Cheetahs Flourish on Spanish Plain
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Stalking teddy bears and towels before retiring to harass the family dog, 12-week-old cheetah cub Bunjee was blissfully unconcerned by the cameras trailing him around the Heidenreichs' house.
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HAY-ON-WYE, Wales Sheep are bleating in the green hillsides of this medieval town on a glorious morning when the author who arrived in a black Jaguar steps up to the microphone.
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The National Zoo's new cheetah cubs frolicked in the snow, flipped backward down a grassy hill and playfully swatted each other Friday, exploring their yard under the watchful eye of their mother.
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By Darin Fenger, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Feb. 19--Desert wildlife plan to start visiting some local homes.   Animals including mountain lions and big horn sheep will be eating,  drinking, hanging out -- and safely appearing on people's computer screens.
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Working with cheetahs, the world's fastest land animal and now an endangered species, is a bit different from treating cats and dogs, but Bertrand Lafrance felt he had little choice.
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By Bryce Petersen Jr. Standard-Examiner  MANTUA, Box Elder County  -- Rocky Mountain goats are thriving on top of Willard Peak and Ben Lomond.
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While a new environmental report gives a gloomy assessment of human management of the Earth, buried among its charts and graphs is one Andean success story that bucks the trend of a decline in wildlife species: the vicuna, a smaller, fleet-footed cousin of the camel.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 17--Joe Neis isn't a photographer, but he managed to capture the best photo to date of a wild mountain lion in Missouri.
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MEXICO CITY - For one northern Mexican town, an army of cats seemed like the best strategy against a plague of mice. But the cats proved no match for the problem, and now the town is pinning its hopes on a more lethal predator: men armed with cash incentives.
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Images from the Spanish capital where farmers invade chic streets to defend ancient grazing routes.
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A growing number of wild and exotic animals are being spotted  roaming free in the UK, a survey shows.
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Some 1,200 sheep took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday to demand the protection of the age-old tradition of transhumance -- the seasonal shifting of flocks along well-worn country trails.
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One recent summer's day, Ruth Moreno and her family were out walking in northern Chile when they came across an animal's snout sticking out of the ground, desperately sniffing for air.
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The latest probable common ancestor to humans and great apes had a body like an ape, fingers like a chimp and the upright posture of humans, according to researchers who unearthed a fossil of the animal in Spain.
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MONTERREY, Mexico - Rats of Atascaderos note: The tough city cats of Chihuahua are coming - and they are hungry. Chihuahua state officials say they hope to collect an army of 700 felines for a frontal attack on Atascaderos, an isolated farm village in the rugged Tarahumara mountains, a region where officials estimate the rat population at half a million...
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Like Snow White's seven dwarfs, shepherds on one of Spain's Canary Islands whistle while they work and use the sound to communicate over long distances.
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Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.