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Investigation Exposes Factory-Farmed Cruelty
Animals  (tags: australia, laws, farm animals, pigs, factory animals, abused, tortured, imprisoned )

Simone
- 1 hour ago - animalsaustralia.org
In Australia it is legal to keep breeding pigs in individual metal and concrete crates for their entire 4 month pregnancy despite these cruel devices having been banned in the UK for a decade. Animals are so tightly confined that they cannot turn around
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Behind 60 Minutes: The Hidden Truth
Animals  (tags: pig factories, pig farmings, investigation, 60 minutes report, pigs suffering, abused )

Simone
- 1 hour ago - animalsaustralia.org
Footage from Animals Australia's investigation was supplied exclusively to leading current affairs program 60 Minutes and underpinned their exposé on the pig industry. As Brightside Farm Sanctuary Founder Emma Haswell said, "This is the pig industry's
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Wildlife Officers Get Bear-Scaring Lesson
Animals  (tags: wildlife officers, bears protected, bear scaring lessons, tactics )

Simone
- 1 hour ago - palmbeachpost.com
Huddled at a remote shooting range, 30 wildlife officers listen to Mike Orlando explain how to shoot a bear with paintballs, beanbags, rubber pellets, blanks -- just about anything other than an actual bullet.
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Man Seriously Injured in Bear Attack After Climbing Into Zoo Enclosure
Animals  (tags: swiss zoo, man attacked, bears, injured, bears home, formerly bear pit bears, bear shot )

Simone
- 2 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
A man was left seriously wounded after climbing into a bear enclosure in a Swiss zoo yesterday. The 25-year-man climbed onto a wall surrounding the BärenPark (Bear Park) in the city of Bern, Switzerland, before falling 13ft into the enclosure, police
4 comments
Frog Legs Trade May Facilitate Spread of Pathogens
Animals  (tags: Pathogens, Facilitate, Antarctica )

Nancy
- 4 hours ago - sciencedaily.com
A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought.
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Termites Create Sustainable Monoculture Fungus Farming
Animals  (tags: Fungus, monoculture, crops )

Nancy
- 6 hours ago - sciencedaily.com
Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice.
1 comment
FIRST PICTURES: "Predator" Corals Eat Jellyfish
Animals  (tags: Jellyfish, Predator, kids )

Nancy
- 7 hours ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Sorry, kids--scientists have not discovered the first known bubblegum-blowing sea creature. But they have found the only known corals to eat adult jellyfish, a new study says.
3 comments
Catalan Parliament Will Vote on a Ban on Bullfighting on 15 December
Animals  (tags: catalan parliament, voting, banning bull torture, bull fighting, international petitions, advocates )

Simone
- 7 hours ago - league.org.uk
Following discussions on a possible ban on bullfighting, MPs in the Catalan Parliament will hold a vote on the matter on 15 December. This date was announced on the parliament's website yesterday.
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Oscar Free of Dumpster Fate
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, dogs, pets, rescued )

Maria
- 7 hours ago - theleafchronicle.com
Oscar, a fluffy, black, 8-week-old puppy, had a broken leg. It hurt, and he cried, his right hind leg flopping behind him. But that was only the first of a cascade of very bad things. Next, Oscar was thrown in a bag full of trash, including
7 comments
Endangered Sanctuary Animals Sold to Hunting Safari
Animals  (tags: endangered animals, hunting safari, pgymy hippo slaughtered, outrage, australian scums )

Simone
- 7 hours ago - tvnz.co.nz
Exotic and endangered animals from an abandoned wildlife sanctuary were sold to a hunting safari in the Northern Territory, it has been revealed. Some 300 animals, including herds of critically endangered African scimitar horned oryx and addax, were
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Juan, the Child Matador Will Still Kill Bulls
Animals  (tags: child matador, no restrictions on age, bulls tortured, child protection, bulls killed, bull fighting )

Simone
- 7 hours ago - cruelsports.wordpress.com
Authorities in Bolivia have given their last minute approval to a bullfight of 11-year-old Juan Mauricio Copa despite protests of child protection and anti-bullfighting organisations. Unlike in European bullfighting countries, where matadors must be
6 comments
Dog Left Bleeding After Scooter Drag
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, dogs, pets )

Maria
- 8 hours ago - stuff.co.nz
The man, believed to be in his mid-50s, was stopped by concerned New Brighton residents on Monday morning after they heard the dog, who was chained around the neck and padlocked to the scooter, gagging as it struggled to keep up with the fast-moving scoot
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ACTION ALERT: Free Franklin!!
Animals  (tags: franklin, thai ridgeback, death sentences, animal shelter )

Simone
- 8 hours ago - free-franklin.com
Franklin is a purebred blue Thai Ridgeback who was brought to an animal shelter in Camano Island, WA in early May of 2009 as a stray. Since then, Franklin has been sitting in a shelter kennel where he has become a target for those who make a habit of
6 comments
ACTION ALERT: Save Pete the Moose!!!
Animals  (tags: pete, moose, sanctuary, nurtured, growing, save pete, authorities )

Simone
- 8 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
David Lawrence, a retired dairy farmer and self-educated naturalist, has gained a growing reputation for nurturing orphaned moose, allowing them to reach maturity and live within a protected 600 acre preserve. These animals are living as they would
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Miami MetroZoo Jaguar Dies During Surgery
Animals  (tags: sadness, tragedy, young jaguar, loses life, surgery, zoo )

Simone
- 9 hours ago - cbs4.com
A four year old jaguar named Palenque who was one of the star attractions of Metrozoo's "Amazon and Beyond" died Wednesday during a medical procedure. Zoo spokesman Ron Magill says Palenque was taken to the Metrozoo's animal hospital early in the
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