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• Yacht-suckling baby whale faces mercy killing
We would have hoped that the animal would have been OK," Barnes said. "It's a very emotional thing." As darkness fell, wildlife officials and veterinarians huddled in a private meeting to work out the logistics of the whale's fate.
• In Peru, animal fleeces can be golden
A worker checks a textile machine at a factory in Lima. The exports of Alpaca fibers are booming. The warm, dyeable fibers, long used for sportswear fleece, are being recast as a sexier luxury thread, spun into casual clothes and evening wear to ...
• Monkey eludes net-wielding Tokyo police
It's a monkey - it's not like it did anything bad," a police spokesman said, adding that the animal was still on the loose. The monkey was spotted hopping around by the automatic ticket gates at a train line in Shibuya Station in central Tokyo at ...
• Lawyers back in court over the murder of 3 boys
Testimony from forensic experts in the appeal also claim the mutilation of one of the boys likely came from an animal after their deaths — rather than prosecutors' claims about satanic rituals.
• Colo. residents debate cow and bear confrontation
Apple's owner Nancy Dayton didn't see the confrontation but thinks Apple might have wanted the bear to vamoose. "We kind of joke she was defending her tree," she said. Dayton said Apple weighs about 1,200 pounds. There's no sign either animal was hurt.