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Handler interactions with animals

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What’s your opinion on zookeepers and/or owners of dangerous animals like big cats, apes etc interacting with the animals? Ive seen people hanging out with lions or walking along side elephants etc and I find it fascinating. Don’t know if this is the right place to ask but I need a lot of different opinions.

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Bird Science and Evolution: 2013 Year In Review

10,000 Birds

Birds are raised from the egg to follow a certain migration timing, but that timing shifts when the egg hatches later or earlier due to changes in conditions. The relationship between bird deaths and windmills and cats are two very different issues that I feel that I should write about in the next few months.

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Miracle Babies; Pandas and Leopards

4 The Love Of Animals

Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. The rarest big cat on earth, the Amur leopard, is on the brink of disappearing forever. A new captive breeding program may be the cats’ last hope. And Kenya boasts a unique orphanage … for elephants!

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Extinction Week Recap

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It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean.