Friday, August 15, 2003

Animals In The Workforce

It's hard enough these days finding a decent job, now you have to
compete against animals!

1. Primate Programming Inc
   <http://www.newtechusa.com/PPI/main.asp>
   "Spoof Web site offers apes to do computer programming"
   <http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/08/05/ape/>

2. "Sheep find work as firefighters in Italy"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773758.html>

3. "California Town Hires 500 Goats"
   <http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/6426637.htm>

4. "Guard Alpacas"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/stories/s677023.htm>

5. "Sniffer rats to find African mines"
   <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3123119.stm>

6. "Student learns Italian from pet bird"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_777339.html>

7. "Who's a clever girl then?"
   <http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12712488,00.html>
"A pet parrot has frightened off burglars - by asking them questions"