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• Prima(te) ballerina: errant monkey in a tutu leads Missouri police a merry dance

  06-01-2025 21:12
  Sheriff’s deputies captured the monkey, which had opened a door to escape, before arrival of winter stormA monkey in a pink tutu that slipped out of a Missouri home was captured just before a winter storm slammed the state.The Jefferson county sheriff’s office described the apprehension of the primate in a Facebook post as “Bananas”. Continue reading...
  
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• Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans

  06-01-2025 07:00
  
  As people have shaped the natural world, so wildlife – from mahoganies to magpies – has had to evolve to surviveFrom the highest mountains to the depths of the ocean, humanity’s influence has touched every part of planet Earth. Many plants and animals are evolving in response, adapting to a human-dominated world. One notable example came during the Industrial Revolution, when the peppered moth turned from black and white to entirely black after soot darkened its habitat. The bl
  
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• Country diary: Gadding about on the river | Nic Wilson

  06-01-2025 06:30
  Hitchin, Hertfordshire: Is it a mallard, is it a gadwall? In fact we have one of each, paired-up in an example of waterfowl hybridisation that isn’t unusualWe could be hiking through an upland ravine, miles from civilisation, were it not for the graffiti and half-submerged washing machine. Hart’s-tongue ferns hang down from the steep banks above us. The tang of fox rises from fallen hemlock stems, their dried umbels pointing towards the River Hiz. The water, smutty and lacking in veg
  
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