CAIRO, May 3 (UPI) -- Egyptian swine farmers reportedly threw projectiles at police in Cairo Sunday in protest of a plan to cull Egypt's pigs to prevent the spread of swine flu.
CAIRO, May 2 (UPI) -- Egyptian authorities have begun slaughtering 300,000 pigs as a precaution against swine flu, officials said.
WINDSOR, Ontario, May 1 (UPI) -- A cull of 211 cormorants on Canada's Middle Island in Lake Erie last year cost $130,000, or $616 per bird, national parks officials said.
CHARLESTON, S.C., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- An animal organization in South Carolina says it is needs a home for a 500-pound stray pig found wandering in the town of Adams Run.
BANFF, Alberta, March 6 (UPI) -- A cull of wolves proposed by the University of Alberta in Banff is being ridiculed as "bone-headed" by environmentalists, the Calgary Herald reported.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Residents of southeast Alberta are upset with a provincially ordered deer cull to prevent the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease, the Edmonton Sun reported.
WINONA, Minn., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Winona, Minn., are probing whether a potbellied pig packing on 100 pounds while in the care of one of its owner's co-workers amounts to abuse.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A National Geographic film crew in Sacramento attempting to disprove spontaneous human combustion called 911 after losing control of a burning pig carcass.
LIAONING, China, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Experts in the Chinese province of Liaoning want the Guinness Book of Records to determine whether their 1,980-pound pig was the biggest ever.
SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 1 (UPI) --
