Bizarre: Man caught eating his own dog!

A 42-year-old resident of eastern Siberia was held over a stabbing rampage that he concluded by dining on his own dog, police said.

The man attacked people in the streets of Irkutsk, stabbing one passerby to death and injuring two others, both pensioners.

None of the numerous witnesses moved to intervene or even alert police, who were only informed about the incident by one of the surviving victims, said cops.

A citywide search resulted in the man being tracked and detained. He fled his home in an unsuccessful attempt to evade arrest, abandoning his dinner that consisted of dog meat.

The suspect, whose name was withheld, pleaded guilty, but failed to explain why he stabbed people or ate his dog.

A case was opened on charges of intentionally inflicting grave bodily harm, punishable with up to 15 years in prison.

Baboon baby boom worries Uruguay zookeepers

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 A population explosion of baboons at a Uruguayan zoo has their keepers worried that the 130 increasingly aggressive animals will forcibly resist being moved to a larger enclosure.

For years the troop of Hamadrya baboons -- a species Old World monkeys native to the Horn of Africa and Yemen -- has lived in a domed metal cage built for birds of prey at the Parque Lecocq, a reserve northwest of Montevideo.

The 2,300 square meter cage used to have grass, palm trees and a lake with aquatic plants. "It was the most adequate environment, because there the species could develop socially," said Parque Lecocq director Eduardo Tavares.

The enormous cage made it difficult for the zookeepers to control the population, Tavares said, so the animals were allowed to do "what nature called them to do."

As the population grew, the animals destroyed all plant life inside the cage.

"They even finished with the grass, and are now eating the roots. The vegetation died off, and what is left is an environment that looks like their semi-desert homeland," Tavares said.

Up to 60 baboons is plenty for the zoo, he said. "That would guarantee the colony's viability and would save us money on food," he told AFP.

In the current oversized colony, the baboons become "much more aggressive, there can be fights, there is competition for the females," Tavares said.

The baboons are peaceful when zoo workers enter the cage for routine cleanups and feeding, but "their aggressive nature emerges when one of them is captured, or when we try to take out one that has died," said Tavares.

"They join and attack as a whole troop. It's very dangerous."

The Parque Lecocq is nearing completion of an open-air enclosure for the baboons six times larger than the cage that will include rooms where zoo keepers can check the health of each animal -- which will be tagged with a microchip -- and carry out birth control procedures.

The challenge, however, will be moving the baboons to their new    home. "No one in the world has ever moved such a large number of these monkeys," Tavares said.

 
Woman born without fingers 'grows' it back

A woman, who was born without a finger and thumb on her right hand, 'grew' the missing digits back as part of a phantom limb after her hand was amputated.

The 57-year-old woman, known as RN, had her hand amputated after a car accident when she was 18.

She began to feel the sensation of her hand still being there, but with four fingers and a thumb.

According to neuroscientists at the University of California, San Diego, RN’s experience showed the brain has its own internal template of how the body should look.

RN’s phantom index finger and thumb were not full length and became painful.

Dr Paul McGeoch and Professor V.S Ramachandran used a mirror box which reflected the woman’s left hand to make it look like she had a pair of limbs.

After two weeks of training, RN was able to extend the short fingers on her phantom limb, which relieved her pain.

Dr McGeoch, from the university’s Centre for Brain and Cognition said that the case of RN showed more than was previously known about the balance between the external appearance of a limb and how the brain innately believes it to look.

“The presence of the deformed hand was suppressing the brain’s innate representation of her fingers which is why they appeared shorter, but after the hand was removed and the inhibition taken away, the innate representation kicks in again,” a major newspaper quoted McGeoch as telling New Scientist.

Car jumps road and lands on sleeping woman's bed!

A nightmare turned into reality for a woman in Texas, USA when a car smashed through her bedroom wall and landed on her bed.

According to a TV news report, the driver was speeding down the road in Harris County at around midnight when his vehicle left the road, a major newspaper reported.

Police said the car first hit a telephone pole and then a pickup truck before it went airborne and crashed through the wall of the sleeping woman’s mobile home.

The driver, who was not injured, attempted to flee the scene, but witnesses restrained him until police arrived and took him into custody.

Police said he would be tested for a possible DWI charge.

The woman was hospitalised for burns from the car, but was not seriously injured.

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