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Pigeon sale yields world record

There's a new Bolt in town - the world's most expensive lightning-fast pigeon, which has just been sold for €310 000.

Honeybees to find land mines

Croatian researchers are training honeybees to find unexploded mines littering their country and the rest of the Balkans.
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US zoo unveils new Amur tiger cub

US zoo unveils new Amur tiger cub, can only be seen on monitor for now
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Birth of anteater has zoo staff baffled

An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation centre, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.
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Boxing kangaroo knocks down Australian MP

A startled kangaroo has knocked an Australian politician to the ground and clawed his leg after its morning graze on a suburban lawn was interrupted by the jogging lawmaker.
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Firms take pet bloggers seriously

Pet bloggers have becomes influential in the US and companies are increasingly taking them seriously as their following grows.
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Ranger saves little girl from lioness

An experienced field guide put his life on the line during a recent game drive in a private reserve when he saved a little girl from an angry lioness.
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Rhino sold for R10m at auction

Forty white rhino have been sold for about R10m at the Ezemvelo Wildlife annual game auction in Durban.
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Baby elephant born at Sanbona

Mother Nature celebrated Mother's Day in true style at Sanbona Wildlife Reserve, just outside Cape Town, with the birth of a healthy elephant calf, which became the sixth elephant calf born at the reserve.

Pet baboon destroyed

A Western Cape woman is upset that her pet baboon was destroyed instead of being sent to a rehabilitation centre.
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Vet probed for 'gruesome' dehorning

A game vet is being accused of dehorning rhinos in a cruel and inhumane manner, by cutting too close to the nerve endings.
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Dogs give comfort, controversy in court

There has been an increase in the use of professionally trained dogs to help children testify in the US, but some attorneys who claim the dogs are distractions or sympathy magnets.

'Streetwise' bull captured

A 'streetwise' Nguni bull has been rescued from a Cape Town highway off ramp.
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Polar bear cub prepares for new home

An Alaska Zoo is preparing a polar bear cub for his new home at Buffalo Zoo.
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Thai authorities probe wildlife sanctuary

A Thai and animal sanctuary owner accused of violations, says poachers pushed for charges to be laid against him.
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