Animals
Curious cat? Scientists identify 7 feline behavioral, personality traits
The researchers studied the behaviors of over 4,300 different cats, spanning 26 different breeds
With no tourist handouts, hungry Bali monkeys raid homes
Deprived of their preferred food source, the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus, hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers' homes in their search for something tasty.
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Baby Caretta carettas crushed by two aggressors on ATVs
While riding their all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), two men have killed some 16 Caretta caretta hatchlings on a beach in the southern province of Antalya, through which the endangered baby sea creatures reach the Mediterranean Sea.
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The disturbing incident happened at the Mendirek beach in the Manavgat district's Sorgun neighborhood late on Sept. 1.
Mackerels, mullets first fish of season
The first fish caught in the Marmara Sea with the start of the new fishing season on Sept. 1 are horse mackerels and striped red mullets.
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Χαλκιδική: Κοπάδι από μέδουσες σε παραλία στην Ολυμπιάδα - Δείτε βίντεο
Οι μέδουσες «Cotylorhiza tuberculata» έχουν «κατακλύσει» τις παραλίες της Χαλκιδικής
Flamingo chicks learn to fly in ‘natural nursery’
Approximately 18,000 flamingos that hatched two months ago in the İzmir Bird Sanctuary, one of the world's leading artificial breeding islands, began to flap their wings in the "nursery" to fly.
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130 bears culled this year in Slovenia
Ljubljana – As many as 130 brown bears were culled in Slovenia this year until 11 August, of which 121 were hunted on the basis of the Environment Agency’s permits and nine were found dead, the Environment Ministry told the STA on Friday, four days after a brown bear attacked a local while he was jogging near the town of Pivka, SW.
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China’s wandering elephants may finally be heading home
An elephant herd that fascinated locals and people around the world by making a yearlong journey into urbanized southwest China, raiding farms and even a retirement home for food, appears finally to be headed home.
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Owner of garden where 11 dead dogs found arrested
A 55-year-old woman was arrested after the police found 11 dead dogs in her garden in the capital of Ankara on Aug. 6.
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Upon notifications of some "bad smell," the police came to an apartment belonging to Meral T. and found 11 dead dogs buried in the garden.
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‘Dr House’ gives hope to animals with hard-to-treat conditions
A Turkish veterinarian and his 15-member team are renowned for rescuing animals who find themselves near death, afflicted with illnesses that are hard to diagnose.
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