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• ‘A kitten on heat with a racy physique’: the mystery of the bloodcurdling cat screech used in hundreds of movies

  14-01-2025 17:26
  From Babe to Pet Sematary to Toy Story, the same furious yowl crops up in film after film. So who was the cat and who made the recording? We solve the enigma of the ‘Wilhelm Miaow’There is a movie star you’ve never heard of, but whom you’ve almost certainly heard. She’s in Toy Story and Babe, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Home Alone 3. You can catch her in Les Misérables. And if you’re a fan of being frightened, she’s also in End of Days and
  
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• No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy’

  14-01-2025 15:00
  
  Exclusive: Natural England furious that years of work has been undone, with minister urged to push policy throughDowning Street has blocked plans to release wild beavers in England because officials view it as a “Tory legacy”, the Guardian can reveal.Natural England, the government’s nature watchdog, has drawn up a plan for reintroductions of the rodent, which until about 20 years ago had been extinct in Britain for 400 years, having been hunted for their fur, meat and scent oi
  
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• Five years, multiple deaths: what is happening at the home of the last captive whales in Canada?

  14-01-2025 13:00
  
  Ontario’s Marineland lost five belugas last year, which the park’s management puts down to the ‘circle of life’. But activists claim animal welfare is at stakeOn the southern shores of the Niagara River, a few hundred feet from the thundering falls, sits Marineland of Canada – an amusement park, zoo, aquarium and forest occupying nearly 1,000 acres of land (400 hectares). Over the years, millions of people have clamoured to view the park’s 4,000 animals, inclu
  
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• The ‘convoy of incredible people’ saving animals from California’s infernal fires

  14-01-2025 12:00
  
  As fires licked the Los Angeles landscape, a network of volunteers plunged into action to rescue pets and livestockCalifornia fires – live updatesAs flames roared into communities on all sides of Los Angeles last week, and tens of thousands of residents rushed to evacuate, trailers across southern California were being hitched and trucks fueled. A network of volunteers was preparing to descend on the fire zones, ready to risk it all to save pets and livestock in need.In the rural enclaves
  
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• Alone No More review – touching shaggy dog tale about a stray mutt who rescues a lonely man

  14-01-2025 08:00
  
  Newly retired Kai is a miserable grump who lives alone, until he adopts Piggy, in this honest Hong Kong take on family dynamics and suicideThere is a daffy streak of eccentricity in this rambling shaggy dog tale from Hong Kong. It’s the story of a stray mutt called Piggy (played by mongrel Little) who saves a man from suicide not once, but twice. The man is newly retired Kai (Lawrence Cheng), a miserable grump who lives alone. Like Larry David, he’s not afraid of telling people exact
  
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