Thú

Vàng nổi: ngọc trong cá

‘floating gold’ in dead whale
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ad-sperm-whale

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When a sperm whale washed up dead on a beach in the Canary Island of La Palma no one imagined a valuable treasure was hidden in its entrails. Ambergris is a rare substance, often known as floating gold, that has been the holy grail of perfumers for centuries.

Whales eat large quantities of squid and cuttlefish, most which cannot be digested and is vomited out. But some remains, and over the years binds together in the whale’s intestines to form ambergris.

In one of his many digressions in Moby-Dick, the novelist Herman Melville dedicates an entire chapter to ambergris, which he describes as “soft, waxy, and so highly fragrant and spicy, that it is largely used in perfumery … Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale! Yet so it is!”

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Cọp chết để da, cá voi chết để ambergris.
(Tục ngữ)

See you later alligator:

Alligator enters Louisiana home through dog door
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ouple-dog-door

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Don and Jan Schultz, the Washington Post said, were woken by growling from their Australian cattle dog, Panda, which they initially ignored. When Panda’s alarm grew louder, and the couple heard a thud, they understood their new home in New Iberia had an unwanted visitor.

Don Schultz added: “Alligators really like to go after dogs … so we’re assuming that it probably was stalking” Panda.
The dog, home-surveillance footage showed, had been venturing out each night at 1am to patrol the property. The couple said they thought the alligator followed the dog’s scent to the house.
On Tuesday in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, a 9ft 9in alligator killed a 69-year-old woman who was out walking her dogs. The alligator was euthanised, authorities said.

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Cá sấu mà cũng khoái thịt cầy sao?

Cá sấu khóc đứng khóc ngồi
Mẹ ơi đi chợ mua tôi thịt cầy
(Cá dao)

Cướp đêm cá sấu cướp ngày

Lộc đỉnh ký: mở đường cho hươu chạy

giraffes make a return to Angola
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...of-decades-aoe

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The giraffes, seven males and seven females, travelled more than 800 miles (1,300km) from a private game farm near Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa region of central Namibia to Iona national park in the south-west corner of Angola.

The new arrivals are the first Angolan giraffes to be brought back to the country’s national parks in an effort to restore Angola’s wildlife, which was decimated during decades of conflict. The giraffes were thought to have been extinct since the 1990s.

Angola’s four decades of civil war, which began after independence from Portugal in 1975, wrought devastation on Iona, causing massive declines in wildlife populations and the local extinction of rhinos and elephants. But some species clung on, including zebra, oryx, springbok, cheetahs, leopards, brown hyena and endemic reptiles.

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Ngàn mây xám chiều nay về đây treo lững lờ
Và nghe tiếng hát về ru mình trong giấc ngủ vùi
Rồi từ đó loài hươu cổ cao quên đi ưu phiền
Để người về hát đêm hồng
Địa đàng còn in dấu chân bước lên…

Đòi voi được (như) tiên:

Thai elephant adjusting after his return from Sri Lanka
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se...starts-healing

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The elephant Plai Sak Surin was presented to Sri Lanka as a goodwill gesture in 2001 when he was about 10 years old. The Sri Lankan government then gave him to Kande Vihara Temple to serve as a carrier of holy Buddha relics during religious ceremonies.

The 29-year-old elephant was returned to Thailand after he began developing severe health problems. He was returned to its home country on July 2 following a diplomatic spat between Thailand and Sri Lanka over alleged mistreatment of the animal.

He was brought back with an injured front left leg, a wound on the hip, a cataract in the right eye and damaged nails and feet.

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Trả voi chẳng xấu mặt nào.
(Tục ngữ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTIcQMwYC1o

The pet detective: Faece Ventura

DNA database to be used to crack down on dog faeces in French town
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nce-dog-faeces

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Local mayor Robert Ménard, a former journalist and co-founder of Reporters Sans Frontières, says inhabitants and visitors are fed up with faeces on the town’s pavements. He plans to introduce a two-year experiment to trace and fine those who fail to clear up after their pets.

“We have to punish to make people behave better,” Ménard, elected on a far-right ticket in 2014 and reelected in 2020, told France Bleu radio.

Under the planned scheme, dog owners will be required to take their pets to a vet or ask one of the town’s veterinary specialists for a free saliva sample, which will be genetically tested and a document issued. Those subsequently stopped without their dog’s genetic passport will be fined €38 (£32.60).

Dog excrement found on the pavement will be collected and tested and the details sent to police who will consult the national pet registers and match it to a specific owner who will face a bill for street cleaning up to €122, Ménard said.

Ménard told French radio: “I can’t take any more of this [dog] mess. The state has said nothing against this scheme this time and thinks the same thing. This has to be done and not just in Béziers … We need to penalise people so that they behave properly.

“We did a count and we pick up more than 1,000 messes a month, sometimes a lot more, just in the town centre. It just cannot go on.”

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Dân Pháp bất vị phân.
(Tục ngữ)

From pets to pest:

Florida neighborhood hopping with rabbit invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...bbits-invasion

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The rabbits of Jenada Isles, an 81-home community in Wilton Manors on the outskirts of the south Florida city are also voracious, apparently, when it comes to chewing on outdoor wiring as well as the food fed to them by locals trying to deal with the small-scale invasion.

The estimated 60 to 100 rabbits are descendants of a group a backyard breeder illegally let loose when she moved away two years ago and they are lionhead rabbits, named after the furry flowing mane around their heads.

Jenada Isles resident Alicia Griggs is spearheading efforts to raise the thousands it would cost for a rescue group to capture, neuter, vaccinate, shelter and then give the bunnies away to good homes.

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Có thỏ thì sẽ có thú dữ trăn cá sấu lang sói mò tới.

Trời sanh coyotte trời sanh thỏ.
(Tục ngữ)

Animal harrassment:

Yellowstone bison gores woman
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-national-park

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The goring left the woman with “significant injuries to her chest and abdomen,” officials said in a statement.

In an advisory posted on Monday, park officials sought to remind visitors that “wildlife in Yellowstone … are wild and can be dangerous when approached.”

The advisory directed visitors to stay more than 25 yards (23 metres) away from all large animals, including bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose and coyotes, and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves.

Last year in late May, a 25-year-old visitor from Ohio was gored and tossed 10 feet into the air. A month later, a 34-year-old tourist from Colorado was charged and gored near Giant Geyser. The following day, a 71-year-old woman from Pennsylvania was gored by a bull bison.

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Tránh bò chẳng xấu mặt nào.
(Tục ngữ)

Suýt nữa có sư tử bảy món, hóa ra chỉ là giả cầy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZ0U3vgyIo

"Thú cưng" :z52:

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Sài Gòn ‘chào thua’ một bà nuôi gần 80 con chó trong nhà
July 22, 2023


SÀI GÒN, Việt Nam (NV) – Sự việc một bà ở quận 4, Sài Gòn, nuôi 79 con chó trong nhà đến nay vẫn chưa ngã ngũ sau nhiều năm gây tranh cãi.

Thậm chí, nhà chức trách phải cậy nhờ Bộ Tài Nguyên và Môi Trường Việt Nam ra văn bản hướng dẫn “xử lý” ca này.

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Căn nhà có bề ngang 2.6 mét, dài 10 mét ở quận 4, Sài Gòn, là nơi bà NTMT nuôi 79 con chó. (Hình: Châu Tuấn/Tuổi Trẻ)

Theo báo Tuổi Trẻ hôm 22 Tháng Bảy, căn nhà có bề ngang 2.6 mét, dài 10 mét ở đường Hoàng Diệu, quận 4, là nơi bà NTMT nuôi đến 79 con chó, trước đó là 82 con.

Trước sự phàn nàn của hàng xóm, vào Tháng Bảy năm ngoái, nhà chức trách đã đến nhà bà T. kiểm tra, yêu cầu bà này bảo đảm an toàn dịch bệnh, vệ sinh môi trường và phải giảm số lượng chó nuôi trong nhà.

Hồi Tháng Tư, Ủy Ban Quận 4 xử phạt hành chính 64 triệu đồng ($2,705) đối với bà T. vì vi phạm về việc xả nước thải vượt quy chuẩn cho phép gây ô nhiễm môi trường.

Tuy nhiên, tính đến Tháng Sáu, bà T. nhất quyết không chịu nộp phạt và vẫn duy trì đàn chó, trong đó có chín con chưa chích ngừa do đang bệnh, sắp đẻ hoặc là chó con dưới 3 tháng tuổi.

Báo Tuổi Trẻ dẫn lời một giới chức Thanh Tra Sở Nông Nghiệp và Phát Triển Nông Thôn ở Sài Gòn, cho biết: “Việc một gia đình nuôi 79 con chó trong không gian nhà ngang 2.6 mét là quá ghê gớm. Tuy vậy luật hiện hành chưa cấm và thực tế chưa đủ căn cứ để xử lý triệt để.”

Cũng theo người này, hiện nay Luật Thú Y chỉ quy định về việc người nuôi chó không được thả chó chạy rông ra đường, Luật Chăn Nuôi quy định rằng người nuôi chó không được gây ô nhiễm môi trường, không gây tiếng ồn.

Nhà chức trách Sài Gòn cũng có một “quyết định” về việc nuôi chó trong nhà phải khai báo.

Trên thực tế, các luật và “quyết định” nêu trên chưa đủ tính chế tài để “xử lý” trường hợp của bà NTMT.

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Ban công nhà bà NTMT có phân chó gây mùi hôi nồng nặc cho cả khu phố. (Hình: Châu Tuấn/Tuổi Trẻ)

Hiện tại, Ủy Ban Quận 4 cho biết họ đang chờ hướng dẫn từ sở ngành có thẩm quyền để giải quyết vụ nuôi bầy chó đông đảo của bà T.

Trước sự việc này, Cục Chăn Nuôi-Thú Y, Bộ Nông Nghiệp và Phát Triển Nông Thôn, được cho là đang xây dựng quy định siết việc nuôi chó cảnh trong nhà. (N.H.K) [qd]

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