truTV: Not Reality. Actuality.

Zoo, a movie about men in quasi-romantic relationships with animals (based on the notorious farm near Enumclaw, Wash., that was the site of the 2005 death (from receptive sex) of a horse lover, was released in April, and is generally not judgmental toward the human characters, according to a May review in Slate.com. "

A team of biologists from Yale University and the University of Sheffield in England reported in April that some species of ducks have genitalia so complex that they provide the female with unusually effective mating control. Both the male and female sex organs are sort of corkscrew-shaped, but the female's spirals in the opposite direction, allowing her (in the event of rape or opportunistic, nonmating sex) to "lock down" her procreative organs. Only when the female relaxes, the researchers point out, can sperm approach her eggs.

A team of biologists from Yale University and the University of Sheffield in England reported in April that some species of ducks have genitalia so complex that they provide the female with unusually effective mating control. Both the male and female sex organs are sort of corkscrew-shaped, but the female's spirals in the opposite direction, allowing her (in the event of rape or opportunistic, non-mating sex) to "lock down" her procreative organs. Only when the female relaxes, the researchers point out, can sperm approach her eggs.

High-Tech Pet Care: The Japanese company Medical Life Care Giken said it will begin marketing, later this year, a device that measures pets' stress levels. The tiny patch on the bottom of a dog's or cat's paw changes color depending on the amount of sweat secreted, according to the researchers at Toyama University who developed it.

The Japanese company Medical Life Care Giken said it will begin marketing, later this year, a device that measures pets' stress level. The pin-sized patch on the bottom of a dog's or cat's paw changes color depending on the amount of sweat secreted, according to the researchers at Toyama University, who developed it. And in March, New York's Long Island Veterinary Specialists performed complicated hip- replacement surgery on a one-year-old shorthaired cat, using a material about the width of a wooden matchstick. "Oreo" was discovered wedged in the crawlspace of a house. (Dogs receive hip replacements almost routinely now, but cats were thought to be too small.)

(1) The most recent instance of someone killed by a flying cow occurred on a road near Carnavron, Australia, in May, when a 26-year-old man in an SUV accidentally crashed into a cow and knocked it into the air; it landed on the vehicle's roof, collapsing it and crushing the driver. (2) In April, a prominent cat veterinarian (who was director of the Feline Health Center at Cornell University) was killed in downtown Ithaca, N.Y., when he swerved, on his motorcycle, attempting to avoid a cat on the road, and was thrown from the bike.