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[Link] Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human

Read: 23/11/2022 www.scientificamerican.com

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are.

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[Link] This Town in Ukraine Is Deserted, Except for the Man With a Pet Panther and Leopard

Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com

In the last two weeks, 40-year-old Girikumar Patil has settled into a new routine in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. Every morning at 8AM, when the curfew is lifted in his small town of Severodonetsk, he treks to neighbouring towns to buy five kilos of meat. 

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[Link] Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed

Read: 8/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful.

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[Link] Nobody Knows What Megalodon Really Looked Like, Scientists Say

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

It’s not hard to see why Megalodon, an epic species of shark that died out some 3.6 million years ago, has captivated the public imagination and become the star of movies like The Meg.

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[Link] ‘Just never going to be OK’: report finds luxury brands falling behind on animal welfare

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

Despite recent commitments from the luxury fashion industry to reduce its environmental footprint, a report has revealed luxury fashion brands are among the worst in the industry for animal welfare, driven by their continued use of fur and exotic animal skins.

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[Link] Ivermectin could save rare Australian sea lion from deadly parasite

Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au

Ivermectin has gained notoriety as an unproven prophylactic and therapy for COVID-19, but it has traditionally been used in human and veterinary medicine for parasitic infections. Hookworm contributes to up to 40 per cent of sea lion pup deaths.

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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears

Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.

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[Link] Mr. Goxx, the Crypto-Trading Hamster, Is Dead

Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com

Mr. Goxx did his last full shift of trading on Twitch four days ago. The stream went live during the next two days, but Mr. Goxx didn’t show. Fans speculated if he was sick. Today, we know the sad truth. Mr. Goxx’s human business partner announced the news on Twitch, Twitter, and Reddit.

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[Link] Man Experiences ‘Scrotal Necrosis’ After Cobra Bites His Balls

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

The 47-year-old patient was on vacation in South Africa at a wildlife reserve when the cobra surprised him from below.

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[Link] English town mourning Derek the Goose to erect statue in her honour

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

A West Country harbour town famous for its links to an albatross is to erect a bronze statue in tribute to another bird – Derek the Goose.Residents of Watchet in Somerset are coming to terms with the loss of Derek, actually a female, who had lived in their harbour for more than a decade.

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[Link] Jellyfish Keep Attacking Nuclear Power Plants

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

Jellyfish are continuing to clog the cooling intake pipes of a nuclear power plant in Scotland, which has previously prompted a temporary shutdowns of the plant.

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[Link] The restoration project giving oyster shells a new life

Read: 27/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Discarded oyster shells from restaurants, usually destined for landfill, are being recycled to create shellfish reefs in Queensland's Moreton Bay. It is the biggest community-driven reef restoration in Australia.

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[Link] Pig Kidney Successfully Transplanted From Hog to Human

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Doctors in New York City transplanted a kidney grown in a pig to a brain-dead woman in a major step forward for xenotransplantation, a process in which human organs are grown in animals and then transplanted into humans.

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[Link] Community groups in some states rehoming more greyhounds than industry programs, report suggests

Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Industry-led programs to rehome retired greyhounds helped just 2,000 dogs across Australia last year and were outperformed in the two biggest racing states by community-run services operating on threadbare resources, a new report claims.

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[Link] Colombia Is Finally Sterilizing Pablo Escobar’s Hippos

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Colombia’s Regional Autonomous Corporation of the Negro and Nare Rivers (Cornare), an environmental agency, announced the sterilizations of 24 of the more than 80 hippos residing in the rivers near Escobar’s former Hacienda Napoles compound last week.

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[Link] Wildlife officers complete two-year quest to remove tyre from elk's neck

Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The elk was first spotted with the tyre more than two years ago, during a wildlife survey. Speaking in 2020 about how the elk may have wound up like that, Mr Murdoch speculated it would have become stuck while the elk was young, before it grew antlers.

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[Link] This Couple Caught COVID-19, So Authorities Drowned and Burned Their Dogs

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Pham Minh Hung and his wife had amassed a sizable menagerie—17 dogs and one cat, to be exact—pets that they considered their own children.

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[Link] As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder

Read: 23/9/2021 gizmodo.com

The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all rolled into one. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: THEY CAN FREAKIN’ GLOW IN THE DARK.

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[Link] Emaciated animals removed from property where horse graveyard found, court told

Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au

RSPCA inspectors first attended the property at Warrak near Ararat in January 2016 following a complaint from a member of the public about the animals' condition.

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[Link] Scientist Captures First-Ever Footage of a Tortoise Committing Grisly Murder

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

In a famous Aesop fable, a tortoise beats a hare in a foot race by taking it slow and steady.

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[Link] Outback horse slayer deserves prison time for 'persistent, cruel behaviour'

Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

The person who slaughtered more than 40 horses in outback Queensland in scenes that left seasoned police officers horrified is likely to face several years behind bars, lawyers say.

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[Link] German coach suspended for striking horse at Olympics

Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

TV footage showed Kim Raisner leaning over a fence to strike the horse Saint Boy, which refused to jump the fences in the showjumping round on Friday, costing German athlete Annika Schleu a chance of winning the gold medal.

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[Link] Crocodile attacks two soldiers swimming at Portland Roads in Far North Queensland

Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Another man, in his 30s, was slashed on his wrist and arm. The pair are Army soldiers and are believed to have been swimming just before 5:00pm on Friday near the coastal fishing village, Portland Roads, about 800 kilometres north of Cairns.

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[Link] Wildcats return to Netherlands after centuries’ absence

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

They disappeared centuries ago, but wildcats have returned to the forests of the southern Netherlands, local conservationists have said.

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[Link] Amber Fossil Shows ‘Hell Ant’ Was Unlike Anything Alive Today

Read: 7/8/2021 www.smithsonianmag.com

Some 99 million years ago an ant unlike any alive today was in the midst of a savage scythe-jawed attack when dripping plant resin froze the insect, along with its prey, in a final predatory tableau.

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[Link] In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads

Read: 30/7/2021 www.theguardian.com

Every evening in Sydney, clouds of bats move across the sky.

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[Link] Ferret That Died in 1988 Is Brought Back to Life by Scientists

Read: 25/7/2021 earthlymission.com

For the first time, scientists have cloned an endangered U.S. species! Meet black-footed ferret Elizabeth Ann, whose “original version” has been dead for more than 30 years.

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[Link] Why Do Animals Sometimes Kill Their Babies?

Read: 28/6/2021 www.nationalgeographic.com

When Khali, a sloth bear at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., went into labor in late December last year, her keepers were thrilled. But soon after Khali delivered her first cub, something went wrong.

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