Singapore Zoo's most famous icon, orangutan Ah Meng, dies
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Singapore Zoo's most famous icon, an orangutan who once hobnobbed with Britain's Prince Philip, popstar Michael Jackson and actress Elizabeth Taylor, has died, zoo staff said Saturday.
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A zookeeper died Saturday after a 140-pound jaguar mauled her in its enclosure, and the big cat was fatally shot when it approached emergency workers treating the injured woman, the zoo said.
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Thai authorities say tests have confirmed 23 Tigers have died of bird flu at a private zoo in the eastern province of Chonburi. Thirty other tigers at the zoo, which houses hundreds of big cats, are said to be ill with the disease.
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Steve Irwin, the Australian TV presenter known as the "Crocodile Hunter," has died after being stung in a marine accident off Australia's north coast.
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One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after the facility closed.
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Two chicks born in captivity as part of an effort to save a rare vulture species in India have died, a scientist associated with the breeding programme said Thursday.
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By Andy Rathbun, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 8--Martha McPhee, CEO of the newly merged Animal Humane Society, died Tuesday of unknown causes. She was 51.   In 2005, McPhee joined the Animal Humane Society as president.
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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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Auckland beekeeper who became the first man to reach Mount Everest's summit has died
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A government official confirmed that 23 tigers have died from bird flu at a private zoo in Thailand. The animals had been fed the carcasses of chickens infected with the disease.
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Nearly 200 hippopotamuses are dead after an anthrax outbreak in western Uganda. Wildlife officials in the East African nation said Tuesday 194 Hippos had died In Queen Elizabeth National Park since July.
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The bird flu toll among tigers at a Thai zoo has risen to 83, but the keepers who looked after them are free of the deadly disease which has killed 31 people in southeast Asia this year, officials said on Friday.
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A zookeeper died Saturday after a 140-pound jaguar mauled her in the doorway of its exhibit, and the big cat was fatally shot when it approached emergency workers treating the injured woman, the zoo said.
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Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition, Australian media said. He was 44.
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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Zoo paid $4,500 to an expert in the ancient Chinese art of feng shui to ensure three endangered golden monkeys on loan from China can have a strong life force.
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JAKARTA -- Suharto, who in 32 years of authoritarian rule of Indonesia turned one of Asia's largest and poorest countries into a fast-growing tiger economy, has died. He was 86.
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Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian  naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, was killed by a stingray  barb through the chest on Monday while diving off Australia's  northeast coast, emergency officials and witnesses said.