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| UpdatedExperimental Norwegian rock? Tick. Garlic munching? Tick. Ferret racing? Tick. While other places do weirdness well, Tasmania surely must be the home of the bizarre.
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To many zoo visitors, the African painted dog enclosure is not a major attraction. But John Lemon wants to change that.
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Sydney's Taronga Zoo has celebrated the arrival of an endangered pygmy hippo calf.
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Topics: animals, human-interest, zoos, animal-science, zoology, science-and-technology, mosman-2088, nsw
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Sightings of thylacines on Queensland's Cape York have been occurring since the 1870s, but could Tasmanian tigers still be roaming the wilds of far-north Queensland?
Topics: animals, zoology, biology, offbeat, cairns-4870
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An increasing interest in nature play and a drive to see students learn more outside of the classroom sees a boom in butterfly gardens being built at schools.
Topics: gardening, schools, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animals, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedBooderee National Park is only a few hours' drive from Sydney — but it might as well be in a different era.
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| UpdatedPolice shoot dead a runaway dog on the tarmac of New Zealand's Auckland Airport because it was delaying planes taking off.
Topics: animals, human-interest, accidents, police, new-zealand
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| UpdatedAn image of a curious bush stone-curlew caught up in its own reflection at a Brisbane university campus this week goes viral. But is this behaviour normal?
Topics: animals, human-interest, brisbane-4000, qld
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Acclaimed Australian author Tim Winton has been named the inaugural patron of a new native animals trust that hopes to connect the public with conservation research and projects.
Topics: environmental-management, environment, animals, books-literature, australia
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Impeached South Korean president Park Geun-Hye sparks criticism from dog lovers and an animal rights group after vacating the presidential palace and leaving her nine Jindo dogs, including seven puppies, behind.
Topics: world-politics, animal-welfare, animals, korea-republic-of
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Many are embarrassed to publicly show too much grief over the death of a dog, but research has shown just how devastating the loss can be.
Topics: animals, human-interest, australia
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A new study by a team of Australian, French and Japanese scientists used aerial and ground surveys of Adelie penguins, tagging and resighting data, as well as automated camera images over several breeding seasons.
Topics: animal-science, animals, antarctica
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| UpdatedIt turns out we were a little off in guessing how many Adelie penguins there are in East Antarctica. Almost four million off, that is.
Topics: animals, earth-sciences, animal-behaviour, animal-science, antarctica
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| UpdatedThe endangered Mallee emu-wren will be held in captivity for the first time in an effort to save the tiny bird species.
Topics: birds, animals, endangered-and-protected-species, human-interest, conservation, environment, adelaide-5000, monarto-south-5254
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Breathing new life into an animal and turning them back into what they used to be are just some of the reasons taxidermists do what they do.
Topics: animals, animal-science, visual-art, offbeat, human-interest, mount-evelyn-3796, melbourne-3000
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Is it unethical to breed short-nosed dogs, like pugs and French bulldogs, that have breathing difficulties?
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, animal-behaviour, australia
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| UpdatedVets are warning Australians to think twice before buying short-nosed dogs because selective breeding has left them plagued with health problems. But breeders insist the majority of pugs, bulldogs, shih tzus and Boston terriers are in perfect health.
Topics: animals, animal-science, animal-welfare, australia
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Nestled in a pocket of rainforest near the far north Queensland coast is the world's only rehabilitation centre for critically endangered southern cassowaries.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, animals, veterinary-medicine, rain-forests-and-forest, environment, national-parks, garners-beach-4852, cairns-4870, papua-new-guinea
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