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The 60-year-old, who was wearing a red dress, was knocked unconscious as she hit her head on the ground after being attacked.

Program signals possible change of strategy in the eternal war between New Yorkers and their least favorite neighbors New York's seemingly eternal battle against its rodent population has taken a new... twist after the city council greenlighted pilot schemes to deploy rat contraceptives in a new bid to curb their booming population. The Thursday-night vote means that in the next few months pilot programs will begin using ContraPest, a type of rodent birth control, that will be put in special containers aimed at encouraging the rats to ingest it.

Ahtari Zoo said it had spent 8m euros on a facility for Lumi and Pyry since they were brought to Finland in 2018 A zoo in Finland has blamed rising inflation and upkeep costs for its decision to... return two giant pandas to China, more than eight years ahead of the date they were set to go back. The pandas, named Lumi and Pyry, were brought to Finland in January 2018, months after Chinese president Xi Jinping visited the Nordic country and signed a joint agreement on protecting the animals.

The hoiho, which means 'noise shouter', triumphed in a year free from the usual scandals surrounding the competition One of the world's rarest penguins has been crowned New Zealand's bird of the year,... in an unusually sedate year for the competition, free from the foreign interference and voting scandals of previous events. The endangered yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho, is the largest of New Zealand's mainland penguin species and is distinctive for the pale yellow band of feathers linking the eyes.

Two Italian men were arrested at a Sri Lankan wildlife park after they were found with hundreds of protected insects.

With Sweden issuing permits to kill a fifth of its bears, and Romanian MPs voting to double its quota, and the debate over hunting season has become a political issue The forest was unnaturally still... when Soňa Chovanová Supeková first picked up the bear's scent. It was roe deer rutting season in southern Slovakia, and the hills below the Carpathian mountains were busy with tourists biking and foraging for mushrooms. Fellow hunters who had come face to face with bears had told Supeková the fear had been so great they could not lift their rifles. Sitting with her father, a hunter in his 80s who had killed a few bears, she found herself in a similar state of dread - she was out on that trip expecting to kill deer, and did not want to come on a bear unexpectedly. "Fear...

Pen-chan defies expectations to be reunited with keeper safe and sound after swimming 30 miles in open sea A fugitive penguin in Japan has been found safe and sound two weeks after escaping into the... sea and paddling for miles in what her keeper called a miracle. Pen-chan, a female Cape penguin born and raised in captivity, who had never swum in the open sea before or fended for herself, absconded from an event in the central Aichi region on 25 August.

Animal rights groups had said the beluga, nicknamed Hvaldimir, which was found dead last month, had been shot A beluga whale that rose to fame in Norway after its unusual harness prompted suspicions... that the creature was trained by Russia as a spy died after a stick became stuck in its mouth, police have said. The lifeless body of the whale, named Hvaldimir - a combination of the Norwegian word for whale and the first name of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin - was found floating in the sea on 31 August by a father and son fishing in Risavika Bay, southern Norway.

A census suggests the population has stabilised following the outbreak, with numbers up by 15%.

Conservation groups are calling for action as populations of seabirds decline on UK cliffs.

Queensland ambulance service says woman suffered 'arm injuries' before being taken to hospital Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily... news podcast A tiger handler has been mauled by a big cat in her charge at a Gold Coast theme park, with emergency services saying she is in hospital with injuries to her arm. A Queensland ambulance service (QAS) spokesperson said paramedics transported a woman from Dreamworld to the Gold Coast University hospital with "multiple lacerations to the arm" after "an incident involving a tiger" at about 9am Monday.

A white beluga whale who was first spotted near Russian waters wearing a harness and ignited rumours he may be a Moscow spy, has been found dead.

Police in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, warned residents to steer clear of an "aggressive" water buffalo on the loose in the community.

The International Whaling Commission has become a 'zombie' and should vote to disband itself, insists Peter Bridgewater Peter Bridgewater has a clear message for the International Whaling Commission... (IWC) that he once led. The organisation - which played a critical role in ending whale hunting in the 1980s - has become a zombie institution that should vote to disband itself at its meeting next month. "The commission did great work, but that was last century," Bridgewater told the Observer last week. "Today it has - like so many other international conventions or organisations - outlived its useful life and should be quietly disbanded."

The man, aged 33, was found dead in the back garden of his home in Rubery on Wednesday.

A court heard she played a major role in an online group that paid for baby monkeys to be taken from their mothers.

A man has been charged after dozens of dead animals and birds were dumped outside a shop in a picturesque village.

A black bear attacked and injured a child Sunday night in Montana, officials said.

Chilean flamingo couple Curtis and Arthur have been celebrated as trailblazers after becoming the first male flamingo pair to have adopted a chick on British soil.

People using airguns, slingshots and crossbows for 'fun' behind rise in animal attacks in England and Wales Weapon attacks on cats in England and Wales more than doubled in the first half of this year... compared with the same period in 2023, as the RSPCA warns of a rise in violence against animals. Data released on Thursday by the animal charity shows 44 cats were shot with a weapon such as an air gun, slingshot, catapult or crossbow from January to June 2024, compared with 18 in the same period last year.

A four-year-old girl has died after a golden retriever fell from the fifth floor of a residential building as she walked with her mother along a busy road in Mumbra, India yesterday

Pandas Yun Chuan and Xin Bao will be available for public viewing at the San Diego Zoo starting Aug. 8.

A crocodile who is believed to have fatally attacked a man while he was on holiday with his wife and children has been killed.

Many argue growing dog population is dangerous and dirty; others see them as historic and 'integral' aspect of Turkish culture

Londoners have been urged to stay away from a dolphin that was spotted in the River Thames.