The following is from The Week. The URL may not work for non-subscribers, so here it is:
A wombat at an Australian zoo has been diagnosed with depression, but it’s not because he’s caged. Keepers were concerned when Tonka, 2, the star attraction at Queensland’s Billabong Sanctuary, lost 20 percent of his weight after a recent cyclone devastated the region and shut the zoo for eight weeks. Veterinarians ran a battery of expensive physiological tests before concluding that Tonka was suffering from a withdrawal of human contact. Zoo spokesman Brett Flemming said Tonka missed “the patting, the photos, the cuddles, and the endless posing for the paparazzi.”
Wombat Suffers Clinical Depression
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Now SGT has a sweatbox of our own. This is the place to find and post all entertaining topics such as video links, jokes, games, and the like. A general rule of thumb is that if the thread is meant to be informative (interesting news stories for example), or a topic for discussion (like setting up a park meet) then it should go in the Break Room, but if the intent is to entertain the masses then it's home is The Sweatbox. I'm sure there will be grey areas at times, so if you have doubt as to where a new thread should go, just use your best judgement and the SGT Staff will be glad to move it later if you guessed wrong.
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Re: Wombat Suffers Clinical Depression
Sounds like a job for The Blue Wallaby Group.
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lol You are always on top of it... post wise. Never a dull site with hobie.hobie16 wrote:Sounds like a job for The Blue Wallaby Group.
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I Think any Wombat would agree that those are nice Perks ;)Cheshire Figment wrote:The following is from The Week. The URL may not work for non-subscribers, so here it is:
A wombat at an Australian zoo has been diagnosed with depression, but it’s not because he’s caged. Keepers were concerned when Tonka, 2, the star attraction at Queensland’s Billabong Sanctuary, lost 20 percent of his weight after a recent cyclone devastated the region and shut the zoo for eight weeks. Veterinarians ran a battery of expensive physiological tests before concluding that Tonka was suffering from a withdrawal of human contact. Zoo spokesman Brett Flemming said Tonka missed “the patting, the photos, the cuddles, and the endless posing for the paparazzi.”
:flybongo: NO BULL!!!!!:D:
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DisneyMom wrote:I Think any Wombat would agree that those are nice Perks ;)
BW can't post right now but he says "What are wallabies? Chop liver? Wallabies like petting too!
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Call any Blue Wallaby and a Blue Wallaby will respond to you...
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Re: Wombat Suffers Clinical Depression
WOW. I have never heard a better summary of what life is like for me every day. :D:Cheshire Figment wrote:...“the patting, the photos, the cuddles, and the endless posing for the paparazzi.”
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They missed the depositions and the singing !BRWombat wrote:WOW. I have never heard a better summary of what life is like for me every day. :D: