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The hunting of baby seals is to be stopped in Russia, the government has announced.

Russia has seen protests in 20 different cities this week in support of the ban. Valdimir Putin, Russia's Prime Minister said the trade was a “bloody industry”.

The EU is trying to prevent the killing and has proposed a ban on the sale of all seal products.

It is looking at the import, transit and export of the materials used. Its response follows European Parliament concerns that these practices have caused unwarranted suffering.

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Chimpanzees in the Congo are learning new skills that make them more efficient hunters.

Scientists have discovered a community in the Goualougo Triangle which is displaying new forms of behaviour not shared by other chimps.

As part of their research they filmed the primates making brush-tipped rods out of sticks which they then used to extract termites from their burrows.

The frayed ends enable the chimpanzees to collect ten times more termites, which is a vast improvement on other techniques.

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