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Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:01 AM PDT
Today's Odd News - Reuters News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Meet Koshik the elephant who "speaks" Korean Sandy uproots Connecticut tree, 200-year-old human remains uncovered U.S. Supreme Court hints at limits on dog sniffs for drugs

Meet Koshik the elephant who "speaks" Korean  Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:01 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech, saying words in Korean that can be understood by speakers of the language, researchers from the University of Vienna say. It is unclear why Koshik started mimicking human speech but cognitive biologists Angela Stoeger and Tecumseh Fitch suggest in research published in the journal Current Biology that it might be related to his experiences as a juvenile. ... Full Story	Top
Sandy uproots Connecticut tree, 200-year-old human remains uncovered  Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 05:26 AM PDT (Reuters) - A Connecticut town got an unexpected history lesson after fierce winds from monster storm Sandy toppled a 103-year-old oak tree and exposed skeletal remains below it, officials said on Wednesday. The remains likely belonged to a victim of yellow fever or smallpox who might have been buried on the New Haven town green between 1799 and 1821, police spokesman David Hartman said. Headstones for those buried below the green were moved to a local cemetery in 1821, but the bodies of potentially thousands of residents were never relocated, he said. ... Full Story	Top
U.S. Supreme Court hints at limits on dog sniffs for drugs  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 01:16 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While considering whether a police dog should be allowed to sniff outside a home for illegal drugs inside, some U.S. Supreme Court justices smelled a rat. At their Wednesday session, justices from across the ideological spectrum signaled that the privacy interest of a person in his home was too great to give police a broad license to let trained canines sniff around a home for evidence they could not see. But in a second case involving a sniffer dog, some of the justices indicated they were hesitant to set too high a bar on police to show that their dogs are reliable. ... Full Story	Top

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