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The Slow Loris: The Cutest Thing You’ll See All Day

It’s amazing what being ticklish can do for your billing. From relative obscurity, the lowly loris recently became animal A-list material. One in particular of these wide-eyed primates shot to fame for its cutesy performance in some footage that’s pure, aww-inspiring dynamite. While the web watched, Sonya the slow loris simply looked loveable. So what’s the story with the loris – as a species and a starlet?

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The Most Terrifying Bird on Earth

Queensland, Australia. Philip Mclean, a 16 year-old boy, and his brother, aged 13, encounter a cassowary. Despite the size of the brightly coloured bird before them, the Mclean brothers attempt to bludgeon it to death with clubs. It is a fatal mistake. The elder brother lands a blow on the beast but is knocked to the ground. Lying prone, Philip is kicked in the neck by the cassowary, opening a deadly wound.

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Operation Knife n’ Fork: 5 Endangered Species We Could Save By Eating

Image from Paraflyer There are often multiple ways of looking at a problem, and lateral thinking is probably the only way progressive decisions by governments are ever made.

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Hanoi Zoo Admits Selling Tigers to Animal Traffickers

Vietnam’s Hanoi Zoo has come up with an innovative, and illegal, method of raising funds: auctioning off tiger bodies to illegal animal traffickers. The zoo admitted auctioning the tigers, which had reportedly died of natural causes at the zoo, to traffickers in the lucrative field of traditional

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