Dog Nurses Homeless Baby Squirrels
Three baby squirrels who were left homeless after the tree they lived in was chainsawed have found a foster mother in the shape of a poodle called Pixie…
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Bullfighting Film Condemned
Animal rights activists have called on cinemagoers to boycott a film about Spanish bullfighting hero Manolete…
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)The Elephants Went In 4 x 4…
Elephants’ legs work like a four-wheel drive vehicle, making them probably unique in the animal kingdom, scientists said on Tuesday.
Their “four-leg-drive” system means power is applied independently to each limb.
All other four-legged animals are thought to have “rear-leg-drive”, in which the hind legs are used for acceleration while the front legs are used more for braking…
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Animal Mass Grave Discovered At Chinese Zoo
The bodies of more than 30 animals, including rare white tigers and lions, that died of malnutrition have been found in a mass grave near a Chinese zoo.
The discovery comes just weeks after more than a dozen tigers were found to have died of starvation at another Chinese zoo amid suggestions that the administrators wanted to harvest their parts to make expensive – and banned – tiger-bone tonic…
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