Category: Animals

Heat brings out the cool in zoos across the nation (AP)

AP – Otters sweltering in the summer sun suck on “fishsicles.” For carnivores like the Amur leopard, it’s “bloodsicles.”

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Heat brings out the cool in zoos across the nation
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Giant panda pair headed for Tokyo zoo (AFP)

AFP – A pair of Chinese giant pandas are soon headed for Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo, where the fluffy bamboo eaters are set to delight the crowds from early next year.

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Spain’s Catalonia expected to ban bullfights (Reuters)

Reuters – Catalonia could become the first mainland Spanish region to ban bullfighting in a local parliamentary vote this Wednesday that has pitted animal rights activists against fans of the centuries-old national symbol.

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Feds to release endangered sea turtles into Gulf (AP)

AP – Federal biologists in Texas are set to release dozens of endangered baby sea turtles into the Gulf of Mexico despite the oil fouling the waters 400 miles away.

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Jordan police prevent ‘lettuce lady’ protest (AFP)

AFP – An animal rights activist in salad dressing — she wore an all-lettuce gown — never got to promote her pro-vegetarian message on Sunday after Jordanian police said the one-woman demo was unauthorised.

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Jordanian police nab lettuce lady during protest (AP)

AP – An animal rights activist has caused a stir in Jordan’s capital by covering herself in lettuce in a quirky attempt to persuade Middle Eastern meat lovers to go vegetarian.

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Jordanian police nab lettuce lady during protest
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U.S. farmers may face crackdown on pesticide use (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The nation’s farmers could face severe restrictions on the use of pesticides as environmentalists, spurred by a favorable ruling from a judge in Washington state, want the courts to force federal regulators to protect endangered species from the ill effects of agricultural chemicals.

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Despite oil, baby turtles being released to Gulf (AP)

AP – Federal biologists are releasing thousands of endangered baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico, betting that by the time the silver dollar-sized swimmers make it to the oil-fouled waters of the eastern Gulf, BP will have cleaned up its goopy mess.

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Despite oil, baby turtles being released to Gulf
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Woman’s dog mistaken for coyote, set loose in wild (AP)

AP – An American Kennel Club-registered dog has been turned loose in the wild after the Frankfort Humane Society mistook her for a coyote. Copper is a female Sheba Inu.

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Woman’s dog mistaken for coyote, set loose in wild
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Beluga caviar export quotas agreed: UN (AFP)

AFP – The finest beluga caviar is back on the table this year, after five producer countries agreed export quotas for the delicacy, the UN’s watchdog on endangered species said on Friday.

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