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• ‘Like a horror scene’: animal charity rescues 70 starving snakes from property near Durham

  12-03-2025 21:06
  
  The founder of an animal sanctuary, which is now caring for the royal pythons, has called for improved laws to protect reptiles reared as petsThe founder of an animal rescue charity who discovered 70 starving pythons and dozens of dead snakes on a couple’s property near Durham has called for better laws to protect reptiles reared as pets.Daniel Holmes, of Knaresborough Exotic Rescue, said the condition of the snakes – some of whom he thinks had not been fed for a year – was so
  
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• Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

  12-03-2025 19:00
  
  Blood tests on migratory chicks fed plastics by their parents show neurodegeneration, as well as cell rupture and stomach lining decayIngesting plastic is leaving seabird chicks with brain damage “akin to Alzheimer’s disease”, according to a new study – adding to growing evidence of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on marine wildlife.Analysis of young sable shearwaters, a migratory bird that travels between Australia’s Lord Howe Island and Japan, has foun
  
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• Baby sea lion 'acts like as a ribbon dancer' when playing with artificial kelp – video

  12-03-2025 17:38
  
  Pepper, a nine-month-old sea lion, has mesmerised her carers by performing intricate rhythmic gymnastics-style circles through the waters at Point Defiance zoo and aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. Noelle Tremonti, a biologist at the aquarium, says the strips help the pup learn how to interact with kelp, which grow in abundance in the animal's natural environment, and how to explore her environment using her mouth. Pepper was the first sea lion born at the facility's its 120-year history‘A r
  
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• Baby sea lion 'acts like a ribbon dancer' when playing with artificial kelp – video

  12-03-2025 17:38
  
  Pepper, a nine-month-old sea lion, has mesmerised her carers by performing intricate rhythmic gymnastics-style circles through the waters at Point Defiance zoo and aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. Noelle Tremonti, a biologist at the aquarium, says the strips help the pup learn how to interact with kelp, which grow in abundance in the animal's natural environment, and how to explore her environment using her mouth. Pepper was the first sea lion born at the facility's its 120-year history‘A r
  
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• ‘Don’t underestimate cats’: Los Angeles feline uses up one of nine lives surviving wildfire

  12-03-2025 16:39
  
  Katherine Kiefer lost her home to the Palisades wildfire, but her crafty kitty, Aggie, somehow lived through the disasterIt appears the tall tale that all cats have nine lives may be true for a California Maine coon named Aggie.The beloved feline was feared dead for two months after the Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles left her family’s home in ashes. But her owner, 82-year-old Katherine Kiefer, held out some hope. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A ribbon dancer’: captive baby sea lion performs acrobatics with artificial kelp

  12-03-2025 16:35
  
  ‘It look so artistic under the water,’ staff at Washington state aquarium says of PepperA baby sea lion toting an artificial kelp strip was filmed performing intricate rhythmic gymnastics-style circles through the waters of an aquarium in Washington state.Although only nine months old and still reliant on her mother’s milk, Pepper has become the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s most acrobatic sea lion, said Noelle Tremonti, a staff biologist for the aquarium. Continue
  
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• Tennessee man shot by his dog while lying in bed

  12-03-2025 11:00
  
  A bullet grazed the Memphis man’s thigh after his one-year-old pit bull got his paw stuck in a gun’s trigger guardDog bites man is hardly news, but in Tennessee, a dog recently shot a man.In what is only the latest instance of a kind of accidental shooting that intermittently occurs in the US, Jerald Kirkwood reported to police in Memphis that he and a woman were lying in bed with a firearm when his dog jumped up and inadvertently caused the weapon to discharge. Continue reading...
  
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• Birdwatch: in spring, the unshowy grey plover undergoes a transformation

  12-03-2025 07:00
  
  However, you will most likely have to venture to the polar tundra to see this striking wader at its black-bellied bestAny bird with “grey” in its name is not likely to make the average birder quiver with excitement. And it is true that in winter, when grey plovers visit our shores from the high Arctic, they are easy to overlook, especially among the spectacular flocks of lapwings, golden plovers and avocets on my Somerset coastal patch.Stout and unassuming, grey plovers usually lurk
  
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