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Groundhog day: Call for end to hunting of French marmots (opens the original)
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âDormir comme une marmotteâ â to be a sleepy-head âLa marmotteâ, the ground-squirrel that trekkers encounter in the mountains, is making news in France. Shooting marmots is permitted from September 1 each year. However, lâAssociation Justice Animaux Savoie (AJAS) does not approve. It is calling on the French government to prohibit such hunting. You have reached your article limit. Already a subscriber? Sign in Six months of digital access for â¬18.50 Be the first to know the lates
Bird-brained: Research debunks long-held beliefs about dodos (opens the original)
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‘Why’, said the dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it’ — Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland In 1598, Portuguese explorers came upon an island in the Indian Ocean, where large flightless birds lived. Between 60cm and 75cm tall, the birds were so tame they could be caught by hand. Dutch sailors, visiting the island in 1507, called it ‘Mauritius’ after Prince Maurice of Nassau. You have reached your article limit. Already a subscriber? Sign in Be the first to know the latest news and updates
Rat trap: Much of what we blame on rodents is our own doing (opens the original)
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A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit - Sarah Jessica Parker The German Zoologist Peter Simon Pallas is best known for a species of bird he described. A Pallas’s warbler turned up on Cape Clear Island in October1968 and this Asian species has been a rare visitor to Ireland ever since. Pat Smiddy in The Birds of County Cork noted that 42 of these little greenish-grey vagrants have been recorded here, 26 to them in Cork. Pallas famously witnessed a pivotal change in the history of modern ma
Wisdom teeth: Rhino remains cast light on Neanderthals' resourcefulness (opens the original)
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Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson - The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper Todaysâ rhinoceroses live in warm climates. But that wasnât always the case. 'Woollyâ rhinos roamed Europe and Asia during the last Ice Age. They were as big as todayâs âwhiteâ rhinos of Africa and clothed in fur. With the cave-lion, the mammoth and the giant deer, the âwoollyâ rhino was depicted by cave-painters. The walls of the Chauvet Cave, in the Ardèche, have
Lesser spotted: This elusive leopard is somewhat of a 'ghost' (opens the original)
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Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi wanted to study snow leopards, the worldâs most secretive wild cats. However, during a two-month search, Peter Matthiesssen, author of The Snow Leopard (1978), had failed to glimpse even one of them. "You will never see a snow leopard," a professor advised Suryawanshi, "you wonât get enough data to write your thesis." But this graduate student would prove him wrong. That Suryawanshi hails from Maharashtra made his choice of subject particularly challenging. Britis
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