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Chickens — they're not just for laying eggs anymore. While the practice of keeping poultry as pets has grown in popularity over the past few years, their often inappropriate bathroom etiquette remains an issue. When you have fowl inside the house, what do you do about their foul ... poop?

For some pet bird owners — including actor Ewan McGregor — it's all about the diaper.

Yes, putting undergarments on a chicken is acceptable practice for those who keep the animals as household pets, and for Linda Celez, the diapers aren't just a matter of good hygiene, they're an expression of creativity and personality.

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Monkey business — as well as human error — may have been to blame when a 700-lb. Bengal tiger escaped from his cage at a popular South Florida animal attraction Saturday afternoon. Watson, a small, white-handed gibbon, snuck out of his double-doored cage at Jungle Island, a zoological park in Miami, and into the big cat’s enclosure.

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Oil, salt, black pepper, crushed red pepper, and possibly some cayenne pepper makes for one spicy mixture, as one cat came to find out in a bizarre turn of events.

A 4-year-old feline named Navarro spent Sunday night "marinating" in the stuff in the back of his onetime owner's car trunk.

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Can you hear us now, kitty? A 3-month-old cat living in a garage in Vladivostok, Russia, has quite the interesting feature: an extra set of ears.

Named Luntik, the little guy has a small pair of vestigial ears in front of his real appendages. But they don't actually work, since they aren't connected to ear canals, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.

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When a young, energetic Pomeranian was brought into the San Bernardino, Calif., City Animal Shelter last month, a veterinary technician noticed something that looked like an open wound in the dog's lower abdomen. He thought someone might have taken a small knife and cut into the dog's flesh — until he realized he was looking at a hermaphrodite.

The pooch, now known as Red, had partially formed female and male genitalia — a clitoris, testicles, but no penis and no ovaries.

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In the wild, one would be the other's after-dinner snack. But in the incubation room of the Seaview Wildlife Encounter, a tiny Madagascar teal duckling is nuzzling up to its new kookaburra friend — without fear of being eaten.

The U.K. wildlife park has a breeding pair of kookaburras, carnivorous birds that are native to Australia and eat snakes, lizards and small birds. This year, the mother kookaburra killed two of her three babies, and the park's director, Lorraine Adams, took to hand-rearing the surviving bird, which she named Kookie.

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We've all heard of struggling actors. But what about an actor who struggles to diaper a duck? That's Ewan McGregor's reality these days.

"It can take me up to 20 minutes to get the diaper on … it's frustrating," McGregor told PEOPLE at the Darker Side of Green NYC Debate Series on Tuesday.

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