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A turkey stands in a barn, Aug. 10, 2015, on a turkey farm near Manson, Iowa. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that avian influenza (bird flu), which is deadly to commercial poultry, was confirmed in a flock of 47,300 turkeys in Jerauld County of South Dakota last Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, and at a…
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Gertie, an endangered Bolson tortoise, is shown to a group of state and federal wildlife officials during a trip to Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in Engle, N.M., on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. The Turner Endangered Species Fund has been working to build a population of the tortoises for more than two decades in hopes of…
Caribbean box jellyfish are barely a centimetre long and have no brain. | Photo Credit: AFP Caribbean box jellyfish are barely a centimetre long and have no brain. But these gelatinous, fingernail-sized creatures are capable of learning from visual cues to avoid swimming into obstacles — a cognitive ability never before seen in animals with…
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Many people love eye an echidna. Their shuffling proceed, inquisitive gaze and protecting spines are detectable, coupled with the coarse hair and stubby beak. They seem like a unusual mix of hedgehog and anteater. However they’re no longer similar to those creatures in any respect. They’re much more secret and peculiar than recurrently assumed. Australia…
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a sun bear interacts with tourists at the Hangzhou Zoo in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. The zoo in eastern China is denying suggestions some of its bears might be people in costumes after photos of the animals standing like humans…
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