4/30/09

Crocodile wrestlers

Crocodile wrestlers dice with death in jaw-snapping show

The main reason for a visit to the Crocodile Farm is though to see the shows they put on! It is possible to witness ‘Crocodile Wrestling’. – quite amazing spectacle. Daily shows feature catching crocodiles bare-handed and some real dangerous tricks including the performer keeps his head inside the open mouth of the crocodile. You won’t believe your eyes unless you see them live!

The performer pressed hand palms together in a prayer-like fashion - a Thai greeting showing his respect/reverence to this ancient reptile. Concentration before his dangerous act!

Crocodile wrestlers @ strange world


Crocodile wrestlers @ strange world

Crocodile wrestlers @ strange world

Crocodile wrestlers @ strange world

Crocodile wrestlers @ strange world


4/27/09

World's Smallest Newspaper

World's Smallest Newspaper - First News.

The tiny paper measures a news making minute 32 x 22 millimeters or 1.25 x 0.86 inches and sports an elephant on the first page.

World's Smallest Newspaper @ strange pictures


World's Smallest Newspaper @ strange pictures

World's Smallest Newspaper @ strange pictures

First News is a weekly newspaper aimed at 7-14 year olds. It is in tabloid format, and aims to present current events in a child-friendly format, alongside news on entertainment, sport and computer games. It is published on Fridays and is sold for £1.10.

Three years since launch, First News is the widest-read publication for children in the UK with just under 800,000 readers a week. It is available on the news-stand, by home subscription and around a quarter of schools nationwide subscribe to it as well.

It was launched by editorial director Piers Morgan at 11 Downing Street, official residence of the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, where the then Chancellor Gordon Brown said that the paper would make a "great contribution to education" by making children aware of current events.


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crazy girl @ strange people

crazy girl @ strange people

crazy girl @ strange people

crazy girl @ strange people

crazy girl @ strange people

crazy girl @ strange people

crazy girl @ strange people

crazy girl @ strange people

crazy girl @ strange people


4/24/09

MEKONG GIANT FISH

MEKONG GIANT FISH

Fishers in northern Thailand netted this huge catfish in the Mekong River on May 1. Nearly nine feet long (2.7 meters) and as big as a grizzly bear, the behemoth tipped the scales at 646 pounds (293 kilograms). Experts say the fish, which belongs to the species known as the Mekong giant catfish, may be the largest freshwater fish ever recorded.

Thai fishers struggled for more than an hour to haul in the record-breaking Mekong giant catfish. Officials from Thailand 's Inland Fishery Deparment then used aperformance-enhancing drug to stimulate the pituitary gland of the female fish in order to prepare it for a breeding program (above). Despite efforts to keep the bear-size catfish alive, it died and was later eaten by villagers.

MEKONG GIANT FISH @ strange pictures

Thai fisheries officials had hoped to release this adult female Mekong giant catfish after they stripped it of eggs (above) for a captive-breeding program. But the whopping fish, which was as big a grizzly bear, didn't survive.

MEKONG GIANT FISH @ strange pictures

Listed a critically endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the Mekong giant catfish is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes. Other contenders include the Chinese paddlefish and the dog-eating catfish—another Mekong River giant.

After a record-breaking Mekong giant catfish died, residents of Hat Khrai, a Thai village on the Mekong River , butchered the fish for its meat.