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Miracle Babies; Pandas and Leopards

4 The Love Of Animals

And on the banks of the Amazon in Brazil, a tamarin expert works to save the tiny primates, which are struggling to survive as bulldozers wipe out their forest homes to make way for new development. At the London Zoo, three female gorillas gussy up for a visit from a handsome male gorilla brought in from nearby France.

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Questionable Practices at the Calgary Zoo

Critter News

In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti. She had been showing symptoms of the potentially lethal elephant herpesvirus, which leads to internal bleeding and heart failure. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs. A zookeeper had left the knife behind in the exhibit.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

10,000 Birds

Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates.