Heavy Sleeper A video of a snoring dormouse has gone viral online after being posted on YouTube.  The hibernating mouse was discovered during a survey of nesting boxes near a forest.    The cute little guy didn’t wake up when he was taken out to be weighed - and carried on snoring while ecologists made the video.

SWT mammal project officer Dave Williams said: “It was making a funny whistling sound every time it breathed out. 

“My two female colleagues said: ‘It’s bound to be a male’ - and it was!” 

Dormice, an endangered species, spend a third of their lives hibernating.  

Hooked On Facts.com

• The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.
• The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called ‘mantles’) are radioactive...so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
• Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist.
• More people in China speak English than in the United States.
• Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.

Just Joking

Murder trial

In a murder trial, the defense attorney was cross-examining the coroner: 

Attorney: Before you signed the death certificate, had you taken the pulse?

Coroner: No. 

Attorney: Did you listen to the heart? 

Coroner: No. 

Attorney: Did you check for breathing? 

Coroner: No. 

Attorney: So, when you signed the death certificate, you weren’t sure the man was dead, were you? 

Coroner: Well, let me put it this way. The man’s brain was sitting in a jar on my desk. But I guess it’s possible he could be out there practicing law somewhere. 

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