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Herder in nightmare tow trip after reindeer row
A family feud over reindeer herding spiralled out of control at the weekend when Mads Jonar Smuk Dahl, 21, found himself hitched to the back of a pickup truck and dragged 2.5 kilometres along a road in northern Norway.
Norway driver stopped with five reindeer in car
Lapland may be the mythical home of Santa Claus and his famous hoofed hauliers, but police in the far north of Norway were astonished recently to find three live local reindeer packed into the back seat of a car.
Norwegian tourist attacked by cheetah
A 22-year-old Norwegian woman is recovering from her injuries after she was attacked by a cheetah on Saturday during a visit to a wildlife park in Namibia.
Quotas set for Norway's lynx hunt
Norway’s environment ministry has given hunters the task of curbing the country’s lynx population when the hunting season starts on Wednesday.
Repel railway elk with human waste: researcher
Human excrement could be just the ticket to keep errant elk from unwittingly ending their lives on Norway’s rail tracks, a researcher has said.
Stowaway mouse flies to Oslo solo
An elusive little rodent was the only passenger on board a flight from Stockholm to Oslo on Wednesday evening as Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) sought Norwegian mousetrap expertise to snare the ticketless traveller.
Dane shoots Norway’s best-known albino elk
The shooting of an albino elk by a Danish hunter in south-east Norway has brought death threats for the hunting trip operator Norwegian hunters who had long agreed to let the white mammal live.