“Animals” on The Daily Caller

BILLINGS, Mont. — With 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park facing possible slaughter, billionaire Ted Turner has swept in and offered to hold the animals for five years on his sprawling Montana ranch while a new home for them is found. (more)

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Two-time horse of the year Curlin has produced his first foal. (more)

TOKYO (AP) — Seafood-loving Japan — having faced years of international pressure to stop whaling — finds itself with a potentially bigger fight over a highly prized type of tuna that conservation groups say is being fished to extinction. (more)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — An expert in deadly animals is planning to stay for 10 days inside a box full of snakes at a Las Vegas Strip casino as part of a reality television show. (more)

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of endangered green sea turtles are being released back into the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after being rescued from frigid waters last week. (more)

VIENNA (AP) — Scientists say they will no longer conduct avalanche experiments monitoring the deaths of pigs buried in snow, after animal rights groups protested their methods. (more)

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Gray wolves killed livestock in Montana at the rate of an animal per day in 2009, stirring a backlash against the predators in rural areas and depleting a program that compensates ranchers for their losses. (more)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police in New Zealand are inquiring into reports that a boisterous teenage dolphin with a reputation for stealing surfboards and balls from swimmers has been attacked with a paddle after annoying a canoeist. (more)

VIENNA (AP) — Vehement protests by animal rights activists prompted scientists on Thursday to temporarily stop an avalanche experiment that involved burying pigs in snow and monitoring their deaths. (more)

LONDON (AP) — A British scientist says some pedigree dogs are suffering from deformity and disease as a result of breeders’ search for alleged perfection. (more)

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a pack of wild pigs popped under a fence onto a stretch of the German autobahn, shutting the highway down for hours. (more)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three environmental groups are going to court to try and stop a particularly contentious timber sale of old-growth trees in the country’s largest national forest. (more)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it will set aside critical habitat for the endangered jaguar and develop a recovery plan for the elusive animal once thought to have disappeared from the United States. (more)

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says DNA from the invasive Asian carp has been found closer to Lake Michigan than ever before, fears the fish have breached an electrical barrier meant to keep them from reaching the Great Lakes and destroying its multi-billion-dollar fishing industry. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of airplanes hitting birds and other wildlife have soared since a stricken US Airways jet landed last year in New York’s Hudson River, and the government’s tally for last year could reach or even exceed 10,000 for the first time. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The top U.S. consumer product regulator is warning Asian manufacturers not to substitute other toxic substances for lead in children’s items, a message that follows the launch of a government investigation into Chinese-made jewelry that lab tests showed was laden with the heavy metal cadmium. (more)

MADRID (AP) — Hoping to save a dried Spanish wetland from an underground peat fire, the government has unleashed floodwaters onto an expanse of the marsh now under threat due to past water mismanagement. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Moving swiftly, U.S. product safety authorities say they are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children’s jewelry imported from China after disclosure of lab tests showing that some pieces consisted primarily of the dangerous substance. (more)

SYDNEY (AP) — A conservationist group that lost one of its ships in a clash with Japanese whalers off Antarctica has filed a piracy complaint in the Netherlands against the captain and crew of the whaling vessel, one of the group’s leaders said Saturday. (more)

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of sea lions that abruptly blew out of San Francisco Bay’s Pier 39 last Thanksgiving have apparently found a new home at another tourist attraction — 500 miles north on the Oregon coast. Thousands of California sea lions started showing up in December at Sea Lion Caves, a popular tourist draw because of the Stellar sea lions living in the caves. (more)