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Singer Morrissey urges closure of Indonesian zoo
The singer called on the Indonesian government to immediately shut down a notorious zoo in Java where hundreds of animals have died or disappeared. In March, the zoo’s last remaining giraffe was found dead with a 44-pound ball of plastic in its stomach, believed to have formed from years of visitors throwing food wrappers into the pen.

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Dead Birds Join Dolphins on Peruvian Beach

The mysterious maritime macabre continues in the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of Peru. First, hundreds of dolphins began washing up on the beaches in the state of Lambayeque. Now, in the same area, hundreds of seabirds are joining the marine massacre.

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Fish in Gulf of Mexico found with lesions tied to petroleum and other pollutants

Fish harvested from the Gulf of Mexico have been found with unusual lesions and infections. Two years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank, the latest research into its effects is starting to back up those early reports from the docks: The ailing fish bear hallmarks of diseases tied to petroleum and other pollutants. 

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An unusually high number of dead dolphins - including stillborn and infant calves - have washed up along the Gulf of Mexico shores in the two years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded into flames, unleashing tens of thousands of barrels of oil into the ocean.

In a normal year before the spill, about 74 strandings would be reported in the area. That number has increased eightfold in the past two years. Since February 2010, more than 600 have been found on the shores between the Louisiana-Texas border and the western coast of Florida.

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You’d think albino penguins would be more common since they spend so much time in the snow. (If you’re going to be an all-white animal, what better backdrop could you find? But, of course, nature doesn’t work that way.) Snowdrop the penguin was one of the few albinos that made it to adulthood. He was born at the Bristol Zoo in England, and was accepted by his clutchmates unconditionally.
7 famous albino animals

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In search of the ‘lost ladybug’: Thousands of citizen scientists send in photos to help Cornell University researchers determine why some species of the colorful beetles are becoming so rare.

Photo: A ladybug in flight at Rooks Park in Walla Walla, Wash. Credit: Jeff Horner / Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

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China porpoise deaths raise extinction concerns
Sixteen endangered finless porpoise have been found dead since January, due in part to what experts suspect is water pollution and climate change.

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The proof of how slaves were treated like animals.

The artists of Queloides deal with issues of race and racism in different ways. All of their work, however, offers a revisionist and critical reading of the history of Cuba, a reading that highlights the contributions of the Africans and their descendants to the formation of the Americas in general, and the Cuban nation in particular. Their Cuba is not the harmonious and fraternal Cuba portrayed in official national narratives, but a nation built on violence, slavery, rape, and the unbearable stench of the slave ships. It is a Cuba where colonial legacies remain alive, feeding discrimination and exclusion.

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Saboteurs blamed as Japan whale catch falls short
Japan’s Antarctic whaling fleet has killed less than a third of the animals it planned to because of sabotage by activists, Tokyo said. Whalers killed 266 minke whales and one fin whale, the agency said, well below the approximately 900 they had been aiming for when they left Japan in December.

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Storm of Spider Silk Drapes Wagga Wagga

The arachnid at the root of a story that went viral this week doesn’t actually make webs. So, what were they doing when they draped a town with spider silk?

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Camera Trap Images Tell Anti-Poaching Success

Camera trap photo stills and video footage suggest that anti-poaching efforts in the forests of Thailand are paying off, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

The cameras, set up at several locations across Thailand’s Western Forest Complex over the last year, have captured tigers, Asian elephants, gaurs, sun bears, and many other species in off guard moments. Video footage shows a tigress and her cubs feeding on an animal carcass, leopards marking their territory with scent, wild pigs nursing their young, and even Asian elephants mating.

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First cable network for dogs launched
The channel will feature dog-friendly colors and video taken from a four-legged point of view.

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