Zoo animals manure-facture power in Germany
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Animals at a Munich zoo will create their own power supply from Friday when their manure is recycled to generate heat and electricity.
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A zebrula -- a cross between a horse and a zebra -- has drawn curious onlookers to a zoo in Germany because of its unusual coat.
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1530CET--The European Commission has approved a financial package to fight animal disease in the EU. The EU budget
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Nelle vicinanze del paese c'e' l'oasi naturale del Wwf
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By AMY LORENTZEN  DES MOINES, Iowa - The state's Environmental Protection Commission is closer to implementing a ban on the spreading of manure on land planted with soybeans.
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German animal rights activists have  launched a campaign against plans to put up a giant ferris  wheel in Berlin, saying it would disturb the sex lives of  rhinos in a nearby zoo.
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A total of 15,589 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction, according to the so- called Red List of endangered species produced by the IUCN World Conservation Union.
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Science & environment: Campaigners demand action to curb shipment of millions of animals around the world for slaughter
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Photographer and conservationist Karl Ammann discusses why he takes often shocking photos of African apes and other rare animals killed for meat. With photo galleries.
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Orangutans, using water and their wits, have emulated a crow in Aesop&#39;s fable which illustrated the saying &quot;Necessity is the mother of invention,&quot; German researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Missing marmosets, abducted alligators, purloined penguins: Thieves are targeting Europe's zoos and safari parks to supply animal collectors who want to own ever more exotic species.
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What will Germany's new polar bear celebrity be called?Nuremberg Mayor Ulrich Maly has asked a jury to deliberate Friday on a flood of suggestions _ which arrived in more than 25,000 e-mails and postcards _ for the official name of the 5-week-old white ball of fluff.The decision was to be announced in the afternoon.The bear cub rose to star status after being taken from her mother, Vera, on Jan. 8 amid concerns that she could harm or even kill the newborn.The Bavarian city's zoo made the decision to bottle-feed the cub and not return her to her mother after keepers spotted Vera carrying the cub around in her jaws and tossing it around her enclosure. Read more
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Sh*tty build quality Researchers at Michigan State University think they have come up with a new way of disposing of some of the millions of tons of cow manure produced in the US each year: use it to build with.â¦
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Some maulings and other incidents involving captive animals in the United States:
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In a German zoo, a close human-tiger encounter that ends well for all concerned.
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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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CHICAGO - "Animal Grossology," the new exhibition at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, could easily have been a lot grosser. Sure, there's plastic excrement in the exhibit room, skunk scent for spritzing, and robot animals that use cutesy terms like "barf" and "dookie" while talking about hairballs and digestive tracts...