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... costs for life. Snowball is a southern three-banded Armadillo which is the only species of the animal capable of rolling into a ball to give it complete protection from predators. Zoo keepers say father and son are making good progress - but the pair won't be on show until next year.

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... visitors watch the elephants from behind ropes; you'll be able to approach them and talk to their keepers, who sleep side by side with the animals. Cost: $250, as a donation to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Source: Dan Saperstein, Hippo Creek Safaris (866-930-9124; info@hippocreeksafaris.com; ). BEST FOR: Families, particularly kids. BUT BEWARE: Get ready to be sprayed...

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It's not often you see an animal blowing its own horn - but Sara is not your typical walrus. She delights showing off her human-like skills, playing the saxophone or catching a rose

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... Korean Central News Agency said from the capital, Pyongyang.He noted the zoo houses a variety of animals - some rare - sent as gifts from around the world, and called on zookeepers to make sure to care for them, said the report, monitored in Seoul.KCNA also released a photo showing Kim standing next to a pond, wearing a winter parka, thick gloves and sunglasses. The image shows...

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... Central News Agency said from the capital, Pyongyang.He noted that the zoo houses a variety of animals - some rare - sent as gifts from around the world, and called on zookeepers to make sure to care for them, said the report, monitored in Seoul. Kim, 66, is believed to have suffered a stroke in August, but North Korea has steadfastly denied he was ever ill.On Monday, state-run...

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Stories of Baby Animals Just in Time for the Holidays! Just in time for the holidays, Animal Planet has released the Growing Up - Five DVD Gift Set, which features "Growing Up Arctic," "Growing Up Wildcats," "Growing Up Safari," "Growing Up Wilderness," and "Growing Up Primates."Before reviewing this DVD set, I had not seen this series before (and we...

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The Book of Christmas By Hamilton Wright Mabie, Clement Clarke Moore, George Wharton Edwards It's a lovely source for Christmas pictures (many more traditional than this one), pages you can use as Christmas coloring pages, Christmas stories, Christmas poetry, Christmas songs- a keeper. The Hamilton Wright Mabie name nearly always means something good by way of books.

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A city councilman and animal welfare advocates worry the 3.6-acre 'Pachyderm Forest' won't provide enough space and are concerned about overall care. Zoo officials say they're mimicking the wild. For years, controversy has swirled around the elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo. Every elephant death was scrutinized; every public hearing about the animals was filled with protesters.

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Gestate (for Animal Breeders) 1.0 Category: Utilities Price: $1.99 -> $0.99 ( iTunes ) Description: Gestate is a calculator for use by animal breeders, animal exhibitors, veterinarians, zoo keepers and everyone who needs to estimate birthing/whelping dates and gestational ages for any animal from breeding dates. Gestate includes default gestation periods for...

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Jabari, the Detroit Zoo's baby giraffe, celebrated his first birthday today ? and in the giraffe world, he did it like a party animal.

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... penguins eventually began to ostracise the gay couple from the group. And in order to protect the animals from frustration during the breeding season, animal keepers decided to keep the odd couple apart from the others. Apparently the two penguins involved were very eager to have offspring, despite their sexual preferences. Obama couldn?t be reached for comment...

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As moonbats delight in publicizing, homosexuality sometimes occurs among lower animals. But in animals as in humans, this unhealthy aberration inevitably results in unfortunate consequences: A couple of gay penguins are attempting to steal eggs from straight birds in an...

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So what would you do if confronted by an elephant in the middle of the jungle? It's a rare problem, admittedly, but zookeepers have found a simple answer - just blast out some heavy metal.

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"She's either repositioning or she's coming down," Como Zoo senior keeper Allison Jungheim said as she watched the zoo's sloth come down from a tree in the Tropical Encounters display."You have to have a lot of patience to train a sloth," Jungheim added.You need patience, because the sloth has one speed-slow-even when it's time to eat.While Chloe continues to make her way to a meal, the...

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It's not just Santa?s elves that are busy at this time of the year, the keepers at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo are rushing around preparing festive treats for all of the animals. This year, they need some ?little helpers? to lend them a hand!

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Filed under: Odd News Perhaps you've heard amazing tales of "animal instinct" or amazing "maternal instinct," or "amazing animal maternal instinct." But have you heard amazing tales of two gay Chinese penguins stealing eggs from other birds so that they can be daddies'... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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A particularly good time to look for those signs is in training sessions. Training helps keep animals active and stimulated, and the trained behaviors help keepers manage them in a less stressful way. The turkeys go on a scale to be weighed, move from one enclosure to another for cleaning, and go into a crate to be transported, all without the stress of capturing them. They're...

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George, a nine-year-old De Brazza monkey, knows when it is time for its insulin and is a willing volunteer when its keeper enters its enclosure each morning. One of eight De Brazzas at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Ashford, Kent, the animal leaves its troop and scampers across to welcome its keeper. "He presents himself at 9am, puts his bottom in the air, and has the...

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... of a batch of imported cattle testing positive for BTv1 is a major concern for all livestock keepers. "There is currently no evidence that the BTv1 virus is circulating in the UK so our main priority must be to keep this BTv serotype out of the country. "No vaccine manufacture has currently licensed a BTv1 vaccine in the UK so we do not have vaccine to allow farmers to protect their...

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... on the horses which is a common sight and a fixed appearance on the beach. Akanksha who is an animal lover walked up to one of the horses and offered it some gram (chana) which she was munching. The horse accepted the gift and the two soon became friends. When it was time to leave, Akanksha patted the horse on its neck and back and walked away with her friends. But the horse wouldn?t...

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