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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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The others follow, some dozen animals in all. From 2020 to 2022, that figure was lower, about 500 animals per year, but is it because of better safety measures or fewer and consequently harder to locate quarries? Painted Dogs are already extinct in 25 out of 39 countries that they used to inhabit.

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Unlikely Animal Friends

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Are you ready for hours of the cutest animal video ever? Then be sure to tune in to Unlikely Animal Friends over this Thanksgiving break. NAT GEO WILD is sharing some of the most unlikely of animal friendships! Watch a clip of an owl and the pussycat: What about an adorable cheetah and a Labrador puppy?

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Can A Hawk Carry Off Your 12-Pound Pet?

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That did not stop a New Jersey animal shelter from publishing this rabble-rousing flyer on Facebook, all written in alarming red capital letters: PARK RANGERS AND VET OFFICES ARE PUTTING OUT WARNINGS. If you have a very small dog, be careful and use common sense. THIS YEAR THE HAWKS REALLY SEEM TO BE OUT IN FORCE OFF THE EAST COAST.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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Shadows of Africa

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The others follow, some dozen animals in all. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good! Two more shadows in the spotlight, two of the most endangered carnivores of the sub-Saharan Africa are coming along the road, toward us: African Painted Dogs (Wild Dogs). They are crossing one or two at a time.

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Finally. Jasmine the Greyhound

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. * In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. Geoff and the other sanctuary staff went to work with two aims to restore the dog to full health, and to win her trust. No-one remembers now how it began, but she started welcoming all Animal arrivals at the sanctuary.