Gianni Marini

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Pets at Home has announced it will temporarily prevent people from purchasing or adopting rabbits in its 460 UK stores over the Easter weekend. The move is an attempt to prevent people from impulsively purchasing the animals because of their association with the holiday without thinking about the care needed to look after them properly.

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Authorities breakup exotic cat smuggling ring in Mallorca and confiscate 19 animalsSpanish police have arrested two people in connection with the sale of exotic cats online. The Civil Guard confirmed authorities seized 19 animals, including a caracal and two servals, in an operation in Manacor, on the Balearic island of Mallorca. They also confiscated 40 irregular passports from countries such as Russia, Belarus and China.

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Dundee University officials are “working at pace” to bring the number of proposed job losses down after the previous figure was “unpalatable” to ministers, the education secretary has said. As she visited researchers at the Dundee institution, Jenny Gilruth said no job losses would be acceptable but acknowledged the need to be “pragmatic”. Gilruth said the Scottish Government is looking at providing further support in order to ensure job losses can be kept to a minimum.

1 week ago | news.stv.tv | Gianni Marini

The video filmed by San Diego Wildlife Alliance shows the adult elephants circling the two young calves. A video filmed during a 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Southern California shows five elephants at San Diego Zoo Safari Park huddling together to protect their young. “They sort of freeze as they gather information about where the danger is,” said Mindy Albright, a curator of mammals at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

1 week ago | news.stv.tv | Gianni Marini

Vice president JD Vance has ended the Ohio State University (OSU) football team’s visit to the White House on an awkward note, fumbling the team’s national championship trophy on Monday in front of gathered crowds. After laudatory speeches by US President Donald Trump, Buckeye coach Ryan Day and Mr Vance on the South Lawn, the vice president — an Ohio State graduate — tried to hoist the trophy aloft.