Bring Home The Bacon

Is It Spider Pigski?

Or is it the new trotsky! A monument to a pig has been unveiled in a Russian region famous for its sausages. Nikolay Astanin, general director of the local meat industry in Kalach, said: "We wanted to thank this wonderful animal for all it has given to the area." The giant meat processing plants in Kalach were opened this week 80 years ago. The monument in Kalach is said to be Russia's first dedicated to a pig.

FOOTNOTE: Sausage role.

Final Boarding Call For All Bird Brains

Chinese Scientists Control Pigeon Flight

Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird's flight. According to WTLV.com, the scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro-electrodes to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down. The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon's brain according to electronic signals sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring natural signals generated by the brain, chief scientist Su Xuecheng said. It was the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world, said Su, who conducted a similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.