Pygmy hippo draws attention at Paris zoo
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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. The pygmy hippo, born June 5 at the Paris Zoo, is one of only a few dozen in Europe, bred in a special program to boost the rare species.
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks.
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CHICAGO - In what her keepers call "Maggie's Extreme Makeover," one of Brookfield Zoo's female orangutans has had her appearance and zeal restored through treatment for a previously undiagnosed thyroid condition.
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In a twist to the oft-told tale of humans encroaching on the wild habitats of Africa, dozens of exotic animals have made a middle-class Johannesburg suburb their permanent address.
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Piko the gorilla didn't know what hit her when crowds of humans gathered around the ape cage at Tokyo's zoo to shout incantations and throw beans.
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Real and mythological creatures mingle in the strange looking-glass world of two new museum exhibitions.
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The arrival of an infant mountain gorilla is giving conservationists battling to save the critically endangered great apes an uncommon reason to celebrate.
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French Riviera sunbathers spotted a days-old baby whale as it circled the waters off a popular beach, French media reported Monday.
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LOS ANGELES Aug. 18, 2004  Paris Hilton and her missing pet Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, have been reunited, Hilton&#39;s spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Last year a popular show at the Metropolitan Museum renewed interest in the French couturier Paul Poiret, interest that is likely to continue on Feb. 14 with a sale of his original clothing designs in Paris.
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French national museums including the Louvre in Paris will let in many visitors free in the coming months, in an experiment intended to open up high culture to a wider public.
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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a  Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in  the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a  government official said on Saturday.
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An animal the size of a small squirrel experimented with aerial life about the same time as birds, scientists said.
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Jane Goodall, the scientist renowned for her work on African primates, woke up an environmental conference at the French presidential palace by imitating the wild call of a tropical chimpanzee.
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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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Celebrity socialite and reality TV star Paris Hilton was reunited on Thursday with her pet Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, one week after the pampered pooch went missing, Hilton&#39;s spokeswoman said.
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A rare Sumatran rhinoceros, the first  born in captivity in more than 100 years, arrived in the  country of his ancestors on Tuesday as part of an international  breeding programme.