Minks freed from cages, farmers give chase
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Farmers and other locals were chasing  thousands of minks let out of their cages at a fur farm in  western Finland early on Friday by suspected animal rights  activists.
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An escaped steer's six-week romp through back yards, roadways and beaches ended when he was finally cornered and returned to his owner, authorities said.
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Purdue University researchers who set up cameras in fields to catch wild animals in the act of gobbling up crops found that deer and raccoons &#151; not wild turkeys, as many farmers believe &#151; are the greediest crop-raiders.
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Two men kidnapped by as many as 40 bandits at a Mexican hunting ranch near the U.S. border were released unharmed Wednesday, but three others remained missing, authorities said.
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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Temporary control zones set up around two farms outside Surrey have been lifted after animals tested negative for foot and mouth disease, Defra said today.
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German conservationists on Monday condemned the freeing of some 17,000 minks from a fur farm, apparently by animal rights activists, saying they would starve in the wild.
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Have jewelry designers gone over the hedge? Precious critters are stampeding out of their jewelry cages, and they are not your garden-party-variety menagerie.
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More than 1,000 prisoners are to be freed later ahead of schedule as part of a move to ease prison overcrowding.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Feb. 11--JEROME -- For decades, small and large dairy owners have banded together to protect their industry, but those days might be over.
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Betsy Bergstrom walked along the wire rabbit cages housing French Lops, Flemish Giants, English Angoras and Silver Martens on Friday in the Durham Fair livestock barn.
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Burma&#39;s military government appears to have resumed its promised release of prisoners after a delay of several days. Journalists in Rangoon Thursday said they saw inmates being freed from the country&#39;s largest jail, Insein prison.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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Fish and wildlife departments around the country are on the hunt &#151; for more wardens.
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DODGEVILLE, Wis. - Iowa County sheriff's deputies have searched in the past for the occasional wandering emu or bobcat - but never a kangaroo, until now.
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Two convicted murders escaped from prison Monday by climbing ladders and hoisting themselves over two fences, authorities said. One was quickly captured and the other remained at large.
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FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. - It's a sight not often seen in rural central Indiana - a 6-foot-tall kangaroo bounding around on the loose.  Hancock County Animal Control officers helped capture the Australian marsupial, an escaped pet named Skippy, early Monday not far from its home.