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• Hundreds of ‘emaciated’ and stranded pelicans turn up along California coast

  13-05-2024 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  State’s department of fish and wildlife says the brown pelicans are showing signs of malnutrition, but that the cause is still unclearHundreds of starving and stranded brown pelicans have turned up along the California coast in recent weeks in what wildlife advocates have described as a “crisis”.In Newport Beach in southern California, lifeguards came upon two dozen sick pelicans on a pier last week. The Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, the non-profit cari
  
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• Connecticut horses ‘happily eating hay’ after rescuers built bridge to save them from mud

  13-05-2024 15:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Huge effort to save the horses involved clearing a roadway into the thick woods and building a bridge utilizing logs and plywoodUp to 40 first responders toiled for hours in a Connecticut forest to successfully rescue two horses who had become stuck in a muddy swamp on a local farm.The huge effort to save the horses involved clearing a roadway into the thick woods and building a makeshift bridge utilizing logs and plywood. “The area was not accessible for equipment and would require manpow
  
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• Country diary: The lizards are out, basking and, perhaps, breeding | Susie White

  13-05-2024 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Allendale, Northumberland: Up close, I can appreciate their pattern of spots and coppery scales, as they lie flat to absorb the warmthIt’s a warm day in the garden and a male blackbird stands sunbathing, wings held out like a cormorant, its sleek back angled to the sun. I too am relishing the warmth as I sit with a cup of tea in front of the log store.With a sudden flash of movement, a lizard scuttles from a bee-busy border of lungworts to the retaining wall of a raised
  
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• A dog in the dock and another doing red carpet interviews: why has Cannes gone canine crazy?

  13-05-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Once a celebration of arthouse raunch, the film festival has had to change in the #MeToo era. Is that why, on screen and off, pooches are everywhere this year? Our writer goes walkies on the Côte d’AzurOne of the most eagerly anticipated talents about to grace the red carpet at Cannes this week is tall, blond, leggy and has a seductively husky voice. Par for the course, you might think, at the glitzy, notoriously libidinous film festival on the sun-kissed Côte d’Azur &nda
  
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