'He won't ram the car,' so I made a run for it. You can probably see in the video when he got me and flung me up in the air."
Hayes' husband was in their car when the attack happened, and was able to scare the bison off by making loud noises.
"He was going to throw his cell phone at it, but it took off. It was gone as quick as it came," she said.
Luckily, Hayes did not suffer life-threatening injures, but said she is still in a lot of pain. Her knee was swollen to the size of a football, and she had minor cuts and scrapes throughout her leg.
Her friend broke his shoulder when he tripped and fell.
But for the Utah teacher, it could have been worse.
"I was waiting for black. I thought I was going to die," Hayes said.
Signs throughout Yellowstone warn visitors to not get close to wildlife.
Ruff cut ... Dog grooming in China. Pic. Austral Source: The Daily Telegraph
Ruff cut ... Dog grooming in China. Pic. Austral Source: The Daily Telegraph
IF THIS strange creature growled at you, you wouldn't know whether to run from his sharp claws or pat him on the head and give him a biscuit.
From a distance, its striped orange and black coat makes it look like a particularly odd tiger.
But it's actually a dog, a victim of the latest craze among owners in China to dye their pets to look like other animals.
One young pup even found itself turned black and white to masquerade as a baby panda.
The Chinese are always quick to embrace bizarre trends and it is not unusual for owners to take their dogs to grooming parlours where they are not only given a shampoo and trim, but a multi-coloured dye job as well.
Quite what the animals might think about it is another matter.
STR / AFP / Getty ImagesRochom P'ngieng, center, sits with her parents in a Cambodian hospital in October. She went missing from her family's home for 11 days before a neighbor found her nearby in an outdor toilet. She was hospitalized but was reportedly refusing treatment.
Source: The Daily Telegraph
A BIZARRE animal corpse has washed up on a Canadian beach, reviving memories of the infamous "Montauk monster" that was discovered in 2008
Locals in a small Canadian town have been stumped by the appearance of a bizarre creature, which was dragged from a lake.
The animal, which has a long hairy body with bald skin on its head, feet and face, has prompted wild internet speculation that it is a more evolved version of the famous 'Montauk monster'. Original story
The creature was discovered by two nurses in the town of Kitchenuhmaykoosib in Ontario, Canada, while out on a walk with their dog.
When the dog began sniffing in the lake, the two women started investigating, before the dog pulled the dead animal out.
After taking some photographs of the odd animal, the nurses left it alone. When locals decided to go back and retrieve the body, it has disappeared.
The photographs have now been posted on a local website, with an explanation which reads: 'This creature was first discovered by Sam the Dog, a local dog.
'It was discovered first week of May in the creek section of town, hikers noticed Sam sniffing something in the water and they approached to see in what the Sam had detected and they noticed the creature in the water face down.
'The dog jumped in the lake and pulled the creature to the rocks and dragged it out for the hikers to see and these are the photos they took.
'The creature's tail is like a rat's tail and it is a foot long.'
There has been much speculation about what kind of species the animal is.
The body of the creature appears to look something like an otter, while its face - complete with long fang-like teeth, bears a striking resemblance to a boar-like animal.
Even the local police chief Donny Morris is baffled, saying: 'What it is, I don't know. I'm just as curious as everyone else.'
The pictures of the animal have caused mass speculation online, from bloggers who are all stumped as to what the creature could be.
One internet blogger wrote: 'That certainly is a face only a mother can love. It looks like some sort of otter, weasel-type thing.'
While another added: 'Some kind of mustelid - I thought otter first.
'Being in the water and bashed around has made the fur on the face and tail come off so clean like that.'
Many people have suggested the animal could be a new 'Montauk monster' - due to the similarities between these photographs and those of a different creature which washed up in Montauk, New York, in 2008.
The animal, which quickly earned the nickname the 'Montauk monster', thanks to the beach's location to a Long Island government animal testing facility, has never been officially identified - although the general consensus is that it was some kind of racoon.
However, other bloggers have speculated that the new creature discovered is a type of chupacabra, or 'goatsucker'.
The chupacabra is rumoured to inhabit parts of the U.S. , with many several hundred eyewitness accounts over the past few years.
But despite these sightings, the majority of biologists and wildlife experts believe the chupacabra is a contemporary legend.
This bizarre creature dubbed the oriental yeti has baffled scientists after emerging from ancient woodlands in remote central China. Photo: CEN
The hairless beast was trapped by hunters in Sichuan province after locals reported spotting what they thought was a bear.
Hunter Lu Chin explained: "It looks a bit like a bear but it doesn't have any fur and it has a tail like a kangaroo."
"It also does not sound like a bear - it has a voice more like a cat and it is calling all the time - perhaps it is looking for the rest of its kind or maybe it's the last one?
"There are local legends of a bear that used to be a man and some people think that's what we caught," he added.
Local animal experts now plan to shipped the mystery beast to scientists in Beijing who will perform DNA tests on the beast.
Not all dogs get around by riding in cars or walking. Check out these 10 oddball ways some dogs get from Point A to Point — whether they like it or not.
What happens to dogs who don’t win the Iditarod…
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Is this a puppy, or a purse, or an unfortunate morphing of the two? (Yes, yes, and sadly, yes.)
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This is no ordinary puppy purse, and this is no ordinary dog. He works alongside Austrian special forces paratroopers, up in the air and down on the ground. Here they’re parachuting down to Norway. (Photo: Telegraph)
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“And the next thing I know during my hike in Norway, this dog falls out of the sky and right into my backpack!”
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Dog fanny packs. Why, oh why?
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This dog’s name is Zipper. Now we know why. (Photo: Hilda Oropeza; Hand: Michael Chihak)
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The only things she’s missing are a cup holder and an ashtray.
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One of Moscow’s many stray dogs who knows how to navigate the metro. It’s an exhausting life, and sleep comes quickly once on a soft surface.
Debuting in 2011 and beginning filming soon, a new Animal Planet show starring Mike Tyson will "take audiences inside the intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world of pigeon racing," according to a network press release.I first heard about Tyson and his pigeons in 2003, when ESPN's Bill Simmons wrote about the boxer and his birds.
"I'm honored to be a part of this monumental show on Animal Planet," said Tyson. "I feel a great pride acting as an official representative for all the pigeon fanciers out there. I want people to see why we love these birds. It feels good returning to the rooftops of the city where it all started for me -- New York."
The pigeons. People come and go, wives come and go, fights come and go ... but the pigeons endure. He's been flying them ever since he was a little boy in Brooklyn. After Lewis savagely destroyed him last summer, the most humiliating of defeats, Tyson returned to Harlem and flew his birds for months on end. His wife filed for divorce. The boxing world left him for dead. He kept flying those damned pigeons. Earlier in the morning, I was talking with one of the locals who cares for Tyson's birds when he's away -- a guy named Ron -- who explained, "He likes the way they fly. I think he just likes coming up here. It's his place. He relaxes up here."I'm intrigued. Not sure if Animal Planet has decided on a name for the show but I'm pushing for the Pigeon Whisperer. It's too obvious not to happen.
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