http://www.news24.com/Tags/Topics/animals Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Fri, 24 May 2013 04:47:04 +0200 Frogs, toads and salamanders have been in trouble for decades, but a new shows just how quickly many amphibians are disappearing. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Americas-frogs-and-toads-disappearing-fast-20130522 A tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons when he couldn't hack up a soccer ball-sized hairball by himself. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Tigers-basketball-sized-hairball-removed-20130523 A French court has upheld a ruling by the State Council, to annul a euthanasia order on two zoo elephants for suspected TB, and says the initial order was not backed by proper tests. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Doomed-French-elephants-given-lifeline-20130522 A controversial cull of up to 10 000 wild horses in Australia's harsh Outback has reportedly begun in a bid to control the feral animals. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Australia-to-cull-10-000-wild-horses-20130522 Sanbona seems to be busting with wildlife at the moment - with the birth of a litter of cheetah cubs hot on the heels of its sixth elephant calf born at the reserve. http://www.news24.com/Travel/South-Africa/Four-cheetahs-born-at-Sanbona-20130521 Hungarian police say two donkeys are suspected of pulling a retired firefighter off his motorcycle and biting and trampling him to death. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Donkeys-suspected-in-mauling-death-20130521 Bigger refuse bins to fight a rat problem are to be distributed by Ekurhuleni municipality to households in Wattville and Actonville, an official says. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Ekhurhuleni-fights-rat-problem-20130521 There's a new Bolt in town - the world's most expensive lightning-fast pigeon, which has just been sold for €310 000. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Pigeon-sale-yields-world-record-20130521 Croatian researchers are training honeybees to find unexploded mines littering their country and the rest of the Balkans. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Honeybees-to-find-land-mines-20130519 US zoo unveils new Amur tiger cub, can only be seen on monitor for now http://www.news24.com/Green/News/US-zoo-unveils-new-Amur-tiger-cub-20130517 An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation centre, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Birth-of-anteater-has-zoo-staff-baffled-20130517 A startled kangaroo has knocked an Australian politician to the ground and clawed his leg after its morning graze on a suburban lawn was interrupted by the jogging lawmaker. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Boxing-kangaroo-knocks-down-Australian-MP-20130517-3 Pet bloggers have becomes influential in the US and companies are increasingly taking them seriously as their following grows. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Firms-take-pet-bloggers-seriously-20130517 An experienced field guide put his life on the line during a recent game drive in a private reserve when he saved a little girl from an angry lioness. http://www.news24.com/Travel/South-Africa/Ranger-save-little-girl-from-lioness-20130517 Forty white rhino have been sold for about R10m at the Ezemvelo Wildlife annual game auction in Durban. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Rhino-sold-for-R10m-at-auction-20130516 Mother Nature celebrated Mother's Day in true style at Sanbona Wildlife Reserve, just outside Cape Town, with the birth of a healthy elephant calf, which became the sixth elephant calf born at the reserve. http://www.news24.com/Travel/South-Africa/Baby-elephant-born-at-Sanbona-20130516 A Western Cape woman is upset that her pet baboon was destroyed instead of being sent to a rehabilitation centre. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Pet-baboon-destroyed-20130516 A game vet is being accused of dehorning rhinos in a cruel and inhumane manner, by cutting too close to the nerve endings. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Vet-probed-for-gruesome-dehorning-20130516 There has been an increase in the use of professionally trained dogs to help children testify in the US, but some attorneys who claim the dogs are distractions or sympathy magnets. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Dogs-give-comfort-controversy-in-court-20130515 A 'streetwise' Nguni bull has been rescued from a Cape Town highway off ramp. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Streetwise-bull-captured-20130515