Distemper kills Danish seal pups
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An outbreak of distemper kills at least 41 seal pups, whose carcasses have washed up on a Danish island.
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By NOEL K. GALLAGHER Staff Writer  As fast as their chubby little bodies would carry them, four young harbor seal pups rescued by the Marine Animal Lifeline were returned to the sea Saturday with a plop! plop! plop! into the surf at Pine Point Beach.
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Chicago has seen an outbreak of a distemper virus that can be deadly to dogs -- 76 cases reported in Chicago since April, while none were reported last year, the Department of Animal Care and Control said Thursday.
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One of two Coast Guard divers who mysteriously died during a training dive in the Arctic last summer sank uncontrollably as far as 190 feet below the icy surface and suffocated, according to an autopsy summary obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Up to 60 protected gray seals have been killed off the west coast of Ireland in what a wildlife group described as slaughter. The Irish Seal Sanctuary said the seals -- most of them pups
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Dozens of young seals on a remote island off Ireland&#39;s south-west coast have been shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in an incident that has been condemned as cruel and barbaric.
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August 20, 2004 - Chicago area experiences outbreak of canine distemper The City of Chicago&#39;s Department of Animal Care and Control hasn&#39;t seen anything like it in years.
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America's northern fur seal pup population continues a marked decline this decade, federal biologists reported Friday.
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Biologists at Washington State University say they have isolated a bacteria that may have contributed to the deaths of thousands of bighorn sheep in the West over the past five decades.
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HOBART, AUSTRALIA - More than 120 whales and dolphins have died after beaching themselves in two separate locations off Australia.
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A mystery disease is killing off yellow-eyed penguin chicks in New Zealand in a fresh blow to efforts to conserve the world's rarest member of the penguin family, a conservation group said on Thursday.
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CHICAGO Animal control officials in Chicago say the city has seen an outbreak of a canine distemper virus that can be fatal to dogs.
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Up to 80 pilot whales and bottle nose dolphins died after a mass stranding on King Island off Tasmania, Australia. The number of dead mammals is lower than that in earlier
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FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. - Wildlife officials are trying to coax a seal back into the ocean after it found its way into an area of woods and marshes near the Delaware River.  The 300-pound animal was found in suburban Philadelphia, about 50 miles upriver from where the Delaware becomes salty.
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Sydney - More than a dozen large sperm whales may have died in a beaching incident on Australia&#39;s southern island state of Tasmania, local wildlife rangers said on Monday.
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A naval exercise off the Australian coast using submarine-hunting sonar could kill whales or cause them to become stranded, the International Whaling Commission warned in a report.
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Hundreds of California sea lions have been sickened by a bacterial disease that also can infect humans, pets and other mammals, researchers said Friday.