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Can Cats Get Alzheimer's Too?

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Your feline's aging process just got a bit more inneresting…

Japanese scientists have studied wild cats and found that they have the same proteins in their brains as humans with Alzheimer's disease.

So your old cranky cat that wanders around aimlessly could actually be stricken with the mental health disease.

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Human Stem Cells Restore Gerbils' Hearing

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In a new study, scientists were able to improve the hearing in deaf animals by using human stem cells!

Maybe we're that much closer to breeding centaurs and other cool human animal hybrids!

The treatment they used would only be able to treat

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Male Snails Babysit For Other Papa Snails!

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In a new study, researchers found that on average only about in four of the hundreds of snail eggs that a male snail carries on his back are actually his.

Some snails carry the kids of as many as 25 other snails!

Sounds like nature is a depraved sex fest!

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Study Finds Monkeys Are Not Fond Of Inequality

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The monkeys don't play that game!!!

Researchers found out (ten years ago) that monkeys don't care for unequal rights too!

The study tested two monkeys who were trained to trade rocks for treats.

One monkey got a nice…cucumber. His buddy got a grape… And as everyone, even a monkey, knows, grapes are better than cucumber.

The cucumber monkey goes crazy, slamming his cage and pounding the ground. He tries to trade another rock for a grape and he STILL gets a cucumber.

HE DON'T WANT NO STINKING CUCUMBER!!!!!!!!

Watch (above) as monkeys understand equal rights innately….

We wonder why humans can't be like this…

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Pet Ownership On The Decline Since 2006

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So what's got everyone second guessing about owning a pet?

The American Veterinary Medical Association will release a study that shows the decline in pet owners from 2006 to 2011.

In the research, surveys show that

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What Your Pet Says About Your Personality

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You've heard about cat people vs. dog people but how do cat and dog people THINK?

Thanks to psychologists, we might have the answer!

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Michael Vick Speaks Openly About Dogfighting Past

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Michael Vick's autobiography, Finally Free, just had some excerpts released.

He speaks about all the dogfighting, the time he spent in prison and what it will be like now that he's with the Philadelphia Eagles.

In case you don't remember, Michael Vick was arrested and jailed for felony dogfighting.

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