Seagull gets tanned in chicken tikka masala
LONDON: A seagull trying to get its claws into some leftover chicken tikka masala ended up with the worst tan ever after it took a nosedive into the container and came out orange.
In a Facebook post shared on the page of the Vale Wildlife Hospital & Rehabilitation Centre in Gloucester, UK, veterinary nurse Lucy Kells posted pictures of the angry bird. Apparently, the tikka-ed up bird smelled really good. We don't doubt that one bit.
"We've cleaned him up and he is doing well, with no upset tummy! Hopefully he'll stick to a much more bland diet in the future!!" Kells wrote in her post, which shows the bird's before and after photos.
Kells also asked other group members to suggest names for the orange seagull and instantly prompted a pun-tastic thread. 'Instant Korma' said one comment. 'Gullfrezi' suggested another.
The staff at the hospital is now helping the bird regain its health. "He is a bit skinny so we are building his strength up a bit," Lucy Kells told The Guardian. "I guess that's why he was trying to get a piece of meat from the vat and fell in."
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Instagram sorry for removing bikini pics of plus-size blogger
SINGAPORE: Instagram has apologized for deleting pictures of Singaporean-Indian blogger Aarti Olivia Dubey in a bikini after she conducted a two-week protest. In its apology, Instagram claimed to have removed the picture 'accidentally.'
The plus-size blogger, who describes herself as a "fat brown feminist with a penchant for fashion" on her blog Curves Becomes Her, was furious when Instagram removed a picture of herself and two other plus size models from a bikini shoot on May 21.
On June 1, Dubey shared the official apology from Instagram on her account with another note. "It's almost two weeks. So I accept your apology Instagram but it does not change a thing. You have placed the image back but at what cost? You are answerable to all of my plus size friends for removing their images or accounts on Instagram or Facebook," she wrote.
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Uruguay's blind 'Bird Man' can identify 3,000 bird sounds
MONTEVIDEO: Born blind, Juan Pablo Culasso has never seen a bird. But through his gifted sense of hearing, he can identify more than 3,000 different bird sounds and differentiate more than 720 species.
The 29-year-old said he realized he had perfect, or absolute pitch, when he was a boy. Tossing stones in a river, he was able to tell his father exactly the note each one made when it hit the water.
Absolute pitch, the rare ability to hear a tone and immediately know it's a C-sharp, for example, is so unusual that only one of every 10,000 people has it, Culasso said, adding that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was among them.
Culasso said his dad later read to him about birds from an encyclopedia that came with an audio cassette of their calls.
"That's when I realized that I could memorize birds by their sounds," he said.
