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There are NO wild Buffalo in America, nor has there ever been any wild Buffalo in America, for American so-called Buffalo are in fact Bison. The only true 'Buffalo' are the African Buffalo and the Asian Water Buffalo. Bisen, at best, are only a distant relation to these.

Although, the word 'Bison' is Greek for an ox-like animal, while Buffalo originated from the word 'boeuf', meaning 'ox' or 'bullock' used by French Fur Trappers. Which means both the names 'Buffalo' and 'Bison' have a very similar meaning. The term 'Buffalo' dates back to 1635 whereas the term 'Bison' only dates back to 1774.

Yet the American Bison is much more closely related to the Wisent or European Bison.

For every chimp that is captured from the wild, another 10 would have been killed. On average.

Would that involve the family that it was taken from? (mothers etc.)

yay thanks MONKEY was hoping you'd post here after i found something quite interesting about gorillas and was intrigued to learn more.

cool, is sometimes hard for me to tell if people are joking or annoyed etc

lol, the world needs more elves to mine knowledge for us all.

this was actually mentioned on QI, but that certainly doesn't make it not worth sharing. plus you've included further interesting details
thanks rabbitears. i now owe you more chocolate milk than i can afford

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When more than one baby is captured and flown over to different countries, most die in transit. Yeah and the mother that got shot too and other family members.

pretty unpleasant so many animals are used & abused by humans it kinda makes me ashamed to be human at all. an animal might kill it's own young if it's weak or sickly but i doubt they'd torture another animal, or kill it for fur, ivory or 'medicine'. :/

actually house cats intentionally play with there food before it is dead. Other then humans they are the only known animal to kill for fun.

i think house cats are somewhat confused.. by their relatively new surroundings, but fudo does not know.

more from the Telegraph's QI column

'Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.'
Basque proverb

Vicar, rector, parson, priest
The term 'vicar' comes from the Latin vicarius, meaning 'substitute' or 'deputy'. One of the Pope's titles is Vicarius Christi, meaning 'Christ's representative on earth'.
In the Church of England, a vicar was an ordinary parish priest, differentiated from a rector (from the Latin for 'teacher') by the degree of remuneration they were entitled to receive.
A rector received both the greater and lesser tithes (from the Old English teoþa meaning 'tenth'), whereas the vicar took only the lesser share, the greater going to the lay holder, or patron, of the parish.

The term 'parson' was used from the late 12th century and was probably an abbreviation of persona ecclesiae, 'person of the church'.
'Priest' is a much older term and comes originally from the Greek term presbytes, meaning 'age' or 'seniority'. This derived from presbys for 'old' and which may originally have meant 'one who leads the cattle', from the word bous, meaning ox.

Dolphins have been known to kill for fun/murder. And so do chimpanzees actually, they're not that much different than us in that respect. Males travel around in "gangs" and if they come across a lone stranger they do brutally beat them for no real reason other than they don't know them, and they will just keep battering them until they're nearly dead or dead. I've seen footage on the internet, when they've finished they leave the scene hooting triumphantly and stuff. And in Gombe in the 1970s a female called Passion and her daughter Pom went around murdering babies in the group and eating them over a period of 4 or so years, that's actually not a normal behaviour and it wasn't expected. It never happened again after that.

nature is pretty brutal.. seems i'm allowing myself to get slightly 'depressed' by this
but it is quite interesting too

The line: Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni. Where did this come from?

Was it that he was a 'mad hatter' that was obsessed with pasta?

No, but it was a "Macaroni Club" of dandyish men wanting to bring the influence of the Continent to bear on their home country. The line was intended to discredit American revolutionaries.

I saw some awful footage on T.V once and a gang of Chimps attacked another and deliberately tore off his genitals, the theory was that it was for torturous / humiliation purposes. It baffles me to think that a Chimp could do something that sadistic for the sake of it.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2zAk7h/de ... s-to-cows/

All male mammals have a bone in their penis, except for humans.