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Explore the Department of Unfortunate Headlines, including a clever reference to a Times story on illicit wildlife. Click to learn more!

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File this one in the Department of Unfortunate Headlines. The head in the Times story that the blog post references is obviously more apt. But it's possible the blogger was simply trying to be clever.

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