njjen3953
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Although my first 2 threads with this name died, I loved these so I decided to revive it.
A German family has kept a live eel in its bathtub for the last 33
years and even trained it to swim into a bucket when someone needs to
wash. "He's part of our family," said Hannelore Richter of Bochum in
western Germany, whose husband Paul caught the eel on a fishing trip
in 1969 and took it home for supper. His children fell in love with
the eel, refusing to let him kill and cook it, and since then it has
lived in the bath, shared it with the children when they were small --
and has even moved house with the family, German newspapers
reported. "It's a weird situation," zoologist Walter Gettmann told
Reuters. "He has certainly lost the skills needed to survive in the
wild. But if he is fed properly, he can survive in a tub."
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A herd of wild elephants driven berserk by country liquor trampled to
death six people, among them four children, during a rampage in
India's northeastern state of Assam, police said Tuesday. The animals
came out of the forest Sunday, attacking granaries and drinking
country liquor stored by villagers in Tinsukia, about 340 miles east
of Guwahati, Assam's biggest city. "The elephants, after consuming
huge quantity of country-made liquor, went berserk, killing six
people on the spot," a police spokesman said. Experts say hundreds of
wild elephants in search of food regularly emerge from the forests of
Assam to trample rice fields and destroy granaries. Destruction of
the animals' natural habitats and a growing elephant population are
the main causes of the problem, they say. "It has been noticed that
elephants have developed a taste for rice beer and local liquor and
they always look for it when they invade villages,," Dinesh
Choudhury, an elephant expert in Guwahati, told Reuters.
A German family has kept a live eel in its bathtub for the last 33
years and even trained it to swim into a bucket when someone needs to
wash. "He's part of our family," said Hannelore Richter of Bochum in
western Germany, whose husband Paul caught the eel on a fishing trip
in 1969 and took it home for supper. His children fell in love with
the eel, refusing to let him kill and cook it, and since then it has
lived in the bath, shared it with the children when they were small --
and has even moved house with the family, German newspapers
reported. "It's a weird situation," zoologist Walter Gettmann told
Reuters. "He has certainly lost the skills needed to survive in the
wild. But if he is fed properly, he can survive in a tub."
----------
A herd of wild elephants driven berserk by country liquor trampled to
death six people, among them four children, during a rampage in
India's northeastern state of Assam, police said Tuesday. The animals
came out of the forest Sunday, attacking granaries and drinking
country liquor stored by villagers in Tinsukia, about 340 miles east
of Guwahati, Assam's biggest city. "The elephants, after consuming
huge quantity of country-made liquor, went berserk, killing six
people on the spot," a police spokesman said. Experts say hundreds of
wild elephants in search of food regularly emerge from the forests of
Assam to trample rice fields and destroy granaries. Destruction of
the animals' natural habitats and a growing elephant population are
the main causes of the problem, they say. "It has been noticed that
elephants have developed a taste for rice beer and local liquor and
they always look for it when they invade villages,," Dinesh
Choudhury, an elephant expert in Guwahati, told Reuters.
