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Scientists fear that two hunters died after eating infected meat sparking panic of a mad cow disease rerun.Two hunters have died amid fears they contracted the so-called “zombie deer disease” after eating infected meat. The US pair died soon after eating deer meat which scientists believe carried chronic wasting disease (CWD). by TaboolaSponsored Link This Simple Trick Will Block All Ads On Your Windows Safer Online Tips Now it’s sparked panic that the disease could pass from deer to humans as they both developed similar neurological symptoms as seen in animals. The disease has been nicknamed “zombie deer disease” as...

Home to the world’s largest elephant population, Botswana has already gifted 8,000 of the animals to Angola and offered another 500 to Mozambique. For the second time this year, Botswana has threatened to send thousands of elephants to Europe. In March, the southern African nation warned it would fill one of London’s parks with the animals. Now, the president has said his country will send 20,000 elephants to Germany. The warnings have been sparked by a diplomatic row as the UK and Germany mull the idea of stricter limits on the import of hunting trophies amid concerns over poaching. Why...

Between having had more than enough of the not-so-great indoors and realizing that the grocery store might not always have meat, Americans are increasingly looking to feed themselves by hunting. “People are thinking about where they get their food and how they get their food," Land Tawney, president of the advocacy group Backcountry Hunters and Anglers told High Country News for a story published April 29. And people are acting, too. Agencies that issue hunting licenses are reporting increases in many states, Reuters reported Sunday. Indiana, for example, had a 28 percent increase in turkey license sales, Marty Benson, a...

The normally well-fed primates had no food after coronavirus fears left the normally busy streets in Thailand completely empty of tourists.... ==================================================================== Hundreds of starving monkeys fought over a single banana that was left in the street, as tourists who regularly feed them shun Thailand. The normally well-fed primates swarmed across a street in Lopubri, central Thailand, after they spotted a fellow monkey holding a banana. A clip showed the primates giving chase to the unlucky monkey, who was doing his best to stay ahead of the pack. But, it took a sinister turn as they started to shriek and...

The United Nations’ World Health Organization on Jan. 9 announced an outbreak of a new—or novel—coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China. In the three weeks since the announcement, the virus has intensified in China, infecting thousands there and is now spreading across the globe, far beyond its origin in Hubei province. Indeed, this new coronavirus has taken nearly 200 lives in China. As Chinese public health officials strive to contain the virus, it’s important to identify three early lessons that can be drawn from the outbreak and the initial response to it to prevent this Chinese epidemic—and others that will undoubtedly...

As Italy struggles to deal with burgeoning populations of an introduced giant rodent, a mayor has come up with a novel solution – eat them. Coypu were introduced to Italy a century ago from their native South America to be farmed for their fur. But many escaped or were deliberately released after wearing fur fell out of fashion and the species is now thriving. They have fared particularly well in the flatlands of the Po valley in northern Italy, where farmers complain that they devour crops and destroy levees and embankments by digging burrows. Michele Marchi, the mayor of the...

<p>The world's oldest and now most controversial sport -- big-game hunting -- could be transformed into a provocative quest acceptable to most anyone if a new sport were created: catch-and-release hunting.</p> <p>Imagine the thrill of tracking, spotting, stalking and hunting the world's greatest game animals at close range in Africa -- lion, Cape buffalo, leopard, elephant and rhinoceros -- without killing any of them.</p>