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Feature Article #1

American-born giant pandas arrive in China

The Hindu
Two American-born giant pandas arrived in China by special cargo jet on Friday afternoon and enjoyed a welcoming ceremony.
The three-year-old female Mei Lan and 4.5-year-old male Tai Shan arrived at Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, at around 4:28 p.m..
The two stars were taken out of the cargo jet [...]

Sara | February 6th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

New Zealand zoo visitors panic as cheetahs escape enclosure

Startled visitors at a wildlife park in New Zealand were forced to take refuge into a zoo shuttle bus after three cheetahs escaped from their compound.
By Paul Chapman in Wellington – telegraph.co.uk
The cheetahs, which crawled through a hole in a fence then swam across a protective moat, were seen prowling in the public area [...]

Sara | February 5th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

Mark your calendar: Feb. 3 is Tai Shan’s last public showing

By Jacqueline E. Trescott and Michael E. Ruane – Washington Post
After four years, six months and four weeks as the National Zoo’s reigning prince of bears, Tai Shan, Washington’s beloved giant panda, will leave the place of his birth Feb. 4, Smithsonian Institution officials said Monday.
Nine weeks after the zoo announced that Tai Shan would [...]

Sara | January 26th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #4

Sea slug surprise: It’s half-plant, half-animal

Scientists aren’t yet sure how animals actually appropriate genes they need
By Clara Moskowitz – LiveScience.com
A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It’s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.
The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they’ve eaten. With their [...]

Sara | January 13th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

Chilean zoo celebrates litter of 5 white tigers; parents from Mexico, Argentina

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean National Zoo is celebrating the birth of a rare litter of five white tigers.
Zoo director Mauricio Fabry said Thursday that the zoo will build a special habitat to accommodate the tigers born on Dec. 28.
He said that the new enclosure will include a large expanse of grass and waterfalls [...]

Sara | January 8th, 2010 | Continued

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Iowa zoo gets 20 tons of chicken wings

Associated Press
MANCHESTER, Iowa – Hold the hot sauce and blue cheese, the big cats at the Cricket Hollow Zoo in Manchester like their chicken wings raw.
The zoo has scored about 41,000 pounds of frozen wings from a distributor that almost threw them out.
The wings, originally from the former Agriprocessors plant in Postville, couldn’t be sold [...]

8Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Fewer than 50 wild tigers left in China: expert

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday.
Tigers once roamed huge swathes of China, right up to the now booming east coast. Their population has collapsed due [...]

8Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Seal to get new Kentucky home

By Carol Bicak – Omaha World-Herald
Toney, the harbor seal who lives at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, will get a new home in Kentucky at the end of this month.
Toney was brought to the Lincoln zoo in 2003 to be a companion to another seal, Pearl. But Pearl died last July, and Toney has developed eye [...]

8Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Bob Barker Rammed by Illegal Whaler

At 1209 PM Fremantle, Australia time, the Yushin Maru 3 intentionally rammed the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker, penetrating it’s hull and endangering the lives of it¹s crew. The collision occurred at 65 degrees 21 South, 67 degrees 58 East, about 180 miles off Cape Darnley in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
The Bob Barker had been [...]

7Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Jaguars roar into zoo

By: Brittany Cofer – timesfreepress.com
Nearly a year ago the Chattanooga Zoo announced it was searching for two jaguars for its renovated exhibit and interpretive center. In just over a month, the public will be able to see the pair of Argentine cats.
The zoo welcomed brothers Phil and Gene in November. Since then, the year-old felines [...]

7Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

For Tai Shan, voyage to China is a trip to obscurity and sex

By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service
CHINA — Tai Shan landed in ancestral homeland at 4:26 p.m. local time (3:26 a.m. EST), displaying the same nonchalance he showed as he left his old home in Washington. As throngs of Chinese reporters and corporate sponsors mobbed him, he calmly stared through his bamboo-filled glass cage and [...]

6Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Alaska OKs some exotic cats; bars chimps, sloths

By MARY PEMBERTON
The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska is famous for wildlife: moose, bear, whales. Not capuchin monkeys and kinkajous.
And the Alaska Board of Game wants it to stay that way.
The board considers exotic pet requests every four years, and this year’s petitions covered everything from allowing Alaskans to own the “organ grinder” monkeys to [...]

6Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

American Residential Law Group

Mortgage programs due effect your credit score. The economy being in the bad shape that it is in, a lot of people are finding this out the hard way. These days your credit score is more important than you, your job, or your education. It is what is looked at the most to decide if [...]

6Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Ill. zoo seeks elephant despite opposition

CHICAGO, (UPI) — Officials at a zoo in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Ill., say they are seeking an elephant to serve as a companion to their African elephant, Joyce.
The Chicago Tribune said Friday while animal rights groups have openly opposed keeping elephants on display, the Brookfield Zoo is attempting to add another of [...]

6Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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