Wildlife
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Almost three-quarters of the 35 victims were male, and 20% were bitten while trying to pick up or kill snake
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Czech zoo takes saw to the horns of its 21 rhinoceroses in response to deadly attack at Paris wildlife park this month
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Rangers trap and kill four-metre crocodile near where Warren Hughes disappeared on Saturday
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Letters: I have been spotting snow buntings all across the Alps for over 40 years
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Trees and green spaces are unrecognised healers offering benefits from increases in mental wellbeing to allergy reductions, says report
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Party to draft laws allowing a controlled cull of protected reptiles, including Indigenous-run safari hunts, after two suspected attacks in state’s far north
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Body believed to be that of 35-year-old Cairns man who disappeared on Saturday in far north Queensland
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Letters: The cameras are proving invaluable for spotting details of behaviour
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Threatened by famine, pastoralists have turned to violence
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George Orwell wrote a shocking account of a colonial policeman who kills an elephant and is filled with self-loathing. But was this fiction – or a confession? An Orwell expert introduces the original story
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Country diary: New Forest To some, fallen timber makes for an untidy forest. There was a time when the woodsmen would have cleared much of it away. Not now
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Bird appears on campus in Queensland where it was spotted standing in front of a glass door admiring itself
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Nesting bald eagles, Adélie penguins and a newly hatched Komodo dragon are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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MCS takes some haddock fisheries off green list – but Scottish fishermen accuse it of ‘dressing advocacy up as science’
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If found, 10ft reptile carried off 18-year-old fishing in Chiapas reserve will be relocated to animal reserve, park or zoo
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‘We hope that these estimates and their significant magnitude raise public awareness and increase the level of appreciation for spiders,’ study authors say
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Last century, the cliff-dwelling bird of prey almost became extinct in Britain. Now it has reinvented itself as a city creature. What is behind this spectacular recovery?
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Outside the Kazakh capital, Astana, the river snowscape is populated by strange figures. Detroit-based photographer Aleksey Kondratyev investigated and discovered they were ice fishermen, who brave -40C temperatures waiting patiently for their catch
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Following the shark bite death of a body boarder in February, there have been calls for a cull of bull sharks. But it isn’t the answer – and it won’t work
Night parrot sighting confirmed in Western Australia for first time in 100 years