Animals
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UK lags behind Bolivia and Bosnia in banning the use of wild animals, such as lions, tigers, zebras and camels, in travelling circuses
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A puffed up owl and snow-laced trees bring a touch of winter to this week’s round-up of stunning images from the natural world
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Conservationist Richard Bonham’s 40-year campaign to protect Africa’s wildlife has led him from Kenya’s savannah to trinket shops in Hong Kong. To stop the slaughter, he says, action must be taken at both ends of the supply chain
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Despite legal attempts to block mass animal sacrifice, the Gadhimai festival in Nepal went ahead. Campaigners Jayasimha Nuggehalli and Alokparna Sengupta from Humane Society International kept a journal of events
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Owner of Tommy the chimp tells Guardian case is ‘ridiculous’ but attorney for Nonhuman Rights Project likely to continue appeal
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Two dogs belonging to Pino Maniaci, head of Sicilian TV station Telejato, are found hanging from a metal post in a yard
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Animal rights campaigner aims to overturn conviction on grounds of undisclosed role of Met officer who ‘encouraged illegal acts’
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GrrlScientist: A newly-published study by a team of Australian scientists reveals that inflated pufferfish do not hold their breath -- refuting a common widespread belief.
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Blunders led to live anthrax being posted from one lab and holes being found in isolation suits at a facility handling Ebola-infected animals
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Janaki Lenin: Scared residents of Talawade in Karnataka are calling for forest officials to recapture a tiger, suspected of killing a woman and chasing vehicles, that has been released into a wildlife reserve near their village
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TV’s favourite greyhound barks out loud after woofing down a tail-wagging assortment of canine Christmas temptations
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The breed, which has seen a 323% rise in registrations across the US since 2003, are expensive and difficult to care for, which has led to surrenders
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Range of pharmaceuticals found in fish, clams and sea urchins in waters around two research stations, says New Zealand researchers
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Woman attacked by large cat which was a neighbour’s pet in affluent Buckhead area of city
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Eradication effort to protect the island’s wildlife from millions of invasive rats, which will feed on the brains of live seabird chicks, starts in 2015
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Bird-watcher strolling in Ruffey Lake Park smelled a ‘pungent odour’ before stumbling across the rotting 1.2m reptile
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Two sea turtles have been released into the waters of Queensland's Great Barrier Reef after being rehabilitated in captivity
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Numbers of Gilbert’s potoroo – the world’s rarest marsupial – triple in the 20 years since species was rediscovered in Western Australia
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Letters: We became aware as evening fell of a noise all round the house. Every bush and tree was alive with birds
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Corrective surgery in New Zealand on the tip of the little kiwi’s bill means it will be able to lead a normal life
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A woman and her pet porker are grounded after complaints from fellow passengers on flight from Hartford, Connecticut
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Cattle, sheep, poultry and pigs suffer ‘traumatic’ deaths caused by fires, floods, road collisions, disease and neglect
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Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that called for restrictive pig cages to be banned in the state, a move seen by many as a gauge of his presidential ambitions
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South American nation wants UN to raise awareness of the animal family, which includes alpacas and dromedary camels
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Thousands of buffaloes, goats and birds killed at Gadhimai festival, Bariyarpur, as act of gratitude to Hindu goddess
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Hugh Warwick: In the longer term contraceptives, vaccination and predators could control the grey squirrel, but until then we have no alternative
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The best of this week’s images from the natural world include one artistic dodo, two cheeky monkeys and whole family of elephants
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Urgent action required to save white-throated snapping turtle amid fears that loss of eggs and hatchlings is crippling the population, says Queensland researcher
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The pontiff’s remarks were interpreted by some as bringing ‘hope of salvation … to animals and the whole of creation’
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Bureau of Land Management was sued by groups claiming the January hunt on public lands was ‘not in the public interest’
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Zoo relies on public donations after retailer, whose Christmas ad is about boy seeking friend for his lonely penguin, disappoints
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Raptor and Nedry, the new Boyd’s forest dragons at Wild Life Sydney zoo, were born two days apart, each weighing only a few grams
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Images retrieved from 22-year-old’s phone reveal final moments before Rutgers University student was mauled to death by 300lb animal
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Letters: Our message to Defra is don’t downgrade the role of vets in food safety and animal health and welfare
Guardian Environment Network Scientists plan to go in search of the world’s rarest chameleon