Rooster Recording Terrorizes Neighbors
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BERLIN - A couple in northern Germany terrorized their neighbors by playing sounds of a rooster crowing in the middle of the night, police said Tuesday.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A woman has been charged with animal cruelty for what police call a retaliatory killing of a parakeet. Witnesses told police that Andrea Grantham, of Martinsburg, brandished a knife during a weekend property dispute with a neighbor.
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Sep. 25--Here's the thing you can't get past: the sound of gunfire in quiet, suburban neighborhoods.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky reveals the effectiveness of a concealed location for viewing birds, as he describes the behavior of quail and jays in his yard.
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Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; and even a veterin...
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TORONTO Dan Frankian peered over a city fence and saw his target. There, plump and oblivious, were the intruders. The freeloaders had simply moved in from the country, gorged themselves on the abundance of the city and left a nasty trail wherever they went. They were Canada geese.
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A local resident recently reported to the Monett Police Department a prank call that sounded too good to be true.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A family was startled when they were confronted by masked intruders. But it wasn't burglars Tina Tavernie found in her home. It was two 15-pound raccoons.  Tavernie, 33, was home with her three children Saturday evening when they heard noises upstairs.
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China's worries about soaring pork prices have reached new heights in a southwestern town where a man has been raising three squealing pigs in his apartment, local media reported.
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Mutant earwig rampages across Google Earth Sharp-eyed Google Earth monitors have this morning alerted Vulture Central to the threat posed to humanity by a giant earwig which is as we speak rampaging its way across the German countryside:â¦
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The hardest part about making a film   with animals is waiting for them to show up.
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BIG CREEK, W.Va., Sept. 12 -- The curtains on the trailer home were closed, a shopping cart of empty beer cans was dumped by the porch and rats scurried across the trash-strewn yard. The yellow police tape attached to the porch rail gave the only hint of the brutal and bizarre crime that authorities...
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It was just about lunchtime when the sound of tank and gun fire tore through the quiet, just blocks from Amal Juad&#39;s house. A group of her neighbors, standing on a street corner nearby, did not even stop talking.
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A famed parrot showed signs of an inner life, and a bit of a temper.
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Wanphen Sripirom has struggled for years to scrape a living as a subsistence farmer in Phichit Province, north of Bangkok. Chickens have provided
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In a city where a huge flock of crows has been pestering people for years, officials are fighting back with a hazing program aimed at disrupting the birds' sleep with noise and light and driving them into the countryside.
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A Bejing subway surveillance camera's clip of amorous riders   draws amusement--but not theirs--on video-sharing sites.