Hamsters on the axis of evil
An Austrian Airlines jet was forced to make an emergency landing after a hamster went missing on the flight. The hamster had been smuggled on board, which shows just how tight security is right now.

Source: Daily Mirror

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Monkey freaking kids banned
Tycross Zoo in Leicester has banned kids with painted faces from the monkey house, on the grounds not that most facepainting is rubbish, but something more pressing. The marmosetts were freaked by the kids.

Source: Daily Mirror

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Say your prairies
Having tried to find new homes for them - and oddly enough, nobody wanting them - Fort Collins, Colorado, is going to go ahead and fumigate three colonies of Prairie Dogs.

Source: 9News

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RIP: Big Boy
Big Boy, the alligator who menaced both James Bond in Live and Let Die, and The Young Ones in whatever episode it was that had an alligator in, has died at his home in Beaver Water World, Kent.

They plan to stuff and mount him, which is how we want to go, to be honest.

His finest hour... Live and Let DieHis second finest hour... the Young Ones

Source: Daily Record

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Given the bird
Probably a working definition of "killing with kindness" here - people who've attempted to be birdlovers have managed to slaughter the object of their affections. By throwing foodinto the water at Epping Forest's Snaresbrook pond, someone has already accounted for forty ducks, swans and geese. The food went uneaten at first, rotted, and developed a form of avian botulism - which meant that when it was eventually eaten, it was deadly.

Mat Roberts, a forest superintendent, has now asked for people to refrain from feeding the birds. Which would seem to be kinder in the longrun.

Source: The London Paper

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No hedgehogs with your McFlurry
McDonalds have redesigned the lid of the McFlurry, making the opening smaller to prevent hedgehogs getting trapped in discarded cups - apparently a too-common occurence. It's far from clear, though, what the point of the white collar on the McFlurry cup actually is, anyway. They could have just stopped putting them on, and saved some plastic as well as some hogs.

Plug: Hedgehog nesting boxes from Amazon

Source: CNN

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