Bull survives being swept 80km down a river, over a waterfall and almost out to sea

Farmer says his Hereford turned up one week after going missing when torrential rain hit his farm on New Zealand's west coast

A young bull that was swept into a surging river during flooding on New Zealand's West Coast has miraculously survived the ordeal, turning up unharmed a week later, 80 kilometres (49 miles) downstream, snuffling about in a blackberry bush.

Deer and cattle farmer, Tony Peacock, said the 18-month-old bull was grazing with 37 others in a paddock in the Shenandoah area above the Maruia River, on 10 February, when torrential rain began falling.