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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 Atlanta Zoo in Georgia is borrowing Chengdu’s winning technique to help try and have a baby of its own. Meanwhile, at Whipsnade Zoo in the U.K., And Kenya boasts a unique orphanage … for elephants!

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

10,000 Birds

Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. These were not easy journeys, and we can only guess how much time was spent making contacts and raising funds to go to the ends of the earth or the middle of nowhere, where the penguins live. Magenellic Penguin, parent and child. (p.

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