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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

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The history of Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa is a slightly unusual one. It is a good place for South African birders, as several species are found here and nowhere else in South Africa, and it holds a small number of endemics that it shares with the Mozambique lowlands. Tembe Elephant Park is a mosaic of savannah and forest.

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10 Reasons Street Dogs Deserve to be Defended

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Yup, I was rescued in Africa. You prevent that dog from producing puppies, and those puppies from producing puppies, and on and on for centuries maybe. But I have a dark, tragic past, and I think that makes me a little more interesting than most dogs, don’t you? Street dogs aren’t someone else’s problem.

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Falakhe’s Story

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Early starts are the rule when monitoring endagered species in Mkuze Game Reserve, in South Africa, but there’s a particular urgency to this morning’s start. It was, based on a quick glance, a puppy, around 6 to 7 months old. It was not a pretty sight. Falakhe injured. And he was just lying there.

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Busch Gardens’ Baby Cheetah Gets a New Puppy Pal

4 The Love Of Animals

Just a month after Busch Gardens took in a cheetah cub whose mother wasn’t caring for it, the park’s animal care team has identified the perfect four-legged friend for the 8-week-old cat: a 16-week old female yellow Labrador puppy. The two were first introduced over the weekend and have been spending supervised play times together each day.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

In the list of famous step-mothers one might learn about real Angelina Jolie – Labrador Lisha, which does not have any puppies, but has already become fosterer for 30 different animals including a baby hippo and porcupine, and now she takes care of three tiger cubs.

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