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Owl saved from electrical fence adopts abandoned owlet

Owl saved from electrical fence adopts abandoned owlet

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. When animals end up in a wildlife center, it’s usually not for happy reasons. But sometimes tough situations have a silver lining, and that’s exactly what’s happened at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in Washington Boro, Pennsylvania. The rescue center received a call from a game warden about a female great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) that had gotten stuck in an electrical fence. The game warden had successfully removed her from the fence, but the owl was struggling, unable to stand or fly. Thinking the owl may have broken a wing, he took her to the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center.  Thankfully, neither of the owl’s wings broke, though one of them appeared swollen. While examining the patient, licensed wildlife rehabilitator Tracie Young noticed that the great horned owl had a brood patch—essentially a bare patch of skin that develops to provide a direct heat source for eggs.  That meant she was a mama owl. Unfortunately, with the time that had …

Iran’s exiled prince tells Europe to get off the fence and back the war – POLITICO

Iran’s exiled prince tells Europe to get off the fence and back the war – POLITICO

“The military operation is a humanitarian rescue mission and will save many lives,” Pahlavi said. “Europe’s decision to proscribe the IRGC is welcome but it now needs to go further and support our transition plan to rebuild Iran. Europe has too long sat on the fence. This is the moment of decision. Stand with the Iranian people.”  His comments came after European governments first urged restraint, raising concerns about the risks of war spreading through the region and questioning the legitimacy of the action under international law. France’s President Emmanuel Macron called the escalation of the conflict “dangerous.” France, Germany and the U.K. said the Iranian regime should return to negotiations over its nuclear program.  There were signs that leading European powers were shifting their positions on Sunday to support limited involvement in the conflict in response to growing threats from Iranian retaliation.  On Sunday night, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the U.K. would reverse its earlier position and allow U.S. forces to use its air bases for operations, while the French and German leaders …

Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence

Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech These days, moles and gophers aren’t the only pests you have to worry about tearing up your yard. You also have to watch for Cocos — pink, four-wheeled delivery robots currently metastasizing across cities throughout the US. East Hollywood resident Kaiya Reel learned this the hard way. According to local news station KTLA, Reel was first alerted to the presence of something in her garden by a loud ruckus. When she came out to investigate, she was surprised to discover a Coco delivery robot struggling to free itself from her fence. “I came out here and I found the Coco in my garden,” she told KTLA. “It had got my fence caught up in its wheel. It uprooted a whole bunch of [plants] in my garden and then just drove away with the fence attached to it.” Despite becoming tangled in a mess of fencing and foliage from Reel’s yard, the little robot was determined to make its next delivery, …

The Fence fundraiser to boost investigative journalism

The Fence fundraiser to boost investigative journalism

An illustration for The Fence’s Fighting Fund prize draw. Picture: Alex Christian London-based features magazine The Fence is fundraising to expand its staff and increase its output of investigations and “stories that matter”. The independently-owned title, which publishes its print magazine four times a year, is also planning to add a newsletter paywall and print advertorials in a bid to diversify revenues. The Fence’s Fighting Fund has a target to raise £25,000 by the end of the year. It had almost reached £15,000 at the time of publication. The money will be used to expand The Fence’s small team and fund more investigative content after editor Charlie Baker noticed what people want to read “has changed” since he last spoke to Press Gazette in 2022. At the time he described The Fence as a print-first, advert-free magazine with “a lot” of “absolutely silly and absolutely small” content that still had “a sort of permanence”. Speaking after the crowdfunder launched, Baker said: “More generally, in 2022 we had a big space to ourselves in the British …