The survivor of a shark attack in Hawaii has told of his terror as he struggled back to shore, fearing the fish would come back to finish him off.

Aaron Finley, 32, felt something hit his left leg really hard while he was swimming about 30ft off Wailea beach.

“It was like a hard bump. Not a buzz saw or anything like that,” said the sound engineer from West Hollywood.

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It’ll come as welcome news to owners of portly pooches.
A new diet drug claims to cut their weight by a fifth in sixth months.

The makers of Slentrol, a liquid which is mixed daily into food, works by suppressing the dog’s appetite and cuts its absorption of fat.

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Two Peruvian alpacas have been recruited as security for a UK egg farm.
The animals, who have been named William and Harry, keep predators away from speciality egg producer Clarence Court’s hens near Camborne in Cornwall.

The Huacaya alpaca are said to be fiercely defensive of their feathered brood.

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The woman became embroiled in a scuffle with the animal after it tried to steal her backpack.When she put up a fight, the beast took her bag along with her shoes, socks and trousers.

The tourist, who would only be named as Odile, was taking pictures of the orangutan, named Delima, in a park in Malaysia’s Semenggoh Wildlife Centre on the island of Borneo.

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Three homesick crocodiles in Australia have shocked experts by returning hundreds of kilometres back to their homes after being relocated.

The discovery was made after tracking devices were attached to the reptiles.

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New York hotelier and real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley has left $12m (£5.97m) to her pet dog, Trouble.

The pampered pooch received the largest bequest from Mrs Helmsley’s will.

The will also says that when Trouble dies, she is to be buried alongside Mrs Helmsley, who died last week, and her late husband in their mausoleum.

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A man has been questioned by police at LaGuardia airport in New York after smuggling a monkey onto a flight from Florida by hiding it under his hat.

Passengers spotted the animal when it climbed out and perched on the man’s ponytail, Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Alison Russell told reporters.

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Orangutan communication resembles a game of charades, a study suggests.

Researchers from St Andrews University have shown that the animals intentionally modify or repeat their signals to get their messages across.

The scientists said they believed all great apes could have this capability, suggesting that the skill may have evolved millions of years ago.

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A Chinese wildlife research centre has come up with an unusual material for making

Researchers at the centre in Chengdu, capital of the mountainous Sichuan province, have sculpted photo frames, bookmarks, fans and panda statues out of the 300 tonnes of the stuff produced by 60 giant pandas each year.

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There may be a great white shark off the coast of Cornwall – but that should not stop you going swimming in the sea, an expert has told Sky News.

Sightings by tourists of what they claim is the famous maneating fish have caused panic in parts of the south-west – even though they have not been confirmed as the species made famous in the Jaws films.

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