the evidence is really piling up

sings with wolves

[via Ananova:]

A Chinese zoo is creating a singing wolf troupe - and is also planning to teach them how to dance.

Luo Yong, a keeper at Chongqing Wild Zoo, said he discovered the wolves’ singing ability by accident, reports People’s Daily.

“Once I was playing guitar and singing the song ‘I Am A Wolf From The North’, and a young wolf I raised walked up to me and stared at me. Suddenly he howled with the rhythm, and even patted the strings with his claw,” he said.

Luo said that ever since he dedicated himself to training his wolf group, and now all 30 wolves at the zoo can sing along to a rhythm.

“My next plan is to find someone to write a song just for them, and also to find people to teach them disco dancing,” he added optimistically.

pica:

It doesn’t come up often, but I am embarrassed to realize I have been calling it PANTOMINE instead of PANTOMIME.

Same goes with TURMERIC. I always thought it was TUMERIC.

Maddux: … and thus the brilliant sheen I always envision gleaming off the irrepressible Pica loses the tiniest bit of its power to dazzle.  ‘Tis a sad, sad day, friends….