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A cougar kitten with a mule deer in its mouth

Talk radio puts pumas off their meals so they may kill more deer

20 June 2017

The sound of people’s voices reduces pumas’ feeding time and makes them kill more deer, showing the wide-reaching effect of human activity
Someone wearing a fox head mask in protest at the idea of bringing back fox hunting

UK foxes thankfully spared the baying pack, unlike Theresa May

20 June 2017

One good outcome of the hung parliament chaos will be a Queen's speech devoid of an utterly unscientific vow to resume fox-hunting, says Stephen Harris

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