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Animals News tagged with Animal

Reindeer Tragedy: Ice Collapses, Hundreds Die
Animals  (tags: News, Animal, environment, reindeer, ice collapse )

Katie
- 6 days ago - ecoworldly.com
A trek across a frozen lake proved to be a deadly journey for hundreds of reindeer last week. Sami herders in Sweden were leading 3,000 reindeer to "greener pastures" across a frequently-traveled route during their annual migration........
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Birds Lose Color Vision in Twilight
Animals  (tags: Animal, Bird, science, research, study )

Katie
- 7 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Research at the Lund University Vision Group can now show that the color vision of birds stops working considerably earlier in the course of the day than was previously believed, in fact, in the twilight. Birds need between 5 and 20 times as much light...
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Lawsuit Filed to Stop Condor-Killing Development, Save Tejon Ranch
Animals  (tags: Animal, environment, killing, condors, lawsuit )

Katie
- 10 days ago - ecoworldly.com
A lawsuit to overturn the approval of Tejon Mountain Village - a luxury development which will destroy fragile California condor habitat - has been filed by a coalition of environmental justice advocates, Native Americans, endangered species advocates....
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Key to Success? Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded
Animals  (tags: Animal, dinasaurs, species, extinct dinosaur species )

Katie
- 12 days ago - livescience.com
Many dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded just like mammals or birds, potentially explaining their extraordinary success before their extinction.
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Shark Bite Acts as Emergency Caesarean
Animals  (tags: news, Animal, Shark, Shark bite )

Katie
- 13 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A shark stunned aquarium visitors in New Zealand when it bit a female shark's stomach, causing four baby sharks to spill out of its womb.
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Ross Perot Jr. Wounds Rhino in South African Trophy Hunt, Sues for Second Shot?
Animals  (tags: environment, animal, rhinos, rhinos conservation, america, africa )

Katie
- 18 days ago - ecoworldly.com
The son of former American Presidential candidate Ross Perot - Henry Ross Perot Jr. - is reportedly engaged in a legal battle involving South African wildlife authorities over the head of rhino he wounded during a trophy hunt earlier this year.
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The Secret Lives and Loves of Great White Sharks
Animals  (tags: Animal, study, Shark, white sharks, lives )

Katie
- 19 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
Great white sharks, much like humans, tend to stick to familiar turf, according to new research. Also like a lot of people, they like to hang out along the coastal waters of California.
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Size Matters: Largest Web Spinning Spider Found
Animals  (tags: Animal, largest, Spider, discovery )

Katie
- 19 days ago - webecoist.com
The largest web-spinning spider in the world has been identified, and she's a terror. The Nephila komaci was discovered in South Africa and displays some rather fascinating characteristics.
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Middle-Aged Wolves Retire From the Hunt
Animals  (tags: Animal, news, wolves, wolves wildanimals, changes )

Katie
- 20 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
According to a new study, most wolves lose their prowess by age 3, just halfway through their lives. After that, they have to rely on younger members of the pack to catch the majority of their meals.
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Robins Can See Earth's Magnetic Field
Animals  (tags: birds, robins, animal, research, report )

Katie
- 26 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The information, relayed to a specialised light-processing region of the brain called ''cluster N'', helps the robin find its way on migration flights. Experts know birds possess an internal magnetic compass, but there is disagreement about what form it..
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China Tells Kathmandu It Supplies Other Countries With 'Medicine' Produced From Tiger Farms
Animals  (tags: Animal, medicine, banning, tigers )

Katie
- 26 days ago - ecoworldly.com
The Chinese delegation attending the Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop has reportedly claimed China's tiger farms supply 'medicine' to 60 countries.
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Treaty Parties Learn of 40 Proposed Wildlife Trade Rule Changes
Animals  (tags: News, animal, rules, regulations, changes )

Katie
- 27 days ago - panda.org
Proposals for tighter trade controls for species such as the Atlantic Blue Fin tuna, sharks and corals have been submitted for the next meeting of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).
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Bats: 10 Essential Bat Facts, Plus Photo Gallery!
Animals  (tags: Animal, bat, pictures, facts )

Katie
- 27 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Bats may be considered a spooky Halloween mascot, but they are actually one of the most beneficial animals on the planet: 70% of the world's bat species feed on insects - and one bat can consume up to 1,000 insect pests in an hour.
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Huge Blue Whale Killed By a Ship in California.
Animals  (tags: death, animal, blue whales, accident )

Katie
- 33 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A huge, 72 foot long, female Blue whale has been killed by a collision with a ships propeller off California. The carcass of the whale, clearly showing a deep gash on its back, weighs more han 50 tons and has washed ashore at the base........
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Astonishing Pictures of What Animals Do... When They Think No One Is Looking
Animals  (tags: Animal, pictures, jungle book, creature )

Sophie
- 43 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Stereotypically the animal usually associated with a love of mud is pigs but as these pictures show, elephants are just as content rolling around in the dirt. With its head raised to the sky and its young nearby, belly-down in the muck,
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