Kristin Cavallari, whose debut book Balancing in Heels hits shelves this actual month of our lives, has a jewelry company. That jewelry company is called—for reasons I never dreamed of knowing 403 days ago—Emerald Duv. What does that mean?
Anyone who has ever read Stephen Jay Gould or sat through an X-Men voiceover narration is familiar with the concept of punctuated equilibrium - the idea that evolutionary development happens not incrementally but in random, periodic bursts.
British people whose only friends are birds are freaking out this summer, as hundreds of their cherished pets are disappearing somewhere over England and no one can figure out what is happening to them or how to make friends with a human.
Anyone who knows anything about anything knows that birds, of all animals, are not to be trusted. Have you seen a bird, recently, doing its little bird things (pecking?), acting as though its brain is the size of a Sno-Cap? Well, guess what: birds can do math. Higher math.
Today we heard the relieving news that the Central Park peacock is back where he belongs. Everyone was happy about that! Well, OK, not everyone. Some lesser birds were pretty pissed off.
"It was the bloody death of a bird that provoked Mike to throw his first ever punch" says narrator Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire), and we're off to the pigeon races with Taking On Tyson, Animal Planet's new docudrama.
These animal control officers from Spain demonstrate an explosive technique for turning a peaceful flock of pigeons into a seething mass of wings and beaks. Is this snare cruel and unusual, or surprisingly humane?
'Pigeon King' Arlan Galbraith was charged yesterday in Canada for allegedly running a pigeon breeding ponzi scheme through his company, Pigeon King International, and defrauding investors out of $1 million by promising enormous returns from pigeon meat sales. [CBC]
A new study indicates that pigeons have an urge to gamble, and prefer to peck away at little pigeon slot machines hoping for a food-pellet jackpot over pecking a button for a guaranteed pellet. That's right: little pigeon slot machines.
Having never heard the Kings of Leon, we can't say whether they deserved what a bunch of pigeons did to them in St. Louis: They pooped on them so much that the band had to stop playing after three songs.
Pennsylvania rednecks are kidnapping NYC's pigeons for live target practice, calling it "an American tradition."
Pigeons might not be able to tell you what good art is, but they do know it when they see it, according to a Japanese psychologist who trains avian critics.
As any Hollywood resident who has ever suffered the heartbreak of discovering that their freshly washed vehicle has been even more freshly shat upon by an incontinent flock of air-rats can tell you, the pigeon menace must be stopped at all costs. Good Morning America this morning looked at the efforts of local…
So many questions: What's a pelican doing in the middle of London? How many pigeons can a pelican eat? And how soon can we get a shitload of pelicans over here to New York?
