The Lede: Giving the Kiss of Life to a Baby Tiger
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In a German zoo, a close human-tiger encounter that ends well for all concerned.
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks.
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Cute little dinosaur creates emotional bonds right at the start, but will owners get bored with it?
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By Anonymous  Anyone who has watched an old arthritic horse chew on willow branches-the bark of which has long been used by humans to ease pain- can attest to the instinct for any somewhat intelligent species to find in the natural world a cure for what ails them.
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Pleo isn&#8217;t your typical robotic dinosaur pet. Not only does it cry when scolded, shake hands and wag its tail like a dog, but its open-source OS allows users &#8212; or the more tech-savvy ones, at least &#8212; to create new emotions and movements on their own, which they can share with others.
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For the first time, researchers observe a chimpanzee fashion a spear from a branch then use it to kill prey. Is this an anomaly, or are chimps really that smart? By the Associated Press.
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By Steve Connor  It will come as no surprise to owners of cantankerous cats or disobedient dogs, but scientists have now confirmed what pet lovers have always known: that each animal has its own distinct personality.
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The promiscuous habits of female cheetahs are uncovered by scientists studying the species.
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Planet Earth captures a pride of lions stalking an elephant in Botswana. Learn what went into creating this killer scene. By Sonia Zjawinski from Wired magazine.
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People looking for a way to lose weight may want to trade in pills for a pooch. A first-of-its-kind experiment to put people and their pets on a diet and exercise program
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Cheers to you, CTIA And ninthly Colonel Riley spent most of that week pretending to be a baby blue whale. His friends did not seem to mind, and neither did the real whales. As a whale, Riley was cheerful, agile and smooth. Things only turned ugly when he tried to swallow 20,000 gallons of brine in a single gulp with the help of a device of his own design. Everyone thought Riley's brine rocket ingenious. But we recoiled at the motivation lurking behind the machine - Julio Stantore, Butterflies are Always Welcomeâ¦
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On the Web, a parallel universe of tiny, adorable accessories for tiny, adorable dogs.
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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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A puffer fish genome sequence sheds light on human biology, and tells a twisted evolutionary story. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature that prowled the forests of what is now Asia more than 80 million years ago.
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China hails transgenic porker breakthrough One of the three transgenic "glow-in the dark" pigs born back in 2006 in China's Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin has given birth to fluorescent piglets, indicating the "technology to breed transgenic pigs via cell nuclear transfer is mature", according to professor Liu Zhonghua.â¦
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Even animals need help with their pearly whites. Join a pair of dentists at the zoo, and watch as one jaguar gets a root canal.