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Seal team sick:

California’s dying sea lions from toxic algae
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...acid-poisoning

While toxic algae blooms have plagued the Golden state for the past four years, 2025 may be the worst year yet – at least for San Diego. SeaWorld alone has rescued 47 sea lions and 30 birds with suspecteddomoic acid poisoning this year, compared with only 11 sea lions in 2024 and 18 in 2023.

And beyond just San Diego, the outbreak has sickened hundreds of sea lions, dolphins, birds and other marine animalsin Californiaover the past month, leaving animal rescue workers scrambling to keep up. Small fish who consume the toxic algae, are then eaten by bigger animals, like sea lions and dolphins.

For a sea lion with domoic acid poisoning, which can lead to seizures and heart failure, the chance of survival is roughly 50-50 if treated in time, Smith said.For a dolphin, it’s often fatal.

In response to the current outbreak, the SeaWorld San Diego rescue team has had to double its staff. The team has been receiving roughly 100 calls a day for several weeks.

While scientists are still working to determine why, exactly, this year’s bloom has been so extensive, with some posing questions about the potential impact of debris from the Los Angeles wildfires in January, warming oceans fueled by climate crisis have long been shown to contribute to extreme algae blooms.

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Gần mực thì sao?

should cuttlefish be on our menus?
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...e-on-our-menus

About 4,000 tonnes of cuttlefish are landed in the UK every year on average. Largely caught in the English Channel, very little of it ends up on British plates, with most exported, as it is a delicacy in France and Spain. However, there are concerns over cuttlefish’s sustainability.

Caroline Bennett, founder of Sole of Discretion, which champions sustainable seafood from small-scale fishers, says about five years ago foreign buyers turned to UK cuttlefish as an alternative to squid, and almost overnight it became less sustainable – turning from amber to red in 2020. “Big trawlers had taken out so much of the biomass of cuttlefish, in Brixham they called it black gold,” she says.

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Vết thù trên lưng lừa hoang:

vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...ity-veterinary

Alden’s team operates a mobile clinic that has treated more than 7,000 donkeys and thousands of other animals since the outbreak of the current war in Gaza in October 2023. Donkeys are a lifeline for many Palestinians in Gaza.

Donkeys have filled the gap, used to transport goods and people – as they search daily for food, water and fuel, to get to hospitals and to transport them with their belongings each time Israeli forces order thousands to leave an area.

“We’ve seen donkeys in Gaza who’ve saved lives – transporting pregnant women to hospitals to give birth, carrying the injured to safety, standing by the side of those who have lost everything, offering warmth when all else is cold. They give without asking for anything in return.”

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Cứu vật vật trả oán:

when rhinos move into town
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ional-park-aoe

In the past six months, eight people have been killed by rhinos in the Chitwan national park buffer zone – a 750 sq km area surrounding the park, which is home to 45,000 households.

In towns here, rhinos can often be seen wandering the streets, sauntering past restaurants, bars and motorbike stands, snoozing on hotel lawns and grazing in people’s back gardens. Residents are curious but wary of them.

When the park was created in 1973 there were 100 greater one-horned rhinos. Now there are almost 700 in Chitwan, 90% of Nepal’s total. The human population is also growing, with 300,000 people living in the buffer zone, which has made it a hotspot for human wildlife conflict. It is not just rhinos – the park’s growing population of elephants, tigers and sloth bears have also killed humans.

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Là nơi bầy thú hoang đang vui đùa trong nắng say…

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Tửu phùng tri khỉ:

Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...lcoholic-fruit

Wild chimpanzees in west Africa have been observed sharing fruit containing alcohol – not in quantities to get roaring drunk but, possibly, enough for a fuzzy beer buzz feeling.

Using motion-activated cameras, the researchers filmed chimpanzees sharing the large, dense and fibrous fermented fruit on 10 occasions. The fruit shared was tested for alcohol content. The highest level found was the equivalent of 0.61% alcohol by volume (ABV).

The sharing seemed to take place between all ages and sexes. Two adult females, nicknamed Chip and Até, were seen ignoring a larger hunk of breadfruit in favour of a smaller but fermented piece.

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Trở về mái nhà xưa:

dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...tralian-island

People have been trying to find Valerie since she went missing in November 2023, when her owners, New South Wales couple Georgia Gardner and Josh Fishlock, were holidaying at Stokes Bay.

Valerie escaped from her pen at their campsite at Stokes Bay before running into the scrub. The pair searched for her with the help of locals but to no avail.

Then, in March, reports began coming in that Valerie had been spotted. One picture appeared to show the dog’s oversized ears poking above some paddock stubble.

Kangala Wildlife Rescue volunteers used surveillance, traps and lures to try to find Valerie. They captured a video of her, but she remained at large.

Now, after an estimated 1,000 hours of volunteer effort and more than 5,000km travelled around the island searching for her, she was snared in a search operation using cameras and prepared traps.

What if Valerie doesn’t want to go home?