Rare Whale Gathering Sited

 BBC News:

A large group of a rarely sighted, mysterious species of whale has been seen off the coast of Antarctica.
Approximately 60 Arnoux’s beaked whales were seen and photographed frolicking on the surface in the Gerlache Strait.
Few sightings of this enigmatic species are made in the wild, and even less in waters near to shore…

The Cat Who Got Swine Flu

New York Times:

A few days after two members of an Ames, Iowa, family came down with the flu, they noticed their 13-year-old cat wasn’t feeling too well either. The cat has since become the first documented case of a feline with the new H1N1 virus, commonly called swine flu…

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Baldrick The Bald Hoglet

Daily Mail:

The rather aptly named Baldrick is a baby hedgehog with a difference – he is completely bald.

The four-month-old creature was abandoned by his mother and taken to an animal sanctuary where staff have come up with a rather cunning plan to treat the hedgehog’s baldness.

Experts at Foxy Lodge Wildlife Rescue centre in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk are giving Baldrick a daily massage with baby oil in a bid to get his spikes to grow…