

Winter has been taking its toll on animals unfortunate enough to find themselves in Chinese zoos, though not just because of the weather – reports have emerged of sluggish crocodiles being stoned to death “because they looked fake,” whilst elsewhere delighted visitors have been spotted enjoying the opportunity to pelt the lions with snowballs.
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Kyoto Animation’s latest magnum opus Tamako Market has been arousing a mixed reaction from those who were as late as the OP’s airing describing it as “the new K-ON!” – none can deny its immaculate animation quality and the cuteness of its ‘blobs, but relatively few seem to be enchanted by the prospect of an anime starring an overbearing talking bird, or by the hit-or-miss humour of the show…
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South Korea is apparently now as enthusiastic about non-whaling as Japan – official statistics for 2012 reveal that an average of 6.4 whales a day “were caught by accident” in Korean coastal waters, with the official tally reaching 2350.
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Police are coming under fire for killing an anteater they captured by caging it outdoors in freezing temperatures, the intellectual strain of phoning the zoo which reported it missing apparently having proven too much for them.
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Shoppers in a Chinese department store have been injured by an exploding shark tank, which spewed water, glass and sharks onto hapless shoppers, injuring over a dozen onlookers and staff.
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Animal rights maniacs PETA have been condemning Nintendo’s Pokémon franchise for abusing fictional animals, releasing “Pokémon Black & Blue” to prove their point.
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A Chinese cat going by the name of Melonpi (“西瓜皮”), or Pipi for short, is gaining much fame as China’s cutest feline, and may well be one of the cutest cats ever.
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The birth and death of a baby panda in Japan has jumped from being a media circus to a minor diplomatic crisis after Ishihara began tying them to the Senkaku Islands and Chinese began insisting the Japanese must have killed it to get back at them.
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As if toxic pollution were not enough to worry about, China’s rivers now face possible infestation by piranhas, with sightings and even attacks on humans apparently on the rise.
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Japanese are outraged that mere foreigners would dare to criticise their culture of eating live animals after seeing a video of a vivisected squid struggling for life on a plate, even if many of them appear to be of the opinion that it is the very acme of bad taste.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 5, 2012 00:40 JST
- Tags: Animals, Bizarre, China, Crime, Guro, Internet, Inu, Mental Illness, Nanjing

Chinese Internet users have once again been outraged at the grotesque cruelty of a woman who uploaded pictures of herself gouging out the eyes and hacking off the ears and limbs of a husky puppy, and the total absence of any response from the authorities.
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Manga fans are now hailing “Crimsons,” a stirring shonen manga tale about the adventures of a young salmon, as possibly the most bizarre manga title ever to find itself published.
Naturally, there is a scene in which a female salmon is molested by a gang of shrimp…
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