Baby elephant&#39;s health improving
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Calgary - A baby elephant, spurned by her mother, has been given a blood transfusion and seems to be on the mend, Calgary Zoo officials say.
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Cambodia has made significant gains in improving the health of its children in the last five years, the UN children's agency said.
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Pachyderm underage rumpy-pumpy outrage Animals rights groups are none too pleased that Sydney's Taronga zoo has allowed a nine-year-old Asian elephant to get up the duff a full two years before what they consider is the captive pachyderm age of consent.â¦
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âWe show, for the first time, we can deliver these potentially high-quality therapeutics to an animal.â Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
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By DANIEL LOVERING Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand . The African elephant has a new line of defense against poachers after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent&#39;s illegal ivory trade.
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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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Former Indonesian dictator Suharto's condition has improved and he has a good chance of recovering, his doctor said Saturday.
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Scientific study of the secrets of "freeze-tolerant" animals may yield clues for improving human medicine.
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Elephants use their feet to &quot;hear&quot; calls from other herds but react most if the calls come from elephants they know, New Scientist reports.
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Doctors treating ailing Indonesian ex-leader Suharto say his health is showing signs of improvement.
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How's this for a breath of fresh air? Barbaro is enjoying daily outings outside his intensive care stall to pick his own grass, enjoy the warm weather and stretch his recovering legs.
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A rare okapi &#151; something of a cross between a giraffe and a zebra &#151; born at the St. Louis Zoo this summer is doing well despite a shaky relationship with its mother, zoo officials said Wednesday.
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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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Elephants on parade, bulls on the beach, bears on the bench. It&#39;s going to be quite a week on Wall Street. Although how many Wall Streeters will be around is up in the air.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The health of Americans is improving, but it&#39;s not getting better quite as fast in Florida and other southern states, according to a new report.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro's health has improved following a post-intestinal surgery period in which the aging revolutionary icon temporarily stopped eating, Venezuela's ambassador to Cuba said Thursday.
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CALGARY (CP) - The power of a mother's love - or lack of it - became achingly clear Wednesday when the Calgary Zoo announced the death of a baby elephant that had captured human hearts after being rejected by its mother.