Tiger, orangutan babies playmates at zoo
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Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests.
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By Arthur Max, Associated Press  THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Indonesia's tropical rain forests are disappearing 30 percent faster than previously estimated as illegal loggers raid national parks, threatening the long-term survival of orangutans, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
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Dozens of new species of animals and  plants including a catfish with protruding teeth and a tree  frog with striking bright green eyes have been found in the  past year in the forests of Borneo, a WWF report said on  Tuesday.
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Â· Ancestors learned to walk in trees, says UK teamÂ· Researchers base claims on watching orang-utans
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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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Eighty-four Siberian tiger cubs have been born in captivity in northeast China since March this year in a boost to the survival chances of the endangered species, state media reported Sunday.
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WASHINGTON - It only took a few seconds for three year-old elephant Kandula to pounce on his first pumpkins of the season Wednesday at the National Zoo's annual Pumpkin Stomp. He smelled them with his trunk, raised one leg and the crowd went wild.
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After almost a decade of the good life, tubby animals in a South Korean zoo are to go on a diet.
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By IRWAN FIRDAUS JAKARTA, Indonesia - Dozens of orangutans trained to box each other in a Thai amusement park returned home Wednesday to start a new life in a jungle reserve on their native island of Borneo, officials said.
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By DEEPAK SHARMA  AMRITSAR, India - Two young Royal Bengal tigers died unexpectedly at a zoo in India where dozens of lions have already died young, possibly because of a breeding program that produced weak animals, a conservator said Thursday.
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By Kitty Melrose  Samboja Eco Lodge Borneo   Samboja opened last year as part of a conservation project operated by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.
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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.
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Toddlers may act up like little apes, but researchers who compared the species concluded a 2-year-old child still has the more sophisticated social learning skills.
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Swiss zoologists have more than a few hungry mouths to feed this Christmas after a female giant anaconda gave birth to 40 babies, a tropical gardens institution said.
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The most exciting new arrival at the Franklin Park Zoo in several years, a skinny brown tangle of limbs with a tufted blond mohawk, clung tightly to its mother&#39;s belly yesterday while onlookers ogled in amazement.
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In the cold November night visitors to the Dutch maritime museum were greeted by howling polar bears while the animals in Artis zoo were awoken by torchlight during the Amsterdam Museum Night Saturday.
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In her first movie deal since going  to Africa to give birth, Angelina Jolie will co-star as a tiger  in the upcoming kids film &quot;Kung Fu Panda&quot; for DreamWorks  Animation SKG, the studio said on Monday.