CROCKED KANGAROOS ARE CAUSE FOR CONCERN
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Australia suffered a double blow ahead of Saturday&#39;s Gillette Tri-Nations clash against Great Britain with the loss of captain Darren Lockyer and goalkicking second-rower Craig Fitzgibbon.
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Scientists say a bacterial disease that can affect mammals, including humans, may be behind an increase in sea lions found dead on Oregon beaches recently.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Australian officials found more than a dozen snakes and lizards stuffed inside garden gnomes and other ceramic statues during a recent international mail check, customs officials said Tuesday.
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Giant kangaroos and wombats bigger  than cars which once roamed Australia were killed by climate  change and not human hunters, Australian scientists said on  Thursday.
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As pollution and a killer fungus decimate frog populations around the world, scientists work to quarantine a stock of healthy croakers. By the Associated Press.
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NEW YORK  - Petting zoos and their customers need to pay more attention to hygiene in order to prevent animal-transmitted infections, a Canadian study suggests.
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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Mass strandings of marine mammals have occurred in Australia and New Zealand this week, proving an earlier predication made by Australian scientists, New Zealand Press Association said Wednesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of native Australian animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Australia in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.
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Consumers love the ease, and the choice, of food shopping  on the Internet. But it's making the job of Australia's  quarantine inspectors more difficult as they try to stem rising  imports of banned food, animal and plant items.
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The Australian government's controversial plans to tackle child abuse in Aboriginal areas get under way.
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South Africa needs to consider  restarting elephant culls because growing numbers of the mammal  now threaten local habitats, the WWF conservation group has  said.
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Parts of Australia's Outback could soon be overrun by wild camels if drastic measures are not taken to cull them, a wildlife scientist said Wednesday.
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Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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Petting zoos and their  customers need to pay more attention to hygiene in order to  prevent animal-transmitted infections, a Canadian study  suggests.
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Australian conservationists are combating an invasion of poisonous cane toads through a modern-day Noah's Ark program, taking pairs of endangered animals to toad-free islands to breed safely.
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Questions have been raised about whether the meat industry has been given too much leeway to police itself.