Two Atlas lion cubs, extinct in the wild, born in French zoo
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Two Atlas lion cubs, which are extinct in the wild, have been born in a zoo in western France, the zoo said.
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A giant panda in southwest China has given birth to a pair of twins, state media said, the latest additions in a baby boom for the endangered animals. Ya Ya, who lives in the Chongqing Zoo, delivered the babies about an hour apart early Tuesday, China News Service said.
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By TODD PITMAN  DAKAR, Senegal - Conservationists on Thursday announced the birth of a rare mountain gorilla in eastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of killing and eating the endangered animals.  The tiny gorilla, named Ndeze, was born Feb.
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The year ended happily for state biologists with news that six more lynx kittens have been born to transplanted lynx in Colorado, bringing the total of newborns to 36 this year and 52 since a reintroduction program began in 1999.
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Researchers with the Henry Doorly Zoo have discovered two new species of lemurs, one of the most primitive and endangered primates in the world, the zoo announced Wednesday.
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Lions and leopards and Boomer, oh my. David Wells, a former resident of the Bronx Zoo and one of baseball's notable party animals, came away from a three-week African safari with a sense of awe, a rare admission that he was scared and a full stomach.
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The smallest of three rare Siberian tiger cubs born at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium died Thursday, zoo officials said.
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By Matthew Artz  FREMONT -- Two felines initially thought to be the first mountain lions ever spotted at the Fremont BART station were probably nothing more than overgrown pussycats, officials said.   At 11:11 a.m.
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Paris - Wolves, lions, cheetahs and other predators inflict relatively few losses on livestock and farmers gain only a temporary boost if these marauders are culled, New Scientist says.
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Conservationists on Thursday announced the birth of a rare mountain gorilla in eastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of killing and eating the endangered animals.
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THE might of the French State was deployed yesterday to find and save a bear cub after hunters killed its mother, the last native she-bear in the Pyrenees.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - One of two eggs laid by a bald eagle at a central Illinois zoo is missing and authorities think the culprit could be a raccoon or a human.
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Nearly two dozen crossbred lions are slowly dying in northern India from a mysterious disease afflicting the hybrid offspring of Asiatic and African cats paired in a discontinued experimental program.
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DAMAN, Mali  - Lying in the shade of an acacia tree, Malik Kulubali recalls a distant time when lions prowled the villages of southern Mali and the capital Bamako was little more than a village.
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CHANDIGARH, India  - Twenty-one lions are dying in   a zoo in north India after a cross-breeding experiment to boost   the park's attractions went disastrously wrong.
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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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A rare okapi &#151; something of a cross between a giraffe and a zebra &#151; born at the St. Louis Zoo this summer is doing well despite a shaky relationship with its mother, zoo officials said Wednesday.