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• Elephants at San Diego zoo form ‘alert circle’ to protect young during quake

  15-04-2025 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Video shows the herd forming a protective circle around youngster during powerful earthquakeAs the ground shook from a 5.2-magnitude earthquake, a herd of elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park sprang into action to protect their young.A video shot of their enclosure at the park on Monday morning shows the five African elephants standing around in the morning sun before the camera shakes and they run in different directions. Then the older elephants – Ndlula, Umngani, Khosi – scr
  
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• Millions tune in for three-week live stream of Sweden’s moose migration

  15-04-2025 18:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Slow TV is attracting viewers with hits such as a knitting marathon, burning firewood and swimming salmonMost of the time, nothing much happens. A wide Nordic river, melting snow still lining its banks, meanders peacefully through a pristine forest of spruce and pine. But this spring, as every spring for the past six years, a lot of people will be glued to it.When Den stora älgvandringen – variously translated as The Great Moose Migration or The Great Elk Trek – first aired on t
  
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• Amphibious boat brings Bond-style glamour to RSPB in Northumberland

  15-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bear Grylls-inspired vessel helps wardens on Coquet Island care for UK’s only breeding colony of roseate ternsIt looks like something James Bond might drive – or, more accurately, Bear Grylls. But rather than enabling secret missions or carrying millionaires, this innovative amphibious boat is helping RSPB wardens look after Britain’s only breeding colony of roseate terns.The endangered birds nest on Coquet Island off the Northumberland coast each spring but seasonal wardens wh
  
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• Country diary: Newt sex is more about chase than clinch | Mark Cocker

  15-04-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Cressbrook, Derbyshire: The pond I’m observing is a murky metropolis that doesn’t reveal itself quickly. When it does, I find common newts in full breeding modeI initially assumed that the depths near the centre of the pond were entirely sealed off from my air-breathing world above, with its relentless sunshine and skylark song. But no. I gradually realised that the life within was sensitive to the outside, and to me. The more inanimate I became, the more the underwater place reveale
  
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• ‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Amid the ruins and with fuel scarce, the animals provide vital transport for the injured as well as goods and belongingsIt felt like an “earthquake from the sky” when an Israeli airstrike hit the clinic Dr Saif Alden had left just minutes earlier. Alden had been treating animals hurt and abandoned amid Gaza’s destruction. They survived but the equipment and medication the mobile clinic needed to function was destroyed.Still, the team saw it as a setback, not a defeat. Alden has
  
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• Net closes in on Valerie with new footage of dachshund after more than 500 days at large on Kangaroo Island

  15-04-2025 05:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Team leading South Australian search says risk of disrupting other wildlife has made it hard to capture missing pet dogElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcasNew footage of Valerie the miniature dachshund, missing since 2023, shows her sniffing around a trap and capering with a food box.But more than 500 days since she escaped from a pen on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, Valerie is still at large.Sign up
  
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• New footage of Valerie, the dachshund missing on Kangaroo Island, shows her sniffing trap – video

  15-04-2025 05:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Valerie, the miniature dachshund missing since 2023, is seen sniffing around a trap and capering with a food box in footage captured more than 500 days since she escaped from a pen on the South Australian island. Kangala Wildlife Rescue, which is leading the search for the pet dog, captured this video, saying the disruption of other wildlife and the need to tread carefully around Valerie have made trapping her difficult. New technology will soon be used that could see an end to the tale that has
  
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