Elephant baby doing much better
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CALGARY -- A newborn elephant that received a special blood transfusion after it was rejected by its mother appears to be getting better, say officials at the Calgary Zoo.
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WASHINGTON - It only took a few seconds for three year-old elephant Kandula to pounce on his first pumpkins of the season Wednesday at the National Zoo's annual Pumpkin Stomp. He smelled them with his trunk, raised one leg and the crowd went wild.
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NEW YORK  - Consuming a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet during pregnancy seems to have a beneficial effect on blood flow in the fetus, Norwegian researchers report.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - A baby born this week in northeastern Brazil weighing nearly 17 pounds is "doing great," hospital officials said Friday.
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A baby born in Africa faces a harrowing struggle to survive even a day due to a lack of basic ante-natal care, a report by a group of international health organisations has said.
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A record-breaking baby weighing a minuscule 280 grams has grown up into a healthy young girl, US doctors report this week. But experts fret that the &#39;miracle&#39; baby may raise false hopes among parents about the outlook for their premature infants.
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Thirteen-month-old baby leaves hospital after undergoing pioneering life-saving treatment.
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CALGARY - Zoo officials hope a special blood transfusion will give a baby elephant the infection-fighting antibodies it needs that it would normally get from mothers milk.
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When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.
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South Africa's Kruger National Park elephant population has nearly doubled in recent years, causing heavy habitat destruction and invasion of adjacent farms. Now conservation authorities are considering a plan to kill perhaps thousands elephants to bring the problem under control.
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Aldo looks, eats and lazes like a hippopotamus &#151; but the 3-week-old is only about as long as a human baby &#151; 21 inches.
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The worldâs most promising malaria vaccine has been shown to work in infants less than a year old, the most vulnerable group.
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Wildlife officials in Key Largo are looking into whether the discovery of a detached goat's head might be linked to the sudden death of a newborn dolphin.  Castaway, a deaf dolphin rescued off Vero Beach last year, gave birth to the healthy calf June 11 at the Maritime Mammal Conservancy.
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Maywood, Illinois: The world&#39;s tiniest surviving baby made her public debut at a US hospital on Tuesday, a wrinkled, but perfectly formed three-month-old, who was the size of a cell phone at birth.
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The environment minister proposed a package of measures Wednesday to slow rampant elephant population growth &#151; including limited killing and contraception &#151; but stressed there would be no mass slaughter. The elephant population of 20,000 is growing at a rate of more than 6 percent per year, disrupting the delicate biodiversity in the flagship Kruger National Park and other wildlife parks, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said.
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Damien Seguy and company have developed a brand new plush toy based around the PHP elephant idea set out by Vincent Pontier a while back:   The elephant is a community project. It was started as a crazy idea that I used to suggest to a number of people. I managed to draw a lot of happy smile, but I suspect that half this happiness was due to sheer craziness of the project. [...] Of course, it was impossible to prototype this mascot without involving Vincent Pontier. The rest is history. We started prototyping, and within a month, we got this excellent looking plush toy (we'll tell you about the manufacturer once we get the full load of them).   Check out the post on Nexen.net for lots of product shots (including the obligatory cute kid shot) and details on how it was developed and the answer to the important question - where you can get your hands on one.   Some groups have already ordered a large number of them for themselves and their members, but an online shop is coming soon to Nexen.net where you can pick up your own fuzzy bit of PHPness.
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LONDON -- Born prematurely at 26 weeks, weighing just one pound, 11-month-old Charlotte Wyatt has never left the hospital. She suffers from chronic respiratory and heart problems and severe brain damage. A feeding tube and a constant supply of oxygen help keep her alive.