Pigs are rumored to eat just about anything. But one German farmer's choice of feed got him in trouble with authorities. Police charged the 29-year-old farmer from the town of Frizlar-Haddamar with improper burial after he fed the corpse of an elderly family friend to his pigs.

It may seem obvious, but Australian researchers say that tiger dung makes a potent repellant. The team at the University of Queensland said on Friday that tiger poo successfully warded off wild goats for at least three days, reports Reuters.

Taiwanese scientists have successfully bred three fluorescent green pigs. A team at the National Taiwan University injected fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, which resulted in three male transgenic pigs, says professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university's Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology.

A 19-year-old German girl has filed a lawsuit because her mother gave her pets away. The girl says her mother confiscated her two guinea pigs, a dog and a litter of puppies and took them to an animal shelter.

A survey reveals lions in Tanzania are killing people three times more often than they did 15 years ago. Villagers and wildlife officials are actively hunting these man-eating lions. Research by the University of Minnesota's Lion Research Center and Tanzania's Wildlife Research Institute, published in the science journal Nature