The 16.5-meter inflatable duck in Hong Kong's Victoria Bay remains entertaining. Look at the above. Just look at it. It was due to air leakage, says Sina. It lasted 12 days, as of yesterday. Pity the duck. Pity us all. ...

What happens when a bear races a monkey on a bicycle? First of all, stop. Why is a bear racing a monkey… Oh fuck it. Take over, Huffington Post: During the performance, two monkeys take the lead as onlookers laugh and cheer. The bear is hot on their heels, however, and a second-lap crash quickly turns grisly. After the bear collides with the fallen monkey and flies over its handlebars, it goes ballistic, ma ...

Via Austin Ramzy of Time, here's Beijing Evening News’s photoshopped picture of a dog pissing on a car. The title of the article, as if it matters at all, is, "No harm to tires; still, don't let it 'go' wherever it wants." It's about dogs peeing on tires. That picture, however, says so much more, does it not? ...

This is already more than a week old, but it's too good to dismiss on those grounds. Check out this red panda at the Fuzhou Panda World in Fujian province, being all adorable to ridiculous levels. His name is Firefox, and it's no mere raccoon. In this 30-second clip, it basically makes everyone forget that other type of panda. We're told the red pandas at this reserve can also balance on balls and ride elec ...

I don't really have anything to add to Hong Wrong's piece about the 16.5-meter duck in Victoria Harbor, "In Pictures: HK Goes Completely Insane For Big Yellow Duck’s Arrival," or Shanghaiist's guide to SCMP's articles about these rubber ducks (with rolling updates), except to say this is awesome: ...

China is mixing deadly H5N1 bird flu viruses with H1N1 swine flu viruses. You heard that right. The virus can already be passed between guinea pigs, which are used in these experiments as some sort of guinea pigs. They are making pigs and birds science-bone each other until they come up with some sort of superbug. A dangerous superbug that could potentially wipe out millions of lives, and the scientific com ...

It's only natural for zookeepers to worry about caged animals getting loose. What is fairly obviously not normal, however, is having humans don animal suits to simulate this scenario, for "training" purposes. These pictures were taken recently from Taiyuan Zoo in Shanxi province. Look at this one: there's a guy in a white lab coat employing a blowdart. ...

Praise and derision on Sina Weibo for this picture, posted yesterday to the People's Liberation Army Chengdu military account. But praise and derision is what you'll get for any popular Sina Weibo post, basically. Can we just sit back and admire this? ...

This is alarming. According to Nandu.com, 238 dead pigs and 89 dead dogs were found in Dongtun village in Luoyang, Henan province yesterday. By all accounts, they died suddenly and at the same time. Initial tests have ruled out the H7N9 virus as a cause. Thank goodness for that and all, to know the zombie apocalypse has not yet arrived, but the question still remains: why are pigs and dogs dropping dead? ...

On the morning of April 9, a sow in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province gave birth to a dozen piglets, including this one with two heads. The adorable youngling is reportedly 28 centimeters long and weights 1 kilogram. Don't get too attached though, because it's not expected to live long. Those with polycephaly don't usually survive to adulthood. The pig is owned by a villager surnamed Ouyang, who hopefully thinks b ...

You asked for it -- you, Jeff Crosby -- so here you go: chengguan chases chicken, set to Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax. Go, chengguan, go. ...

This is just practice, says the video description. In the real world, a chengguan's inability to nab a scurrying chicken could result in the proliferation of that killer virus, H7N9 bird flu. Go, chenguan, go. We trust you. ...

Another variety of dead creature has been fished out of Shanghai's waters in bulk. Over the last three days in Songjiang District, about 300 kilograms of dead fish ("500 to 600 jin," say media) have been dredged out of a dike between the Si and Jing rivers. Authorities speculate that the cause may be have been illegal blast fishing. A reporter for the National Digital Culture Network arrived at the scene on ...

This will be fun: let's track new cases of bird flu, specifically this new, confounding H7N9 strain. Four more cases have been reported by a health bureau in Jiangsu province, according to AP. It remains non-contagious and not actually caused by birds. The health bureau of eastern Jiangsu province said in a notice on its website that three women, aged 45, 48 and 32, and an 83-year-old retired man, from diff ...

This is how escalation works. First there are 900 dead pigs in a Shanghai river. Then there are 16,000 dead pigs, plus a thousand or so dead ducks. Then there are dead humans... aaaannd this game is over. The government of Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, announced on March 28 that "around 100 bodies on average are dredged from the river in the city every year, whether they were careless swimmers, people ...

"Squid bomb" can refer to squid jigs for catching squids, a World War II anti-submarine weapon, or this annoying video featuring Squidward Tentacles. It's never meant to be taken literally, i.e. a bomb inside a squid. Until now. Now it can mean exactly that: a bomb inside a squid. In Guangdong province's Jiaoling County, a market seller discovered, while gutting a squid, a metal object that looked like a bo ...

As if 16,000 ducking pigs in the river wasn't enough of a prodigious ducking fact, Danwei tells us more than a thousand dead fucks have now been found in a Chinese river. The front page of the Tianfu Morning News (天府早报) from Sichuan province today reports that on the afternoon of 19 March, more than a thousand dead ducks were found floating down the South River at Pengshan county (彭山县) near the city of Meis ...

"Well," says the at the 4-minute mark of his opening monologue, "it seems the number of dead pigs found floating in a river in Shanghai has now risen to over 13,000." An Angry Birds joke follows, which is lame. "Chinese officials said the dead pigs won’t affect the quality of drinking water in the river," he said, while the crowd chuckled. "How bad is your drinking water if 13,000 dead rotting pigs don’t af ...

Because getting the updated dead swine count in Shanghai's Huangpu River is like morning coffee, here's AFP: The number of dead pigs found in a river which runs through Shanghai has reached nearly 15,000, officials and reports said Tuesday, as a newspaper claimed the government was concealing the true tally. ...

-- How do you like your eggs? -- Unfertilized? -- Oh. Um. -- What's wrong? -- Nothing, it's just that I was hoping you'd say within an egg. A chicken in Guizhou province has laid a monster half-pound egg, but it's not a world record, explains the Los Angeles Times: ...