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Romania

Romania's new retirement plan aims at four-legged state workers

They sniff out drug smugglers, patrol the streets, and carry out crowd control in the line of duty. But what happens when it’s time to retire?

Russia

Bear helps kick off Russian football match

The circus animal was invited onto the pitch before a league game.

China

"The Monkeys' Father" in Tibet

Tibet is the setting for a remarkable and enduring love story between an elderly man and a group of monkeys

World News

Genital-breathing ‘punk turtle’ joins endangered species list

The new list ranks reptiles on a combination of how endangered and unusual they are.

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Spain

Whale dies after eating 29 kilos of plastic in trashed waters

A sperm whale that washed up on the Murcia coast in February died because it could not digest the 29 kilos of plastic found in its stomach.

World News

Skripal's pets found dead at his home, after nerve agent attack

Two guinea pigs were found dead at the home of Sergei Skripal and a cat had to be put down, British government officials revealed, following the nerve agent attack on the former spy and his daughter, Yulia.

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Squirrel orthopaedics

The squirrel, called Karamel, was caught in a wild animal trap in the southeastern Turkish city of Batman

Spain

Elephant dies in accident on Spanish motorway

One elephant has been killed and two others injured after a truck transporting them crashed on a motorway in south-eastern Spain.

Tanzania

Watch: Wild cheetahs enter tourist's car on safari

Britton Hayes got more than he bargained for on safari when two wild cheetahs pounced on his vehicle.

Ukraine

Daring rescue in Dead Zone

Three Chernobyl workers risk their lives to save stray dog struck on the roof over the sealed reactor.

Kenya

World’s last male northern white rhino dies

There are now only two females of the subspecies left in the world.

United Kingdom

Countries should do more to combat global warming

Study of 80,000 species by University of East Anglia is robust enough

Hungary

Meet the Hungarian animal trainer who works with Hollywood's biggest s

Zoltan Horkai's four-legged crew have worked alongside multiple Hollywood stars

United Kingdom

Villagers create 'Poopfolio' map to shame dog owners into cleaning up

Discontented residents of a UK village have created a "poo-shaming" map to discourage dog owners from leaving their animals' excrement in public areas.

World News

Watch: Wild emperor penguins take selfies with explorer's camera

Two curious emperor penguins in Antarctica can be seen knocking over a camera and filming themselves in footage from the Australian Antarctic Division.

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Indonesian zoo 'regrets' video of smoking orangutan

Activists have criticised Bandung Zoo on the island of Java after video emerged showing an orangutan smoking a cigarette that had been thrown into its enclosure by a visitor.

United Kingdom

Cold snap 'kills tens of thousands of marine animals'

Tens of thousands of sea creatures — including crabs, starfish and sea cucumbers —washed up on Britain's east coast after last week's cold snap.

World News

Scientists spot secret penguin 'supercolony' from space

Some 1.5 million penguins have been found on the remote Danger Islands.

France

Lacoste swaps its iconic crocodile logo for endangered species

Kick-off of the collaboration between Lacoste and Save the Species

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No Comments of the week

From penguins in Antartica to a Greek village's "Flour War," we look back at some of the top videos from this week's No Comment section.

24 February 2018