Lion Cub Greets Pope with a Roar

  "Vatican City Pope Benedict XVI meets an unusual guest during his weekly audience at the Vatican. The lion cub was presented to the pontiff in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall yesterday as part of a performance...

Death of a polar bear and a tiger cub

The world's oldest polar bear has died. Debby, who was 42, and lived at Assiniboine Park Zoo had to be euthanized due to ill health. She was surrounded by her carers and veterinarians."She was euthanized within...

Couple Find Quick Brown Fox in the Bathroom

An Essex couple in England have surprised Reynard having a sly swish around the sink in their bathroom.   " 'Some towels had been strewn around the floor, but aside from that the fox did no damage and...

Heartbreak over cub confiscation

A tribal man in India who rescued an abandoned bear cub to help his daughter overcome her mother's death has fallen foul of forestry officials. They confiscated the animal arguing that its capture was in...

Heartbreak over cub confiscation

A tribal man in India rescued an abandoned bear cub for his daughter to help her overcome her mother's death, but has now had the cub taken away from him by forestry officials because he is breaking the...

Boomer the African Lion Captured Outside of Ottawa

Here Kitty Kitty…Boomer the African lion has been successfully captured outside of Ottawa.  The two-year-old little cub is now sitting in a jail cell waiting for wildlife officials to take custody of...

Move over Knut, there's a new cub in town

With celebrity polar bear Knut now fully grown, the latest German polar bear idol--Flocke--comes none too soon.  Fame in the animal world, it appears, is as ageist as Hollywood.Flocke is already making...

The Knext Knut? New German Polar Cub Star

A female polar bear cub separated from it mother (who had some issues, apparently) is poised to become Germany's next child star. Speculation is rampant (in German papers, at least) that the currently-unnamed tyke...

Polar bear cub Knut prompts Easter crush at Berlin zoo - Posted by Michael Fo...

"About 125,000 people descended on Berlin zoo over the Easter weekend to get a glimpse of Knut, the polar bear cub who has become a global sensation, the zoo said on Monday.  About 300,000 extra people have visited since the four-month-old cub, who was rejected by his...

Live "teddy" bear cub boost sales in Germany

You'd be wrong if you thougt it was chucky in child's play. Knut's is a Berlin Zoo polar bear cub so much like a teddy and visitors are trooping in their thousands to see the fantasy alive. Fortunately not only...

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