Kid News This Week: Wild “super pigs,” attacking bears, whales return home, snake on the loose

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GUEST EPISODE: Kid’s Listen Big Emotions series

As we take a break for the holiday season, why not dip into the wonderful new series, “Big Emotions,” from the Kid’s Listen Community. It’s a new podcast series that helps children (and adults!) understand and navigate big feelings – from fear and jealousy to love and sadness – a ...  Show more

Kid News This Month: Hi-tech saves coral, NZ bird comp, Spain’s animal march, stolen skull, stinky cave spiders

Howdy, Newsies! In wacky world news this month, we dive deep into the high-tech efforts being used to save the world’s coral reefs – from water robots to underwater speakers. But that’s not all. In nature news… what started as a small national prize is now a global beauty pageant ...  Show more

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A pair of beluga whales have been evacuated from the besieged city of Kharkiv in Ukraine. They were taken to Europe’s largest aquarium — the Oceanogràfic de Valencia in Spain.Mora from the What in the World team explains how the ongoing war in Ukraine put the belugas at risk. And ...  Show more

The last endangered whale in captivity
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After half-a-century in a tank, a beloved orca named Tokitae was about to be freed. Then her life ended, and a moment of reckoning began.


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Encore: Counting Crocodiles
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">In this playful tale from Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia, Tiya Sircar (Star Wars Rebels, The Good Place) plays a cunning mouse deer who teaches a cantankerous crocodile a lesson.</span>

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Roars from the past: When wild tigers roamed Hong Kong
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Hong Kong’s urban jungle was once regularly visited by wild tigers, with sightings of the big cats until the 1960s. While local history books only mention tiger killings in 1915 and 1942, the animals appear in oral accounts, newspapers and John Saeki's 2022 book The Last Tigers o ...  Show more