UK Zoo Relocates Parrots That Are Constantly Killing Visitors | NOW

UK Zoo Relocates Parrots That Are Constantly Killing Visitors |  NOW

A zoo in the British county of Lincolnshire has had to remove five recently acquired parrots from view because the animals had scolded several visitors. Presumably, the birds taught each other the insulting words during the park’s closure, he wrote BBC News Tuesday evening. Lincolnshire Wildlife Park had only acquired the African Gray Parrots a … Read more

Award-winning landmine rat is world news, its owner is a … (Nieuwerkerken)

Award-winning landmine rat is world news, its owner is a … (Nieuwerkerken)

Binderveld / Kozen / Nieuwerkerken / Wijer – As the first rat, Magawa has received a gold medal from the animal welfare organization PDSA. Magawa defused 39 landmines and 28 improvised bombs in the Killing Fields of Cambodia. With that medal he makes world news. The brain behind Magawa? Christophe Cox from Nieuwerkerken, Limburg. – … Read more

The Dutch unknowingly tear down a new dam in Lan … (Dilsen-Stokkem)

The Dutch unknowingly tear down a new dam in Lan … (Dilsen-Stokkem)

Dilsen-Stokkem – On Saturday at 9 a.m., a Dutch maintenance company working on behalf of the provincial government of Limburg accidentally demolished the beaver dam in the Vrietselbeek in Lanklaar. The employees of the company were not aware that the beaver dam had already been demolished earlier in the week. The beavers had already partially … Read more

Two hundred more stranded whales found off Tasmania | NOW

Two hundred more stranded whales found off Tasmania |  NOW

Another 200 beached whales were found off the coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on Wednesday (local time), writes The Guardian. Some 270 whales were found on Monday, making it the largest group of beached whales ever in Tasmania. The second group of whales probably arrived at the coast of Tasmania around the same … Read more

West Nile virus appears for the first time in the Netherlands: warbler tests positive | NOW

West Nile virus appears for the first time in the Netherlands: warbler tests positive |  NOW

A warbler in the Utrecht region has tested positive for the West Nile virus. It is the first time that this virus has been found in the Netherlands, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) reports Wednesday. The West Nile virus mainly occurs in birds and is transmitted by mosquitoes. However, the … Read more

Nearly intact carcass of extinct bear found in Siberian ice | NOW

Nearly intact carcass of extinct bear found in Siberian ice |  NOW

Reindeer breeders in Siberia, Russia, have found the carcass of an extinct young cave bear, which has remained almost perfectly intact in ice. That reports the State University of Yakutsk Saturday. Cave bears became extinct more than ten thousand years ago. The cave bear was found on the island of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky. The animal died … Read more

The 62-year-old King Python lays fertilized eggs without the help of a male | NOW

The 62-year-old King Python lays fertilized eggs without the help of a male |  NOW

An elderly king python at the zoo in the American city of Saint Louis, Missouri, has surprised her keepers by emptying seven fertilized eggs without seeing a male in 15 years, the report says. BBC. Pythons often produce offspring without having had sex, but the snake’s age makes this birth unique, according to the head … Read more

“World’s loneliest” elephant held in captivity for 35 years freed – World

“World’s loneliest” elephant held in captivity for 35 years freed – World

It is called Kaavan and has been dubbed by activists, who have fought for the liberation of the past five years, as the “loneliest elephant in the world”. This animal spent its entire life, 35 years, confined in a zoo enclosure in Pakistan. Kaavan was kept in chains and exhibited symptoms of mental illness, but … Read more