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During an interview when the president of America Mr. Obama killed the fly with CNBC yesterday, the animal right group PETA said they wish Obama had served a better example.

Bruce friedrich, VP for policy at PETA said that we even support for the life of small insects. He says that brushing the flies away is better than killing them. So they sent a katcha bug, a device which traps bugs and allows their safe release back in to nature to the white house.

PETA hopes the President will use the catcher but has no far not received communication back from the White House, although they did not ask for specific correspondence.

Friedrich admits that despite his fly-swatting ways, the President has been a champion for animal rights in the past. PETA claims to be pleased by Obama’s denouncement of factory farming, Canadian seal hunting andMichelle Obama’s stance against wearing fur.

While addressing the crowd at one of the Medical Education Workshop,  organised by Peta, on the “Alternatives to the use of animals in labs ” in JIPMER on !7th of Jan Prof.Raveendran said that the software ExPharm could minimize the use of lab animals. ExPharm is a computer assisted learning software package that aims at cutting down the number of lab animals used for experiments.

Expharm was developed in 1989 but was put to use only in 1994 due to the lack of hardware requirements. The package was first used to demonstrate the effect of drugs in blood pressure and heart rates of dogs.  They developed a set of computer simulated alternatives to animals. The experiments could be repeated and did away with the use of live animals. Prof. Reveendran states that the package is interractive, user friendly and consists of animated sequences that make the experiment seem real. The package can be used for any animal system. The usage of frogs,rats , pigs, mice,rabbits,dogs has gone down, thanks to ExPharm.

With the 1.2 Lakh extended to him Prof.Raveendran distributed 3000 free CDs to colleges in India and abroad. He also distributed 1000 Cds through Mahatma Gandhi Doerenkamp Center for Alternatives to the use of animals in Life Science Education(MGDCA). The software can also be downloaded from the MGDCA website for free . The advanced version “ ExPharm Pro”  is also to hit the commercial markets shortly.

Jallikattu  the traditional Tmailians Sport that is played after the Pongal Day involves the enraging the Bull and letting it loose inside a ring formed by fences and human chains. The young lads to exhibit their talents try and gain control over this bull during which inevitably results in accidents and even fatal injuries sustained to both the bull and people.

There were talks to ban this sport and even the bollowood Glam Boy John Abraham had thanked the minister of environment and forests Jayanthi Natarajan for her ministry’s decision to ban the use of bulls as performing animals.

But unable to let go the centuries old sport the tamil nadu gont. had come up with few more restrictions to make the sport safe.

well organised

The players had to register and only the registered were given uniforms and were allowed to enter the arena.

 Jallikattu held on 16 th jan 2012 has emerged as a new sport without hurting the true tamil feelings both physical and mental.

Hoping for a time when bulls dont have to fight for a living.

Paedophryne amauensis of Papua New Guinea could be the World’s smallest in the Invertibrate Clan. And pretty recently that species has been crowned as the the ” Smallest Invertibrate”. However the forg prince was not easy to spot. They were too tiny and they has to put a clump of leaf litter into a transparent plastic bag and shine light through it to spot these puny petites said research leader Chris Austin from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, US. 

 Explorations are still to expose many more such species says the experts. Till then the crown is all yours little frog prince!

Peta President Ingrid E.Newkrik thanks the 3 milloion supporters and poudly reviews all the peta activities of the year 2011. She urges all the supporters to keep up the kind work . She adds on to say that a few of the animal experimenters  dred Peta’s next move.

Olivia has been an active Peta Supporter. Again in an exclusive interview for Peta she brings into light the plight of the gentle giants behind the circus screens.

      There are over 200 species of Angler Fish. But the most amazing of them all is the Deep sea Angler. Since in the depths of the oceans the pressure is high and the life density is low and light is virtually nil The anglers have come up with a ingeneous solution.The female has a extension over the head that houses a torch like illumination. With this bait it lures the prey to itself.

Female Angler

The female is much larger and the male is smaller and looks a lot different. Initially the males and the Females were considered to be two different species. But studies showed otherwise.

Male angler biting and fusing into the Female

 

The male angler attaches itself to the female by biting on to it. It fuses into the female and loses all organs and finally just becomes a aprt of the female and a source of sperms. Earlier days scientists thought that those were parasites.

Vandaloor Zoo is the week end hike spot for the kids. But it has its own tragic tales. The death rate of the tiger cubs is alarming. Last July also witnessed the death of a week tiger cubs a few days after their mother abandoned them. 

 But the hard times are starting to fade away as few of the magnanimus doners are adopting the vandaloor zoo wild life. Parithuveeran fame Actor Karthi had offered to adopt a one-and-half-year old white tiger named Namrata and tore off a cheque that would cover six months’ expenses of the