This Week in Wild Animals for May 17, 2013

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From The Strangest Ways Wild Animals Crossed Paths With Humans This Week | Wired Science | Wired.com always interesting.

An ad in a Yiddish-language newspaper in Brooklyn recommended fresh, warm pigeon blood as a cure for warts. The woman who placed the ad claimed she does not sell pigeons, or have any financial interest in the cure, but only wished to spread the word and “help people.” “You go to the market, you buy a pigeon, and the blood goes on the wart,” she explained. “That’s it.” She added that the remedy is not effective on gentiles, only Jews.