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12 endangered Sumatran tigers filmed in Indonesian rainforest

May 9, 2011
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WWF has called for the logging in Bukit Tigapuluh forest to be cancelled Numbers of Sumatran tigers have dwindled to 400 from 1,000 in the 1970s Footage of 12 endangered Sumatran tigers has been recorded in an Indonesian forest that is about to be cleared by loggers. The giant cats are on the brink...
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Koalas ‘facing extinction’

May 3, 2011
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AUSTRALIA continues to use the koala as a national symbol even as the marsupial population is in precipitous, perhaps terminal decline, Greens leader Senator Bob Brown said. Senator Brown said the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee was told today of “a catastrophic drop in the number of koalas”. “Their great habitat here in...
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Goose acts as Guide dog for blind Boxer

April 27, 2011
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Blind boxer dog Baks has got a new lease of life – after being taken under the wing of a pet goose. The four-year-old goose called Buttons leads her pal around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck or by honking to tell him which way to go. Owner Renata Kursa, 47,...
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Deer stands guard over goose nest in cemetery

April 15, 2011
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Neale Gulley, Reuters Reuters © Enlarge photo BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) – A deer has been standing watch for several days over a female goose nesting in a city cemetery, a scene normally reserved for a children’s movie. “People always want to turn it into a Disney story and in this case it’s not...
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Millions of spiders ‘cocoon’ trees in Pakistan

April 8, 2011
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Millions of spiders have cocooned entire trees across Pakistan in a thick coating of web.PHOTOS: Tree ‘cocoons’ rise from floodwaters The arachnids apparently were forced into the branches by last year’s devastating monsoon floods. They climbed into the trees in late July last year when monsoon rains flooded the regions of Sindh, Punjab, Khyber...
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Jumping cow is over the moo-n

April 6, 2011
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A German teenager has spent months training her dairy cow to showjump and hurdle after her parents refused to buy her a horse. Regina Mayer began walking and training her cow, Luna, after the animal was born on her farm two years ago to try and accustom her to human contact and wearing a...
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Wasps pick up annoying ants and drop them from great heights

March 30, 2011
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By Anna Salleh for ABC Science Online New Zealand biologists have documented the antics of an invasive wasp that picks up annoying ants and drops them from a great height. Dr Julien Grangier and Dr Philip Lester of Victoria University of Wellington report their findings today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological...
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Russia stops clock change: it stresses the cows

March 30, 2011
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RUSSIA has permanently switched its clocks to summer time in a change backed by President Dmitry Medvedev, who has said people and even cows suffer stress from getting up at a different time. The move, which came into force today, means that Moscow will be permanently four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),...
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Bronx Zoo cobra remains missing, tweets her whereabouts

March 29, 2011
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A POISONOUS Egyptian cobra that escaped from her enclosure at the Bronx Zoo was today taking in the sights of New York City – if her Twitter account was to be trusted. Pranksters have seized upon the tale of the 20-inch-long (50cm) snake that escaped from her enclosure at the reptile house on Friday...
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Dead turtle ingested 100s of pieces of plastic highlights sea pollution

March 25, 2011
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By FIONA MACRAE   They look like the pieces of a colourful mosaic. But these shards of plastic were found in the stomach of a young sea turtle that lost its battle against the rising tide of pollution. Environmental campaigners say the image illustrates the deadly toll that our throwaway culture is having on marine...
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