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Animal news: Raul the peacock has landed! Back home
I seem to be behind in my escaped-from-zoos-news lately. The Daily News, though, just told me that Raul, a Bronx Zoo resident, who flew away a couple of days ago, has come home. The peacock people at the Zoo knew … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, The Facts of Life
Tagged BritBox, Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, chasing a peacock, Daily News, Flaco, peacocks, Peter Wright, Raul the peacock, The Yorkshire Vet
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Animal news: how can there be too many pigs?
From Harper’s Weekly Review: “I’m fielding calls day in, day out from farmers all over the country who are in a perilous position, where they have just got far, far too many pigs on their farm,” said the chairman of … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, The Facts of Life
Tagged Blandings, Blandings Castle, Brexit, English Channel, Harper's, Julian Norton, La Manche, Lord of the Rings, mangalitsa pig, pig culling, The Empress of Blandings, The Yorkshire Vet, UK National Pig Association, Valais blacknose sheep, wargs
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Animal news: Tref. Walking the Haifa streets
What a story! Wild boars — piggies, that is — are strolling the streets in Haifa, Israel. To put it simply (which, as a worse than secular Jew, I must since I know nothing of the complexities), pigs are not … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged boars, Haifa Israel, The Yorkshire Vet
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