Beauty is an Alaskan bald eagle whose beak was shot off several years ago. She was found in 2005, unable to properly hunt or eat. She was taken to a refuge, but her beak did not grow back. Now she will get a new one!
The nylon-composite beak will be glued on, so it won’t be strong enough to rip flesh like a normal eagle, but will allow her to drink normally and eat food she is given. Link -via Digg
"For Beauty it's like using only one chopstick to eat. It can't be done" said biologist Jane Fink Cantwell, who operates a raptor recovery center in this Idaho Panhandle town. "She has trouble drinking. She can't preen her feathers. That's all about to change."
Cantwell has spent the past two years assembling a team to design and build an artificial beak. They plan to attach it to Beauty next month. With the beak, the 7-year-old bald eagle could live to the age of 50, although not in the wild.
"She could not survive in the wild without human intervention," Cantwell said.
The nylon-composite beak will be glued on, so it won’t be strong enough to rip flesh like a normal eagle, but will allow her to drink normally and eat food she is given. Link -via Digg
Comments (13)
For Beauty, she's a lucky one. I hope Neatorama follows her progress.
With those two words L.C. you seem to poetically point out one of the "eternal truths" of humanity - and simultaneously place yourself in the "suck" section.
More Prophet comics!
Please try to cover up your ignorance a little more in the future.
My main concern about Islam is that most of the believers go by the book. Strictly. It's a tribal book whose teachings are not adapted to modern western standards.
I know it well because as a Christian I believe in the Old testament. I believe in the message, not strictly in the writings. Or I wouldn't believe in the dinosaurs (sorry creationists), I would believe it's ok to stone somebody for improper use of "God" (Leviticus 24:10), and for working on saturday as well (Numbers 15:32), or ok to stone your child with ADD (Deuteronomy 21:18) or I would even ok genocide (Numbers 31:1), etc, etc.
I mean, come on! Those Holy stories, although holy and respectable, are based on tribes that lived thousands of years ago. It is, IMO, not something to take litterally, but a base for thinking, prayer and life improvement.
It is not because prophet Muhammad married a 9 years old that it's ok to do it today! O tempo O mores! You have to go beyond the text and look for humanity improvement!
Lastly : did they really play the Star Wars bad guys theme???? Even true, how unPC!!!
They will continue to say - and maybe even believe - crazy stuff like that as long as they're unchallenged. Muslims need to challenge their ideas and themselves. Trouble is, they're happy in their hatred. Look how that educated British Muslim on the TV show was quick to bring in comments about Jews.
I worked with a young Muslim who believed that no Jews were harmed during the World Trade Centre attacks - apparently, they all knew in advance...
What sort of intelligent reasoning can you have with people who are that myopic?
Either that or the rest of us develop technology that lets us leave them behind here on Earth as we venture out into the universe and forget that whole stupid caliphate and sharia thing ever existed...
just leave them to do their thing and we'll do ours. don't let ignorant hateful thoughts cloud your better judgement.
Awesome! While we're all getting this shit off our chests... I hate racist dumbasses! Damn, that felt good!