Vegetarian Star

“I don’t want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, ‘There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.’ Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean. If you’re at a beach where there are sea turtles, just let them be. And don’t throw trash out on the street near coastlines. Pick it up!”

—Angela Kinsey from “The Office,” speaking about a new campaign she’s working on with Oceana to help conserve sea turtles, called Off The Hook.

It’s thought that sea turtles will often confuse plastic bags with their prey of jellyfish and try to ingest them, leading to partial or complete obstruction of the GI tract. The more plastic the sea turtle eats, the more likely it will die, but even smaller amounts can affect their health.

Defenders of Wildlife says fisheries are also a great threat to the creatures that can live up to 80 years old. The turtles will bite baited hooks or become entangled in lines or crushed by dredges.

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The Office‘s Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fischer admit they both own pretty vocal cats.

“I’ve never had a cat who meows and chatters as much as he does,” Fischer told PEOPLEPets.com at the La Femme International Film Festival Celebrity Gala. “He’s a very vocal cat.”

Kinsey, whose character on the show is an eccentric cat owning woman, says her cat, Otter, sounds like he is always on the prowl for a female. “He’s chatty, but it kind of scares me,” she said. “It sounds like maybe a cat in heat. That’s just him [being] happy.”

Any cat owner knows felines have a way of communicating with humans, but is it actual language they’re getting across or mere vocal utterances? Regardless of the answer to that question, a graduate student at Cornell University found domesticated cat noises seem to be successful in one area in particular–getting the human to respond as needed.

In a study described as one where “no cats were harmed in the experiment, although a few human eardrums were stretched,” Nicholas Nicastro compiled dozens of vocal samples from cats and played them for human volunteers who were asked to rate them for pleasantness and appeal and examined what acoustic features accompanied each sound.

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