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Samuel L. Jackson would probably be pretty angry with Karel Abelovsky, a Czech national who tried to smuggle 15 venomous vipers aboard an airplane in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He nearly succeeded in taking more than 200 mollusks on a plane to Madrid, Spain, in his checked luggage, but airport screeners discovered from an x-ray that [...]

A Miami-Dade man was arrested Saturday on animal cruelty charges after police raided a Hialeah slaughterhouse where blood and other fluids seeped into the ground, potentially endangering the city’s water, authorities said. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said the accused slaughterhouse operator Rudesindo “Rudy” Acosta, 57, was caught on a video camera “brutally beating [...]

  “Big Splash” aka Hong Dong- Most Expensive Dog In The World Genghis Khan had one, legend says. So did the Buddha. And now, the prized red Tibetan mastiff, thought to be one of the world’s oldest and most venerable breeds, has another distinction: One of the massive, fluffy dogs has become the most expensive [...]

The animals included 216 budgies, 300 white mice, 150 hamsters, 30 Japanese squirrels, six chameleons and more than 1,000 terrapins. Traffic Police made the discovery when they pulled the vehicle over for a routine car check. The officers were amazed to find the animals in stacked boxes when driver Francesco Lombardo opened the boot. Related [...]

Quite an interesting collection of albino animals… An albino peacock opens its plumage at Botanic Garden in Bogota, Colombia, June 15, 2005.

Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today’s furry felines and you find “lybica,” a Middle Eastern wildcat.  Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago, new research indicates. “House cats — which includes fancy breeds and feral cats — those cats [...]

Clown hired to cheer up monkeys A German zoo has hired a clown to stop its monkeys getting bored. Zoo bosses got local entertainer Christina Peter, 45, to act the fool after vets said the chimps, baboons, gorillas and orang-utans in zoo cages were more often sick or aggressive when they grew bored. Christina said [...]

An empty gourmet dog food can taken from Paris Hilton’s trash fetched $305 (€224) in an eBay auction.The bidding that ended Sunday had reached $1.5 million (€1.1 million), but some of the bids were retracted or canceled because the wrong amount was entered or they were not legitimate, according to the eBay Web site. The [...]

Two baby marmosets that were stolen from an exotic pet store have been found safe, and two Kentucky teenagers were charged in the theft, authorities say. The monkeys were taken from the Exotic Pet Center in Sevierville early Thursday but were found in Maryville, about 30 miles west, authorities said Monday. An 18-year-old woman and [...]

What is a dead camel doing on the side of a highway in Sweden? That’s what police are trying to find out after the unusual discovery Monday. Police thought it was a joke when they received reports early Monday that the carcass of a camel was spotted next to the E22 highway near Karlskrona, in [...]