Starting Wednesday, visitors at the Paris Zoo in Paris, France will have a new attraction named Aldo who looks, eats and behaves like a hippopotamus but is only about as long as a human baby. This three-week old pygmy hippo, which is just 21 inches long, was bred and born June 5 at the Paris Zoo in a special program to boost the rare species. Since the start of the breeding project in the early 1990s, 47 males have been born and 66 females. Aldo's older siblings reside in Spain and Britain.

Britain's Prince Charles has had to halt the renovation work on his recently purchased Welsh farmhouse after bats were found roosting in an outbuilding. The prince is converting his remote $2. 4 million Llwynynwormwood estate in Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, into a holiday complex and an initially report into bat and owl activity concluded building work would have minimal impact on the wildlife. But common pipistrelle and brown long-eared bats have now been found roosting in a building on the estate which Charles has applied to transform into nearly $4 million luxury 11-bed resort.

A jobless man from London, who has a stark resemblance with an ancient Indian goddess of eunuchs, has been rechristened as Prema in the Indian state of Gujarat where he is now living as a fertility goddess. Steve Cooper, 32, said he was out of work when friends told him he looked like the goddess Bahucharaji - who according to legend castrated her husband because he preferred acting as a woman.

In a bid to make use of nearly two tons of fibrous panda poop that animals drop each day, researchers at China's Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in central-western Sichuan province are seeking to join hands with area paper mills. The catch: processing of the excrements of the grisly mammals into valuable office quality paper. According to Liao Jun, a researcher at the panda reserve, the idea of turning panda poop into paper came from Thailand where conversion of elephant dung into a variety of products such as artificial flowers, gift boxes and photo frames, is hugely popular.

A Ukrainian man, believed to be the world's oldest living person, celebrated his 116th birthday on Thursday with a few friends and family. Hryhoriy Nestor, who is also the world's oldest bachelor, joked that he attributed his long life to the fact that he never married. According to BBC reports, Nestor worked on a farm until he retired at age 100 and is now living with a relative who looks after him. He surprisingly has healthy hair on his head and recommends a diet of milk, cheese and potatoes with an occasional shot of vodka.