Sally the rescue duck is reunited with family after being missing for 10 months
Sally disappeared from her Bli Bli backyard in September last year after a storm and despite frantic efforts to find her, had remained missing. She and Henry the duck have been with the Sunshine Coast family since they were three-days-old.
Ms Mostyn says her pet ducks Sally and Henry love each other's company.
After a Facebook post the owners travelled to Aroona nearly 30 kilometres away. After one failed attempt, Sally was reunited with the happy owners.
‘The Running of the Goats’: NYC Park Gets Rid of Invasive and Poison Plants With 24 Goats Enjoying a Vacation 
If one doesn’t want to use herbicides to control their lawn, what’s the alternative to constant mowing and hedge-trimming? Well, in olden days, they used goats.
In fact, many organic landscapers today use goats, as they are living weed whackers, immune to all sorts of natural poisons and seemingly unfazed by thorns. They can eat poison oak as easy as we can eat a piece of celery.
In Manhattan’s Riverside Park, two dozen goats have been unleashed upon untended and overgrown brush and weeds in order to avoid having to use chemicals, or spending thousands in labor costs.
Onlookers gathered round to watch the calico-herd of animals charge into the park during the Running of the Goats, as Reuters called it.
“They chowed down on Japanese knotweed, they noshed on porcelain berry, they snacked on multiflora rose, they easily traversed the hard-to-reach terrain behind me and gulped down poison ivy without even giving it a second thought,” said Dan Garodnick, Riverside Park Conservancy president and CEO at the ceremonial day of deployment.
“It’s healthy for the goats and it’s good for the environment. That’s farm to table.”
Along with working much longer hours than landscapers, goats—according to Jordon Martins-Cihanek, son of the owner of Green Goats farm who provided the animals—actually neutralize a lot of the seeds of the various unwanted plants, preventing them from regrowing next year.
The team of 24 goats will eventually be reduced down to five lucky landscapers: Skittles, Ms. Bo Peep, Chalupa, Mallemar, and Buckles, who will live in the park until August 24th, at which time the (G)reatest (O)f (A)ll (T)ime goat-grading competition will produce a winner, who presumably gets the next park all to themselves.
Watch This Lucky Tortoise Enjoy His Homemade Scratcher Device Crafted From Broom Heads 
Zoo keepers made a tortoise a homemade scratching station, and an adorable video shows the creature wiggling while trying it out.
Morgan Brem, a Dallas Zoo intern, created the scratching device for Sunny the radiated tortoise.
Made from broom heads, it’s perfect for the little animal to itch the impossible-to-reach spots on the top of his shell.
Robin Ryan, supervisor of ambassador animal experiences at Dallas Zoo, said: “She made it adjustable to see if our ambassador armadillo would also be interested, but so far, we have only seen Sunny use it.
“The base is wood with a turf mat cover for belly scratch opportunity, the frame is PVC, and the brush heads are held on with conduit fittings.”
To “maximise scratching abilities”, the top brush was lowered twice for Sunny, who has been at the Dallas Zoo since 1980.
Robin said tortoises’ shells are part of their spine and they have nerve endings which run on the top.
What’s in a name?
Ryan explains that: “The name ‘radiated tortoise’ comes from the pattern on Sunny’s shell. The top part of his shell has yellow lines that radiate out from the center.
“They kind of look like sun bursts, hence the name. His engaging personality helps inspire guests to want to create a better world for animals.”
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Foals around the New Forrest in Hampshire UK.
Wild? They're furious! Rival gangs of wild monkeys fight each other in turf war in front of shocked drivers in Thailand
Footage shows how the two rival gangs of wild monkeys fought each other at a busy junction near the ruins of a temple in Lopburi, Thailand, while shocked motorists watched on. The monkeys are normally well fed by visitors but a Covid-19 third wave lockdown has led to a renewed food shortage for the animals in the city. There was a clear gap between the two groups but a few brave monkeys jumped in to the middle to assert their authority and provoke their opponents before they began wrestling each other.