A rooster that had been fitted with a knife for an illegal cockfight has killed its owner in southern India.
The bird's owner was impaled in the groin by the knife as the animal tried to escape. The man died on the way to hospital from a loss of blood.
Police are now searching for 15 more people involved in the event, which took place in the village of Lothunur in Telangana state earlier this week.
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Shark fishermen from the central African country Congo-Brazzaville say they are catching fewer fish and an increasing number of juveniles in a sign that stocks are coming under pressure.
The practice is largely unregulated contrary to a raft of international recommendations, and environmental groups are beginning to raise the alarm.
In the 1980s and 1990s, it was primarily driven by the burgeoning demand for fins from Asia, where shark fin soup was a popular dish.
But in more recent years, the steady depletion of other staple fish stocks by foreign industrial trawlers has led Congo's fishermen and coastal communities to increasingly rely on shark meat as a source of food
Bird spotters who breached lockdown restrictions to catch a glimpse of a rare bird have been handed fines.
The Northern mockingbird, not often seen in the UK, was first spotted by Chris Biddle in his garden in Exmouth, Devon, on 6 February.
He tweeted about the sighting, prompting excitement among twitchers.
Five were fined for travelling to the town to photograph the bird after Devon and Cornwall Police were contacted on Saturday over the lockdown breaches.
In a statement, the force said: "It was reported that a number of individuals, suspected to have travelled from outside the area, were trying to photograph a rare bird which had been seen in a garden."
Linda O'Neill made the bizarre discovery on the front path outside her home in the Huntly Gardens in the Downanhill area yesterday near Byres Road.
The footprints - much bigger in size than an adult shoe print - show what appear to be sharp claws, and resemble the paw prints made by animals such as a grizzly bear.
A study of 250 species of Himalayan songbirds has revealed how their feathers evolved for higher altitudes.
The birds in colder, more elevated environments had feathers with more fluffy down - providing them with thicker "jackets".
The insight reveals how feathers provide the tiniest birds with such efficient protection from extreme cold.
It also provides clues about which species are most at risk from climate change, the scientists say.
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A sunny winter day in 2016 found marine biologist Yoshihiro Fujiwara anchored off the coast of central Japan, measuring pudgy cusk eels, when a hubbub suddenly erupted aboard ship. The crew of the Shonan Maru had just landed a big, bizarre-looking fish.
"Wow! We got a coelacanth!" they joked as they hauled up a specimen so large it evoked the legendary "living fossil" species found only in Africa and Indonesia.
Fujiwara, whose specialty is "whale fall" communities — the rich ecosystems that spring up around and feed off whale carcasses — was equal parts thrilled and skeptical.
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The world's most iconic species disappearing before our eyes
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If you were asked to describe a lion, you wouldn’t be hard pushed to find the right words.
Magnificent, king of the beasts, majestic…Simba.
But there are two words racing towards us faster than we would like to admit.
Distant memory.
It feels as though losing arguably the world’s most iconic species is something that should defy comprehension – but if we continue as we are, there’s a very real risk it will happen.
100,000 used to roam the continent, but in the last five decades we’ve lost 80,000 of those.
Humans have encroached on their territory at an unrelenting speed, ramming together rival lion prides that will fight each other for space and food. Those fights are vicious and bloody, and even surviving lions will sustain injuries that leave them in agony as they battle to keep up with the rest of their pack.
When not in confrontations with each other they are boxed in against human settlements - a truly devastating situation for both sides. Local people have their livelihoods eviscerated while lions are killed in retaliation for loss of livestock.
Poachers make the bad situation impossible. With nowhere left to hide, these predators become an easy target for armed opportunists who can send dozens of lions dropping to the ground with a mere pull of a trigger.
There are not enough lions to resist this rate of decline. We cannot let this pattern continue.
We must halt this devastating freefall in numbers and save the rest of their territory.
Through your donations, we’re helping protect the last remaining sanctuaries where lions have enough space to hunt and roam. We’re ensuring these areas are patrolled to stop and potential poaching in its tracks.
These spaces are huge, and the protection needed ranges from boots on the ground to survey planes in the air, but - with your support - there’s still enough time to save Africa’s lions. That way the magnificent, majestic, king of the beasts will not become a mere memory.
Please help save lions. If everyone reading this donates just £3, you could help put protection in place for lions so they can live and breed in peace. Thank you.
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