Animals
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Ants on the Pacific islands observed carefully sowing and fertilising seeds of at least six types of plant as part of a relationship that reaches back 3m years
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Help save Australia's orange-bellied parrots. There are only 14 left!
First Dog on the MoonThe orange-bellied parrot is the most endangered bird in Australia. Fortunately, the Difficult Bird Research Group is coming to the rescue – and you can help! -
Still here: reflections on later life Love the dog in the John Lewis ad? Great, but don’t rush out and buy one
Michele HansonEvery time a dog features in a film or on TV, people want one, but their new pets will often have come from the ghastly, gangster puppy farms -
Lord Bonomy urges government to amend law with greater consistency and appoint independent monitors to observe hunts
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Debate on cull reignited when NSW woman Cindy Waldron was killed by a crocodile north of Cairns
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Middle school teacher photographs animals encased in ice, lying on their sides with antlers apparently locked, in ‘vision of how brutally harsh life can be’
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We have no rituals for coping with extinction, ecological destruction or environmental loss. And that’s a problem. Now, an impassioned group of artists and activists are trying to create them.
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Country diary: Holmsley Inclosure, New Forest Each silk button spangle gall has a minute larva inside. Looked at later under the microscope, they remind us of a scrumptious doughnut
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Five years after the last rabbit was killed, endangered birds such as the black-browed albatross are growing in numbers
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California-based photographer Seth Casteel made his name taking photographs of dogs underwater, but before that, he was snapping cats on land
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Federal inspectors praise zoo for ‘swift and comprehensive corrective action’; gorilla was shot dead after three-year-old boy fell into enclosure
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Animals are still being killed in horrifying numbers despite global efforts to stop the poaching crisis, says prince at Hanoi summit
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Breeder Kachen Worachai hails 100,000-1 odds of blue, red and white fish believed to have set species record in online auction
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A small monkey found abandoned in China’s eastern Jiangxi province has made a new family with a farmer’s herd of goats
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Protected birds found on central coast had to be put down after apparent acts of animal cruelty, RSPCA says
Country diary Marks made on the landscape by an itinerant tea seller