Housing Pygmies at zoo sparks uproar
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A group of Pygmy musicians performing at an annual festival were temporarily put up in a zoo by Congolese officials, attracting tourists and prompting a protest from a human rights group.
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A Chinese zoo is running a Big Brother style competition with a difference -- the contestants have to live in a monkey enclosure.
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Beijing - Visitors to the Zhengzhou Zoo in central China&#39;s Henan province who don&#39;t enjoy passive smoking - let alone being spat on - had better avoid the monkey cage.
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A wildlife park is widening its collection of animals to include Japanese macaques.
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Lions and leopards and Boomer, oh my. David Wells, a former resident of the Bronx Zoo and one of baseball's notable party animals, came away from a three-week African safari with a sense of awe, a rare admission that he was scared and a full stomach.
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Staff at Berlin&#39;s internationally renowned zoo were working to restore public confidence yesterday after a 110kg South American bear escaped from its enclosure and spent more than half an hour frolicking in a children&#39;s playground before being knocked out
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ELEANOR HALL: Some months ago we heard about the plight of the West Bank&#39;s only zoo, depleted of many of its star attractions due to the ongoing violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Science & environment: Universities and medical schools have been criticised for increasing the number of animals used in research.
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A badger cull is proposed as part of the fight against bovine TB, but animal group are opposing the move.
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A proposal for a religious theme park in a fast-growing corner of the South has ignited fierce opposition.
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Washington's National Zoo, beset by a series of unusual animal deaths and charges of mismanagement, introduced its first litter of endangered cheetah cubs on Friday with fanfare befitting some rare good news.
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San Francisco officials pondered on Thursday whether to stop keeping elephants in the city's zoo as activists pushed for a ban amid concerns about their conditions in captivity.
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Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as a way to control nuisance animals.
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The Brookfield Zoo announced this week the birth of a baby okapi &#151; an endangered African animal that looks as if it were put together by committee.
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In a twist to the oft-told tale of humans encroaching on the wild habitats of Africa, dozens of exotic animals have made a middle-class Johannesburg suburb their permanent address.
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Environmentalists bristle as city moves toward 'shared use' of a local haunt.
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Debate is raging over the plight of US zoo elephants, with activists charging confinement destroys their feet and even kills them, and the industry fiercely defending their top crowd pleaser.