꼬리표: animals
‘We make nature here’: pioneering Dutch project repairs image after outcry over starving animals
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We are in a 4x4 driving through long grass on a bit of land that was once at the bottom of the North Sea. Drained in 1968, this landscape forms part of the world’s largest artificial island, home to Oostvaardersplasse...
‘We make nature here’: pioneering Dutch project repairs image after outcry over starving animals
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We are in a 4x4 driving through long grass on a bit of land that was once at the bottom of the North Sea. Drained in 1968, this landscape forms part of the world’s largest artificial island, home to Oostvaardersplasse...
An Immense World by Ed Yong review – the astonishing ways in which animals experience our planet
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Scallops have eyes. Not just two eyes, like humans have, or eight, like most spiders do, but up to 200 of them, each clasped by a thin, wavy tentacle protruding from the inner edges of the corrugated shell. Considerin...
Ringling Bros circus returns after five years – without animals
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“The Greatest Show on Earth” is making a comeback – without animal acts – five years after shutting down its three-ring circus, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey announced on Wednesday. The interactive live sh...
When ewe were young: what can cute baby animals teach us about ageing?
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They say not to work with babies or animals, but the photographer Gerrard Gethings chose to combine the two for his latest project, a series of portraits of young animals alongside their adult counterparts. Baby Anima...
Police in Spain seize €29m haul of stuffed endangered animals
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Police in Spain have seized one of the largest hauls of taxidermy animals in Europe as they investigate potential smuggling, after a warehouse in Valencia was found to contain stuffed rhinos, polar bears, elephants an...
US scientists step up efforts to research Covid in bears, deer and other animals
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To administer this Covid test, Todd Kautz had to lie on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on the bear’s snout, Kautz carefully slipped a lo...
Pythons and caimans among animals found by Spanish police at illegal zoo
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Spanish police have recovered dozens of exotic animals, including two caimans, three pythons, eight iguanas and 46 giant African snails, after discovering a private zoo on the Canary island of Gran Canaria. Officers f...
Why do many animals snore?
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Why do many animals snore? Making such loud noises when sleeping surely is an advertisement to any nocturnal predator that unconscious prey is close by and relatively vulnerable. Geoff Moore Post your answers (and new...
The wildlife whisperer – meet the ‘bird lady’ who paddles into freezing water to save animals
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The first animal Tracey Parsons rescued was a fledgling song thrush she found hopping in and out of the road. It had lost its mother. Parsons was seven. She kept it in her bedroom, where it flew around the room. She w...
How one of Florida’s most beloved animals may be close to climate extinction
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When Hurricane Irma ravaged south Florida in September 2017 it inundated homes, knocked out electricity for millions and killed more than 30 사람들. The devastation was not confined to humans, 하나. In the Florida ...
Dog awarded animals’ Victoria Cross for RAF service in Afghanistan
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A retired military working dog named Hertz has been awarded a medal known as the animals’ Victoria Cross for his service in Afghanistan. The German shorthaired pointer is the first dog in British military history to d...
Metaphysical Animals review – four women who changed philosophy
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Metaphysical Animals is both story and argument. The story is a fine one. Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley were students at Oxford during the second world war. They found a world in whi...
Metaphysical Animals review – four women reclaiming philosophy in wartime Oxford
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Few people read books about philosophy nowadays, if they ever did, but there is a larger audience for books about philosophers. One of the more successful examples in this flourishing genre was David Edmonds’s and Joh...
Monkeys escape after truck carrying 100 animals to a laboratory crashes in US
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Police in Pennsylvania are searching for at least three monkeys that have escaped after a truck carrying about 100 of the animals was involved in a crash. The truck carrying the monkeys collided with a dump truck on F...