Alligator snapping turtle — not the Ganga kind, but fierce

This one will turn your stomach: almost two decades ago, Ganga river management released $32M worth of flesh-eating turtles to deal with uncremated bodies released into the river.
Scavenger turtles that live in the Ganges River devour human corpses, making it possible for devout Hindus to deposit […]

Remember the post about elephants which kill people? Now an elephant has gone self-aware:
… a 34-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror — complex behavior observed in only a few other species. The test results suggest elephants — or at least Happy — are […]

PETA member and EPA employee Jabeen Akhtar got dressed up for the Exotic Erotic (NSFW) last winter to protest a circus in Charlotte, NC (via SM):

Ladies and gents, let me clear up a common childhood misconception: elephants are dangerous. And they’re the subject of tonight’s Threatdown. Top threat? Elephants, or as I like to call them, giant crappers of terror. Oh sure, we’ve all read Babar and seen Main Aur Mera Haathi (Me and My Elephant). The NYT, or NAMBLA, […]

Meet Punjabi, the Indian puppet. 
Punjabi works for Punch & Brodie, a Seattle-based company that provides ‘quality puppetry to corporate environments’ (apparently for all those times when regular corporate puppets can’t cut it).
Unlike his colleagues, Punjabi wasn’t born with a name, just an ethnicity.  But as he explains in this interview, he doesn’t really mind, […]