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Mother bear strangled cub then killed herself to escape bile farm
AN ABUSED mama bear strangled her cub to death before running into a wall to kill herself in a desperate bid to avoid a life of torture, it is claimed.
The tortured animals were living in captivity on a farm in a remote part of north-west China, painfully having their gall bladders milked daily for bile - which is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Frisky male Llandudno goats get stuck pursuing females
A herd of amorous goats have been saved after rescuers built a stairway made of hay bales from the bottom of a cliff.
Bosnia's wild horses: Promising tourist attraction, or farmers' pest?
Wild horses galloping across rugged mountains in western Bosnia are an ever-bigger tourist attraction, but need protection from local farmers who see them as pests, activists say.
Honey bees killed endangered penguins in South Africa
A swarm of honey bees is believed to have killed 63 endangered penguins in South Africa by stinging them in their eyes, a preliminary investigation has found.