Constant care from zookeepers couldn't save baby elephant at Calgary Zoo
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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.
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Lucy the elephant, believed to be the world's fourth-oldest African elephant in captivity, was euthanized Friday morning after staffers found her lying down in her stall, the Milwaukee County Zoo said.
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Rescuers said they were not confident the last three whales of a pod of more than 70 that beached on New Zealand's east coast since Sunday night could be saved.
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Denver Zoo is taking steps to prevent a possible outbreak of plague after a monkey dies of the disease.
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Elephants must receive hundreds of times more space to live at San Francisco's zoo or not be kept at the facility, city legislators said on Tuesday in legislation that could effectively bar pachyderms for good.
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The National Zoo in Washington, plagued by a string of animal deaths including red pandas poisoned by rat bait, is improving but staff still needs basic animal care training, the National Research Council said Wednesday.
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Sydney's premier zoo is celebrating the  news that its 9-year-old Asian elephant is pregnant, but animal  rights groups are shocked that the zoo has let a juvenile  elephant fall pregnant.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study  released  yesterday estimates that as many as 23,000 of the animals were slaughtered...
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AFTER being around for nearly 30 years, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) itself risks being endangered due to its ineffectiveness in controlling
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San Francisco officials pondered  on Thursday whether to implement an unprecedented ban of  elephants from its zoo because of concerns about their  conditions in captivity.
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Thai veterinarians announced Thursday that an artificially inseminated elephant has given birth to a bouncing baby boy &#151; a first in Asia that could be a crucial step in conserving the endangered species.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a controversial practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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The senior elephant keeper at Whipsnade Zoo describes the arrival of the latest addition to their herd of rare Asian elephants
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Police fail to save man from fatal mauling by rottweiler-type animal
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p2pnet.net OT News:- Experts are hoping a blood transfusion will save the life of a very rare baby elephant born a few days ago at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada.
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The deadly tiger escape at the San Francisco Zoo could prove to be a costly blow to an institution that has come under fire repeatedly in just the past few years over the deaths of two elephants and the mauling of a zookeeper.
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WASHINGTON -- An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study to be released today estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last year.