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A cat, a hen and her chicks live peacefully together beside a farm. Like all close friends, they sometimes indulge in a good-natured squabble. But one night, the wolf comes out of the forest and ...

A Chinese dissident - who is behind a popular X account fronted by this cartoon cat - says Beijing is trying to silence him As anti-lockdown protests flared across China’s cities in November ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter ...

Lucky is a pangolin -- a rare, scale-covered mammal, about the size of a house cat, that’s so bizarre ... animal carrier you'd expect to see in a cartoon: holes on the side for air, packing ...

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When it comes to poultry, many people are familiar with the terms "rooster" and "hen." Although both are members of the chicken family, they serve different roles within their species and display ...

Cat graduated from Bristol Vet School in 2003 & works as a small animal veterinary surgeon in the West Midlands. She has worked in a wide variety of practices from busy city hospitals to small ...

Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was 90. Nobuyo, who voiced Doraemon for more than a quarter century ...