Giraffe KOs Swedish zoo boss
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An accident involving a giraffe at  a Swedish zoo injures a zookeeper and kills the animal.
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Sweden has pledged more than US $2 million to the Global AIDS Fund in response to an appeal from former South African President Nelson Mandela.
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KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa  - There are no  easy answers when it comes to keeping the world's largest land  mammal in check.
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Babs, a 30-year-old gorilla who led Brookfield Zoo&#39;s colony for 15 years, died Tuesday, leaving zookeepers both saddened and curious to see who&#39;ll fill the new power vacuum.
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Vandals tried to set fire to a giant straw goat in central Sweden but failed to burn down the traditional Christmas monument, which has been soaked with flame-resistant chemicals, officials said Friday.
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VANDALS tried to set fire to a giant straw goat in central Sweden but failed to burn down the traditional Christmas monument, which has been soaked with flame-resistant chemicals, officials said yesterday.
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The director of the San Francisco Zoo brushed off criticism Wednesday that two victims were denied help in the frantic moments after a fatal Christmas Day tiger attack, saying his employees acted heroically.
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The âTigerâ was tamed Tuesday by a Swedish ex-nanny named Elin Nordegren. After repeatedly denying that his nuptials were eminent, Tiger
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A stray giraffe in Zimbabwe is rescued by police after villagers tried to kill it for its meat, local media reports.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's safari park is sending lions, zebras, and desert goats to a zoo in a West Bank town, a rare gesture of cooperation after four years of bloody conflict.
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Sporting a trunk-like nose and a jet-black rump, a new species of a bizarre furry mammal was caught on film as it scuttled along a forest floor in Tanzania.
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It was one of the toughest fights Jorun Lyngstad had experienced during her time as a Norwegian police officer. A wood grouse, Europe's biggest game bird, attacked Lyngstad during a Wednesday bike ride in the woods, ramming the off-duty officer from the side and sending her flying through the air, local media reported.
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Investigators are trying to figure out how a Siberian tiger escaped from her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day and killed a zoo visitor. Two other visitors were injured. The tiger, a 300-pound female named Tatiana, did not get out through an open door, Robert Jenkins, the zoo's director of animal care and conservation, told The Associated Press.
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With a clash of mallets and the stomping of jumbo feet that shook the earth, the game was under way. Tense commands were shouted by pith helmeted players tied firmly to their two-ton mounts. The beasts collided and the ball disappeared in a forest of elephantine legs, raising some dust and much laughter. We had just witnessed a classic scrum in the whacky sport of elephant polo.
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A Swedish geologist has found what appears to be the oldest known fossil from a mammal ever found in Scandinavia &#151; a 145-million-year-old tooth from a prehistoric rodent, a Swedish university said Thursday.
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A Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad  as a dog goes into hiding.
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Dorset sanctuary saves 88 monkeys from confinement in world's biggest rescue mission of its kind