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Pet Scoop: Giraffe Kisses Ill Zoo Worker Goodbye, Keepers Save Baby Anteater
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Mar 24, 2014March 24, 2014: We've scoured the Web to find the best and most compelling animal stories, videos and photos. And it's all right here. Full Article ›
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Pet Scoop: Lion Triplets Meet Their Dad, Singer Locked in Battle for Return of Dog
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Mar 10, 2014March 10, 2014: We've scoured the Web to find the best and most compelling animal stories, videos and photos. And it's all right here. Full Article ›
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Baby Elephant Practices Using Her Trunk
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Jan 21, 2014Hey, what is this thing? We know you’ll just eat up this video of a critically endangered Sumatran elephant calf trying out her trunk. The baby elephant was born at Tesso Nilo… Full Article ›
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African Elephants Fly to Mexico on Boeing 777
By Shayna Meliker, Dec 10, 2013Now boarding: Endangered African elephants. OK, we can’t say for sure, but we hope that announcement was made when LAN Cargo recently shipped nine African elephants to Puebla,… Full Article ›
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Baby Elephant Knows How to Make an Entrance
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Dec 3, 2013After six consecutive male births, the keepers of a female African elephant calf at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are tickled pink. The “little” girl — who weighed in at 205… Full Article ›
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Zoo’s Baby Elephant Is Boisterous and Bold
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Dec 3, 2013The Melbourne Zoo in Australia has a bouncing baby boy with a name that fits his personality perfectly. In online voting, Sanook, which is Thai for "fun-loving" and… Full Article ›
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Video Captures Sweet Elephant Family Moment
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Oct 29, 2013Among the 450 elephants at South Africa’s Addo Elephant Park, a video shared on YouTube recently managed to capture one very heartwarming scene involving a loving pachyderm family. In… Full Article ›
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Rozie the Elephant Is Seeing Pink
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Nov 14, 2013Break out the trumpets! After a 22-month wait, an endangered Asian elephant calf has been born at ABQ BioPark in Albuquerque, N.M. Rozie, 20, gave birth to the healthy female calf on Oct. 2. The… Full Article ›
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Florida Zoo Welcomes Second Baby Elephant
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Nov 14, 2013The Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa has more big news from its elephant herd. On July 29, a calf was born to first-time mom Matjeka, who’s 21 years old. This is the zoo’s second newborn… Full Article ›
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Bath Time for Baby Elephant
By Amy Sinatra Ayres, Nov 14, 2013The Kolmarden Zoo’s 2-month-old elephant calf is a happy guy. Among his favorite things: getting sprayed down with the hose at bath time! The endangered Asian elephant was born at the zoo… Full Article ›
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How Working Dogs Are Helping With Wildlife Conservation
By Linda Lombardi, Nov 14, 2013Wicket had been in the shelter for six months. She was the sort of intense, high-energy dog that rescuers despair of placing in a home. So when Aimee Hurt expressed interest in the year-old… Full Article ›
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Elephant Parade Raises Awareness for Endangered Species
By Lisa Granshaw , Nov 12, 2013October is Elephant Awareness Month. According to the World Wildlife Fund, both Asian and African elephants are at high risk of extinction, making this the perfect time to remind ourselves that these… Full Article ›