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Animals

6 August 2024

  • a man in a suit and tie speaks into a microphone

    RFK Jr will not be charged for dumping dead bear in Central Park 10 years ago

    Independent presidential candidate made bizarre admission in New Yorker profile but won’t face charges
  • Two Olympic greats meet as Simone Biles poses with Beacon in the runup to the Olympics

    The unsung hero of the Olympic-champion US women’s gymnastics team is a very good boy

    Beacon, a golden retriever therapy dog, was a crucial part of the Americans’ preparations for the Olympics as he helped soothe athletes’ nerves
  • A badger in a cage being injected

    The age of extinction
    Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds

    Percentage of badgers with bTB fell to zero in Cornish study, raising hopes of end to cull of 210,000 badgers since 2013

5 August 2024

  • Helen Sullivan

    The nature of ...
    A naked mole rat: like termites, they have one almost endlessly pregnant queen

    Helen Sullivan
    Each piece of information about this xenophobic rodent is worse than the last, but you cannot stop reading
  • A brown bichon frisé sits on a chair next to the green bottle of dog scent

    ‘Delicate, authentic, charismatic’: Dolce & Gabbana launches €99 dog perfume

    Italian brand makes first foray into pet scents – but RSPCA warns against such products as dogs rely on sense of smell

    • The pet I'll never forget
      The pet I’ll never forget: Lilly the stubborn, perfect Frenchie, who bounded into our lives and took over

    • Country diary
      Country diary: The night air is thick with bats

    • All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects, study finds

4 August 2024

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a cat with a blue collar leaning to the left and a dog with a red collar leaning to the right.

    Republicans beware: weaponising pets is a political minefield

    Stewart Lee
    Before attacking ‘childless cat ladies’, senator JD Vance would have done well to remember the old showbiz adage…

3 August 2024

  • A man with binoculars standing by a fenced-off field

    Ecologist taking on MoD to protect skylarks says he has faced threats and assault

    Campaigners say rare grassland on former firing range in Essex was mowed, killing the birds and their chicks that nest on the ground
  • The new calf among the herd on Andrea's farm

    Country diary
    Country diary: Snowdrops can come good in the summer

    Tebay, Cumbria: I anxiously picked berries while waiting for Snowdrop to give birth to the first pedigree calf of our herd
  • Sick sea lion on beach comforted by volunteer wearing blue gloves and black boots

    Sick sea lions stranded on California coast as experts fear algae poisoning

    At least 23 sea lions with suspected domoic acid poisoning rescued from Santa Barbara and Ventura beaches

2 August 2024

  • A chough flying above a field

    Choughs breed in Kent for first time in 200 years

  • A fox runs through flames

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a feisty sea lion, a retiring elephant and a fleeing fox

  • Vet holds cat

    Tears and triumph as George the cat reunited with owner years after going missing

  • A New Caledonia cagou

    Much cagou about something: New Caledonia’s favourite bird thriving after conservation push

1 August 2024

  • A fossil seen from the dorsal (top) side (left) with spines covering the body (right).

    Love child of slug and hedgehog: fossils may shed light on early mollusc ancestors

  • a wolf in the netherlands

    Wolf sparks warning to keep children out of forest in Netherlands

July 2024

  • Elegant horse portrait on black background.

    ‘The horses don’t choose to take part’: should equestrian sports be removed from the Olympics?

  • A woman with her face painted with dog features shouts at a protest as other around her hold up placards

    Turkey approves ‘massacre law’ to remove millions of stray dogs

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