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Call for vulture 'restaurants' rethink

Call for vulture ‘restaurants’ rethink

The number of scavengers including hyenas and jackals has increased significantly. Changes are recommended after study finds increase in other...

Wildlife Editor
Tian Tian "no longer pregnant"

Tian Tian “no longer pregnant”

Tian Tian was artifically inseminated in April of this year. Edinburgh panda’s hormone levels return to normal Efforts to breed the...

Wildlife Editor
Small furries still misunderstood, says charity

Small furries still misunderstood, says charity

Basic care mistakes are still being made, such as housing pets with the wrong species and providing the wrong housing...

Kent home to potential carrier of West Nile Virus

Kent home to potential carrier of West Nile virus

West Nile virus is usually spread through the bites of infected mosquitoes. West Nile virus is usually spread through the...

Industry Editor
Vet helps assess reproduction worries with endangered species

Vet helps assess reproduction worries with endangered species

UC Davis’ Dr Bruce Christensen, right, biopsies the uterus of an African painted dog at the Bronx Zoo. UC Davis...

Wildlife Editor
Fatal aggression is chimps is "natural"

Fatal aggression in chimps is “natural”

Primatologists have long been divided over the root of intergroup aggression. Major study finds chimp killings are not the result...

Wildlife Editor
Animals rescued from bombed-out zoo

Animals rescued from bombed-out zoo

More than 80 animals died when a zoo in northern Gaza was severely damaged by airstrikes. FOUR PAWS are helping...

Wildlife Editor
Update on primates as pets inquiry

Update on primates as pets inquiry

RSPCA and BVA support a UK ban on keeping primates as pets. Government responds to calls from MPs to find out...

Two northern lynx cubs born in the Highlands

Two northern lynx cubs born in the Highlands

Two northern lynx cubs have been born at Highland Wildlife Park. Cubs are quickly becoming favourites with visitors to the...

One of the world's rarest frogs returns to the wild

One of the world’s rarest frogs returns to the wild

Mountain chicken frogs have been decimated by chytrid fungus. Conservationists hail the successful breeding of critically endangered species One of...