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• Beloved Alaska pet reindeer euthanized after cage tampering and possible poison

  02-04-2025 21:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Star, 8, began to lose weight after someone got inside pen, cut gate locks and sprayed substance over two-month spanA pet reindeer beloved by many in Alaska’s largest city has been euthanized, just weeks after someone tampered with his cage and possibly poisoned him, his caretaker said on Wednesday.“I don’t have an answer as to why he had to be put down other than it relates back to what happened,” said Albert Whitehead, who cared not only for the eight-year-old reindeer
  
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• Don’t reinforce the idea that grown men don’t cry | Brief letters

  02-04-2025 18:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Male tears | Dog time | Half Man Half Biscuit | Mother’s Week | San SerriffeSince the release of Adolescence on Netflix, there has been a lot of discussion about what it is to be male and toxic masculinity, which the Guardian has participated in. I was therefore particularly disappointed to see that the headline on your article about pigeon theft (1 April) began with “I cried like a little boy”. I appreciate that it comes from a quotation of an interviewee, but please don&
  
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• Turtle doves to be shot for sport again across Europe as EU lifts hunting ban

  02-04-2025 15:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Ban in place since 2021 has increased numbers of globally vulnerable pigeon species that is close to extinction in UKTurtle doves will be allowed to be shot for sport again across Europe, as the EU lifts a ban on hunting that was credited with the species’ tentative recovery.The EU will allow hunters to shoot 132,000 birds across Spain, France and Italy after the threatened bird enjoyed a population boom in western Europe because of a hunting ban that came into effect in 2021. Continue rea
  
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• More than beautiful: the beloved monarch butterfly is one of the world’s great migrators

  02-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The hardy travellers can fly for 3,000 miles from the north-east US and Canada to roost in their millions in MexicoVoting is open! Choose your favourite invertebrate hereImagine your body was the weight of a raisin, supported by just a pair of flimsy, gossamer wings. Now imagine that you had to fly for 3,000 miles, avoiding storms, highways and predators, to ensure your species continued.Could you do it? Unless you’re a monarch butterfly, fortunately you won’t have to face such a cha
  
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• Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite

  02-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to chooseRead about this year’s contendersInvertebrates – animals without spines – make up the vast majority of life on Earth. The Guardian’s invertebrate of the year contest celebrates the unsung heroes of the planet. Readers have nominated thousands of amazing animals, we’ve chosen a shortlist of 10, and now you can vote for your favourite.1. The tongue-biting lou
  
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• The secret to finding one of the most endangered bumblebees in the US? Dogs

  02-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Experts are desperate to analyse rusty patched bumblebee nests for information that might help save them. But they are extremely hard to find – unless you’re a trained conservation canineWords and photographs by Anne Readel in Somers, WisconsinOn a summer day in Somers, Wisconsin, Dave Giordano heard an unexpected buzzing in his back yard. What he found shocked him – a rusty patched bumblebee nest. The discovery was so rare it made the local news.Once widespread across the midw
  
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