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	<title>The People&#039;s Republic of Moronia &#187; Animals</title>
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		<title>The lowly groundhog: long may they Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211;Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, Thursday. That means there will be an additional six weeks of winter. Or, it means there will be an early Spring. It doesn’t make much difference. Phil has an accuracy rate of about 39 percent, according to the StormFax Weather Almanac. That’s probably about the same as <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/02/the-lowly-groundhog-long-may-they-live/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Huge pythons are wiping out Everglades mammals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Sedensky (AP)  A growing population of huge pythons — many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big — appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says. The study, published Monday in the Proceedings <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/huge-pythons-are-wiping-out-everglades-mammals/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Empathetic rats free distressed cage-mates from containers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joseph Castro (LiveScience) The act of helping others out of empathy has long been associated strictly with humans and other primates, but new research shows that rats exhibit this prosocial behavior as well. In the new study, laboratory rats repeatedly freed their cage-mates from containers, even though there was no clear reward for doing <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/empathetic-rats-free-distressed-cage-mates-from-containers/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers find poop-throwing by chimps is a sign of intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(PhysOrg.com) A lot of people who have gone to the zoo have become the targets of feces thrown by apes or monkeys, and left no doubt wondering about the so-called intellectual capacity of a beast that would resort to such foul play. Now however, researchers studying such behavior have come to the conclusion that throwing <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/researchers-find-poop-throwing-by-chimps-is-a-sign-of-intelligence/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mini Piglet&#8217; is Costco&#8217;s most horrid meat abomination</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/mini-piglet-is-costcos-most-horrid-meat-abomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Curtis Cartier (Seattle Weekly) Feast your eyes on the Mini Piglet! This pressure-formed pig-shaped pork monstrosity is a revolution in culinary alliteration (looks and tastes like the animal it began as). And it&#8217;s on sale at Costco right now! via &#8216;Mini Piglet&#8217; Is Costco&#8217;s Most Horrid Meat Abomination &#8211; Seattle News &#8211; The <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/mini-piglet-is-costcos-most-horrid-meat-abomination/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Toxic lead to cover Iowa dove killing fields</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/08/toxic-lead-to-cover-iowa-killing-fields/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch  (Spectrum) Iowa, which gave us the carnival known as the Iowa Straw Poll and artery-clogging Deep Fried Butter, will unleash another health problem, beginning Sept. 1. The Iowa legislature last year approved a dove hunting season, the first in more than nine decades. However, the state&#8217;s Department of Natural Resources and the <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/08/toxic-lead-to-cover-iowa-killing-fields/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Female deer mice won&#039;t mate with males exposed to BPA, new study finds</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/06/female-deer-mice-wont-mate-with-males-exposed-to-bpa-new-study-finds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ScienceDaily) The latest research from the University of Missouri shows that BPA (a common ingredient in plastics) causes male deer mice to become demasculinized and behave more like females in their spatial navigational abilities, leading scientists to conclude that exposure to BPA during human development could be damaging to behavioral and cognitive traits that are <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/06/female-deer-mice-wont-mate-with-males-exposed-to-bpa-new-study-finds/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy, busy rats rejected morphine in landmark study that was buried</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/06/happy-busy-rats-rejected-morphine-in-landmark-study-that-was-buried/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Wikipedia) Rat Park was a study into drug addiction conducted in the late 1970s and published in 1980, by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Alexander&#8217;s hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent addiction to opiate drugs commonly observed in <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/06/happy-busy-rats-rejected-morphine-in-landmark-study-that-was-buried/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scratches on the blackboard of animal cruelty</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/scratches-on-the-blackboard-of-animal-cruelt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) Take a pigeon. Now put that pigeon, along with thousands of others, into small coops that don&#8217;t give the bird much freedom to move. Don&#8217;t worry about food or water. It won&#8217;t matter. Take some of the pigeons—who are already disoriented from hours, maybe days, of confinement—and place a couple of <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/scratches-on-the-blackboard-of-animal-cruelt/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>UK creating a wildflower network to boost declining bees</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/%e2%80%98bee-roads%e2%80%99-uk-creating-network-of-wildflowers-to-boost-declining-bees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Meera Selva (HuffingtonPost) Farmers and landowners are being asked to plant rows of wildflowers along the edges of England&#8217;s fields to create a network of &#8220;bee roads&#8221; to boost declining numbers. Conservationists said Tuesday they hope the wildflowers will provide food and shelter for wild bees, honeybees and butterflies, which play a crucial role <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/04/%e2%80%98bee-roads%e2%80%99-uk-creating-network-of-wildflowers-to-boost-declining-bees/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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