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Britain’s ‘loneliest sheep’ rescued after two years
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The sheep, called Fiona and wearing a huge fleece, had been stranded at the foot of cliffs on the Cromarty Firth for at least two years, with an animal welfare charity having deemed rescue attempts “incredibly complex”.

But five farmers managed to haul her up a steep slope, and now plan to deliver her to a farm park.

The sheep’s fleece was “huge” and touching the ground at the back, she said, with Turner describing the experience as “heart-rending”.

“The poor ewe has been on her own for at least two years. For a flock animal that has to be torture, and she seemed desperate to make contact with us on the two occasions we’ve gone past her.”

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Thương thay thân phận lạc loài
Dẫu sao cũng bởi con người chớ sao
(Truyện Kìu)

Give bear a chance:

Ukrainian bear rehomed in UK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rehomed-uk-zoo

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Less than a year earlier, Yampil had been only a few days from death when he was found by Ukrainian troops in the ruins of an abandoned zoo in the town near Donetsk that gave him his name.

But following his traumatic ordeal, the asiatic black bear appeared to show no scars of the shelling that destroyed his habitat or the Russian occupation that killed almost all of the 200 other zoo animals.

When Yampil wakes up from hibernation, he will be met with a custom-designed enclosure built just for him. But it comes at a cost: Five Sisters needs to raise £200,000 to cover the enclosure as well as his future upkeep and veterinary care for the rest of his life. The zoo has so far raised £50,000 and is appealing for donations.

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Thả gấu về rừng tốt hơn mà khỏi tốn 200 ngàn.

Cứu vật vật trả thân…

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Một chuồng, một mạng, một pan đà
Ba đứa chai na nó quấy ta ...

Pandas are the latest victims of tensions between the U.S. and China
The Smithsonian National Zoo’s three giant pandas are returning to China, as tensions between Washington and Beijing fester.

Three of China’s cutest and most beloved diplomats left Washington on Wednesday, marking a turning point in the struggling relationship between their home country and the United States.

The diplomats were not wolf warriors, but a trio of giant pandas who came to represent China’s burgeoning global ambitions — as well as Washington’s most popular zoo attraction. The arrival and departure of the pandas, which spawned merch lines and a cult-like following, traces the half-century relationship trajectory between a longtime global power and an increasingly influential country that has grown to become its biggest competitor.

“There’s no doubt that this is a reflection of the state of bilateral relations,” said Yun Sun, a China expert at the Stimson Center, a foreign affairs think tank. “The pandas are supposed to unify the relationship with the United States, and the relationship between the U.S. and China is so bad anyway, what’s the point of the panda being here?”

Tian Tian and Mei Xiang arrived at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington in 2000, taking the place of a panda duo that had recently passed away after coming to the U.S. in 1972. (The third departed panda, Xiao Qi Ji, was born to Mei in 2020.) Although American zoos had giant pandas in the early parts of the 20th century, the arrival of the first duo, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, kicked off American panda fever. Former Chinese leader Mao Zedong had promised former President Richard Nixon those first pandas during the American leader’s groundbreaking visit to China.

Back then, the pandas were a symbol of a new friendship between the two countries — a way for China, which hoped to integrate more with the rest of the world, to draw the United States closer to its flank.

But as the species became increasingly endangered, panda diplomacy evolved in order to better meet conservation goals and serve China’s strategic interests. Since the 1980s, the government has given pandas to foreign zoos on short- and long-term scientific loans, subject to renegotiation with Chinese officials and greater scrutiny from Chinese scientists over the treatment and care of their pandas.

Now, as China increases its network of influence across the globe that rivals the U.S., continuing these partnerships with U.S. zoos yields diminishing returns for their investment.

This panda rationing allows China an opportunity to increase the value of panda loans in the future and “rethink and renegotiate a concept of exactly what these loans mean,” said E. Elena Songster, a history professor at St. Mary’s College of California and an expert on panda diplomacy.

“If [China] has fewer pandas out there, they’re even more prized, and it can probably negotiate more favorable terms with relation to future agreements,” Songster said.

There have been some recent bright spots in U.S.-China relations. The announcement of a meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping next week in San Francisco represents a breakthrough in a relationship that faltered earlier this year, mostly after a Chinese spy balloon that flew across the continental U.S. in February drew nationwide outrage. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s October visit to China, which included a meeting with Xi, was accompanied by fairly positive state media coverage, portending another potential crack in the frosty relationship.

But no new offers of pandas, or last-minute announcements of loan extensions, have preceded or accompanied the meetings.

The pandas were not just a popular attraction in Washington. At the peak, 13 pandas were scattered across four zoos — San Diego, Memphis, Atlanta and, most famously, Washington’s Smithsonian National Zoo. And the exodus is not just in the states: Pandas are also leaving the United Kingdom, which likewise slipped into a more combative relationship with China over the treatment of Hong Kong, a former British colony.

With the end of Washington’s loan program, Atlanta has become the last U.S. zoo to have pandas, but not for much longer. Atlanta’s pandas are set to return to China next year, and the zoo told POLITICO that it has not had any discussion with its Chinese partners to extend their presence.

The panda departure has nothing to do with an inability to take care of the animals — although critics in China at one point accused American zoos of mistreating some of their prized pandas. American zoos, as well as both governments, maintain that the breeding and lease programs have been successful, promoting conservation and intercultural goals.

“Many good results have been achieved on breeding, disease prevention and control, technical exchanges and public awareness,” said Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington. “This has played a positive role in protecting endangered species and enhancing the friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.”

And panda diplomacy continues — albeit with a different bent. New pandas were sent to Qatar ahead of last year’s FIFA World Cup, potentially signaling China’s interests in the Middle East.

“Zoos aren’t taking this personally,” said Dan Ashe, director of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and a former head of the Fish and Wildlife Service. “It’s not a repudiation of zoos or their ability to take care of pandas. It’s a reflection of the state of relations between the U.S. and China.”

The first panda loan agreement with the U.S. lasted for a decade and was renewed in 2010. In 2020, the Smithsonian National Zoo signed a three-year temporary extension to the agreement with Beijing. Perhaps cognizant of the panda exhibit’s ability to draw large crowds, the Washington zoo is making a $1.7 million renovation in hopes of hosting more of the bears in the future, according to a Bloomberg report.

Washington zoo director Brandie Smith, speaking at a press event on Wednesday morning as the pandas prepared to depart, expressed hope that they would one day come back.

“The future is bright for giant pandas,” Smith said. “We look forward to celebrating with all of you when pandas can return to D.C.”

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Hồi đó Mỹ mới đem panda từ bên Tàu qua, thiệt tình dân chúng ở DC kéo nhau đi coi y như hàng xóm kéo nhau đi coi cô dâu chú rể. Cả tháng trời đài nào cũng nói chuyện panda. Có nhớ người ta hỏi vì sao panda quá sá là hiếm trên thế giới, anh kia tíu lâm trả lời tại vì chánh phủ Chai na chỉ cho đẻ một con, it’s because of the one-child policy. Lúc đó Chai na chưa biết giận dỗi.

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Hồi đó Mỹ mới đem panda từ bên Tàu qua, thiệt tình dân chúng ở DC kéo nhau đi coi y như hàng xóm kéo nhau đi coi cô dâu chú rể. Cả tháng trời đài nào cũng nói chuyện panda. Có nhớ người ta hỏi vì sao panda quá sá là hiếm trên thế giới, anh kia tíu lâm trả lời tại vì chánh phủ Chai na chỉ cho đẻ một con, it’s because of the one-child policy. Lúc đó Chai na chưa biết giận dỗi.

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Nếu tổng thống Mỹ thức thời (hình như thầy Bảy Đờn sắp gặp Tập chủ tịch) có thể nhờ chủ tịch Trung Quốc phỏng vấn thử những người tàu hiện đang cặp biên giới Mỹ muốn vào Hoa Kỳ, xem họ có muốn về cố quốc hay không. Nếu họ không sợ, dám đối diện, đối chất với chủ tịch, nghĩa là có bản lãnh được tị nạn tại Mỹ. Mấy con gấu mắt bầm thì không thể bày tỏ nguyện vọng nên dễ dàng thành món hàng hờn dỗi.

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The global risk of infectious disease emergence from giant land snail invasion and pet trade



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Lissachatina fulica can carry at least 36 pathogen species, including two-thirds that can infect humans. The global invasion of L. fulica is climatically limited to tropical areas, but the species is strongly associated with densely populated areas where snails are more likely to enter in contact with humans. In temperate countries, however, climatic conditions should prevent L. fulica's spread. However, we show that in Europe, giant snails are popular exotic pets and are often handled with direct skin contact, likely increasing the risk of pathogen transmission to their owners.
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Oklahoma governor backs cockfighting group
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Stitt made a video in support of the annual meeting for the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, a group that has been working to reduce penalties for cockfighting in the state.

“I wish I could be with you for the Gamefowl Commission’s annual legislative meeting, but I wanted to take a moment to cheer you on from the sidelines,” Stitt said in the video published on Sunday. “Oklahomans like yourselves remained dedicated to the spirit of competition and camaraderie that runs deep in our communities” he added.

The former district director for the Gamefowl Commission was arrested and charged with a felony in August after authorities busted a cockfighting ring in the state, KFOR reported.

The practice is outlawed in all 50 states, and a felony in 42 states as well as the District of Columbia, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). The first law outlawing cockfighting was passed in 1867.

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Khôn ngoan đá đáp người ngoài
Gà còn để nhậu chớ hoài đá nhau
(Ca dao)

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Chị em thích cái nước nhớt ốc thải ra í.

Không biết đánh cướp laptop mà bảo là "siêu lợn". Chừng nào xây hàng rào cấm hợi đây? Một con lợn sinh, cả tàu bỏ chạy.

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Nạn ‘siêu lợn hoang’ khiến Canada nhức đầu, đang lan dần sang Mỹ

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Lợn rừng gần LaBelle, Florida.



Số lượng “siêu lợn” khó tiêu diệt bùng nổ ở Canada đang đe dọa tràn về phía nam biên giới, và các tiểu bang phía bắc như Minnesota, North Dakota và Montana của Hoa Kỳ đang thực hiện các bước để ngăn chặn cuộc xâm lược.

Ở Canada, lợn rừng lang thang ở Alberta, Saskatchewan và Manitoba gây ra mối đe dọa mới. Chúng thường là những giống lai kết hợp kỹ năng sinh tồn của lợn rừng Á-Âu với kích thước và khả năng sinh sản cao lợn nhà để tạo thành một “siêu lợn” lan rộng ngoài tầm kiểm soát.

Ông Ryan Brook, giáo sư tại Đại học Saskatchewan và là một trong những người có thẩm quyền hàng đầu của Canada về vấn đề này, gọi lợn rừng là “động vật xâm lấn mạnh nhất trên hành tinh” và “một vụ lật tàu sinh thái”.

Lợn không có nguồn gốc từ Bắc Mỹ. Ông Brook nói, mặc dù chúng đã lang thang khắp lục địa trong nhiều thế kỷ, nhưng vấn đề của Canada chỉ bắt nguồn từ những năm 1980 khi nước này khuyến khích nông dân nuôi lợn rừng. Thị trường sụp đổ sau khi đạt đỉnh điểm vào năm 2001 và một số nông dân thất vọng đã cắt hàng rào, thả rông động vật ra ngoài.

Hóa ra lũ lợn rất giỏi sống sót qua mùa đông ở Canada. Thông minh, dễ thích nghi và có nhiều lông, chúng ăn bất cứ thứ gì, kể cả cây trồng và động vật hoang dã. Chúng ủi đất khi chúng tìm sâu bọ và cây trồng. Chúng có thể lây lan những căn bệnh tàn khốc đến các trang trại chăn nuôi lợn như sốt lợn châu Phi. Và chúng sinh sản nhanh chóng. Một con lợn nái có thể đẻ sáu con trong một lứa và nuôi hai lứa trong một năm.

Điều đó có nghĩa là 65% số lợn rừng trở lên có thể bị giết mỗi năm và con số này sẽ vẫn tăng lên, ông Brook nói. Ông nói rằng việc săn bắn chỉ làm cho vấn đề trở nên tồi tệ hơn. Tỷ lệ thành công của những người đi săn chỉ khoảng 2% đến 3% và một số tiểu bang đã cấm săn bắn vì điều đó khiến lợn trở nên cảnh giác và sống về đêm - khó truy lùng và tiêu diệt hơn.

Lợn rừng đã gây thiệt hại khoảng 2,5 tỷ đô la cho mùa vụ ở Mỹ mỗi năm, chủ yếu ở các tiểu bang miền nam như Texas. Và chúng có thể hung dữ với con người. Một phụ nữ ở Texas bị lợn rừng giết chết vào năm 2019.

Ông Brook cho biết việc tiêu diệt lợn rừng không còn khả thi ở Manitoba và Saskatchewan. Nhưng tình hình không phải ở đâu cũng vô vọng và một số tiểu bang ở Mỹ đã tiêu diệt chúng. Ông nói, điều quan trọng là có một hệ thống phát hiện có thể tìm thấy chúng sớm và nhanh chóng, sau đó đáp ứng nhanh chóng.

Ông Brook và các đồng nghiệp của ông đã ghi nhận 62.000 trường hợp nhìn thấy lợn rừng ở Canada. Các cuộc khảo sát trên không đã phát hiện ra chúng ở cả hai bên biên giới, Canada và North Dakota, Mỹ. Họ cũng đã ghi lại một cảnh tượng ở Manitoba cách Minnesota 28 km.

Ông Brook nói: “Không ai có thể ngạc nhiên khi lợn bắt đầu đi qua biên giới đó nếu chúng chưa làm vậy.” “Câu hỏi là: Điều gì sẽ được thực hiện với chúng?”

Ông Brook cho biết Montana là tiểu bang nghiêm túc nhất trong việc ngăn chặn lợn rừng. Chính quyền cấm nuôi và vận chuyển lợn rừng trong tiểu bang.

Ông Brook nói: “Con đường duy nhất phía trước là bạn phải thực sự quyết liệt và bạn phải sử dụng tất cả các công cụ có được.”

Điều đó có thể bao gồm các bẫy lớn trên mặt đất với những cái tên như “BoarBuster” hoặc súng lưới bắn từ máy bay trực thăng. Một số tiểu bang và tỉnh áp dụng các chương trình theo dõi “Squeal on Pig” do cộng đồng huy động. Các nhà khoa học cũng đã nghiên cứu các chất độc như natri nitrit, nhưng chúng có nguy cơ gây hại cho các loài khác.

Minnesota nằm trong số các tiểu bang đang cố gắng ngăn chặn đàn lợn lan rộng. Bộ Tài nguyên Thiên nhiên của tiểu bang dự kiến sẽ công bố một phúc trình vào tháng 2 để xác định những lỗ hổng trong kế hoạch quản lý và khuyến nghị các bước phòng ngừa mới. Trong khi đó, Bộ Nông nghiệp Hoa Kỳ đang sử dụng máy bay và máy bay không người lái để tăng cường giám sát dọc biên giới phía bắc.

Minnesota được tuyên bố là tiểu bang đã tiêu diệt được lợn rừng sau khi Cơ quan Động vật hoang dã USDA bắn chết một nhóm lợn vào năm 2016 lang thang khỏi trang trại và trở thành hoang dã ở góc xa về phía tây bắc của tiểu bang - nhưng không phải trước khi chúng bắt đầu sinh sản và thành lập một khu bảo tồn động vật hoang dã. Ông Gary Nohrenberg, giám đốc Cơ quan Động vật hoang dã Minnesota, nói, theo những gì ông biết, chưa có con lợn rừng thực sự nào đến được tiểu bang của ông.

Theo USDA, lợn hoang đã được báo cáo ở ít nhất 35 tiểu bang. Cơ quan này ước tính tổng số lợn ở các tiểu bang này vào khoảng 6 triệu con.

Ông Mike Marlow, phụ tá giám đốc chương trình cho biết, kể từ khi triển khai Chương trình Quản lý Lợn hoang Quốc gia vào năm 2014, USDA đã cung cấp tài chính cho 33 tiểu bang. Ông cho biết mục tiêu là tiêu diệt lợn rừng ở những nơi có quần thể thấp hoặc mới nổi, đồng thời hạn chế thiệt hại ở những nơi chúng đã sinh sôi như Texas và các tiểu bang phía đông nam.

Chương trình đã thành công ở một số tiểu bang có số lượng nhỏ như Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Wisconsin và Washington, ông cho biết. Những con vật này thỉnh thoảng bị phát hiện và nhanh chóng bị tiêu diệt ở Bắc Dakota.

Ông Marlow nói: “Tôi nghĩ chúng tôi đang đạt được những bước tiến lớn hhttps://www.voatiengviet.com/a/nn-sieu-lon-hoang-khien-canada-nhuc-dau-dang-lan-dan-sang-my/7365988.htmlướng tới thành công.” “Nhưng việc tiêu diệt không phải là chuyện trong tương lai gần.”

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Siêu lợn chắc hông cần laptop, xài tablet với smartphone cho nó gọn.

Hàng rào cũng hông cản được siêu lợn, phải pháo kích cả khu rừng cả ngày cả đêm như Israel mới diệt được hết siêu lợn. Lợn thường chết oan gáng chiệu.

Một con lợn hoang cả làng bỏ mạng.
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Siêu lợn chắc hông cần laptop, xài tablet với smartphone cho nó gọn.

Hàng rào cũng hông cản được siêu lợn, phải pháo kích cả khu rừng cả ngày cả đêm như Israel mới diệt được hết siêu lợn. Lợn thường chết oan gáng chiệu.

Một con lợn hoang cả làng bỏ mạng.
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Flood nó đi. Thảy smartphone, tablet gì đó vào hầm dụ nó ra, hoặc xịt nước biển vào ướp muối chuẩn bị món thịt nguội thì khỏi pháo kích.

"Flood hầm lòi mặt lợn".

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Buồn như ly rượu đầy, không có ai cùng cạn ...

Philippines' elephant Mali dies after decades alone

An elephant that was kept alone in a cage for more than four decades has died. Mali, a popular attraction at Manila Zoo, was at the center of a global campaign to relocate her.

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The pachyderm's plight attracted the attention of animal rights groups and a host of celebrities


Zoo officials in the Philippine capital, Manila, on Wednesday announced that an elephant that lived a solitary existence in a cage for several decades had died.
While Mali was a popular attraction at the city's zoo, she was also at the center of a global campaign to be relocated to join other members of her species.

What the officials said

The animal's death was announced at a news conference by Manila City Mayor Honey Lacuna.

"Mali was our prized possession and was the star attraction here at the Manila Zoo," Lacuna said, recalling that her parents had taken her to the zoo to see the elephant. "It saddens me because she was part of our lives."

Zoo veterinarian Heinrich Domingo told reporters that an autopsy had found that Mali had pancreatic cancer and rejected accusations she had been neglected. "We were her family," he said.

What others said about Mali's treatment

Meanwhile, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) group condemned authorities for keeping Mali alone for so long, given that elephants are known to be social creatures that live in herds in the wild.

"Because of indifference and greed, Mali the elephant died the same way she had lived for nearly 50 years: alone in a concrete pen at the Manila Zoo," PETA said in a statement.

"The Manila Zoo and the city of Manila sentenced Mali to decades of solitary confinement, which is torturous for female elephants, who naturally would spend their lives among their mothers and sisters, protecting one another and raising each other's calves," PETA said.
The group also accused the zoo and the Philippines government of ignoring Mali's "clearly painful foot problems."

Celebrities including prominent animal behavior expert Jane Goodall and music legend Paul McCartney had joined PETA's campaign to call for Mali to be moved to a sanctuary, where she could have enjoyed the company of other elephants.
Some social media users expressed sadness over Mali's death but also hit out at the zoo and city officials for her treatment.
"No more small enclosure for you. Run free Mali," said one Facebook user, with another commenting that "they killed her long before her physical death."
Mali was presented as a gift from Sri Lanka in 1977 to then Filipino first lady Imelda Marcos, the wife of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and mother of current President Bongbong Marcos.
The elephant was only three years old when she arrived in Manila.
A similar outcry surrounded the treatment of another elephant, Kaavan, who was moved from Islamabad zoo to a sanctuary in Cambodia in 2020 after a campaign spearheaded by the US singer Cher.

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Một năm không gặp tưởng mèo đã cũ
Mây bay hơn năm tưởng mèo đã quên
Như mây bay đi một trời thương nhớ
Miêu ơi, bên kia có còn mắt buồn?

Missing cat Lucky returns home after being lost for a year

Lucky, a 3-year-old cat that went missing a year ago, was found some 60 kilometers from home. She was identified by a chip registered with an animal protection group that organizes missing pet hotlines.

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Lucky spent a few hours inspecting police headquarters in Garbsen after being found far from home

Lucky, a 3-year-old female tabby cat that went missing a year ago, has been returned to her home in north-central Germany after showing up in a village some 60 kilometers (37 miles) away on Tuesday night.

The cat's owner reported its disappearance from her home in the village of Wallensen outside Hanover in November 2022. Searches of the area by the 52-year-old and her children, however, were unsuccessful.

On Tuesday night, a 39-year-old woman in the village of Garbsen noticed the feline as it sat on her porch looking to come inside.

The woman quickly distributed a photo of the cat in a neighborhood group chat. One group member, a local police officer, stopped by while on patrol to scan the animal's chip implant.

Upon scanning the chip, the officer saw that the cat had been registered as missing.

Police then contacted TASSO e.V., an animal protection organization that, among other things, maintains an active national registry of missing animals. TASSO, in turn, contacted the owner to give her the happy news.Garbsen Police Chief Christoph Ahlborn said the woman arrived at police headquarters late Tuesday night to pick up her much-missed pet.

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Một năm đi lạc tưởng mèo đã ngỏm…

Ai chich ngừa covid giờ cũng có gắn chip như con mèo lạc này, khỏi sợ đi lạc.

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Một năm đi lạc tưởng mèo đã ngỏm…

Ai chich ngừa covid giờ cũng có gắn chip như con mèo lạc này, khỏi sợ đi lạc.

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Chích nhiều chips khác nhau vào, AI sẽ giúp tìm không ra luôn.

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Pandas are the latest victims of tensions between the U.S. and China

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Triệu hồi đại sứ: dipandatic crisis

Edinburgh zoo’s pandas to return to China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...eturn-to-china

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Greenwood, an events manager, 52, travelled from Cambridge on Wednesday to watch Tian Tian and her partner, Yang Guang, grazing on bamboo, sleeping and exercising.

The pandas’ residency in Edinburgh will come to an end very quietly in a few days. They will soon be flown home without fanfare, leaving behind a continuing dispute about the purpose of zoos and the ethics of China’s panda diplomacy.

Bob Elliot, director of the Scottish animal welfare charity OneKind, agreed. “Wild animals belong in the wild and zoological collections are a sad hangover from the 1960s,” he said. “The vast number are held in captivity for entertainment and financial gain. It’s time to concentrate efforts and resources on conserving habitats and the species surviving in them.

”The zoo spent roughly £13.7m on the pair. It paid China a $1m (£791,000) annual fee for first 10 years and $500,000 for the final two; £3m went on building an expansive new enclosure; there were medical costs, a constant diet of homegrown bamboo that cost £2.4m; at least £1.2m on keepers’ wages, and more on insurance.

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Lên xe Tian Tian đi chưa bao giờ buồn thế
Trời mùa đông Scotland suốt đời làm chia ly
Tian Tian về xứ mẹ, Anh nói bằng tiếng “bye!”
Không còn gì xa hơn một nửa vòng trái đất
Tuyết rơi mỏng manh buồn, Edinburgh đèn vàng
Người đi xem muốn khóc, nói chi cũng muộn màng
(Tiễn hai em)

Tin cho cắn xe:

tyre-slashing dog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ith-gingivitis

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As the plot thickened, police mounted surveillance cameras and last week found the suspect – a dog named Billy.

Billy, who lives close to where the cars were parked, was captured on camera biting into the tyres of several cars.

Vets said that Billy’s behaviour could be explained by a severe case of gingivitis, which made him gnaw at the tyres in order to relieve the pain.

Police are carrying out more checks before officially sanctioning Billy, whose owner will reportedly be responsible for compensating the car owners.

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Nực cười con chó cắn xe
Tưởng răng chó gãy ai dè xe nghiêng
(Car dao)

Sát thú:

cats are eating 2,000 species
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...tion-study-aoe

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Birds, mammals, insects, and reptiles are all on the menu, 17% of which are of conservation concern according to the research, which is the first to quantify their diet on a global scale.

In total, cats eat 981 species of bird, 463 reptiles and 431 mammals – comprising about 90% of species consumed. They were also found to feed on 119 species of insects and 57 amphibians.

Their impact on wildlife has spurred fierce debate in New Zealand, where one politician is campaigning to eradicate them completely, and controversy has erupted over competitions encouraging children to shoot feral cats.

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Bây giờ mới hiểu ra câu “Nam thực như hổ nữ thực như miêu”.

Mèo ăn núi lở.
(Tục ngữ)

Free sushi:

Japan says 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ore-is-unknown

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Local fishers scrambled to collect the fish, fearing their carcasses would lower the oxygen content of the water as they decompose and damage the marine environment.

Experts have speculated that the migratory fish in both areas had become stranded after being chased to the point of exhaustion by amberjack and other predatory fish. Mass mortality events can also occur when there are sudden drops in the water temperature, causing the fish to go into shock, they added.

Japanese government officials have blasted a report in the British newspaper the Daily Mail that appeared to link the phenomenon to the release of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Có rửa thì rửa chân tay
Đừng xả chất phóng xạ chết cá ao anh...
(Cá dao)

Tìm ra “ma cà rồng”:

new species of hedgehogs in south-east Asia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...outh-east-asia

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Soft-furred hedgehogs are small mammals that belong to the hedgehog family, which have a long, pointy snout, and are furry, rather than spiny. Scientists have likened their appearance to a mixture of a mouse and a shrew with a short tail.

They are active both during the day and night, and are believed to eat insects and other invertebrates as well as fruits.

One of the new species, which had particularly long fangs, was named H. macarong, after a Vietnamese word for vampire (Ma cà rồng). It has dark brown fur, is about 14cm long and is endemic to southern Vietnam.

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Đi đêm có ngày gặp ma cà rồng.
(Tục ngữ)

Tái xuất giang hồ:

reintroduce platypuses into Adelaide’s river
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-noxious-river

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The last sighting of a platypus in the Torrens was recorded little more than a decade later – it was declared extinct on the South Australian mainland in the 1970s.

John Burn wrote to the paper to say he endorsed their condemnation of “the filthy state of Adelaide – a city of stenches” because “it was so poor at managing its sewage”.

But over the past 20 years the Torrens, an 85km stretch from the hills to the sea, has been rehabilitated through waste management, better management of water flows, wetlands, revegetation and the reconstruction of creeks.

With the urban river “completely reformed”, Daniels says, conservationists wanted to know if they could bring back its “premier animal”, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), which is also an “umbrella animal” that can improve the ecosystem for other natives.

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Làm sao về được ngày xưa
Giòng sông đôi bờ cát trắng
Làm sao về ngược thời gian
Giòng sông chưa bị ô nhiễm
Thôi đành ru lòng mình vậy
Vờ như giòng sông vẫn còn
(Nỗi nhớ giòng sông)

Con cò mà đi ăn đêm
Đụng phải building lộn cổ xuống ao…

Buildings kill a billion US birds a year
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...s-architecture

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As many as 1 billion birds in the US die in building collisions each year. And Chicago, which sits along the Mississippi Flyway, one of the four major north-south migration routes, is among the riskiest places for birds. This year, at least 1,000 birds died in one day from colliding with a single glass-covered building.

In New York, which lies along the Atlantic Flyway, hundreds of species traverse the skyline and tens of thousands die each year.

While high-rise buildings and massive urban projects receive the most attention, homes and low-rise buildings account for most bird collision deaths.

“The huge challenge is that glass is everywhere.” said Christine Sheppard, who directs the glass collisions program at the American Bird Conservancy (ABC). “It’s hard to know what I know and not cringe when I look at it.”

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Có gắn đừng gắn kiếng trong
Mà gắn kiếng đục đề phòng cò con…
(Ca dao)

Đồng tiền liền khúc ruột:

dog eats cash
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...ats-poops-cash

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Cecil, a seven-year old goldendoodle, Cecil ate $4,000 in cash that had been sitting on the Laws’ kitchen counter, waiting to be stowed away.

While Cecil had thrown up some of the ingested money, the Laws had to recover much of the cash through Cecil’s bowel movements.

“There we are at the utility sink,” Carrie said to the City Paper. “[We were] washing this shitty money, yelling ‘Yay! Yes! We got one!’ It smelled so bad.”

Carrie told the Post that she’d “never thought” she’d be “able to say I’ve laundered money, but there is apparently a first time for everything”.

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Con chó khóc đứng khóc ngồi
Mẹ ơi đi chợ mua tôi đồng tiền
(Ca dao)

Groping a groper: (groper ở Mỹ có nghĩa khác bên Úc)

man fined $800 for killing protected fish in Sydney
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-fined-killing

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NSW police have confirmed officers spoke to a 26-year-old man on Saturday following reports a blue groper (Achoerodus viridis) was speared and killed at Oak Park in Cronulla.

According to local reports, the community believes the fish may be “Gus”, a 35- to 40-year-old blue groper who is well-known to swimmers and divers in the area.

“Blue gropers are the official state fish and we are disappointed to hear one may have been illegally speared in Cronulla,” a DPI spokesperson said. “Groper are protected from commercial fishing and spearfishing.”

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Ăn cá trả vàng.
(Tục ngữ)

Hình thủ phạm trên Facebook:

https://content.api.news/v3/images/b...63cf5d114d868c

Một con bọ xít cả tàu bỏ bến:

stink bug helped Australia miss a major EV milestone
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...r-ev-milestone

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The car-carrying ship Glovis Caravel arrived off Brisbane in late October and has capacity for 6,500 vehicles. Many of those it was carrying were reportedly Tesla Model Ys, though Kia has also confirmed about 1,000 of its vehicles were aboard. The ship has since returned to Shanghai, where the vehicles have been unloaded. The Electric Vehicle Council chief executive, Behyad Jafari, said the delayed shipment impacted Australia’s entire market.

“New Zealand had trouble with these pests all last year and it was only a matter of time before Australia did too,” he said.
“Ships have been turned around for quarantine reasons before but it’s a shame that it happened to be when there was a stack of EVs on board that people had been waiting for.” The organisation estimates invasive alien species in Australia cost about $25bn each year in agricultural losses and pest management.

The bug detected in the cargo ship is common to Asia and could pose a risk to fruit crops if imported into Australia, including pears, peaches, apples and kiwifruit. University of South Australia associate professor Patrick O’Connor said the detection will ultimately benefit the entire community. “For something like turning around a ship or delaying access to EVs, there’s a private cost,” he said. “But otherwise [the price] could be billions of dollars borne by many individuals over generations and have significant consequences that you can’t foresee.”

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Nực cười bọ xít cấm xe
Tưởng rằng nói giỡn ai dè xe gone…
(Car dao)

Pet police:

Italian dogs to be DNA tested in poo crackdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-poo-crackdown

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The swab test results will be inserted into a database, which police can then refer to in their search for the culprits and their owners. The evidence will be used to fine owners between €292 and €1,048 (£250 and £900).

The law required the estimated 45,000 dogs in the province, located in the mountainous Trentino-Alto Adige region, to undergo a DNA test at a veterinary clinic by the end of December 2023 before the initiative is introduced this month. But only 5,000 have complied, according to reports in the Italian press.

The measure has been contentious, especially among the dog owners who diligently clean up their pet’s poop and who are now obliged to pay €65 for the test.

A similar scheme was trialled in the French town of Béziers last year

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Nên cấm chó đi toilet ngoài đường. Giấu như mèo giấu… ​(Tục ngữ)

In dog he trusts:

dog helps save owner who fell in frozen Michigan lake
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...higan-ice-lake

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Bystanders called 911 on Thursday after the 65-year-old Traverse City man fell through ice-covered Arbutus Lake, state police said.

The body camera worn by Kammeron Bennetts, a Michigan state police motor carrier officer, captured the rescue, initially showing the man trapped in frigid waters with just his head and shoulders above the thin ice, and his dog standing at his side.

It shows Bennetts first trying to throw a rescue disc tethered to a rope out to the man. When it fails, Bennetts asks the man to send his dog to him.

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Cứu vật vật trả ân
Cứu nhân nhân chả chết
(Tục ngữ)

Sư tử viễn đông:

lion cub filmed in Bentley
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-bentley-video

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A Thai woman has been charged with illegal possession of a lion cub, police said on Friday, after a video of the animal cruising in a Bentley went viral online.

The police ordered an investigation after a video showing a lion cub riding around the raucous Thai resort town of Pattaya in a Bentley gained more than 2.6m views online.

Sawangjit told police she bought the lion from another woman for 250,000 baht but failed to acquire an official handover document owing to insufficient information regarding the lion’s sex.

She kept the cub in a house rented by a Sri Lankan man who was seen driving the Bentley in the video. He has been deported to Sri Lanka, the national parks and wildlife department said.

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Crazy rich Asians.

Nực cười châu Á khoái khoe
Tưởng rằng nó bảnh ai dè hơi ngu
(Ca dao)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTxP...ature=youtu.be

Gone to the dogs:

Chloë Sevigny’s anti-pup take
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...-dogs-new-york

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“The athleisure and the dogs are taking over, and that’s really unfortunate,” Sevigny said. “Everybody’s in Lululemon and has a fucking dog and it’s driving me crazy. I’m sorry, dog lovers. There are too many of you.”

Abby Walsh, an illustrator out walking her ageing chihuahua Calypso. “There is definitely a lack of respect from dog owners who keep their dogs off-leash or don’t properly train them. I find that this usually happens in more wealthier neighborhoods, but then the people who get penalized for their animals are typically not those white, Lululemon girls.”

Nearby, a woman named Stefanie played fetch with her pit bull Bebe, who was off-leash on a soccer turf where dogs are not allowed to play. “Dog owners are a specific category of annoying person,” she said.

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Gotta love Chloe!

Lắm thầy nhiều ma, lắm người ta nhiều chó.
(Tục ngữ)

Trường túc bất tri hao:

France’s appetite for frogs’ legs is endangering species in Asia
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ay-campaigners

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More than 500 experts from research, veterinary and conservation groups have called on Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to “end the overexploitation of frogs” and afford the most traded species better protections.

The EU imports the equivalent of 80-200 million frogs each year, the majority of which are consumed in France. Most come from wild populations in Indonesia, Turkey and Albania, as well as from farms in Vietnam.

More frogs’ legs are eaten in France – often fried in batter or sautéed with garlic and parsley – than in any other country in the EU.

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Chuyện ăn ở tại lòng ta
Chữ tâm kia mới bằng ba chữ sành
(Đoạn trường oa thanh)

Beware of dogs:

injuries from animals are on the rise in Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...ship-australia

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A new report released on Wednesday by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare links the rising number of animal-related hospitalisations to increased pet ownership since the pandemic.

The report found a 10% increase in hospitalisations from 2019-20 to 2020-21, which the authors noted corresponded with the increase in pet ownership throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a national survey carried out by Animal Medicines Australia.
The most common injuries were open wounds and fractures, while the commonest body parts injured (nearly half) were upper limbs including wrists and hands, the report found.

It found dogs were the most common animal leading to hospitalisations, with 40% of all injuries from contact with animals due to being bitten or struck by a dog.

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Chơi chó chó cắn mặt.
(Tục ngữ)

Trăn nuôi:

python meat could soon be on the menu
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...be-on-the-menu

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At the risk of sounding like a cliche, the reptile expert says the meat tastes just like chicken.

Dr Daniel Natusch has eaten python in almost every way imaginable.

“I’ve had it barbecued. I’ve had it in satay skewers. I’ve had it in curries. I’ve had it with Indigenous people in the wilds of the Malaysian jungle,” he said.

“I’ve even done it myself as biltong – uncooked meats that are dried with herbs.”

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Đàn kêu tích tịch tình tang
Ai mang trăn rắn dưới hang lên nhậu?
(Ca dao)

Ác thú:

California mountain lion attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ack-california

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Statistics from California’s fish and wildlife department document only 22 mountain lion-on-human attacks in the state since 1986. Four of those cases involved mountain lions killing people, according to the stats, which were last updated in May 2022.

The most recent of those attacks was in 2004 in Orange county. In that instance, a mountain lion killed the competitive cyclist Mark Jeffrey Reynolds in Whiting Ranch wilderness park, the San Francisco Chroniclereported. The same mountain lion which killed Reynolds was suspected of injuring a second cyclist hours later before deputies shot the animal to death.

Meanwhile, CBS News’ affiliate in Sacramento reported that the last time a mountain lion killed a person in El Dorado county before Saturday was in 1994.

Mountain lions, also known as cougars, vary in size. But, typically, they can be about 30in (76cm) in height at the shoulder, 8ft (2.4 meters) in length, and 175lb (79kg) in weight.

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The wild wild west.

Ca li đi dễ khó về
Khi đi gặp báo khỏi về nhà luôn
(Ca li dao)

Ca li đi dễ khó về:

missing dog found 2,000 miles from California
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...found-michigan

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Nearly nine months after his disappearance, a dog that had gone missing in California was discovered more than 2,000 miles away in Michigan.

A resident in Harper Woods, a Detroit suburb, contacted police in late March to report a stray dog in her neighborhood. Police collected the terrier mix, named Mishka, and brought her to an animal welfare group.

Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society said it quickly discovered that the dog had an identity chip implanted in her with information about her owner.

Mehrad and Liz Houman live in San Diego but were traveling to Minneapolis to see relatives when the phone rang. Once the family landed in Minnesota, Mehrad drove 10 hours to Michigan to see Mishka, the adoption group said in a Facebook post with pictures and video documenting the reunion.

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May là ở Mỹ chớ hổng phải Việt nam.

Chó ơi gửi chó lời tâm niệm
Và nguyện muôn chiều ta có nhậu
(Mồi dưới hoa)

Mãng xà vương:

Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-western-india

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Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 15 metres in length – longer than a T rex.

Scientists have recovered 27 vertebrae from the snake, including a few still in the same position as they would have been when the reptile was alive. They said the snake, which they named Vasuki indicus, would have looked like a large python and would not have been venomous.

Vasuki, named after the snake king associated with the Hindu deity Shiva, rivals in size another huge prehistoric snake called Titanoboa, whose fossils were discovered in a coalmine in northern Colombia in 2009. Titanoboa, estimated at 13 metres long and more than 1 tonne, lived between 58m and 60m years ago.

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Đàn kêu tích tịch tình tang
Ai mang xương rắn dưới hang đem về
(Hoá thạch sanh)

Hạ cầy tơ:

Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-and-goat-book

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“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”

Incredibly, Noem’s tale of slaughter is not finished.

Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.

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Chó con khóc đứng khóc ngồi
Mẹ ơi sao lại cho tôi đạn đồng?
(Ca dao)

The world is his oyster:

Australia’s heaviest oyster
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...eaviest-oyster

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Now almost 10 years old, Jill – an oyster that caught his eye nine years ago – weighs 3.01kg. That makes Jill Australia’s – and potentially the world’s – heaviest oyster, after it beat Big Boppa, at 2.44kg, and Keithy, 2.4kg, to win the title at Australia’s biggest oyster competition at the Narooma oyster festival on the New South Wales south coast on Saturday.

Connell bought Jill from a hatchery in Tasmania when the juvenile was the size of a match head. After relocating the baby oysters to his farm on the Clyde, he usually sells them when they are 10 months old, but occasionally finds a mollusc that is too promising to let go.

But the secret to Jill’s size, says Connell, is the purity of the Clyde’s water and the health of its algae. Pacific oysters eat 18 kinds of algae, feeding “all the time”, while the smaller native Sydney rock oysters feed on just three algae.

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Công anh bắt tép nuôi hào
Hào ăn hào lớn hào vào nồi canh
(Ca dao)

Có hàng xóm đôi khi ghé thăm:

Family of bears cools off in California pool
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...les-california

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A family of bears in Monrovia, about 30 minutes from Los Angeles, took a stroll through a backyard on Monday afternoon, exploring their surroundings and investigating a pool.

Video captured by the home’s occupant Rick Martinez showed a bear and her cubs roaming the property and scratching a tree. At one point the adult bear hopped into the pool and went for a swim while two tiny cubs watched on curiously.

“This is their land,” Martinez said. “They are used to coming through here. We have healthy boundaries with them. If they’re outside we stay inside. We let them do their thing, we admire them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDs...ature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDsfDBy-dw&feature=youtu.be

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Do bears s…wim in the woods?
(Idiom)

Nhận sư phụ:

Great goat giveaway
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...doption-offers

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Riccardo Gullo came up with the novel idea after a census estimated the number of feral goats on Alicudi, the smallest of Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, was six times the island’s year-round human population of 100.

But as news of his “adopt a goat” initiative spread beyond Alicudi, he received a flurry of offers from around the world – not just from Europe, but also the US, and even from an animal-lover in Nigeria.

Alicudi’s goat dilemma began two decades ago, when a small number of the animals were brought to the island by farmers. But when the focus of the island’s economy shifted to tourism, the farmers left the goats to their own devices.

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Giàu nuôi chó, khó nuôi dê.
(Tục ngữ)

anh thư đả sấu nhận đởm lược bội tinh..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7y9f6PJARE