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	<title>Ninja Monkeys! &#187; nature</title>
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		<title>Dove at first sight</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/09/14/dove-at-first-sight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a tale straight out of Disney – an abandoned baby monkey, close to death, is revived by the love of a bird. The 12-week-old macaque was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province, China, after being abandoned by his mother. Taken to an animal hospital, he was weaned back to physical health but still [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p> It&#8217;s a tale straight out of Disney – an abandoned baby monkey, close to death, is revived by the love of a bird.<br />
The 12-week-old macaque was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province, China, after being abandoned by his mother.<br />
Taken to an animal hospital, he was weaned back to physical health but still showed little appetite for life.<br />
It was not until a fellow patient, a white pigeon, took him under her wing and showed him love and affection that he perked up.<br />
Now the two are inseparable, say staff.  <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=65876&amp;in_page_id=34">Link</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Cappuccino coast</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/09/14/cappuccino-coast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Impurities (salt, decomposed seaweed, fish poop) turned the coast line of Sydney into a mass of froth as DailyMail reports.]]></description>
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<p>Impurities (salt, decomposed seaweed, fish poop) turned the coast line of Sydney into a mass of froth as <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=478041&amp;in_page_id=1811">DailyMail reports.</a></p>
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		<title>Ultimate Survival?</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/09/07/ultimate-survival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not quite, more like a guy eating things my dog wouldn&#8217;t touch. A new season of Ultimate Survival has just started on the Discovery Channel. Watch Bear Grylls crunching bugs, eating worms and tearing into zebra flesh in this disgusting promo video. For the real ultimate survival, go watch I Am Legend. When you&#8217;re the [...]]]></description>
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<p>Not quite, more like a guy eating things my dog wouldn&#8217;t touch. </p>
<blockquote><p>A new season of Ultimate Survival has just started on the Discovery Channel. Watch Bear Grylls crunching bugs, eating worms and tearing into zebra flesh in this disgusting promo video.</p></blockquote>
<p>For the real ultimate survival, go watch <a href='http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/'>I Am Legend</a>. When you&#8217;re the last man on earth survival is difficult enough, but throw a horde of vampires in and hilarious comedy is guaranteed&#8230;sortof.</p>
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		<title>The most awe-inspiring video you&#8217;ll see this week</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/09/07/the-most-awe-inspiring-video-youll-see-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lion was reared by the guys in the vid, he was then released into the wild in Africa but a year later the guys returned to see if he was doing OK. Check out the look on the lions face as he realises-&#8221;thats not food its my MATES!!&#8221; What&#8217;s mad is the wild lions [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>This lion was reared by the guys in the vid, he was then released into the wild in Africa but a year later the guys returned to see if he was doing OK.<br />
Check out the look on the lions face as he realises-&#8221;thats not food its my MATES!!&#8221;<br />
What&#8217;s mad is the wild lions he&#8217;s friends with never met the humans but they are totally passive towards them.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Spiders on drugs</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/08/30/spiders-on-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1960s, Dr. Peter Witt gave drugs to spiders and observed their effects on web building. This short film about the results of the experiment was created by First Church Of Christ, Filmmaker. Funny as hell.]]></description>
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<p><span id="vidDescRemain" style="display: inline">In the 1960s, Dr. Peter Witt gave drugs to spiders and observed their effects on web building. This short film about the results of the experiment was created by First Church Of Christ, Filmmaker.</span></p>
<p>Funny as hell.</p>
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		<title>Tired of exfoliating? Try the flesh-eating fish spa treatment</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/08/24/tired-of-exfoliating-try-the-flesh-eating-fish-spa-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slightly unusual spa treament. Climb into the 43-degree-hot waters and let  thousands of Garra Rufa tropical fish nibble on your dead skin cells. They supposedly don&#8217;t touch healthy skin, and the process is painless apart from a slight tingle, but I&#8217;d still where the tightest damn swimming costume I&#8217;d find so the little critters [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/flesheatingfish.jpg" title="flesheatingfish.jpg"><img src="http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/flesheatingfish.thumbnail.jpg" title="flesheatingfish.jpg" alt="flesheatingfish.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a>A slightly <a href="http://english.cri.cn/3100/2007/08/10/1461@260072.htm">unusual spa treament</a>. Climb into the 43-degree-hot waters and let  thousands of Garra Rufa tropical fish nibble on your dead skin cells. They supposedly don&#8217;t touch healthy skin, and the process is painless apart from a slight tingle, but I&#8217;d still where the tightest damn swimming costume I&#8217;d find so the little critters don&#8217;t decide to camp out in my urethra.</p>
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		<title>Wall of plants as building air filter</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/08/17/wall-of-plants-as-building-air-filter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three-storey wall of plants in the IL Centre of Queen&#8217;s University is not just an aesthetically-pleasing feat of clever gardening, it also filters out carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds as fans suck air through the wall into the offices behind. Natureaire designs these self-repairing, self-rejuvenating air cleansers to last at least 20 years, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/filtersystem.jpg" title="biowall filter system"><img src="http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/filtersystem.thumbnail.jpg" title="biowall filter system" alt="biowall filter system" align="right" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a>The three-storey <a href="http://livebuilding.queensu.ca/mechanical/biowall/">wall of plants</a> in the IL Centre of Queen&#8217;s University is not just an aesthetically-pleasing feat of clever gardening, it also filters out carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds as fans suck air through the wall into the offices behind. <a href="http://www.naturaire.com/systems.html">Natureaire</a> designs these self-repairing, self-rejuvenating air cleansers to last at least 20 years, and because the contaminants are broken down there are now hazardous filters to clean out. A great idea and it looks fantastic; hopefully we&#8217;ll see more of these in office buildings soon!</p>
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		<title>Bio-fuel backfires</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/08/16/bio-fuel-backfires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you&#8217;re saving the planet by using bio-fuel? You are, with one small catch, you&#8217;re killing off the orangutans. With the increase in demand for palm oil, forests in Borneo are being cleared for new plantations, often by using the dirty tactic of burning the forests and buying up the degraded land at a discount. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/eaorang114.jpg" title="eaorang114.jpg" alt="eaorang114.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" />Think you&#8217;re saving the planet by using bio-fuel? You are, with one small catch, you&#8217;re <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/14/eaorang114.xml">killing off the orangutans</a>. With the increase in demand for palm oil, forests in Borneo are being cleared for new plantations, often by using the dirty tactic of burning the forests and buying up the degraded land at a discount. As jungles are rapidly replaced by palm oil plantations, the great apes starve and are hunted, mutilated, burnt and snared by workers protecting their crops.</p>
<p>It seems that every time a developed country feels guilty about raping the land and designs some new &#8220;green&#8221; initiative, it gets abused by a developing country trying to make a quick buck out of it. We&#8217;ll need investment and legislation to force the use of <a href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/environment/f2105a914b6b3110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html">skyscraper farms</a> to stop these abuses, but first we need a cost-effective way of building them. Bring on the <a href="http://www.ourmolecularfuture.com/">nano-tech</a>!</p>
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		<title>Blanket Octopus defence mechanism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When threatened, this type of Tremoctopus, or blanket octopus (murasakidako in Japanese), unfurls a giant sheet of webbing that trails behind like a cape. The cape easily breaks apart when attacked — much like a lizard&#8217;s tail — and it gets wrapped around the predator&#8217;s face, allowing the octopus to flee]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>When threatened, this type of Tremoctopus, or blanket octopus (murasakidako in Japanese), unfurls a giant sheet of webbing that trails behind like a cape. The cape easily breaks apart when attacked — much like a lizard&#8217;s tail — and it gets wrapped around the predator&#8217;s face, allowing the octopus to flee</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Pistol Shrimp&#8217;s deadly weapon</title>
		<link>http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/2007/07/20/pistol-shrimps-deadly-weapon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaughn Dickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pistol shrimps stun their prey by snapping their piston-like claws shut, thus blowing a blast of water at a speed of 100km/h that momentarily reaches the sun&#8217;s temperature. Probably not something you want to keep in your aquarium.]]></description>
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<p><span id="vidDescRemain" style="display: inline"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1003_SnappingShrimp.html">Pistol shrimps</a> stun their prey by snapping their piston-like claws shut, thus blowing a blast of water at a speed of 100km/h that momentarily reaches the sun&#8217;s temperature. Probably not something you want to keep in your aquarium. </span></p>
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