Orphan chimps turned killer find Leone refuge
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REGENT, Sierra Leone  - They can leap playful somersaults or maul a human to death.
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Conservationists on Thursday announced the birth of a rare mountain gorilla in eastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of killing and eating the endangered animals.
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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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DES MOINES, Iowa - Azy and Indah are about to go off to school, but they certainly are not ordinary students. They're orangutans, long-limbed, long-haired, bright-eyed primates who will become the first residents of the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, where Rob Shumaker and his associates will study their behavior and learning capabilities...
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National park rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are battling to save a 2-month-old gorilla found clinging to its dead mother, who was shot dead through the back of the head, conservationists said on Sunday.
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Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of Western culture in Africa.
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With an influx of chimps previously used as laboratory animals, Florida's Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care is transforming into the largest chimp sanctuary in the world&#151;almost overnight.
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The wait was excruciating for Samuel Komba Kambo's family. Then, suddenly, he emerged into the alley at dusk behind a downtown detention facility Â and into freedom.
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He's now got a human name &#151; Matthew Hiasl Pan &#151; but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
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This week: Chimps seen hunting with "spears," shark smuggling pastor busted, some lizards smell tougher than others, and moon settlers may have to be expert skiers.
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A GIRL saved her baby sister from a dingo on an island where the wild dogs killed a boy three years ago. Five-year-old Georgia Corke sprang to the rescue of three-month-old Scarlett when a dingo got into her
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The nightmares won't stop. In one, fighters chase him with a gun. In another, he watches a person get mutilated. In a third, someone is hacking his neck with a machete. Yet, years after he left the life of a child soldier in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah has found a reason for hope in his vivid nocturnal visions: He never dies.
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KITENGELA, Kenya  - A short distance from the slums and skyscrapers of Nairobi, Naanyu Ntirrisa pulls thorn bushes around her Maasai village to keep out marauding lions that have killed a cow and two sheep.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia -- In a cramped, hospital-white laboratory in this coastal Caribbean city, 200 neatly numbered boxes of human remains lie stacked to the ceiling, waiting for a lone forensic anthropologist to extract the secrets of their violent deaths.
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A 13 million years old ape living in what is now Spain may have been the last common father of all apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans.
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Rescue staff save the newest member of one of the endangered indigenous tribes in the tsunami-struck Andaman islands.