16th March 2010

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Tag: animals

  • Thieving baboons wipe out vineyards

    Created Mon, 15th of Mar 2010

    Baboons with a taste for Chardonnay grapes are terrorising farmers in South Africa's Western Cape wine region, munching tonnes of grapes ready for harvesting, local media reported. Farms in the ... more

  • Estuary floodgates monitored after fish kill

    Created Mon, 15th of Mar 2010

    The Department of Environment and Conservation is continuing to monitor the Vasse Estuary floodgates after a malfunction caused the death of almost 2,000 fish last month. The fish were found ... more

  • Icon_camera Traders seek free camels from Australia

    Created Mon, 15th of Mar 2010

    The Australian Government says it has been swamped by overseas requests for camels since efforts to control feral camels in Central Australia attracted international media attention. Camel ... more

  • Mr Shuffles wobbles into new home

    Created Sun, 14th of Mar 2010

    Taronga Zoo's newest star attraction - a baby elephant nicknamed Mr Shuffles - has made his first public appearance. Sticking close to his mother Porntip's side, the baby Asian elephant took his ... more

  • Baby elephant shuffles along path to recovery

    Created Fri, 12th of Mar 2010

    Taronga Zoo's new infant Asian elephant has had a restful night in the elephant barn and zoo keepers continue to be amazed by its progress. The calf, which has been nicknamed 'Mr Shuffles' by ... more

  • US sushi chef charged with serving whale

    Created Fri, 12th of Mar 2010

    A California sushi chef and the restaurant in which he worked have been charged with illegally serving meat from an endangered sei whale, the US Justice Department said. Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, ... more

  • Icon_camera Mr Shuffles has keepers wrapped around his little trunk

    Created Thu, 11th of Mar 2010

    Staff at Sydney's Taronga Zoo have described how they were overwhelmed with emotion when they realised a baby elephant previously thought dead had been born alive. The staff have been unable to ... more

  • Lost dog numbers triple after weekend storms

    Created Thu, 11th of Mar 2010

    It was not just people and property that bore the brunt of Saturday's wild hail storm in Melbourne. Pets also got the fright of their lives when tennis ball-sized hail pelted down and some of them ... more

  • Man attacked by swarm of bees

    Created Thu, 11th of Mar 2010

    A man has been stung at least 20 times by a swarm of bees at Montmorency, in Melbourne's north-east. The 51-year-old man was walking his dog when he was attacked this morning. He is being treated ... more

  • Icon_camera 'Miracle' elephant calf making steady progress

    Created Thu, 11th of Mar 2010

    Taronga Zoo's newborn baby elephant continues to defy the odds, suckling from its mother unassisted. The 100kg male elephant calf was delivered at the Sydney zoo early yesterday morning, despite ... more

  • Gene protects some Tassie devils from tumour

    Created Wed, 10th of Mar 2010

    The discovery of a genetically different population of Tasmanian devils has raised hopes for the survival of the iconic Australian mammal threatened by a deadly cancer. In today's edition of the ... more

  • Company denies chemical causes frog sex change

    Created Tue, 9th of Mar 2010

    The developer of the herbicide atrazine has dismissed new research which shows it can wreak havoc with the sexual organs of frogs. Syngenta says nearly 6,000 studies around the world have proven ... more

  • Octopus wrangle is a tangle in the tank

    Created Tue, 9th of Mar 2010

    Wranglers have a tough, often dangerous job working with cattle in the outback, but there's an even more challenging animal handling job on the coast. Octopus wrangling is one of the more unusual ... more

  • Canadian MPs to tuck into seal dinner

    Created Tue, 9th of Mar 2010

    Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products. Canada's Conservative government says ... more

  • Phantom kangaroos spotted in Japan

    Created Mon, 8th of Mar 2010

    It may seem odd, but the locals swear it is true. People in a Japanese mountain region have reported a number of kangaroo sightings, and journalists are now trying to stalk the marsupials. The ... more


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