Animals news

• Grieving killer whale who carried calf’s body spotted again with dead baby

  02-01-2025 23:19
  Experts say sighting of orca in Puget Sound with second deceased calf is ‘devastating’ for ailing populationAn apparently grieving killer whale who swam more than 1,000 miles pushing the body of her dead newborn has lost another calf and is again carrying the body, a development researchers say is a “devastating” loss for the ailing population.The Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said the orca, known as Tahlequah, or J35, was spotted in the Puget Sound are
  
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• Australia’s flying foxes are ‘curious, gentle and intelligent’ – and often misunderstood

  02-01-2025 15:00
  Endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes are ‘astonishing’ animals but misinformation is rife One of the most spectacular sights at Adelaide’s Womadelaide music festival is not on the official lineup.As dusk approaches, thousands of grey-headed flying foxes begin chattering and stretching their wings as they prepare to ascend from their roosts in Botanic Park and set out in search of food. Continue reading...
  
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• Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows

  02-01-2025 13:00
  
  Across Toronto, a team sets out at dawn to rescue migrating birds that have collided with buildings, and keep a record of the thousands each year that don’t make itEvery morning at dawn, a dozen volunteers scour the streets of Toronto picking up small birds. Some days they will find hundreds of them, most already dead or dying. A few they are able to save. Live birds are put in brown paper bags and driven to wildlife recovery centres, while dead birds are put in a large freezer. If no one
  
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