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Members of PETA said there's something fishy going on in Albany. A group from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were protesting outside Bob and Ron's Fish Fry on Central Avenue Thursday. It's all part of their Fish Empathy Project, which spreads the word about research they said shows fish are just as intelligent as cats and dogs. PETA feels places like Bob and Ron's supports what they said are horrible practices of commercial fishing and fish farms. As part of PETA's Fish Empathy Project, members rallied outside Bob and Ron's Fish Fry in Albany on Thursday. Karin Robertson...

OSLO, Norway - November in Norway is full of hazards. Ice-slicked streets, moose on the roads and fierce cold. So when a woman turned up with a nasty cut on her finger at an emergency room at an Oslo hospital, doctors were surprised to learn that the cause was not an upset house cat or a stray dog. It was a piranha, as in the nasty, brutish fish found in South America that has a fabled reputation for traveling in schools and stripping cows down to the bone in a feeding frenzy. But Helle Hogner wasn't in South America. Instead,...

Every once in awhile, a story comes along that defies belief. We aren't talking about alien abduction stories, or two-headed-babies-with-a-gift-for-opera stories. We're talking about stories like the fish empathy project of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals reported recently by The Associated Press. The photo accompanying the story showcased two members of PETA and a fake fish sporting a smile eerily similar to one of the human's. That's one thing - fish, they don't smile, like humans or otherwise. They also don't meow or bark. Or pay mortgages. (They do, a lot of them, eat their young - unlike...