Woodland Park Zoo elephant dies suddenly
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Hansa, a 6-year-old Asian elephant who delighted visitors to the Woodland Park Zoo, was found dead Friday, about a week after she began displaying colic-like symptoms, the zoo said Friday.
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An African elephant, which collapsed and died at the Los Angeles Zoo this week, suffered a heart attack, officials said on Wednesday, and animal rights activists said the death underscored the risks of confining the large mammals in urban zoos.
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A Sumatran orangutan, thought to be the world's oldest, has died in Miami at age 55, a zoo spokesman said on Sunday .
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Ambika, one of the oldest Asian elephants in North America, has suffered from recent health problems but seems to be improving, the National Zoo said Thursday.
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Xiang Xiang, the five-year-old panda who last year became the first to be released into the wild after being bred in captivity, has died.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Rare Abyssinian lion cubs are being poisoned at a zoo in Ethiopia and sold to taxidermists because there isn't enough money to care for the animals, the facility's administrator said yesterday.
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A three-week-old baby elephant rejected by its mother at the Calgary Zoo has died, the zoo said Wednesday. The Asian elephant, who had yet to be named, had been fighting an infection, and slipped into a coma Tuesday afternoon.
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Love could not conquer all for a rare, 10-year-old Komodo Dragon who plunged to her death at London Zoo after she scaled a dividing wall to reach her mate.
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The first panda bred in captivity and released into the wild has died in China after less than a year &#151; the apparent victim of a fall. Chinese officials said the body bore injuries inflicted by wild pandas, and the animal may have died trying to escape.
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Emily, a 343-pound Siberian tiger who her keeper considered the smartest feline at the San Francisco Zoo, has died at the age of 12.
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Sydney's premier zoo is celebrating the  news that its 9-year-old Asian elephant is pregnant, but animal  rights groups are shocked that the zoo has let a juvenile  elephant fall pregnant.
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GUWAHATI, India  - An elephant named "Osama bin Laden" that has killed 27 people in northeast India, has been shot dead, triggering protests by conservationists who say forestry officials had probably shot the wrong animal.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A homeowner in southern Sweden filed a police complaint after four circus elephants broke loose from their trainers and ran into his back yard, trampling the hedge and the lawn, a police spokesman said Thursday.    Mattias Lindell, 29, said the elephants completely ruined his garden Monday, after animal trainers working for German-based Circus Mustang lost control of the pachyderms when removing them from the vehicles they travel in...
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BEIJING  -Staff at a zoo in southwest China are in  mourning after a sleep-deprived panda dropped her two-day-old  baby and crushed it to death, local media reported on Friday.
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Lab test confirmed that 23 tigers in a private zoo in eastern Thailand have died of infecting with avian influenza virus, officials said here on Tuesday.
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An elephant being loaded onto a truck trampled a circus animal trainer to death at Memorial Coliseum, police said.
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SAN FRANCISCO â One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after the facility closed.