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A crocodile in Australia has turned orange after eating the water filter in his tank
Owner Tracey Sandstrom, who runs Roaming Reptiles, said Snappy made a meal out of the filter in his water tank.
"I think it caused the pH levels in his water to soar which has led to the change in colour."
She was stunned when her prized pet turned bright orange.
"Snappy's pretty territorial and he attacked the filter one day and a few weeks after that, I noticed he was orange," she said.
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Apparently whales have threesomes and scientists have a photo to prove it.
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The photo above shows the moment 3 dogs finishing in a triple dead heat, beating odds of more than a million to one.
All three were declared joint winners when even the track's photo finish technology couldn't split them, meaning that bookies had to pay out to anyone who put a bet on one of the individual dogs as well as on a combination of more than one of them coming first in the race.
The £500 prize payout was shared equally between the three dog-owners.
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Why? Well, why not? Serious Eats has plenty of videos.
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A female velvet monkey without feet has learnt how to walk on her hands (whilst carrying a baby).
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Bailey the 1600 pound Bison travels almost everywhere with his owners including riding around in a customised 1977 Buick Continental. You can read more about Bailey on his own website.
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From a time when this was accepted.
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A pub chain has baked the world's biggest naan bread as part of a launch event for its range of curries.
The record-breaking naan was 10ft by 4ft and has a total area of 40 sq ft - the equivalent of 167 normal size naan breads – and took bakers over five hours to make and 8 staff to carry.
The breads was made using an authentic naan recipe including yoghurt, ghee and Kalonji seeds and weighing more than 40kg and cooked in a specialist tandoori-style oven with the capacity to cook an authentic bread of such magnitude. [via]
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This 'guide pony' was spotted in an Apple Store somewhere in the US.
You may also be interested in watching a video of pub that visited a pub.
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I love this photo of a camel on the dunes of Socotra island, Yemen that was featured on National Geographic recently.
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As part of Discovery's Shark Week they have posted 10 shark attack videos. [via]
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The very weird looking Macropinna Microstoma fish that has a transparent and barrel-shaped and can be rotated to point either forward or straight up.
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The Oatmeal does a much better job than Wikipedia at explaining the sad existence of the male angler fish.
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Conservationist Damian Aspinall is reunited with a gorilla five years after it was released into the wild.
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An Australian man is seriously ill in hospital after eating two slugs as part of a dare.
Doctors believe that the 21-year-old, who has not been named, contracted the rare rat lungworm parasite from the slugs.
The disease, which is a type of meningitis, can lead to swelling of the brain and spinal cord and has been known to be fatal.
He has spent the past month hospital in Sydney, but is expected to survive.
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The Big Picture has some amazing animal related photos from recent news stories.
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Poor guy thinks this shoe is a hot tortoise.
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This octopus is too busy playing with a spanner to notice the cuttlefish sneaking up on him.
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A panda falls out of a tree, gets angry and takes it out on the tree.
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Pet videos don't come much cuter than this.
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As a blogger it's my job to post cat pics so here you go.
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They sound really weird. [via @NAC0826]
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Oppe the dog likes living life to the extreme. He's clocked up over 10,000 hours on a dirt bike with his owner. According to Mike Schelin, the dog "rides better than my ex-wife". There are more photos here.
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Do many people last this long?
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An odd post from the Daily Telegraph in which it compares the weights of celebrities to giant fish.
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A stunning collection of underwater photographs from National Geographic.
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