Several animals across Contra Costa County have tested positive for West Nile virus in recent days, indicating the threat of the virus is showing no sign of slowing, the Contra Costa Mosquito & Vector Control District said in a news release.
The district reported seven birds, two groups of mosquitoes, two squirrels and nine chickens have [...]
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When it comes to celebrity tournaments for charity, we here at Ecorazzi simply gush. The concept is pretty simple: pick a game, gets a few celebs, raise a little cash, help a great charity thrive. Notice how “kill animal” was not listed in the above equation.
Rob Lowe has given up the game of golf after [...]
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The nudists who have frequented Eastney beach in Portsmouth for more than a century thought they were on the way out.
Qinetiq, a British defence technology company, wants to build 131 luxury apartments there, potentially leaving the nudists very unwelcome.
But help is at hand, and it has taken the form of a tiny and rather [...]
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This playful image of a Newfoundland dog herding puffins through the streets is a color-reduction woodcut by artist Jenny Pope, who features animals as her subjects. I just love the lines, colors, detail, movement, and expression in all her work, but this piece is one of my favorites. I love the way she captured the [...]
If the night sky seems less tranquil on nights when the moon is bright, the observation probably isn’t imagined since a new study has determined that at least one bird’s level of activity dramatically increases with moonlight.
The finding adds to a growing body of evidence that lunar phases affect the behavior of insects, birds, fish [...]
The extremely rare photograph of the 50ft mammal was taken by wildlife enthusiast Ross Newham just two miles off the Isles of Scilly, near Cornwall.
Mr Newham, 41, was on a bird watching trip when the whale leapt in front of his boat, providing him with the picture [...]
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Billy Ray is the new name of the tiger cub born on Mother’s Day at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium.
The cub, which now weighs 30 pounds and has been hand-fed by zookeepers since birth because his mother refused to nurse him, was named by zoo donors in honor of a deceased family member who [...]
A gang of unruly teenage bush parrots have wrought havoc at a bird sanctuary in New Zealand by using their powerful beaks to destroy nesting boxes.
The native Kaka parrots — juvenile birds that haven’t reached sexual maturity — have torn off nesting box doors and vandalized the bird homes, sanctuary conservation officer Matt Robertson [...]
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Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country’s northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.
The environmental body warned that unless urgent action was taken to stop trees being felled, some species would be pushed to the brink of extinction.
In [...]
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Cries for help inside a Trenton, N.J., home turned out to be for the birds. Neighbors called police Wednesday morning after hearing a woman’s persistent cry of “Help me! Help me!” coming from a house. Officers arrived and when no one answered the door, they kicked it in to make a rescue.
But instead of a [...]
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