The Water Bowl: What Fainting Goats Have in Common with Bulldogs; Plus, $150 Million Claim in Chimp Attack

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The animal trainer who worked on George Clooney's The Men Who Stare at Goats says fainting goats are popular with breeders in the same way that "bulldogs who can’t breathe" are. —Wall Street Journal

The family of the Connecticut woman who was mauled by her neighbor's chimpanzee is planning to sue for $150 million. —Hartford Courant (via Gothamist.com)

Are we nearing the end of Cute Overload? Are you done with kittehs and peppehs? (We say never!) —Vanity Fair

Three bears in a German Zoo have been rapidly losing their fur, and it has experts completely perplexed. —BBC News

A 6-week-old puppy at the Arizona Humane Society was born with only two legs. She was abandoned by her owner and is sick in the hospital, but the society hopes to get her a mobility device. —KXAN.com

A U.S. Forest Service worker who thought he'd lost most of his 21 dogs to a forest fire got a nice surprise when one showed up at his trailer two weeks later. —AP via ABC News

Studies show that humans, when frustrated, exhibit their stress in the same way that elephants, bats and shrews do — by yelling. —FOX News

Incredible animal photos from the Washington Post, including a Kazakh yak and a hairy-eared Russian squirrel. —Washington Post