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Busch Gardens Welcomes New Baby Cheetah

4 The Love Of Animals

When zoo keepers saw that the baby was not eating and having trouble gaining weight, they made the decision to hand-raise him. Upon reaching maturity, he may also become an important part of Busch Gardens’ plans for a cheetah breeding program that will help boost the population of these critically endangered animals.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. ” By 1970 the man who championed Peregrines had convinced Cornell University to build a Hawk Barn for captive breeding of these birds. He came for the hawks.

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