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IF Homer Simpson thought heaven was the episode where he was in hell
with a never-ending supply of doughnuts, then Circular Quay this morning
would have come a close second. To celebrate the release of The Simpsons
Movie on dvd, the Simpsons family oversaw the construction of the world’s
largest doughnut.
And the numbers?
It took 40 people over nine hours to build, using over 90,000 doughnuts, half
a tonne of pink icing and 30kg of sprinkles from Donut King.
The giant doughnut measures six metres and weighs a whopping 3.5 tonnes,
which is the equivalent of two rhinoceroses.
Once the giant doughnut’s media duties are complete, the doughnuts will be
donated to Oz Harvest, a Sydney-based charity that collects excess food for
organisations that feed disadvantaged men, women and children.

Still no ideas on what to get your special someone this Christmas, here are some suggestions…

Crystal-encrusted toilet bowl designed by Jemmah Wright.

21kg gold Christmas tree decorated with 240 pieces of jewelry including diamonds and pearls, made by Japanese jeweler Ginza Tanaka.

Your own personal bust made in bronze, silver, gold and other precious metal made by Wrightson & Platt.

Miracle Bra made by Victoria’s Secret and designer Martin Katz. It is adorned with 3575 black diamonds, 117 white diamonds and 34 rubies… only.

Champagne holder made of pure gold for your Christmas party?

Fragrance by Clive Christian sealed with a cap decorated with gold and diamonds.

Fuzzball table for the guys? This is made in Austria and covered with 150,000 crystals

Think this is a fragrance decorated with 6500 Swarovski crystals.

One for the tech geeks, golden headphones with 59 diamonds on each side.

Laptop designed by Aynao Kimera made in 24-carat gold and decorated with 12,000 crystals.

Another one for the geeks, a diamond-encrusted mouse? 59 diamonds in all.

An exclusive Teddy bear released on the 125-year anniversary of the birth of the famous producer of the bear campaign. This bear is made in golden fleece of lurex, sapphire eyes and golden nose and mouth. Be careful what your kids do with it

Swimsuit for $92,000 made by Japanese designer and jeweler Ginza Tanaka. It took more than a month to extract the finest gold threads and to join them together to make this swimsuit that is probably never gonna get wet.



How about a bra made with 630g of pure gold, 7.5-carats of diamonds and taking more than 2000 hours of work by a Chinese jeweler? $108,000.

Another bra for $160,000.


Linen lingerie made of gold for $260,000. It contains 950g of pure gold and was created by a Chinese jeweler that is not for sale but display only. Of course, with the right price, anything can be bought.


This bra is a whooping $1,890,000! It is made of gold and diamonds and made by a Korean company.


Fantasy Bra by Victoria’s Secret worth $6.5M and comes included with 2000 diamonds and 800-carats.

Another version of the Fastasy Bra by VS costing $12.5M made of white gold, 2900 small diamonds (101-carats) and 22 rubies.

Fantasy Bra for $10M made of white gold, diamonds and 2900 diamonds weighing a total of 70-carats.

Fantasy Bra for $10M made of diamonds, sapphires and other precious stones weighing a total of 500-carats.

Fantasy Bra - $4.5M.

Fantasy Bra - $15M made of rubies and diamonds.

Lacy gold bra made by Chinese designer Zhou Ningxin with a total of 458 grams of gold.

A pair of gulls fight in mid-air. Conflict is incredibly commonplace within the animal kingdom. Quite often the fights are short and based on display rather than actual physical contact and so it is difficult to capture on film. The photographer must be incredibly quick in order to get that photograph. This particular spat, for example, could have been over in seconds.

Often the fighting is between alpha males who are looking to secure dominance over a single female or perhaps even a group. The dominance of the alpha male will ensure that it is his genes that are passed on to the next generation. In many species, when a new alpha male takes over, he will deliberately seek out and kill and offspring which he has not sired. Why should he bring up other people's kids? In other species such as the meerkat and Prairie dog it may be the females who occasionally commit infanticide in the fight to get their genes in to the next generation. The Prairie Dogs above are play fighting - but this is as much to practice for the real thing as to pass some time having fun.

Many animals will avoid a fight and when they find themselves in a situation where they must there is an implicit ‘trust' almost between the two animals that the fight will not lead to life-endangering injuries or lead to death. Obviously, animals do not have Emergency Rooms where they can go to get their wounds healed! Horses are an example where the fight never results in the death of one of the antagonists. Sometimes fights are caused simply because the animals are in a bad mood, in this case possibly because of overcrowding.

The fighting is often about the right to mate. The old idea of the survival of the fittest is an everyday fact of life in the animal kingdom, It may seem unfair to our sense of fair play but when animals must seek out their own food they must ensure that they have the optimum ‘equipment' with which to hunt or to gather.

The male elephant seal will run his own harem and he must protect it with his life. On average male elephant seals live four years less than the females, sometimes reaching the age of twenty. This isn't too surprising when the fact is taken in to consideration that alpha status can be reached at the age of eight. That will mean at least a dozen years of continually fending off other males. No wonder the male does not live as long as the female.

The hippo's reputation has taken a battering over recent years with many nature documentaries showing them for the bad tempered and aggressive individuals that they truly are. These are animals that show no fear in attacking crocodiles should they get in their way. However, hippos will rarely kill each other when they fight, which is more often than not about territory. If a bachelor challenges the alpha male then the fight will be over as soon as it is clear which hippo is stronger.

Additionally, single males are allowed in to the ‘stretch' of a bull alpha male as long as their behavior is submissive towards the alpha male. In this way hippo ‘pods' can number up to a hundred. Due to the size of the pods - and the animals themselves - there can often be some bad-tempered jostling for space. The differences in gender behavior have been difficult to ascertain as they are not sexually dimorphic. This means that females and young males look incredibly alike.

In all three main zebra species, young males will live together in groups. Then, when they feel the need to reproduce they will challenge the alpha male who often has a permanent harem of up to six females (except Grevy's zebra which does not have social bonds of any permanency).

The fights between the competing males often look more violent than they are and the lesser of the two will usually retreat when he knows that he has lost. At least he can go back to the bachelor herd!

Everyone knows that kangaroos box each other and in less enlightened times they were used a fairground attractions. Most boxing is play-related but it can be done for dominance of a group or when there is competition in the great mating game. The forepaws can be used to grapple and punch but the real danger are the hugely powerful hindlegs of the animal. The toenails of the hindleg are incredibly sharp and it has been known for an opponent to be disemboweled. However, most conflicts between males do not result in life threatening injuries.

These Coots are fighting over who gets to pay attention to a female. Some species of birds allow the female to choose her mate and this is usually down to the song, plumage and sometimes the ‘dance' of the male.

Fighting among males is not only restricted to mammals. Dragonflies are highly territorial and if a male strays in to the wrong territory then it will definitely mean a fight. In years when the population is large that can mean that territory can be disputed by more than one dragonfly at a time.