5 Things: BearCat, Glo-Bunnies, Bees, Pet Food Recall, and Last Call

1. Meh. Kinda Looks like a Meerkat to Me: A "new" mammal has been "discovered" and it's being marketed as a cross between a Teddy bear and a cat. In the trees above the Andes mountains, the olinguito was introduced by Smithsonian Institution scientists in Washington as a “major discovery,” one they say was overlooked for decades despite a specimen sitting in the cabinets of a Chicago museum. The olinguito is part of a family of animals related to raccoons. You can read more here. Or you can pore over the research, here.

2. Day-glo Bunnies? A Turkish science lab has bred a colony of rabbits that glow bright green in the dark, an attempt to advance research into treatments for life-threatening genetic diseases. The bunnies were created by injecting fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA into a female rabbit's embryos. When the rabbit gave birth to a litter of eight bunnies, two of them glowed in the dark. You can read more here, and watch the video.

3. Save the Bees: Score one for the bees – the US government on Wednesday said it is restricting the use of some neonicotinoids — a type of agricultural pesticide implicated in the mass die-off of honey bees. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will require the use of a warning label on four neonicotinoids — imidacloprid, dinotefuran, clothianidin and thiamethoxam — that prohibit their use when bees and other pollinators are present. It's a start.

4. Eukanuba/IAMS Pet Foods Recall: Several lots of certain varieties of Eukanuba and Iams dry foods for dogs and cats have been recalled because they may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria. The Procter & Gamble Company issued the voluntary recall Wednesday Aug. 14 through the Food and Drug Administration's website. Read before you feed if they are your brands of choice for Rover and Fluffy.

5. Last Call for Stop & Shop: I enjoyed the gasoline discounts, and the chocolate chip bakery cookies. Produce was good, too. Today is last call at six New Hampshire Stop & Shop supermarkets and three gas stations, set to close at 9 p.m. Aug. 16 – although they are mostly picked clean at this point. The company that owns the stores, Stop & Shop Supermarket LLC said earlier this month, the stores were not meeting performance goals.