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Woburn Safari Park: Elton the tiger put to sleep after illness
A male Amur tiger at Woburn Safari Park has had to be put to sleep after a brief illness.
Elton, who was 10 years old, arrived at the Bedfordshire attraction in 2013 from Ostrava Zoo in the Czech Republic.
Elephant’s trunk may be one of most sensitive body parts of any animal
Elephant trunks may be one of the most sensitive body parts in the animal kingdom.
Michael Brecht at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin and his colleagues dissected the heads of three Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and five African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana).
One-eyed cat called Popeye rescued after serious injury on farm
Gables Dogs & Cats Home has welcomed a new resident in the form of Popeye, the one-eyed cat.
The battle scarred feline was left with an eye which was beyond repair and needed to be removed after he was badly injured whilst playing on a farm.
French firm stops selling goldfish bowls claiming they drive the creatures ‘crazy and kill them quickly’
A French pet care company has stopped selling round fish bowls because they drive fish mad and kill them quickly.