Animals

Animals

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  Lithuanian woman shares home with 3 puma cubs

  A Lithuanian woman says she has been raising three pumas in her three-room apartment after fearing for their lives at the local zoo. Rasa Veliute, a ... 

• Dutch recall 50,000 tons of meat across Europe

  Dutch authorities are recalling 50,000 tons of meat sold as beef across Europe because its exact source cannot be established and it may contain horse ... 

• UK chain pulls corned beef after vet drug found

  British supermarket chain Asda says it is recalling all corned beef from its budget range after traces of a veterinary drug were found in some batches 

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  India use drones to protect rhinos from poachers

  Wildlife authorities are using aerial drones to oversee a sprawling natural game park in northeastern India to protect the one-horned rhinoceros from ... 

• Groups: Tanzania gov't kicking Maasai off land

  Tanzania's government is preparing to kick Maasai tribesmen off cattle-grazing land near the country's most famous wildlife park and will instead ... 

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  Ewes-ful: Paris hires sheep to mow city lawns

  Will tourists soon see flocks of baaing sheep at the Eiffel Tower and bleating ewes by Notre Dame cathedral? That could be the case, since Paris City ... 

• Polish horse meat tested positive for banned drug

  The Czech Republic veterinary authority says horse meat imported from Poland tested positive for phenylbutazone, a drug given to horses that can cause ... 

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  Justin Bieber given 4 weeks to pick up pet monkey

  German authorities have given Justin Bieber four weeks to pick up his pet monkey or else it will be placed in permanent care. The capuchin monkey was ... 

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  Outlaw fleet scoops squid from Argentine waters

  It was a rare victory in the squid wars: Argentina's coast guard cutter Thompson fired warning shots at two Chinese trawlers, blocking their escape ... 

• High-tech search for snake in SAfrica capital

  The Pretoria Zoo says it's turning to technology with infra-red cameras to search for a two-meter-long (6.5-foot-long) black mamba snake that escaped ... 

• Sea Shepherd seeks criminal case against whalers

  Sea Shepherd wants Dutch authorities to prosecute Japanese whalers for piracy for allegedly attacking the radical conservationist group's ships in ... 

• Stranded melon-headed whale dies on Trinidad beach

  A rarely sighted melon-headed whale has beached itself and died on the eastern coast of the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Forestry officials told ... 

• EU member states unable to agree on pesticides

  The EU's member states have failed to reach agreement on banning three pesticides from crops to which bees are attracted. A committee of experts from ... 

• UN: Sharks risk extinction

  A U.N. agency says shark populations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea "have dropped dramatically" over the past two centuries because of overfishing 

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  British zoo sends 6 endangered macaws to Bolivia

  Six endangered macaws have been flown from Britain to Bolivia in hopes that they can help save a species devastated by the trade in wild animals, ... 

• Polish vet: Foreign source in 1 case of horse meat

  Poland's leading veterinarian says that of three cases recently detected of horse meat in beef in Poland, two were from domestic meat processers while ... 

• Beef or Horse? Austrian salami re-labeled

  What came first — the foal in the salami or the label telling Austrian consumers they were buying horse meat? Food inspectors are asking that question ... 

• Poland finds horse meat DNA in beef samples

  One of Poland's top veterinarians said Thursday that traces of horse-meat DNA have been found in beef samples taken from three meat processors — the ... 

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  Loved ones salute New Zealand dad killed by shark

  About 150 friends and family of a man killed in a shark attack wrote messages to him in the sand Thursday and stepped into the water at a New Zealand ... 

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  After meatballs, Ikea withdraws sausages

  After withdrawing meatballs from stores across Europe, home furnishings company Ikea said Wednesday its own tests confirmed "a few indications of ... 

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  Large shark kills man in New Zealand; beach closed

  A shark possibly 14 feet (4 meters) long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach on Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to ... 

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  EU ministers back phased-in ban on fish discards

  Officials from the 27 European Union countries proposed Wednesday a phased-in ban on the discarding of unwanted fish by fishing vessels, but ... 

• South Africa: Buffalo and donkey in beef products

  Worried about horse meat in your beef? Try water buffalo, donkey and goat. South African food scientists said they have found all three in mislabeled ... 

• Undeclared horse meat found in Slovakia

  Authorities in Slovakia say they have discovered horse meat in a food product labeled as beef. Horse meat has turned up across Europe in frozen ...