briarwood: (Teryl Rothery)
Morgan Briarwood ([personal profile] briarwood) wrote2009-01-06 07:59 am

It's cold...this is news?

In the Independent this morning, there's an article essentially telling us it's cold in the UK. I'm a bit baffled by the notion that this is news. But near the end of the article, I found this gem:
At Banham Zoo in Norfolk, keepers were trying to encourage a pair of Siberian tiger cubs to leave their covered pen. The animals can survive in temperatures as low as -40C but the 11-week-old cubs have baulked at -4C.

Doesn't that just make ya go "Aw, so cute!"???

[identity profile] admiralandrea.livejournal.com 2009-01-06 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. That link doesn't seem to work for me! But yeah, definitely typical cats!

I think they're making a big deal about the weather because it has been so cold for so long and it's colder than is usual for this time of year, bucking the recent trends.