Purr Pals is a pet simulation game in which the player takes care of a kitten. It is Crave Entertainment's answer to Nintendo's Nintendogs and is sponsored by Purina.

Whatever the raccoon's reasons for washing its food, it has been known to even do the same thing with pebbles, which it doesn't eat! The raccoon washes and scrubs the pebbles until they shine, then piles them up in a mound to dry in the sun.

MANAMA Sept 30 (Reuters) - Guests at a hotel buffet in Bahrain queue for meats, stews, curries and pastries, balancing food on their plates in increasingly precarious mounds to break the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of

For Daisuke Matsuzaka, the hardest thing hasn't been the language, food, ball, mound, catcher, manager, teammates, workout routine, hotel beds, neighborhood, TV channels, or the Hammond Parkway rotary. The one thing that has blindsided him? He didn't anticipate that his privacy would be compromised to the degree it has...

Through a process known as vermicomposting, Southern Illinois University Carbondale this summer launched a project to turn mounds of food scraps and trash from the Student Center and dorm cafeterias into nutrient-rich soil - using worms.

Hidden cameras near a termite nest in Central Africa have captured several animals digging deep into the mounds before laying the tool aside and using a thinner vine to extract the insects within.