Farmers have started killing their animals, unable to meet the cost of keeping them alive.

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Some start life by killing small animals, while others are not that obvious.

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Their study helped publicize the practice of beekeepers killing the animals and spur measures to identify "badger-friendly" brands of honey.

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This disease has been killing these animals for a decade.

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But Farmers' Union of Wales President Bob Parry said he wanted to see scientific justification for killing healthy animals, to ensure it was not being done for political reasons.

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It is estimated that the Trump boys dropped a cool 100K just for the pleasure of killing as many animals as they could and for the safari operator, the more they kill, the more profit they make.

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Rising demand, particularly from Vietnam, is said to be the main reason for the explosion in rhino killing last year that saw 668 animals slaughtered in South Africa.

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The researchers report in the Journal of Animal Ecology that although on the whole big animals are indeed better at handling and killing prey, the largest wolves struggled in the chase.

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One side mission had me tracking down a group of color-coordinated escaped mutant animals living in a sewer, tempting them out with Pizza and killing them.

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