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China

Acupuncture for Pets: Barking Mad or The Cat's Whiskers?

Growing numbers of pet owners are turning to needle power to help cure their cats and dogs.

China

Double the fun at twin pandas' birthday bash

Qing Qing and Bing Bing turned two with a specially-prepared cake and cardboard boxes to play with

India

Something in the water - and it's turning dogs blue

Industrial pollution in India's Kasabi river has started to turn local dogs blue.

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Smile for the camera as Danish tiger goes to the dentist

Danish zoos give their animals top-drawer medical support, but is it all for the cameras to stimulate public interest?

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Japan

A cut above? Chimpanzees understand how to play rock-paper-scissors

Brazil

Wild puma found sheltering in an office in Brazil

Office workers in Brazil call in the fire brigade after finding a wild puma sheltering under a desk in their office

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Tibetan yak racing

USA

Beat the blues with goat yoga

Goat yoga is a growing variant on the ancient Indian discipline, especially in the US, allowing adepts to get back in touch with their animal halves.

World News

Australian teen hospitalised after vicious sea bugs attack

A teenager in Melbourne has been attacked by sea bugs, which his father later managed to film devouring red meat

France

Brigitte Macron to be godmother to first France-born baby panda

The first lady will attend a ceremony at which the cub will be named by China

China

Watch: China's oldest panda mom just had twins

Even pandas are having babies later in life.

USA

Woman calls 911 with boa constrictor 'stuck to her face'

Audio has been released of the moment a US woman called the emergency services because she had a boa constrictor "stuck to her face".

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Hundred's head to Mongolia's Yak festival

United Arab Emirates

Dubai dogs get own air-conditioned park and pool

It appears a dog's life isn't so bad after all. At least in Dubai, where an indoor dog park claiming to be the world's biggest opened last April.

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Chincoteague Ponies takes the plunge

More than 200 ponies took part in the annual swim from Assateague Island to neighboring Chincoteague Island on Virginia's eastern shore

Cult

Exhibition of 'Ape Art' opens in Florida

An exhibition of 'ape art' has opened in Florida featuring pieces by Michael Jackson's famous chimpanzee Bubbles, and other primates from films like "Planet of the Apes and 'Going Apes.'

South Africa

Michael Phelps loses race against great white shark

Swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, yesterday 'raced' a great white shark and lost.

Zimbabwe

Trophy hunter kills the son of Cecil the lion

Two years after the controversy around the killing of Cecil the lion, one of his cubs was shot dead as well.

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IVF hopes for northern white rhino

Scientists at a British zoo use IVF techniques to help save the northern white rhino.

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Goat yoga becomes increasingly popular across the United States

More and more people across the United States are taking up practicing yoga with goats.