Animals
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Tony Aarts tells local TV ‘It’s a good thing I had that putter’ after surviving reptile attack on 4th hole at Magnolia Landing club in the Fort Myers area
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A 1.5m-long carpet python manages to regurgitate an entire tennis ball after it was found swollen in a residential yard
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Our animal companions are captive to the environment we create for them. Here are some tips on caring for pets in extreme heat and thunderstorms
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Notebook Luxury flats instead of birdsong: can regeneration ever be the right thing?
Patrick BarkhamThe priceless tranquillity of an inner-city green space – yards from St Pancras station – is threatened by a developer. And the developer is a Labour council -
Investigation finds video which appeared to show a German shepherd in distress on set was ‘deliberately edited for the purpose of misleading the public’
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More than half of people surveyed had never seen a hedgehog, once common in UK gardens
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Country diary: Kinder Scout, Peak District Walking along the western escarpment, it feels like the land has been brushed by exoticism
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Team of researchers discover three of the frogs once listed as possibly extinct in first reported sighting since 1962
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Many of the UK’s pastures have been lost to industrial farming, but pockets of verdant, vibrant land still brim with life, colour and noise
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Department of Primary Industries documents show large holes left in shark nets and one beach left without one for more than a week
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Fitness trackers are not just for humans anymore – a growing range of electronic collars and cameras can help you monitor your pet’s location, activity and even emotional state
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Charity calls for tougher legislation to prevent shooting, poisoning andtrapping of birds such as peregrine falcons, red kites, buzzards and hen harriers
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Zakynthos has some fascinating wildlife, but the Greek island’s biggest stars, its loggerhead turtles, are dying out – partly because of their popularity
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Country diary: Crewe Green, Cheshire No wonder the spines of this tiny mammal keep most predators away; it’s like touching surgical needles
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A new member of the world’s smallest fox species excitably explores its enclosure in Taronga zoo in Sydney
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Environment secretary announces plans for formal licence and strict welfare criteria in effort to tackle puppy farms
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Last year thousands of valuable farm animals were poached from isolated farms to await slaughter in ‘abhorrent’ and illegal conditions
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Frog saliva switches between being thin and watery as the whip-like tongue hits its target, to thick and sticky as the insect is reeled in, research shows
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Orangutan Samboja will be shown males on a touchscreen in experiment aimed at learning more about mating choices
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Long treated as a bottomless resource pit, economic over-exploitation of the ocean, pollution and rising sea levels are having a catastrophic impact on life in the bay
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A splinter group of the loose online activist group reports real-world success with a vegan campaign featuring flatscreens and Guy Fawkes masks
Experience Experience: I accidentally bought a giant pig