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Ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...lephants-study

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Researchers looked at why female elephants in Gorongosa national park in Mozambique were frequently born without tusks, and found that the animals were in effect genetically engineered by mass poaching for ivory.

Elephants with tusks were highly likely to be hunted during the Mozambican civil war from 1977 to 1992, when 90% of the elephant population was slaughtered by armed forces on both sides to produce ivory that was sold to finance the conflict. Those without tusks were left alone, leading to an increased likelihood they would breed and pass on the tuskless trait to their offspring.

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- ngà: từ chữ NHA (牙) nghĩa là răng

(còn tiếp)

Đem chó bỏ chợ:

Owners offload dogs bought in lockdown
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...hey-are-strays

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People are pretending that dogs they acquired during lockdown are strays so that rescue centres take them in, after failing to sell them online, animal rescue charities and shelters have warned.

Figures from March revealed that more than 3.2m pets were bought by UK households during lockdown. Since Covid restrictions were lifted and people have started to return to the office, charities have reported a growing trend of people abandoning their pandemic pets as they no longer have as much time for them.

Hope Rescue, an animal charity based in Rhondda Cynon Taf, told the BBC the number of dogs being dropped off at its rescue centre in Pontyclun was the highest in its 15-year history.

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Cao điểu tận lương cung tàn.
Phong toả tận lương cẩu tống.

Còn giờ còn dịch còn thương chó
Hết lo hết rảnh hết thú cưng.
(Ca dao)

Cướp đêm là gấu, cướp ngày là heo:

Italian couple find burglar is endangered brown bear
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...red-brown-bear

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Annalisa Castagna and her husband, Claudio Parravano, came face-to-face with the bear on Sunday night.

The Marsican bear had climbed on to her bedroom balcony in Pescosolido, a village in the Lazio province of Frosinone, just days after a bear was spotted bathing in the fountain of a neighbouring village.

Castagna leapt back inside, while Parravano threw himself over the balcony to escape the animal, causing minor injuries. The bear fled, leaving its faeces on the balcony.

The Marsican is a critically endangered subspecies of the brown bear living in the Apennine mountains that straddle Italy’s Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise regions.

In 2019, the Italian branch of the World Wildlife Fund warned that the Marsican brown bear faced extinction. The population has dwindled during the past 25 years, with 63% of bear deaths attributed to illegal hunting or being hit by vehicles.

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Thứ nhất sợ kẻ anh hùng
Thứ nhì sợ thú đói bụng liều thân...

Chửa hoang: condor lặn lội bờ sông

Female California condors can reproduce without males
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-females-males

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The condors had reproduced through parthenogenesis – a form of reproduction in which an egg can develop into an embryo without being fertilized by a sperm.

Parthenogenesis is derived from the Greek words for “virgin birth” and several insect species including aphids, bees and ants are known to reproduce through the process, although the phenomenon is rare in birds.

The condor is a remarkable species that has survived from the Pleistocene era. Right now, the condor’s population growth is limited by poisoning from lead bullets, when the scavengers eat animals shot by hunters.

Meanwhile, the bird,which has risen like the phoenix from near death, is rewriting scientific understanding.

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Một chim làm chẳng nên con
Hai chim nhập lại nên đàn chim non.
(Tục ngữ)

Pháp nhốt chim.

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France orders poultry 'lockdown'
Poultry farmers have been ordered to keep flocks indoors in a bid to stop the contagious avian disease from spreading. Europe has seen over 100 outbreaks of bird flu in recent months.

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French farmers must keep poultry flocks indoors following a new order from the government

French authorities put the country on high alert over bird flu on Friday. The upgraded status means farmers in the country must keep poultry flocks indoors.

It comes a week after commercial farms in the nearby Netherlands were issued a similar order.

The poultry lockdown measure has already been in place in certain areas in France since September.

Why has France raised the alert over bird flu?

The order cited a "rising infection rate in migratory corridors" as the reason for raising the risk level for the entire country.

"Since the beginning of August, 130 bird flu cases or clusters have been detected in wild animals or on farms in Europe," France's Agriculture Ministry said in a statement. It said three cases had been identified among backyard birds in northeast France.

The ministry explained that the measure was to protect poultry farms. So far, no cases have been found among professional poultry farmers in France.

France hopes that the lockdown will help avoid a repeat of last year, when bird flu was found in nearly 500 locations. This severely disrupted the production of foie gras from ducks in southwestern France.

The requirement to keep flocks indoors will be adapted to different farming practices, such as free-range farming, the ministry said.

Has bird flu hit elsewhere?

The Netherlands on Thursday reported a new outbreak of highly pathogenic H5 bird flu among ducks at a poultry farm in the central province of Flevoland.

To limit the spread of the disease, about 36,000 animals were culled at the farm, the Dutch agriculture ministry said.

Britain on Wednesday declared a nationwide Avian Influenza Prevention Zone, ordering farms and bird keepers to toughen their biosecurity measures after a number of cases of bird flu were spotted in wild birds.

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Vậy sao có gà đi bộ mà bán cho quán phở?

Một con gà đau cả đàn bỏ đi bộ.

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Vậy sao có gà đi bộ mà bán cho quán phở?

Một con gà đau cả đàn bỏ đi bộ.

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Chắc đang chờ chích.

Chim dai sức:

New Zealand finally welcomes godwit two months after it was blown 2,000km back to Alaska
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...back-to-alaska

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This year, a female godwit, identified as 4BYWW by the bands on her legs, was confirmed as having made the longest flight ever recorded by a land bird. She travelled non-stop from Alaska to New Zealand, a journey of 12,200km that took eight days and 12 hours at an average speed of 59km/h.

But one unlucky godwit, an adult male known as 4BWRB, was forced to take a large U-turn over the Pacific Ocean, finishing up back at its Alaska take-off point after 57 hours of constant flight.

Every year, the Eastern bar-tailed godwits, or kuaka in Māori, make one of the longest avian migration flights in the world, travelling from their breeding ground in the Arctic, across the Pacific, to New Zealand.

About 80,000 godwits arrive in New Zealand each year, and move into harbours and estuaries across the two islands. Typically, the flocks are welcomed in September, sometimes to the sound of Cathedral bells.

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Chim ơi như chim say mê có khi rã rời cánh nhung thôi bay
Chim ơi xin chim lúc chân mây mệt nhoài trở về lồng em thân ái…
(Lời gọi chân chim)

Sở thú chết:

Three snow leopards die of Covid-19 at children’s zoo in Nebraska
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-zoo-nebraska

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Three snow leopards have died at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska of complications from Covid-19.

The zoo began treating the leopards and two Sumatran tigers for the virus last month. The zoo said the tigers, Axl and Kumar, have made a recovery.

Zoos across the country, including at the St Louis Zoo and the Denver Zoo, have battled Covid-19 outbreaks among their animals.

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Chắc cũng vì không được chích ngừa cô vít tử tế. Lỗi tại sở thú, đem con bỏ chuồng.

Đương khi bất ý chẳng ngờ
Hùm thiêng khi đã sa cơ cũng đành
(Đoạn chuồng tân thanh)

Tề gia trị thú bình thiên hạ:

The town besieged by armadillos
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/15/its-like-hunting-aliens-inside-the-town-besieged-by-armadillos

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To spot armadillos in North Carolina was, at first, incongruous. The creature has been Texas’s state mammal for more than two decades, used to the baking heat of the dry, flat state. There, they’re regularly seen as roadkill or in small-scale racing events where they are made to scurry down a 40ft track.

Armadillo meat is consumed in Central America, and to a lesser extent in the US, where it was called “poor man’s pork” in Depression-era Texas and has been tainted by the species’ connection to leprosy.

When the first armadillo was sighted here in 2019, Bullard got a call. “I just didn’t believe it,” he said. “I thought the woman had a possum and a drinking problem.” But within a year, Bullard was spending his nights at the local golf course, speeding from hole to hole on a golf cart, killing armadillos on the greens like a sort of cross between Tiger Woods and Davy Crockett.

Homeowners, perturbed at their lawns being torn up by the newly arrived mammals, initially deputized Bullard as a sort of armadillo bounty hunter, handing him $100 for every dead carcass he produced.

People in the region also employ Bullard to kill feral pigs, beavers, skunks and even otters – they eat the fish that have been added to lakes for recreational fishing – as well as the armadillos.

Wild animals live alongside us until we ruthlessly decide to unilaterally change the rules once they unknowingly cross some sort of line, such as altering the aesthetics of our gardens or simply getting in the way of our fun.

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Sinh sinh chi vị diệt.
(Kinh Diệt)

Heo cảng đường:

Hong Kong begins hunting wild boar
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...c-safety-fears

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Boar have at times been seen on subway trains, or waiting for the traffic light to turn green at pedestrian crossings by the harbour.

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Heo qua đường?

Thú phạm: thú báo thù?

First known Covid case was Wuhan market vendor, says scientist
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...et-study-finds

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The report, by Michael Worobey, the head of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, will reignite the debate about the origins of the pandemic, which remains unresolved and continues to fuel tensions between China and the US.

Worobey was one of the 15 or so experts who in mid-May published an editorial in Science demanding serious consideration of the thesis that the virus had leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. The latest paper, he said, “provided strong evidence of a live-animal market origin of the pandemic”.

Most early symptomatic cases were linked specifically to the western section where raccoon dogs were caged.

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Một con chồn đau cả Tàu bỏ nhậu.

Free birds: Happy Turkey Day, turkeys.

Wild turkeys’ rough and rowdy ways are creating havoc in US cities
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-havoc-hunting

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The wild turkey has lived in what is now North America for more than 10,000 years, and was branded a “bird of courage” by founding father Benjamin Franklin in 1784.

It’s also one of the greatest conservation success stories in modern America, going from all but extinct in large parts of the country as recently as the 1970s, to so numerous that the 4ft-tall, 20-30lb, highly adaptable animals have successfully “overrun” hundreds of US cities.

Trashing homes, intimidating people and holding up traffic, earning their reputation as one of the most bad-tempered neighbours on the block.

Or, as Scientific American, put it, “ugly hooligan nuisance birds”.

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Gà tây sớm gáy bên đường
Chẳng yêu thì cũng bất tường chẳng không
(Sấm Trạng Quỳnh)

Tới mùa di dân. Bún riêu ế nặng.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXDcw34lqI

Cua chạy đua y như mấy cua rơ. Chắc cũng từ sự kiện này mà người Pháp mới có thành ngữ “faire la cua” nghĩa là cua nhau. Tục ngữ Việt nam thì có câu: Người khôn cua khó.

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Tục ngữ Việt nam thì có câu: Người khôn cua khó.

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Ca này khó.

Một công mà hai ba chuyện:

Roaming peacocks plague California city
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...birds-relocate

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Dozens of feral peacocks and peahens are roaming the streets and leaping from the rooftops of Tracy, California. They claw at shingles and defecate on porches. Their calls, especially in mating season, echo through the community. They have no fear of pets nor people.

Errant peafowl have milled around the city’s Redbridge neighborhood for years – some believe they originally came from a now-defunct nearby dairy farm – but the numbers have increased as the birds keep multiplying. Now they’re everywhere, and ruffling some residents’ feathers.

“If this were a pack of 100 rats that were scuffling around the yard or on the roof, no one would wait to deal with that problem,” said Dave Lieberman, president of the Redbridge Homeowners Association. “Unfortunately the peacocks are beautiful birds, you want to admire them, but in these numbers they can be destructive.”

“They have a peculiar kind of cry that sounds like a baby wailing. It’s a little distressing,” Lieberman said. “It starts early in the morning, it’s loud and then they land on the roofs.”

Residents have taken issue with the peafowl because of damage to their houses, scratches on cars and the noise from their squawks and rooftop roosting. And then there is the rampant defecation.

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Con nhà công không giống lông cũng giống cánh.
(Tục ngữ)

Rắn báo oán: mềm thì nắn rắn thì tha

Homeowner trying to smoke out snake infestation burns down own house
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...house-maryland

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A homeowner in Maryland tried to fight a snake infestation with coal, only to burn their own house down, causing more than $1m in damage. Nobody was injured.

In Maryland, fire officials said: “Status of snakes undetermined.”

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Chẳng phải liu điu cũng đốt nhà
Rắn nhiều ổ bự quyết chẳng tha
(Lê quý Đốt)

Sao không cưới Thanh Xà hay Bạch Xà về là hết chuyện. Lấy độc trị độc.

Cứu sư phụ:

A US activist took a sick goat from a meat farm – now he faces seven years in jail
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-welfare-trial

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In a landmark case that could predict the future of the right to rescue distressed animals, he faces up to six and a half years in prison for felony charges of larceny and breaking and entering, based on what the video shows him doing next.

In darkness, Hsiung and othersfrom the activist organization he co-founded, Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), make their way past the farm’s electric fences towards a barn. After placating the guard dogs withvegan peanut-butter treats, Hsiung finds what he’s after: a baby goat – sick, he believes – in a small pen with its mother. They escape with the goat unharmed, but Hsiung accidentally drops a piece of crucial evidence: his driver’s license.

Should Hsiung be acquitted of charges in his current trial, it could set a legal precedent for the “right to rescue” agricultural livestock. Thirty-one states have right to rescue laws primarily aimed at protecting people from being sued if they break into hot cars to save distressed dogs. Hsiung and other activists want to see more protections provided for those who rescue any animal in distress – not just pets.

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Nhớ câu kiến nghĩa bất vi
Làm người thế ấy cũng phi anh hùng
(Lục vân Tiên)

Cứu cầu thủ:

Russian football team wins hearts after walking on field with shelter dogs; video goes viral

https://images.indianexpress.com/202...er-puppies.jpg

Chồn thành tinh:

otters attack British man in Singapore park
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-otters-attack-british-man-in-singapore-park

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Spencer told The Straits Times he was approaching the gardens’ entrance on 30 November when he spotted about 20 otters crossing a path in front of him.

The animals were moving quietly but “went crazy” after another man ran towards them, Spencer told the paper. The runner was able to avoid the animals but Spencer was not as lucky.

He said they lunged at him, biting his ankles, legs and buttocks and causing him to fall over.

Spencer’s friend, who was about “15 paces” away from him, ran up screaming in a bid to scare away the otters.

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Thứ nhất sợ kẻ anh hùng
Thứ nhì sợ thú nổi khùng cắn chân

Trâu về họp phố:

return of wild bison to UK
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-wild-bison-uk

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The rangers will manage the first wild bison to roam in the UK for thousands of years when four animals arrive in north Kent in the spring of 2022. The bison are Europe’s largest land animal – bulls can weigh a tonne – and were extinct in the wild a century ago, but are recovering through reintroduction projects across Europe.

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The crow brought the message
To the children of the sun
For the return of the buffalo
And for a better day to come…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5a2fzrXuNc

Con sâu làm rầu plastic:

Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ic-study-finds

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The explosion of plastic production in the past 70 years, from 2m tonnes to 380m tonnes a year, had given microbes time to evolve to deal with plastic, the researchers said.The study, published in the journal Microbial Ecology, started by compiling a dataset of 95 microbial enzymes already known to degrade plastic, often found in bacteria in rubbish dumps and similar places rife with plastic.

Nearly 60% of the new enzymes did not fit into any known enzyme classes, the scientists said, suggesting these molecules degrade plastics in ways that were previously unknown.

The first bug that eats plastic was discovered in a Japanese waste dump in 2016. Scientists then tweaked it in 2018 to try to learn more about how it evolved, but inadvertently created an enzyme that was even better at breaking down plastic bottles. Further tweaks in 2020 increased the speed of degradation sixfold.

Another mutant enzyme was created in 2020 by the company Carbios that breaks down plastic bottles for recycling in hours. German scientists have also discovered a bacterium that feeds on the toxic plastic polyurethane, which is usually dumped in landfills.

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Sâu ơi ta bảo sâu này
Sâu ra đống rác sâu cày cho ta...

Rồng đất: Địa long thập bách chưởng


new species with more than 1,000 legs discovered in Western Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/16/the-first-true-millipede-new-species-with-more-than-1000-legs-discovered-in-western-australia

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The first ever millipede with more than 1,000 legs been discovered in Western Australia.

The species, which is the first “true” millipede, has 1,306 legs and was found up to 60 metres underground in a mining area in the Eastern Goldfields region of WA.

It breaks the previous record set by Illacme plenipes, which is found in central California and has up to 750 legs.

In 2013, a Portuguese millipede infestation was reportedly responsible for a train collision in Perth.

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Giun ơi ta bảo giun này
Giun chui xuống đất giun cày cho ta...

Jaws: cá lớn nuốt cá mập

crocodile eats shark
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...-in-queensland

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According to Johnson, the crocodile is named Boofhead by locals because “he’s got a wide, ugly head on him”.

“He’s just a little local sort of celebrity,” Johnson says.

“It is crazy the power these things have, they are to be respected and admired.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xorCfuArqK8

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Giữa dòng nước dẫy sóng dồi
Trước hàm cá sấu gieo mồi thủy tinh
(Đoạn trường ngư thanh)

Hạ cầy tơ:

Monkeys blamed for hundreds of puppy deaths
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...tured-in-india

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Villagers in Lavool village, in the Beed district of Maharastra, reported the langur monkeys after they witnessed them engaging in what seemed to be targeted killings of the neighbourhood puppies by snatching them and taking them up to deadly heights.

The villagers claimed the monkeys were carrying out “revenge killings” after dogs had killed an infant monkey.

The monkeys were reported to have left puppies on roofs and in trees where they would die from lack of food and water, and in other incidents they would be thrown down and killed. The locals said the monkeys had been so thorough that there were no puppies left in Lavool village.

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Con cầy mà trèo cây cao
Hỏi thăm chú khỉ vì sao oán thù
(Cầy dao)

As sick as a dog:

Dog saved by surgery after eating six packets of chocolate coins
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...hocolate-coins

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Hugo, a six-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier, helped himself to the chocolate treats – poisonous to dogs – when owner Amie popped to the shops.

Hugo was assessed, sedated and had an X-ray, which revealed his stomach was full of foil, needing surgery to remove it.

“Foods including chocolate, mince pies, onions, raisins, grapes, some nuts, sage-and-onion stuffing and Christmas cake can all be harmful and should be kept safely out of paws’ reach.”

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

Ấy là hồ điệp hay là con công?

peacock butterfly
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...erfly#comments

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The butterfly was beneath a log and, its sleep interrupted, flashed its wings bearing vivid blue and maroon eyespots. Most strikingly, it also emitted a series of loud hisses that viewers judged like the rustling of petticoats or a whispered “pissaff”.

It may have been a fairy casting a spell but it was also a classic example of deimatic behaviour, a sudden bluff from a defenceless animal to momentarily unsettle a predator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhkefQ92-hg

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Vườn đông công bướm đi về mặc ai…
(Uyển Du)

Beware of dogs (Philippians 3:2).

Boy who died from remote NT community was mauled by dogs
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...mauled-by-dogs

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The three-year-old’s family reported him missing on Friday evening after searching Hermannsburg, south-west of Alice Springs, for several hours.

Northern Territory police joined the search late on New Year’s Eve and an officer found the injured preschooler about 9am on Saturday. He was taken to the local health clinic but died before he could be treated.

Two dogs were being held awaiting forensic examination, Sharma said. The animals were pet dogs often called “camp dogs” and their owner was cooperating with investigators.

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Thương lòng con trẻ thơ ngây
Gặp cơn vạ chó ai hay bất kỳ
(Đoạn trường nhân thanh)

thầy Ốc lo đi đẻ đi kìa. Nam phụ thất thập nhi lập.

Pope calls couples who choose pets over having children ‘selfish’

AFP/The Local
news@thelocal.it
@thelocalitaly
5 January 2022
12:52 CET

Pope Francis risked the ire of the world's childless dog and cat owners Wednesday, suggesting people who substitute pets for kids exhibit "a certain selfishness".
Speaking on parenthood during a general audience at the Vatican, Francis lamented that pets “sometimes take the place of children” in society.

“Today… we see a form of selfishness,” said the pope. “We see that some people do not want to have a child.

“Sometimes they have one, and that’s it, but they have dogs and cats that take the place of children. This may make people laugh but it is a reality.”

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Mấy bữa nay trời lạnh (cỡ ngón cái thôi) bị hắt xì hoài nên cứ tưởng là dính corona nhưng hoá ra là bị bác Francis nhắc tên.

Người Mỹ có câu “the pot calling the kettle black” nhưng tới giờ có thể sửa lại thành “the pope calling the kidless black”. Ổng đi tu tức là cũng đâu có con tại vì muốn có hai pets: Chúa và Giáo hội, God and Church.

Giáo dân hỏi: Siri, why is the pope childless?

Siri chép miệng: Because he’s selfish.

Giáo dân rủa thầm: Bye (pope).

Muốn nói ngoa làm cha mà nói. (Tục ngữ)

pet owners react to pope’s remarks on animals and children
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-and-children

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Pet owners have reacted angrily to the comments, made during a general audience at the Vatican. They argue that animals have a lower environmental footprint than children, enable them to lead a life that is different but equally rewarding, and compensate for financial or biological difficulties in having children, rather than directly replacing them.

On social media, people pointed out that the pope himself chose not to have children and said there was hypocrisy in such comments, coming from an institution which has grappled with a legacy of child sexual abuse.

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Trong lịch sử Việt nam cũng có nhiều người nổi tiếng không có con, ví dụ như Thánh Gióng, Hai bà Trưng và một bà Triệu... Ai dám chê mấy nhân vật đó?

Tưởng tượng Nguyễn Du viết Truyện Kim Vân Ký về Thúy Vân lấy chồng, đẻ con, trồng rau, nuôi gà... thay vì kể chuyện Thúy Kiều. Ai thèm coi?

Đương khi bất ý ỷ y
Hùm thiêng gặp cúm cô vi cũng phiền
(Đoạn trường thú thanh)

Snow leopard at Illinois zoo dies after contracting Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...9-illinois-zoo

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Miller Park Zoo announced the death of Rilu, 11, which the zoo previously said “began coughing and had a raspy respiration beginning on 20 November”, in an Instagram post on Thursday.

In December, three snow leopards at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska died of complications from Covid-19. Two Sumatran tigers recovered.

In July, zoos in Oakland and Denver announced they would start vaccinating tigers, bears and other mammals with a two-dose vaccine first administered in March to gorillas in San Diego.

Zoetis, a New Jersey animal health company, has said it has donated more than 11,000 vaccine doses to almost 70 zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, as part of an effort authorised by the US Department of Agriculture.

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Chỉ ngang mũi chích vào nghìn hang beo…
(Chích thú ngâm)

Cứu nhân nhân trả chuối:

Hero rat dies in Cambodia after stellar career
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/landmine-hunting-hero-rat-dies-in-cambodia-after-stellar-career

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Magawa, a giant African pouched rat originally from Tanzania, helped clear mines from about 225,000 square metres of land – the equivalent of 42 football pitches – over the course of his career.After detecting more than 100 landmines and other explosives, Magawa retired in June last year.

Apopo trained Magawa to detect the chemical compounds in explosives by rewarding him with tasty treats – his favourites being bananas and peanuts.

In September 2020, the rodent won the animal equivalent of Britain’s highest civilian honour for bravery because of his uncanny knack for uncovering landmines and unexploded ordnance.

​Three Cambodian deminers were killed on Monday by anti-tank landmines that exploded as they tried to remove them, just 20 minutes after a man burning vegetation on his farm was killed by war-era ordnance in the same village.

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Khen cho cái mũi tinh đời
Bom mìn đoán giữa trần ai mới già
(Đạn trường tân thanh)

Cừu đội lốt sói:

The brutal world of sheep fighting
https://www.theguardian.com/news/201...ngry-young-men

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Professional trainers toughen their sheep by chaining their horns to a wall: as they pull and twist to break away, the resistance thickens their sinewy necks.

The sheep are given names that inspire fear, like Rambo, Jaws or Lawyer. In the third round of one recent match, Hitler delivered a brutal defeat to Saddam.

The Algerian government’s toleration of sheep fighting is a tacit acknowledgement that outlets for male aggression are needed. “Letting these guys have their fun reduces violence in other contexts,” said Youcef Krache, a photographer from Algiers who has spent years documenting sheep fights. “Authorities prefer they get swept up in spectacles rather than politics.”

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Hãy khôn ngoan như con rắn và hiền lành như con cừu. (Matthew 10:16.5)

Lòng lang dạ sói:

Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-population-eu

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Hunters in Sweden have already shot dead most of their annual target of 27 wolves, while Finland is to authorise the killing of 20 wolves in its first “population management cull” for seven years.

Norway will kill about 60% of its wolves this winter – 51 animals – to maintain a maximum of just three breeding pairs in the country, with its population including animals living between Sweden and Norway limited to four to six breeding pairs.

Conservationists accuse Nordic nations of creating the most hostile environment for wolves in western Europe and flouting EU laws that protect the species, which has made a comeback in recent years but remains endangered in many countries.

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Từ bắc Âu châu tay cầm súng săn
Tay kia cầm sợi dây để bắt con cầy…
(Trịnh công săn)

Tôm Đức: Berlin lobster

what do you do with an invasive army of crayfish
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ish-clones-aoe

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The marbled crayfish was first recognised in 1995, when a biology student bought a bag of crayfish – sold to him as “Texas crayfish” – from American traders at a pet fair in Frankfurt.

After becoming a burden to their new owner due to their inexplicably rapid rate of reproduction, he distributed them to friends who, in turn, dumped them in rivers, lakes and toilets, from where they spread rapidly, throughout Germany, much of mainland Europe and most profusely, the island of Madagascar, home to unique but extremely delicate freshwater ecosystems.

In Germany, where the marbled crayfish have invaded lakes and rivers, authorities have adopted a strict approach to them.

“In one year alone, I caught 42,000 of them. I was seen as a bit of a saviour, even if I say it myself,” he says. He could get €13 per kg of swamp crayfish, and received a €7 top-up from the senate. Berlin restaurants snapped up the crustaceans, serving them up to diners as the novel “Berlin lobster”.

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Con tôm uống với rượu bầu
Chồng ăn vợ húp gật đầu khen ngon
(Ca dao)

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Tôm Đức: Berlin lobster

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Originally Posted by Gác dan

‘The more we eat, the better’

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Con này mà ăn gì trời, tuyền là vỏ không hà. Giống phía bên cua, có con "ba khía" về miền Tây ở Việt Nam. Tụi mình hay đùa, ba khía là bia khá. Cầm lên mút mút, uống bia chớ chẳng có gì để ăn.

https://image.meovathay.vn/upload/20...-ba-khia-0.jpg

Calif-ô-nha: Quạ vô đơn chí

Crow-plagued California city
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...unnyvale-palo-

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Each night, more than a thousand crows descend on Sunnyvale, California. In recent years a growing contingency of corvids have been roosting in the Silicon Valley town’s downtown district, filling the night air with a chorus of caws and painting the roads, Pollock-esque, with droppings.

“If we could just reason with crows, and tell them to spread out a bit more, that would be fantastic,” Klein said.

Swift notes that crows have few negative effects on other bird populations, and can even form bonds with humans. Put a couple of peanuts out for them on your porch occasionally, and they’ll remember you and come by again and again. “They’ll bring their mates by, and their offspring,” she said. “There’s a real bond that can happen.”

Shani Kleinhaus of the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society encourages residents to appreciate their beauty.

“In the evening, when they get moving, they create these rivers of flight across the sunset. It’s beautiful. It’s exciting,” she said. “While they are here, why not celebrate them?”

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Vai em gầy guộc nhỏ
Như cánh quạ về Sunnyvale...
(Như cánh quạ bay)