German zoo to raise new polar bear cub
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The Berlin zoo's polar bear, Knut Â who garnered worldwide fame by being hand-raised by his keepers from a pint-sized fluffball to adulthood Â now has company.
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The Singapore Zoo is looking for a  new home for its male polar bear and will no longer bring  animals from the North or South Poles to tropical Singapore, an  official said.
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Zoo Atlanta is hoping to hear the pitter-patter of little panda paws again. Now that giant panda cub Mei Lan is old enough to be weaned, zookeepers hope her mother, Lun Lun, is ready to mate again. If all goes as planned, Lun Lun will become pregnant this spring and deliver Zoo Atlanta's second giant panda cub at the end of the summer.
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"So far, it can only crawl a little"  BERLIN - It's a girl! Maybe. Zoo officials in Nuremberg announced Wednesday that Germany's new polar bear cub is probably a female. via Detroit Free Press
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Knut, Berlin Zoo&#39;s celebrity polar bear cub, is growing from a cuddly ball of fur into a shaggy, powerful predator who could soon pose a serious threat to his devoted human keeper who has nursed him from birth.
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Germany's latest celebrity polar bear cub remains nameless Â but already boasts a dedicated Web site providing details of its health and giving readers a chance to christen the cuddly creature.
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Italian officials said Thursday that they will track a mother bear by satellite to keep her out of the trouble that led to her son's untimely death at the hands of hunters in Germany and caused an international uproar.
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On his first birthday Thursday, giant panda cub Mei Sheng delighted visitors by playing for the first time in snow delivered to him at the San Diego Zoo. He also sat on his ice cake, wrestled with his mom, got his coat incredibly dirty, and didn't read any of the more than 700 birthday wishes sent him via e-mail from as far away as Ireland and Argentina.
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The first panda in Europe to be conceived naturally by animals in captivity is born at a zoo in Vienna.
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"Cute Knut," Germany's celebrity polar bear cub, is turning into a moneymaker for the Berlin Zoo, which expects to bring in $3.3 million more than last year due to a dramatic rise in visitors.
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The death of an elderly elephant that was brought to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago two years ago adds to the already contentious debate over whether elephants belong in northern zoos with cold winters.
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More than two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 &#151; including the entire population in Alaska &#151; because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
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Animal activists on Monday pressed the US government to add the polar bear to the list of endangered animal species before the sell-off of oil and gas drilling rights in Alaska begins in the coming days.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - Ever wonder what it must be like to be a polar bear living in a region threatened by climate change?
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It's doubtful the first giant panda cub born at Zoo Atlanta will have a twin, a zoo official said Thursday.
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Swiss zoologists have more than a few hungry mouths to feed this Christmas after a female giant anaconda gave birth to 40 babies, a tropical gardens institution said.
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A giant panda who delivered a cub on Thursday actually gave birth to twins but one died, an Austrian zoo says.