When Europeans arrived in Australia, the dingo was widespread, living mostly as a wild animal.
With human populations mixing more and more freely with wild animal populations, the risk of rabies exposures increases.
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As a hero, Mr. Fox has the arch self-possession to insist to his wife that he poaches poultry ''because I'm a wild animal.
Mr Aspinall's interview came after a zookeeper was killed earlier this week by an elephant at one the wild animal parks he owns.
Protected by environmental protection designations and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), the caves have provided scientists with a treasure trove of wild animal remains.
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Humans wiped out the indigenous wild animal population a century ago, but now the animals are back, carefully restocked and maintained in growing numbers.
An estimated million-strong crowd watched the pyrotechnics around Sydney Harbour Bridge, which were accompanied by a medley of wild animal sounds and pop music.
The trust said the UK was rabies-free and staff would be unlikely to consider rabies unless a patient reported wild animal contact in an at-risk country.
Fortunately for travellers, this creates a surreal experience at grooming time, where you may have a brush in one hand and a wild animal in the other.
His trademark work with unconventional fabrics like embellished denim and leather, mixed with wild animal prints and exotic patterns, was embraced by the jet set and Cavalli opened his first boutique in Saint Tropez in 1972.
League Against Cruel Sports chief executive Joe Duckworth said it was "utterly appalling" that people could think "chasing a wild animal with hounds to the point of exhaustion and then taking pleasure in watching it being killed was acceptable".
The Emperor, nearly 9ft (2.75m) tall, was thought to have been the biggest wild land animal in the UK - though some experts have questioned this.
It also showed that 278 wild plant and animal species in Wiltshire are in need of conservation action.
Two grey seal pups rescued over the winter have been released back into the wild by a Guernsey animal charity.
We can't think of a better place to unleash your inner animal and go wild.
The Eurasian brown bear has disappeared from much of Europe, but in this mountain range that separates Slovakia and Poland, you have some of the best odds of seeing the magnificent animal in the wild.
Farmers, vets and keepers of animals have always had to make hard decisions in the interest of the health and welfare of animal populations, both wild and domesticated.
Two seal pups, rescued from the waters around Guernsey, are ready to be released back into the wild after being cared for by an animal charity.
Its decayed teeth would have limited its chances in the wild, but the lynx is an adaptable animal, and may have been able to survive by preying on small mammals.
In 2011, the BBC denied misleading viewers of Attenborough's frozen planet series with footage of newborn polar bear cubs filmed in an animal park, rather than in the wild.
Of course, like their animal counterparts, some bears can be very wild indeed.
In practice, an animal that roams hundreds of miles in the wild can find itself contained in a space no bigger than a living room.
Canada, which has 16, 000 of the 20, 000 to 25, 000 polar bears left in the wild, says polar bear populations are not threatened and the animal does not meet the Appendix 1 criteria.
"The animal symbolizes freedom, a combination of elegant femininity and the wild and dangerous, " says Pierre Rainero, Cartier's current director of image, style and heritage.
They were one of the first animal research projects to use DNA finger-printing techniques in wild animals so as to understand the relationships within a pride.
The rescued cubs were found in poor health in Romania and an animal charity is hoping they can eventually be returned to the wild in South Africa.
Many species of titi monkeys, a species from South America, are in an endangered animal list by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
There are packs of escaped wallabies living wild in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, but Rebecca Willers from Shepreth Wildlife Park said the animal was probably an escaped pet.
About 90% of its plant species exist nowhere else on the planet, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, and many of its bird, reptile and animal species -- including all the world's lemurs in the wild -- are endemic.
As the building of the animal pens nears completion, the handlers recently found the bodies of two baby wild cats, stung to death by scorpions.
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