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Goose flying upside down captured in slow-mo movie

Watch this goose twist his neck and fly upside down - what fun!

Wildlife charity to fund police unit tackling animal trafficking

A specialist police unit that fights wildlife crime is joining forces with an animal charity. The Metropolitan police's wildlife crime unit is teaming up with the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), which warned animal trafficking is a "major source of revenue" …

In pictures : Week in wildlife

British wildlife photographers Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers spent the past year travelling the world snapping primates such as this chimpanzee, to demonstrate the similarities between the animals and humans.

$14,000 Fine for Illegal Alligator Hunting

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CN) - The owner of an alligator hunting service was fined $14,000 after pleading guilty to a federal charge of transporting an illegally killed alligator.

All-white blackbird photographed

This unusual blackbird is attracting bird watchers to a Nottinghamshire country park. The bird is leucistic, which is a genetic mutation that prevents pigments from being deposited normally in its feathers. It has been residing for the last four years in the woodland of Ruffo …

Bird book sells for $7.5m

A rare first edition of the John James Audubon book The Birds of America, featuring more than 1000 exquisite illustrations by the great naturalist, has sold for $US7.9 million ($7.5 million) at auction in New York. The sale at Christie's was within the $US7 million to $US10 mi …

Lost seal pup to be flown home

An electronically tagged seal pup with a terrible sense of direction is to be flown back to Greenland after washing up over 3,2oo km from home on England’s east coast. The ten-month-old hooded grey pup, known as Eve, most recently paid a visit to Skegness after previousl …

Cockroach Cyborgs Get Their Own Power Source

Equipped with tiny sensors, insects could scout out buildings filled with noxious chemicals, check under rubble after an earthquake and go places no human spy ever could.

Toad-savvy marsupials make a meal of quoll toll

A study has revealed that some small carnivorous marsupials in Northern Australia instinctively know how to avoid being poisoned by cane toads. The University of Sydney's Dr Jonathan Webb and his team have found that red-cheeked dunnarts from the Kimberley in Western Australia …

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