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ANIMALS

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Oct 21, 2015
Jumpin' Jiminy: YoYo the cat finds a new home in Tokyo
The handsome Blanco, first featured here in May 2014, has found a home in the capital with a Canadian resident.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 14, 2015
Animal advocates divided over shelter practices
Foreign volunteers break off contact with Tokyo NPO over conditions at dog facility.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Oct 11, 2015
Trash day tragedy: a Doberman named Destiny
Destiny, an 8-year-old Doberman, was found buried in a pile of rubbish in Osaka, severely dehydrated and anemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 11, 2015
California adopts tough rules for antibiotic use in farm animals
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill that sets the strictest government standards in the United States for the use of antibiotics in livestock production.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2015
Density of wildlife in Chernobyl area increasing, study finds
Some 30 years after the world's worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk, deer and wolves, scientists said Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2015
Montana hunter fends off grizzly bear by triggering its gag reflex
A hunter tracking elk in the Montana mountains said he fended off an attacking grizzly bear by shoving his arm into its throat, inducing a gag reflex that frightened it away, according to state wildlife managers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Oct 4, 2015
We are family: cats Tencha and Sencha
Found huddled in terror by the side of the road, blind kitten Tencha escaped certain death when he was rescued.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 4, 2015
Feeding strategy of blue whales revealed
The blue whale is the largest creature on Earth and perhaps the biggest that ever lived, so it is no surprise it has a huge appetite. But the strategies this behemoth uses to get enough food has not been well understood — until now.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 3, 2015
Sled dogs in an age of climate change
When I first went to the Canadian Arctic in 1958, sled dogs were a part of life for the indigenous Inuit and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and part of the scenery and the soundscape for everyone in those frigid far-northern reaches.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 2, 2015
Ozzie the eagle dead after live-streamed duel with love rival in Florida
A love triangle between bald eagles that played out before thousands of fans on a live webcam has ended badly in Florida with the death of Ozzie, longtime mate of Harriet, according to a Florida wildlife clinic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 2, 2015
Double trouble of asteroid, volcanoes implicated in dinosaur doom
It was a combination of calamities — an asteroid strike followed by vast volcanic eruptions half a world away — that doomed the dinosaurs and many other creatures 66 million years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 1, 2015
Record number of threatened seals stranded along California
Guadalupe fur seals, a threatened species that breed off Mexico and normally spend much of their time at sea, have washed up dead and dying in record numbers along the California coast this year, another apparent casualty of warming ocean temperatures.
WORLD
Oct 1, 2015
Venom experts say global snake bite death tolls are grossly underestimated
Venom specialists said Wednesday that disease and disability caused by snake bites is far higher than official global health estimates suggest, and that anti-venom stocks are running dangerously low.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 29, 2015
New Zealand to create giant South Pacific sanctuary, banning fishing and mining
Waters north of New Zealand are set to become one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries, covering an area roughly the size of France, with a full ban on fishing and mining, New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key said at the United Nations on Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Sep 27, 2015
Look this way: a cat named Tairyu
The gorgeous Tairyu was found as a tiny kitten abandoned in a box in July of last year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 27, 2015
Conservationists angry as U.S. officials kill over 1,200 seabirds in Oregon
U.S. federal government officials have killed more than 1,000 seabirds on an Oregon island since May to protect endangered salmon as part of a plan that environmentalists say is flawed and are seeking to stop with a lawsuit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 24, 2015
Fish scales key to how teeth got their bite, scientists say
The origins of the enamel that gives our teeth their bite is no ordinary fish tale.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 23, 2015
Monkey that took selfie should get copyright: U.S. lawsuit
A rare crested macaque monkey that snapped a well-known grinning "selfie" should be declared the photo's owner and receive damages for copyright infringement after it was used in a wildlife book, U.S. animal rights activists argued in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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