September 1, 2010 – 4:17 am
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A deer is fed a bottle of beer at a resort in Weihai, northern China’s Shandong province.
According to Zhang Xiangxi, who works as a waitress at the resort’s restaurant, she discovered the deer’s unusual tastes last November when she was cleaning up after some customers.
She says: “I saw a bottle of beer was still half full so I playfully passed it to the deer. Unexpectedly it bit the bottle and raised its head and drank all the beer in one shot.”
Since then, says Zhang, whenever there is any leftover beer she takes it to feed to the deer.
She comments: “It has a growing addiction to beer. To begin with it was half a bottle but now it is several big bottles in a row. Her daily feed is around two bottles of beer.”
Zhang adds: “I don’t know what her maximum appetite for beers is though we once tried giving her four bottles of beer and she drank them all!”
September 1, 2010 – 4:13 am
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Fourteen-year-old Elisany Silva, who measures 6′9″ (2.06 metres) tall, plays with her sisters and a friend on Ajuruteua beach in Braganca in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para on Tuesday (August 31).
Thought to be one of the tallest teenagers in the world, Elisany could be suffering from a rare disease that has caused her to tower over the rest of her peers. But Elisany and her family are not sure exactly what that condition is because they can’t afford to see a doctor.
Elisany, who says she was forced to quit school because she became too big to ride on the bus, now dreams of becoming a famous fashion model.
“It’s hard when I’m inside home,” Elisany tells a local TV station in Brazil. “I get distracted and hit the wood in the ceiling with my head.”
Elisany’s mother, Ana Maria Silva, says she just wants her daughter to be like the other girls.
“I want her to stop growing up,” Silva says. “I know she feels weird and sometimes wants to be like them.”
August 31, 2010 – 2:58 am
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Etched onto the surface of Lake Baikal, this snow and ice drawing is the world’s single largest artwork stretching out to a total area of over nine square miles.
Created in March of this year by land artist Jim Denevan, the project took Jim and his team of eight 15 days to complete.
Using the frozen black ice beneath the white snow as a canvas, Jim and his team lived in a native tent, or ‘yurt’ which was set up on the frozen ice surface.
Drawn using snow ploughs for the enormous circular lines and shovels for the smallest 18 inch circumference lines, Jim set his pattern using a mathematical fibonacci curve. Jim ‘drew’ his creation before the team begun using a simple bike, which he rode around lining his artwork into the snow.
August 31, 2010 – 1:52 am
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A child dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna rode on the back of a motorcycle with her family in Ahmedabad, India, Monday (August 30).
August 30, 2010 – 2:06 pm
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The leisurely activity of mushroom-hunting has claimed the lives of at least 19 people in Italy over the last 10 days.
Among the the victims? An 88-year-old woman found dead in a ravine.
According to La Repubblica, most of the 19 died by sliding down slopes, or tumbling over rocks in the northern mountains.
Noting that six people died during a 48-hour period alone, the newspaper headlined its story: “The massacre of the mushroom hunter.”
Mountain rescuers say mushroom hunters are abandoning safety measures by putting on camouflage clothes to hunt in the dark so as not to tip off others to their favorite spots.
Says Gino Comelli, head of the Alpine rescue service in northwest Italy’s Valle di Fassa: “There is too much carelessness. Too many people don’t give a darn about the right rules and unfortunately this is the result.”
August 30, 2010 – 2:38 am
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One of the 22 Komodo dragons that were born at Los Angeles Zoo over an 11 day period.
Komodos, the largest living species of lizard, are cannibalistic and usually eat their young and eggs so zoo officials say staying alive is tricky for a hatchling.
