Animals

Dutch zookeeper dies after leopard mauling

A female zookeeper was attacked while caring for two Persian leopards at an indoor facility at the Netherlands’ Beekse Bergen Safari Park.

China is back in the bull semen market, but only the best will do

An elite Angus bull called Utopia gets his semen collected twice every week in Australia.

Former Arsenal forward Jermaine Pennant saved by his dog after German Shepherd attack

Jermaine Pennant at Our Tampines Hub in 2024 during a visit for a football clinic as part of the StarHub Football Festival. He played for Tampines Rovers in 2016.

These taste testers have four legs and picky palates

A cat testing cat food at the Royal Canin research centre in Aimargues, France. Even as the war in Iran has spurred inflation and wage growth has not kept up, the pet food market has kept growing.

Deer carcasses near Nara temples prompt patrols over ‘unnatural’ deaths

The deer in Nara are protected under the cultural properties protection law.

KLIA emerges as key airport for gibbon smuggling, with at least 16 cases in 2½ years

About 64% of the cases involved the smuggling of two to four gibbons per incident, suggesting that the animals were being targeted and consolidated for trafficking.

Shelters, NParks, Mandai Wildlife Group take haze-relief measures to protect animals

A community cat in Bukit Ho Swee in the haze on Oct 22.

France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda after patient dies

The Shamonda virus had until now been considered non-transmissible to humans, the French government said.

Busan’s celebrity shark Bukang-i back in canal again, a day after returning to sea

Bukang-i, an endangered dusky shark, was first spotted in the canal at Busan’s North Port Waterfront Park on Sept 18.

Stranded shark Bukang-i returns to sea after a month

An attempt to guide the stranded shark nicknamed Bukang-i back to the sea in South Korea’s port city of Busan on Oct 21.

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