What's In a Name? A Turkey By Any Other Name Would Taste as Great

Naming names and Meleagris gallopavo!

Apparently Pandas Get Culture Shock Too

Poor little fluffballs.

"Allow myself to introduce ... myself."

This bird landed on the page about itself

Monday Therapy: Everyone's a Food Critic

How to tell if your cooking sucks.

The Fur Flies In UK Politics

Quote of the day: "There are tensions in Parliament. Stand-offs, bristling, screeching and hissing. And no, we aren't talking about the Labour Party."

If you thought people fighting in UK politics is bad, you have another think coming.

Meet MacGyver the Parakeet

Awwww.

Disgustingly Cute Monday Therapy: Kittens vs. BB-8

Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree

Actually, it's an entire family of kookaburras, and they are adorable.

It's nice to remember that there are, after all, a few creatures in Australia that aren't bound and determined to kill you or frighten you to death. 

Disgustingly Cute: Meet the Ili Pika of Northwest China

Funny name, weapons-grade adorable furry face.

The Fur Flies in Syrian Jihadist Catfight

You can't make this stuff up.

Meet Bretagne the 9/11 Search Dog

I didn't read this until today, but now I think I have something in my eye.

Monday Therapy: The Dog and the Alarm Clock

Nobody wants to get up on a Monday morning, including poor Oscar the Vizsla: 

Emus 1, Australian Army 0

Educate yourself about the Great Emu War of 1932.

Monday Therapy: Commuting In Finland

Mondays are awful, but at least your drive to work (probably) wasn't like this:

The purported translation of the ranting is here.  Lots of hilarious swearing as the frustrated folks in the car start losing their cool.

Disgustingly Cute: Little Rascals

Since for the foreseeable future I'm going to obsess about Guardians of the Galaxy and Rocket Raccoon, here are a few other raccoons to help while away the time until the movie opens on August 1. 

Golden Eagles Are A Girl's Best Friend

Diamonds, schmiamonds!

The Cat's Meow: Egypt in 3600 BC

Wow:

The skeletons of six cats, including four kittens, found in an Egyptian cemetery may push back the date of cat domestication in Egypt by nearly 2,000 years.

A Dolphin Gets By With A Little Help From His Friends

Here's the video.

Aww-lympics: Saving the Puppies of Sochi

This silver medalist has a heart of gold:

puppy love is real to puppies. pic.twitter.com/krauCUPjOg
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) February 11, 2014

WHAT?

I'm too horrified to come up with any other blog post title for this news item from Denmark:

COPENHAGEN Zoo turned down offers from other zoos and 500000 euros ($760000) from a private individual to save the life of a healthy giraffe before killing and slaughtering it to follow inbreeding recommendations made by a European association. 

The 2-year-old male giraffe, named Marius, was put down on Sunday using a bolt pistol and its meat was fed to carnivores at the zoo, spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro said. Visitors, including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was dissected.

Oh my God.  That second paragraph is a nightmare.