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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A growing number of wild and exotic animals are being spotted  roaming free in the UK, a survey shows.
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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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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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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has given the Oregon Zoo in Portland &#36;57,000 to help build a conservation center in hopes of saving the world's smallest rabbit.
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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 baby panda born earlier this month at Zoo Atlanta is a girl.
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A baby chimpanzee found alone, helpless, in the forest. An African rock python caged and taunted by villagers until it cracks its skull on the metal bars. A rare shoebill crane, a tall, gray-feathered beauty, discovered in the trunk of a smuggler's car.
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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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The Brookfield Zoo announced this week the birth of a baby okapi &#151; an endangered African animal that looks as if it were put together by committee.
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The Metropolitan Museum's show is a sumptuous assemblage of animal products used to keep humans warm, make them look good and ratchet up their social status.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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With shutters clicking and cameras rolling, dozens of people crowded into the Franklin Park Zoo's indoor "tropical forest" on Saturday for the debut of its newest celebrity resident: a tiny 3-day-old western lowland gorilla.
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An 11-year-old hippopotamus who suffered from neglect in a French circus is to be flown to South Africa where it will start a new life in a wildlife reserve, an animal rights group said Wednesday.
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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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LOS ANGELES - It's been a rough month for hotel heiress Paris Hilton. First, her Hollywood Hills home was burglarized and now her pet Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, has disappeared...
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Paris Hilton has been spotted hanging pink posters advertising that her royal Chihuahua Tinkerbell is missing. The posters sport photos of the heiress posing with the well-known pup, and the words &quot;This dog is like a child to me,&quot; says People. The ...