Robotic spy pig is ripped apart by randy 200lb Komodo dragons while filming BBC wildlife documentary

Down and snout! Robotic spy pig is ripped apart by three randy 200lb Komodo dragons while filming BBC wildlife documentary A spy pig was destroyed by three Komodo dragons on the hunt for female mates  The robot was filming on Komodo Island in Indonesia for a BBC documentary The series, Spy in the Wild, uses … Read more

Horrifying moment a woman’s limbs are cut out of a crocodile’s stomach

Horrifying moment a woman’s limbs are cut out of a crocodile’s stomach shortly after it ate her while she was fishing in Indonesia Beast pounced on Fatimah, 45, while she was fishing in Kalimantan, Indonesia The 19-foot long (6-meter) giant crocodile was caught the next day by locals Gruesome footage shows them cutting open stomach … Read more

Wild cockatoos excel in intelligence tests, countering theory living with humans makes birds smarter

Battle of the bird brains! Wild cockatoos perform just as well as those raised by humans in intelligence tests, new study shows Researchers in Vienna tested the intelligence of Goffin’s cockatoos They compared a group of lab-raised birds with a group of wild birds They found both groups performed similarly in intelligence tests The main … Read more

MasterChef: Reynold Poernomo pays tribute to ‘hero that fought to keep his family in Australia’

MasterChef’s Reynold Poernomo pays tribute to the ‘hero that fought to keep his family in Australia’ after breaking down over immigration hell when his ‘parents were taken away’ as a child By Joshua Fox For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:29 BST, 27 May 2020 | Updated: 23:29 BST, 27 May 2020 MasterChef’s Reynold Poernomo has thanked … Read more

Muslims around the world celebrate Eid under lockdown restrictions

Muslims around the world on Sunday began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, with millions under strict stay-at-home orders and many fearing renewed coronavirus outbreaks. The three-day holiday is usually a time of travel, family get-togethers and lavish daytime feasts after weeks of dawn-to-dusk fasting. … Read more

Markets selling bats, dogs and snakes continue to operate across South-East Asia despite coronavirus

Wet markets selling live animals including bats, dogs and snakes are continuing to operate across South-East Asia, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Shocking pictures and videos show the animals crammed into tiny cages at markets in countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and China, where the outbreak is believed to have first emerged.  One … Read more

Tunguska event was caused by an asteroid that bounced back to space

Russian scientists suggest the mysterious ‘Tunguska event’ explosion of 1908 was caused by an iron asteroid that entered the Earth’s atmosphere and then bounced back into space. The flying asteroid is thought to have skimmed the planet at a low altitude above Siberia, causing an explosion that flattened around 80 million trees over an area … Read more

Bali reopens for business: Holiday island plans to invite tourists to return in MAY

Bali reopens for business: Holiday island plans to invite tourists to return in MAY – with Chinese visitors welcomed in first Indonesian officials are confident the pandemic will be over by next year  Balinese tourist bosses said the resort island could reopen next month  Tourism businesses in Bali were among the hardest hit by the … Read more

World’s newest species of primate will be appear on UK TV for the first time

World’s newest species of primate – the Tapanuli orangutan – will be appear on UK TV for the first time in new documentary filmed in Indonesia Primates is narrated by Chris Packham, and begins on BBC One next Sunday It follows Tapanuli orangutan in Batang Toru, northern Sumatra, Indonesia They were identified as a new species … Read more

Sumatran elephant found with trunk hacked off and face mutilated after straying from enclosure 

Critically endangered Sumatran elephant is found with its trunk hacked off and its face mutilated after straying from its enclosure The elephant was found on Wednesday afternoon on the Indonesian island of Sumatra It lived in the southeast Tesso elephant area of Riau’s Tesso Nilo National Park Riau’s Natural Resources Conservation Agency are investigating  By … Read more