In a test of short-term memory, young chimpanzees have been proven to be better than adult humans. Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against college students in a numerical skills challenge and the animals won hands down.

The constant admonition for kids to eat their veggies probably will not be heard often in the Krishna-Avanti school in northwest London. The school requires enrollees to be vegetarians. The school policy is criticized by Hindus who find the strict requirement favoring the Hare Krishna tradition. The school's leaning toward practices of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, more known as Hare Krishna, is not surprising since the movement's vegan followers are behind the school administration.

Hundreds of displaced monkeys from a demolished wildlife park have made an Indonesian village their new sanctuary burglarizing homes and demanding food from villagers. An Antara report quote a resident of Mangliawan village in East Java province as telling a local news website that the macaque invasion started three months ago when their sanctuary in the nearby Wendit recreational park was partly cleared to give way to new structures.

Angered because his wife did not buy beer, a man shot one of the family's two pet goats. The man, 48-year old Peter W. Mischler, was said to have come home from a hunting trip, and was enraged to find out that his 22-year old daughter had let the goats out, allowing the animals to make a mess.

Two playful squirrels caused power outages in two states Monday, affecting more than 1,500 customers and interrupting supply for nearly an hour. Squirrels are the leading causes of outages in the United States, next only to severe weather. Thus, power companies make it a point that these curious animals either do not come in contact with the lines or have no way of entering their facilities.