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Added on the 11/03/2016 23:31:24 - Copyright : Reuters EN
A plague of giant African snails has hit the Peruvian city of Piura, and local authorities are desperately trying to Giant African snails are considered the most invasive of all snails and among the hundred most invasive species in the world. Piura's semitropical climate provides the snails with plenty of fruit, vegetable, and plant material to eat and no natural predator, so the species has thrived here. The snails can cause a host of diseases in agricultural crops and even some diseases in humans.
A Peruvian NGO returns nine young sea lions back into the ocean after their mothers were killed by local fishermen. Gavino Garay reports.
Nearly 100 animals including 40 puppies are rescued by Peruvian authorities in the capital, Lima, after they break open an illegal animal selling operation that kept the little creatures in appalling conditions.
How often do you hear that only dogs express and process emotion? Just FYI, it's a lie. A wide variety of animals, mostly mammals, have a hard time when facing death inside their inner circles.