The cutest zoo animal on the planet

Her name is "Roxaane" with two A's (as in "aardvark"), in keeping with her mother's name, "Rachaael". The adorable baby – whose name means “bright star” – was born Jan. 8, 2011, at the Detroit Zoo.

A web feature with video and photos of Roxanne can be found on the Detroit Zoo’s website at www.detroitzoo.org/roxanne. The baby aardvark will be seen with her parents and sister along with the Zoo’s other aardvark, 1-year-old male Erdferkel, in their African Grasslands habitat this spring.

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Pizzeria Owner Leaves Mice At Rival Shops

UPPER DARBY, Pa. -- A pizzeria owner with mice problems he blamed on competitors tried to sabotage two rival shops by dumping mice in them.

Upper Darby police said a man walked into Verona Pizza on Monday afternoon and asked to use the bathroom. After he left, the owner said he found footprints on the toilet and noticed that the drop ceiling had been disturbed, and he found a bag tucked up above.

The owner turned the bag over to two police officers who happened to be eating lunch there, and they found three white mice inside, police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.

Police say the man then walked across the street to Uncle Nick's Pizza and dumped another bag into a trash can inside the establishment, and police found five live mice and one dead one inside.

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Xolo - Ugly or not - in vogue again?

The Aztecs ate them. Frida Kahlo enshrined them in her art. So did Diego Rivera, who in a celebrated mural in Mexico City painted one baring its teeth at the invading Spaniards as they landed at Veracruz.

Even the most ardent admirers of the Xoloitzcuintli (SHOW-low-eats-QUEENT-lee) concede that the dog is plug-ugly. One description of this hairless canine of ancient lineage, a national treasure in its native Mexico, characterizes the Xolo as a hot water bottle with pig eyes, bat ears and a rat tail.

With an estimated population of fewer than 1,000 dogs in the United States, the Xolo is barely a statistical blip relative to the overall canine population (46.5 million households own purebred dogs, according to figures compiled last year by the American Pet Products Association.)

The Xolo enjoyed a brief moment of vogue in 1940, when Chinito Jr., a dog bred and owned by a New Yorker named Valetska Radtke, became the first and only A.K.C. champion since the dog made its debut in the club’s stud registry back when Grover Cleveland was president.

The A.K.C. erased the breed from its stud book 50 years ago when interest in this once-popular dog faded and the Xoloitzcuintli, also known as the Mexican hairless, all but disappeared. They've added it back again this year as a recognized A.K.C. breed.

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Just too cute for words

A two-week-old Little Penguin rests against a stuffed animal in an incubator at the Cincinnati Zoo, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in Cincinnati. The chick weighs about a quarter of a pound but is expected to weigh just over two pounds as an adult. Little Penguins are found along the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand. The Cincinnati Zoo is home to one of only four Little Penguin colonies in the U.S. and has successfully hatched 22 Little Penguins to date.

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Going to the Dogs

For more than 20 years, candidates running for office in the Hillbrook-Tall Oaks Civic Association in Annandale, WA, have stood, waved and received polite applause at the annual meeting in June. Everyone votes, eats ice cream, chats with neighbors and goes home.

This past election, to make the meeting move faster, only the names and qualifications of the candidates were announced. Running for president, Ms. Beatha Lee was described as a relatively new resident, interested in neighborhood activities and the outdoors, and who had experience in Maine overseeing an estate of 26 acres.

Though unfamiliar with Lee's name, the crowd of about 50 raised their hands, assuming that the candidate was a civic-minded newcomer. These days, it's hard to get anyone to volunteer to devote the time needed to serve as an officer. The slate that Lee headed was unanimously elected. Everyone ate ice cream, watched a karate demonstration and went home.
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Only weeks later did many discover that their new president was, in fact, a dog.

Ms. Beatha Lee is a shaggy, dirty-white wheaten terrier.

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