Alaska Zoo to Build Elephant Treadmill
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska zoo is to build what it believes to be the world's first elephant treadmill as part of plans to enrich its only elephant's life with better accommodation and activities.    At 9,120 pounds, Maggie could stand to lose some weight...
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Citing a need for domestic energy, the government plans to open for exploratory drilling thousands of acres on Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades because of migratory birds and caribou.
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Bamboo, a 38-year-old elephant with no close friends at Woodland Park Zoo and a limited tolerance for the high jinks of baby Hansa, is packing her trunk and heading for the zoo in Tacoma, which welcomes prickly pachyderms.
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By JULIE ANN GRIMM, PHOTOS BY SHIH FA KAO  Bronze images of booted animals enlisted for Railyard fundraising  Statues: Project still lacks about $3.2 million  Droves of prairie dogs that once overran the Railyard park have long since been relocated to a wildlife refuge.
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By RACHEL D'ORO ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Deep mountain snow usually drives moose to seek lower ground in Anchorage, but the snow piling up in town this winter is a bit much even for the stilt-legged animals.
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A decision on whether to protect Alaska's polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, although staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
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Calgary - A baby elephant, spurned by her mother, has been given a blood transfusion and seems to be on the mend, Calgary Zoo officials say.
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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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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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By MARY PEMBERTON ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Despite an &quot;alarming&quot; decrease in sea otters in southwest Alaska, the federal government is dragging its heels when it comes to designating critical habitat to help them recover, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Culling and contraceptives are options South Africa is considering to limit an elephant population boom.
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Wanda and Winky, the two Asian elephants that officials at the Detroit Zoo want to send from the northern cold to a southern sanctuary, must go to the Columbus Zoo instead, the accrediting association for the nation&#39;s zoos has decided.
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Pachyderm underage rumpy-pumpy outrage Animals rights groups are none too pleased that Sydney's Taronga zoo has allowed a nine-year-old Asian elephant to get up the duff a full two years before what they consider is the captive pachyderm age of consent.â¦
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Aerial survey shows antelope and gazelle in what could be one of the greatest natural events on Earth.
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A young Asian elephant that had delighted visitors at the Woodland Park Zoo since her birth died Friday, about a week after she began showing signs of abdominal pain, zoo officials said.
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Animals at a Munich zoo will create their own power supply from Friday when their manure is recycled to generate heat and electricity.
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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has given the Oregon Zoo in Portland &#36;57,000 to help build a conservation center in hopes of saving the world's smallest rabbit.