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A homeowner who heard "scuffling" in their kitchen wall was shocked when the source of the noise turned out to be a wedg...
16/12/2020

A homeowner who heard "scuffling" in their kitchen wall was shocked when the source of the noise turned out to be a wedged owl.
Firefighters eventually managed to free the trapped tawny from the house in Spalding by removing bricks from a wall and gaining access to a pipe.
The RSPCA said the animal had fallen down a chimney and was unable to free itself.
The owl was returned to the wild after the rescue operation.
RSPCA inspector Kathleen Burris said they were called after the homeowner reporter "scuffling" behind a wall then spotted the bird looking through a hole above the kitchen cabinets.
She added: "We could see the poor fella through a hole in the kitchen but it was too tight for the owl to squeeze through.
"We carefully tried to open the space in the kitchen but he dropped to the bottom of the pipe.
"We then had to remove a few bricks on the outside wall which gave us enough space to break the pipe and get him out.
"Thankfully, the homeowner was more concerned with the owl than the mess."
The owl was checked over by a vet and later returned to the wild after being set free the in the garden of the house.

A wildlife park is asking for donations of unwanted perfume or aftershave for its animals' Christmas stockings.Will Walk...
16/12/2020

A wildlife park is asking for donations of unwanted perfume or aftershave for its animals' Christmas stockings.
Will Walker, animal manager at the Wild Place Project in Bristol, said "the stronger the better" - with sweet scents top of their Christmas list.
Cheetahs Jake, Oscar and Brooke were caught on camera at the park frolicking in their favourite perfume of the moment - PS Love Noir by Primark.
Mr Walker said the bears, meerkats and lynxes love perfume scents too.
The smells can play an important part in enriching the environment for the animals to give them new ways to express their natural behaviours, the animal aficionado said.
"We want to enrich their lives so we use scents like perfume, herbs and spices to occupy them," Mr Walker said.
"It's mostly the carnivores who love to roll about in new scents as they use smell to determine whose territory it is and a way of communicating.
"They like to roll about in the scent to cover it up with their own smell from their scent glands all over their bodies as a way of marking the territory as their own."
He urged anyone who has any unwanted perfume or aftershave to drop it into guest information and the park will "put them to good use".
"The perfumes they go crazy for are the really strong ones with sweet or spicy smells," said Mr Walker.
"If you have any unwanted perfumes or aftershaves for Christmas, or a half empty bottle at home, we'd gladly take them as a treat for the animals."

A number of exotic animals worth more than £2,000 have been stolen from a pet shop in North Lanarkshire.The theft includ...
15/12/2020

A number of exotic animals worth more than £2,000 have been stolen from a pet shop in North Lanarkshire.
The theft included 15 tortoises, worth £125 each, three geckos, worth £50 each and two orchid mantises, worth £22 each.
The animals were taken overnight between Friday and Saturday from The Fin Room shop on Albert Street in Motherwell.
Police said the animals could suffer in cold weather.

The habitat of the platypus has shrunk by almost a quarter in just three decades, researchers have warned.An egg-laying ...
14/12/2020

The habitat of the platypus has shrunk by almost a quarter in just three decades, researchers have warned.
An egg-laying mammal known for its duck-like bill, the platypus is found in river systems in eastern Australia.
But human intervention in those waterways, bad droughts and introduced predators - among other things - have ravaged its habitats, scientists say.
The researchers and conservation groups have called for Australia to classify the species as nationally threatened.
The habitat loss amounted to 22% - or about 200,000 sq km (77,000 sq miles) - since 1990, according to the team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
"Protecting the platypus and the rivers it relies on must be a national priority for one of the world's most iconic animals," said lead author Professor Richard Kingsford.
"There is a real concern that platypus populations will disappear from some of our rivers without returning, if rivers keep degrading with droughts and dams."
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New South Wales had seen a 32% drop in platypus observations within the past 30 years, followed by Queensland (27%) and Victoria (7%), the research said. In some areas near Melbourne, however, the rate was as high as 65%.
The platypus is listed as "near threatened" on The Red List by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but conservationists are hoping to force more action at federal and state levels in Australia.

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