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"Defendants": frogs and rooster under the gun of French justice
frogs

Too loud croaking of frogs and the morning crows of a rooster became the reason for the initiation of administrative cases in France, according to the French edition of France culture.

Night on the tree: retirees lost in the woods fleeing bears
grandmothers forest

Two pensioners in the Nizhny Novgorod region had to endure a dangerous adventure: elderly women got lost in the forest and were forced to flee from wild animals in a hunting lodge at the top of a tree, which they, fortunately, found, local media reported.

"The circus is gone, the elephants are left": the Danish government buys out the old trained elephants
circus elephants

The Danish government, which has long launched an initiative to ban elephants from performing in the country's circuses, has allocated DKK 11 million to buy back the last four trained animals and put them in comfortable conditions in the national park, according to Danish newspaper JydskeVeskusten.

"They will endure": Spanish activists failed to ban fat tourists from riding donkeys
fat man on a donkey

Spanish activists have failed in a campaign to make life easier for the local donkeys that tourists ride. Their proposal to limit the weight of those wishing to ride to 80 kilograms ended in failure, the Spanish media write.

UK: puppy settles in the prime minister's residence
boris johnson puppy

Brice Johnson, the British Prime Minister, has a puppy who will now live on Downing Street, the Prime Minister's residence, news agencies reported.