Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 27, 2014
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Transcript:
The White Handed Gibbon of Southern Asia is so agile it sometimes plucks birds from the air to eat as it swings from tree to tree! Mike Newman, of Manchester, England, who is blind, drove a Porsche at 186 mph at an airfield in Leicestershire in September 2013. Ciguatera poisoning, caused by eating tropical fish, can make Coldwater feel burning hot and vice versa!
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Years ago I saw a slow-mo video of a baboon running pell mell through a flock of flamingos, the large birds taking off just in front of him water flying everywhere, until one bird hesitates seconds too long in his lift-off and gets snatched by the leaping carnivore. The rest of the video was the baboon leisurely perched on a rock, plucking the unlucky bird.