Our animal friends are always reminding us that it's their planet, too. Here's the latest on humanity's ongoing struggle with its beastly friends.
This is one reason why your father told you to always carry a tire iron. Michelle Felicetta of Arizona was jogging when a fox bit her and latched onto her arm. Unable to beat the critter off, she ran a mile back to her car, where she was able to pry open its jaw.
Ever since that run-in with Adam and Eve, snakes have gotten a bad rap in the Holy Land. But at Ada Barak's spa in northern Israel, slithering reptiles don't give people the creeps. They give deep-tissue massages.
PETA asked Ben & Jerry's to stop using cow milk and tap nursing mothers for the milk used in it ice cream. Predictably, the idea got a cool reception.
That extra jolt in a woman's coffee wasn't caffeine. The Iowa resident, who has undergone treatment for possible rabies, found a bat in the filter of her coffee maker.
When shark gets tangled in a 51-year-old surfer's leg rope, he takes the man for a ride that the man described as a "powerful jet ski."
"If I can find this bear I'm going to deputize him," a police officer tells the Associated Press. "Our county is so tough on drugs that even the wildlife are getting in on the action."
A study of Google Earth satellite images shows that herds of cattle tend to face in north-south direction.
Critters hit the slalom course, play basketball and show good sportsmanship by not leaving poo on the field of play at Clarke County's Sheep and Goat Olympics.
Masseuse Mercedes Clemens, 40, say she wants to do for horses the same thing she's license to do for humans -- give them massages. But that's against the law for non-veterinarians. "This isn't just a career for me," she tells
USA Today. "It's my passion."
A bear makes his way across the 13th fairway during the second round of the U.S. Senior Open. Unfortunately it was a black bear and not Jack "The Golden Bear" Nicklaus.
