The Animal Blog

Want to cure a skin disease? No problem.

Oh you like fish, right?

At the Holiday Beach in Haikou in south China, you can experience the latest in high-tech skin therapy. 50,000 tiny kissing fish in a pool that will suck on your legs.

Last week I had a cold and I let a camel lick my face. I'm not sick anymore!

Click on the link below for pictures from China Daily:
Kissing fish therapy

In Japan, a fish with a rare mutation was discovered that caused its face to look like that of a human's.

Click below for an article on this fish from Local6:
http://www.local6.com/news/4112928/detail.html

Click here for more fish postings.

• Bear saw bikers in road but still liked his odds (Anchorage Daily News)
  http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/bears/story/9159529p-9075312c.html
  "A bear waiting for its chance to cut through traffic on the Seward Highway this weekend looked twice but still darted through a group of bikers, and the resulting domino effect sent one biker to a Seward hospital."
• Something is Fishy in Hollywood (Bounty Fishing)
  http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/2007/07/24/something-is-fishy-in-hollywood/
  "What if your fishing trip is ruined by a bad weather or any frustrating reason? Sit down, relax, and watch one of our fishermen’s cult movies -hereby compared with the well-known blockbusters that inspired them!"
• Mother cat takes seven chicks under her paw (Times Online)
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1784806.ece
  "A cat has succeeded in repressing her predatory instincts by adopting seven chicks to rear alongside her own litter of kittens."