Members of Wycombe District Ramblers walking in Fennimore Wood, near Marlow, on 16 February, saw an unusual animal "high in a tree".

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This summer, Denmark's powerful farm lobby is under siege from an unusual coalition of environmentalists, animal-welfare people and the tourism industry.

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An RSPCA spokeswoman also said it was extremely unusual for foxes to attack people, and that the animal would only do so if it was afraid.

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She found rodent bones and a bell from another animal's collar. (Not that unusual, says Thomas Carroll, the crematory operator she'd used, who says dogs eat the darnedest things.) Dornan, outraged, hooked up with Remkus, and they petitioned lawmakers to take action.

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The latest search for unknown beasties, carried out by Charles Paxton of the Animal Behaviour Research Group at Oxford University, is rather more unusual.

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