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It's a Jungle Out There: Thieves in Chicken and Gorilla Suits Steal Bike

By Lee SpeigelOct 12th 2010 – 4:08PM

(Oct. 12) – A Long Island, N.Y., teenager's bike was stolen by two gorillas and a chicken. The Associated Press reports that the young man was riding along Route 25A early Monday afternoon when three people dressed in animal costumes approached him. These weren't folks out for an early trick-or-treat. Suffolk...

Chinese Cock Soccer Has PETA Crying Fowl

By Ed MazzaJul 19th 2010 – 7:45AM
AFP / Getty Images

AFP / Getty Images

(July 19) -- China didn't get a chance to strut its stuff at the World Cup -- its team didn't qualify for the international soccer tournament that just wrapped up in South Africa. But if the World Cup ever allows animals to compete, look out, because China may be the world's biggest cock soccer powerhouse. China's Zhang...

Chew on This: You Aren't Eating Enough Bugs

By David MoyeJul 12th 2010 – 6:51AM
Travel Channel

Travel Channel

(July 12) -- Americans aren't eating enough insects, and that bugs foodies like Andrew Zimmern. Zimmern, host of the popular Travel Channel series "Bizarre Foods," travels the world tasting the local vittles in various countries. Some are quite foreign to American taste buds, and, at least in the case of insects, he...

The Dugout: Dedicated to Cockfighting

By B. Thompson StroudFeb 17th 2008 – 1:54AM

A couple of weeks ago, fellow Dugouteer Nick got a chance to write about Pedro Martinez and his involvement with cockfighting, which is like just like the UFC, except the participants don't have free will and there's no sense of pride and competition clouding up the bloodshed and gut-spilling. Also, they have knives. So...

Background on chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl.

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