Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Animal acts... from horsing around gone viral to 'can sheep feel sheepish?'

Gangnam Style

If you have not yet heard of a South Korean rapper named Psy and his dance rap, Gangnam Style, you are in another world. Here's the man doing his thing, which seems to be about horsing around:


His video on YouTube (even though the lyrics are in Korean) has gone viral worldwide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

One site has even helpfully provided an English translation of the lyrics:

http://www.kpoplyrics.net/psy-gangnam-style-lyrics-english-romanized.html

Wikipedia has an entry on this phenomenon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style

And even the North Koreans have been swept up by the Gangnam Style fever:


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Zoom with a view: From mysterious specks on this dam in Italy to...

 
Amazingly sure-footed, huh? They are Alpine Ibex, which are wild mountain goats found in parts of Europe. The ones here are having a dam good time!

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Can a bunch of lost sheep feel sheepish?

Well, a flock of sheep did take a wrong turn on their way down from their summer mountain pastures. They ended up in an Austrian sports shop. From the pic below, I'd say they do look sheepish:
 

The AFP story is available on the xin.msn site:

http://news.xin.msn.com/en/weird/flock-of-sheep-takes-wrong-turn-into-austrian-shop-1
 

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