Animals
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Giraffe in New York became an online celebrity as millions tuned in to watch her birth, but zoo ran into hiccups after alleged violation of YouTube’s nudity policy
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A jaguar killing an anteater, a green tree python and the winner of the underwater photographer of the year are among this week’s images from the natural world
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NSW central coast schoolboy, aged 10, was given 12 vials of antivenom after he was bitten by a male spider hiding in a shoe
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Fiona, a prematurely-born Nile hippo calf, is making excellent progress at her home at The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden after the staff from a local children’s hospital stepped in to help
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Notebook Can we have too many trees?
Patrick BarkhamHunting and mountaineering organisations say that plans to increase forest cover in Scotland will ruin the countryside. I disagree
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 20 February 1917: Everywhere the thrushes, starlings and dunnocks are shuffling their wings and trilling vigorously
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Edie has been a much-loved family cat for years, but when she died it led to some interesting conversations between Eva, her mum and her young daughter…
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The prime minister’s initiative on this most pernicious practice is welcome. Now she must put her money where her mouth is
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Audits carried out at more than 300 abattoirs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland find major hygiene failings in more than a quarter of meat plants
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RSPCA believes baby chickens came from commercial producer but were dumped by a third party
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Country diary: Slufters Inclosure, New Forest This hardy specimen of butterfly has found an ideal basking site among still damp grasses in a bed of fern
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Sea turtles laying eggs, buffalo and a swan lake are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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UK legislation to ban ivory products from across history would criminalise some of the greatest art the world has seen. We need reason, not passion, in the fight against poaching
'It's very scary in the forest': should Finland's wolves be culled?