Three bears and now lion try to leave Kazakhstan zoo
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A lion escaped from its cage at a Kazakh zoo over the weekend, the second such incident in a month, news media reported on Monday.
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About 3,000 polar bears live around the Arctic Barents Sea off northern Europe, according to a first census on Thursday that sets a benchmark to judge bears' vulnerability to pollution and melting ice.
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France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters early last week.
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France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees on Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters earlier this week.
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Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its zoo enclosure on Christmas Day  -  killing one man and mauling two others  -  plan a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues
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Remarkable filmwork of pandas in the wild shows how these rare bears engage in some gymnastics to mark their territory.
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Carel van Heerden feels no reason to apologise about his doomed lion-breeding business. &quot;Trophy hunters will always exist. We're taking the pressure off the rest of the roaming lions in Africa.&quot;
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Three armed men, suspected robbers, were  thought to be trapped in the Spanish consulate in the Swiss  capital Berne Monday but three of their hostages had left the  building, police said.
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A California zoo is shut while investigators try to find out how a tiger escaped to attack three visitors, killing one.
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A fight is brewing over hunting of the famous McNeil River bears, known for offering humans the world's best glimpse of life in the wild as they feast on salmon and fatten up for the long Alaska winter.
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A brown bear kills one person and wounds several in the Transylvanian forests of Romania.
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The San Francisco Zoo reopened on Thursday, nine days after an escaped 250-pound (113-kg) Siberian tiger killed one visitor and mauled two others before police shot it to death.
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The bulls and the bears are in this  together, scratching their heads and wondering what's going to  happen next.
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Nuremberg zoo refused demands to rear vulnerable polar bear cubs who were apparently eaten by mother
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Three conservation groups notified the federal government Wednesday they intend to sue to get polar bears listed as a threatened species due to global warming.
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A bear tried to pull a Girl Scout out of her tent during a camping trip, the girl and scout officials said.
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Officials on Sunday were trying to determine why a zookeeper killed by a jaguar had opened the door to the animal's enclosure when zoo policies ban staff members from entering exhibits when big cats are inside.