Five Wildebeests Escape From Ind. Zoo
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Zookeepers, police and animal control officers followed five runaway wildebeests through a residential area Tuesday after they escaped from the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo.
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GRESHAM, Wis. - A Rottweiler awoke a mother in time to grab her two young sons and escape from their burning house over the weekend in eastern Wisconsin, according to sheriff's officials. The 150-pound dog, named Zeus, awoke Jennifer Brusoe at about 8:30 p.m.
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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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Five of the few northern white rhinos left in the wild will be flown from Democratic Republic of Congo to prevent poachers wiping them out, conservationists said on Saturday.
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One of the world's largest cases of  great ape smuggling will draw to a close next week when around  50 orangutan rescued from a Thai amusement park fly home to  their native Indonesia, a wildlife campaigner said on Thursday.
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Wildlife activists in Kenya heaved a sigh of relief as experts said this week's coup d'etat in Thailand had dealt the final blow to a controversial plan to export animals to a Thai zoo.
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A British embassy group of five people captured almost two weeks ago in northeast Ethiopia and released Tuesday in Eritrea, left Asmara on Wednesday afternoon, a diplomatic source said.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico &#151; Five Bengal tigers, four of them white males, have debuted at a zoo in western Mexico.
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One person is killed and two are injured after a tiger escapes from its cage at San Francisco Zoo, reports say.
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The country's unique walking safaris get you out of the jeep and up close and personal with lions, elephants, and hippo droppings.
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France has completed the evacuation of 5 000 Westerners and others from violence-torn Ivory Coast as Africans - with no hope of such rescue - have fled into neighbouring countries.
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A tiger escaped its cage at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring two others, a newspaper reported.
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A blast ripped through a crowd in  Ethiopia&#39;s volatile Somali region on Monday, killing at least  five people and setting off a stampede that saw up to six more  die, according to witnesses and aid-workers.
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PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings.
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Zoo elephants swaying back and forth,  polar bears swimming in endless circuits and manic monkeys  grooming themselves to baldness.
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BLAIRMORE, Alta. (CP) - A woman who stumbled upon a grizzly bear sow and two cubs in a wilderness area of southwestern Alberta was mauled Thursday but managed to escape.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary - A 5.5-foot-long South American snake has been stolen from the Budapest Zoo, officials said Wednesday.    Zookeepers noticed Tuesday morning that an emerald tree boa - a snake native to the Amazon rain forest - was missing from its cage...