Environmentalists can't corral Palin (AP)
Activists stage dolphin die-in at Japanese embassy in US (AFP)
Taiwan zoo hopes to welcome China pandas in November (AFP)
UK army to consider alternatives to bearskin hats (AP)
Dead For Years, Ferrets Finally Become Fathers (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com - Black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian's National Zoo have birthed two kits sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000. Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome (Reuters)
Whalers in Norway defend castigated hunt (AFP)
Atlanta panda cub put in incubator for monitoring (AP) AP - The only panda born at a U.S. zoo so far this year was placed in an incubator on Monday for closer monitoring by zookeepers after visitors flocked to watch mother and child on a live video feed at Zoo Atlanta. Beetles Evolving as Lovers or Fighters (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com - The evolutionary tradeoff between becoming a bigger fighter or lover could lead to new species among dung beetle populations.
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AFP - Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.
AP - At the National Governors Association conference where she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.
AFP - Environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins Wednesday staged a die-in in Washington to protest what they called the "horrific butchering" of thousands of dolphins by Japanese fishermen every year.
AFP - Officials at Taiwan's biggest zoo said Wednesday they hoped to welcome a pair of giant pandas from rival China as early as November, a move expected to draw millions of tourists to the capital.
AP - After meeting with animal rights activists, the British military said Tuesday that it will study alternative materials to replace the bearskin hats worn by the soldiers who guard Buckingham Palace.
Reuters - Young men who die suddenly after being
arrested by the police may be victims of a new syndrome similar
to one that kills some wild animals when they are captured,
Spanish researchers said on Tuesday.
AFP - In the Lofoten Islands, the main base for Norway's whaling industry, whalers adamantly defend the harshly criticised practice and reject claims that consumers are not buying whale meat.
