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The Chicago O'Hare International Airport is planning to go old school with their newest addition. According to the Daily Mail U.K., the airport isn't putting money into advanced technology to keep their weeds under control, but rather, it's investing in a troop of goats and sheep. The Chicago Department of Aviation has approved the airport's request to hire 25 goats, several sheep and a shepherd. The new animal employees will be in charge of clearing out the weeds clogging the O'Hare International Airport. The Department of ...
Forget about the elusive black sheep; now we have glow-in-the-dark flocks. According to Fox News Latino, scientists in Uruguay have successfully modified the genetic makeup of a group of sheep so that the animals glow. Experts from the Animal Reproduction Institute of Uruguay used a protein from the Aequarea jelly fish to achieve the glow-in-the-dark results. The fluorescent protein was added to a flock of nine sheep, which now glow green under certain ultraviolet lights. Aside from this unusual hue, all the sheep are normal ...
"Look, ram, just listen to reason. I'm a cat. I have soft little foot pads and delicate fur. I can't walk in the wet snow. But I'm light as a feather, and you have strong sheep legs and strong sheep hooves. You could carry me around on your strong sheep back all day and never even know I'm up there. What do you get out of it? Respect! This won't be undignified for you. I promise. The opposite is true. Everyone will see how strong and selfless you are, and they'll be impressed. In fact, I guarantee that carting a cat around on your back is gonna make you extra popular with the ewes around here. Trust me." ...
Sheep Has An Upside Down Head
Holy sheep! You may not notice it on first glance, but if you take a closer look, you can see that this is no ordinary lamb. According to the U.K. Daily Mail, this woolly animal has defied gravity with its upside-down head. ...
Sheep and Magpie Share Special Friendship
Looks like this magpie is quite a gossip. According to the (U.K.) Daily Mail, photographer Ian Wilson was visiting the Derbyshire Welfare Trust in England when he caught this animal duo getting close. It may look like this sheep and magpie are exchanging secrets, but they are actually exhibiting an act of natural…
Put down your discus and pick up your razor, because folks are calling for sheep-shearing to become an Olympic sport. The interest in turning this farm chore into a gold-medal task brought extra attention to the 15th biannual "Golden Shears" shearing competition in New Zealand. Five teams from around the world came to the country to show off their skill and speed at giving a sheep a trim. Participants and spectators would like to see the sport cross over into the Olympics, but most agree that before the sport can make that leap, the general public needs to learn more about shearing and understand that it does not harm the sheep. ...



