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Terrifying Underwater Encounters With The Bengali White Tiger

Although many big cats are none too fond of soggy fur and wet whiskers, tigers positively thrive in the water, and are often found enjoying a bath in rivers and ponds. Far from shunning water, the biggest of the big cats actively seek it out, the cooling temperatures a perfect tonic to the extreme heat of the day. Tigers are also powerful swimmers, capable of travelling up to 4 miles in the water and commonly seen carrying their kills across lakes.

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Cute Baby Panda Adopted By Cat In Dutch Zoo

A baby panda rejected by its mother has been adopted by a domestic cat and is being raised along with its litter. The panda and another sibling were initially accepted by their mother but were found to have been abandoned a day later, suffering from hypothermia. Zookeepers at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam successfully encouraged a cat that had just given birth to suckle the pair - however one of the pandas unfortunately did not survive.

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Panda Cub Love Bites Zookeeper. Result: Injury

Tai Shan, the panda cub born to much fanfare in Washington, DC three years ago, apparently has decided that bamboo is not enough, and that his diet should be supplemented by zookeeper. Tai Shan, who weighs nearly 170 pounds, was in another area of the habitat

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Animal Rights Group Calls Zoo’s Elephant Pregnancy a Sex Crime

Animal rights groups have called the pregnancy of an elephant in an Australian zoo the animal equivalent of a sex crime. Image by Herrick Thong Dee is an Asian elephant at Sydney’s Taronga zoo. The exotic animal is nine years old, still a juvenile in elephant terms. So [...]

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