Animals do the darnedest things: squawk market
| August 10, 2009 | 6:01 AM
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When it comes to investing, you normally don’t want to wing it, as your savings could get ruffled.
But a parrot has beaten most of the human investors in a South Korean contest to pick the best stocks.
Strawberry, a 5-year-old female bird from Papua New Guinea, came in third, according to Paxnet, an online stock-market information provider that organized the contest.
Strawberry took on 10 investors using virtual money. To make her picks, she used her beak to select balls that represented 30 blue-chip investments. When the feathers stopped flying in the competition, she had raked in a nice nest egg — a return of nearly 14 percent.
Now if only we could repeat that.
Read more at the London Telegraph.
More tales of animals doing the darnedest things:
- In Oregon, a mouse used $20 bills to build a nest inside an automatic teller machine. Read more at ABC News.
- A live sheep was found dangling from a telephone line in Norway. Read more at London’s The Sun. In England, a 71-year-old woman was held captive in a tree for two hours by a cow. Read more at The Sun.
- Talk about mane attraction — a couple named Zippy and Magic have galloped off to the alter in Britain’s first horse wedding. Read more at London’s Metro.
- Speaking of horses, a miniature one born in Britain is also a dwarf. Read more at London’s Daily Mail.
- In England, pigs will get headsets for hearing protection when a music festival is filmed on their farm. Read more at London’s Express.
- British researchers have found that Aesop’s fable about a thirsty crow actually could have happened. Read more at nature.com.
- In Indonesian Borneo, orangutans create the only known animal instruments. Read more at newscientist.com.
- In Florida, a crocodile believed to have been the largest in the Western Hemisphere has died at 47. Read more at miamiherald.com.
- Also in Florida, boaters say that a shark hitched a ride on the back of their vessel. Read more at upi.com.
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