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News Articles: Animals

Kipekee, pictured at the Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tenn., is believed to be the only one of her kind on the planet.

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  • Animals

A rare spotless giraffe gets a name to match

The public has voted and the spotless superstar born at a family-owned zoo in Tennessee has been named Kipekee.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo and
  • Dustin Jones
Marsi Parker Darwin says Peanut loves a good cuddle.

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  • Animals

Meet Peanut, a 21-year–old chicken and world record holder

Finally old enough to drink, this bantam hen had a rough start to her record-breaking life.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Back in March, four or five goats scrambled along the streets of San Francisco and became instantly famous as videos of their runabout were posted on social media. What became of the runaway ruminants?

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  • Animals

Whatever happened to the runaway goats of San Francisco?

Hmm, it's still a bit of a mystery. Here's what is known about the small herd of goats who went running through the streets in March.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Marc Silver
Beekeeper Mike Osborne uses his hand to look for the queen bee as he removes bees from a car after a truck carrying bee hives swerved, causing the hives to fall and release bees in Burlington, Ontario, on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023.

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  • Animals

5 million bees fall off a truck near Toronto and drivers are asked to close windows

Police west of Toronto on Wednesday warned drivers to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates carrying five million bees onto a road.

August 31, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Students from the Yupiit School District learn how to prepare freshly caught salmon.

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  • Education

An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests

Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.

August 30, 2023
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By:
  • Evan Erickson
Scientists have engineered an albino squid that provides a window into the inner workings of the brain.

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  • News

How scientists engineered a see-through squid with its brain in plain view

A see-through squid is giving scientists an unprecedented view of the brain and other organs in a living animal.

August 28, 2023
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  • Jon Hamilton
Mohammad Saud (left) is one of two bird-saving brothers profiled in the documentary <em>All The Breathes. </em>Above, he and his employee and friend Salik Rehman tend to an injured kite.

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to the brothers who save birds whose wings are cut by kite strings

Since their round of fame in the Oscar-nommed documentary All That Breathes, the brothers are gaining worldwide support — and an infusion of donations.

August 28, 2023
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  • Kamala Thiagarajan
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters.

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  • Science

Here's why 6,000 octopuses like to be under the sea at an 'octopus garden'

Over 6,000 octopuses have been found huddling around an extinct volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean near California, and researchers now think they understand why the octopuses find it so cozy.

August 23, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A reticulated giraffe was born without spots at Brights Zoo in northeastern Tennessee at the end of July. The zoo is asking the public to cast their vote on what to name her.

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  • Animals

A rare spotless giraffe was born in a Tennessee zoo

Brights Zoo in Tennessee is asking the public to help pick a name for the giraffe that was born without spots on July 31. The zoo says she may be the only solid-colored reticulated giraffe alive.

August 22, 2023
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  • Dustin Jones
Marine scientists Jan-Olaf Meynecke attaches video-enabled tracking tags to humpback whales near Brisbane, Australia. While collecting data for a larger project on the whales' migration patterns and climate change, Meynecke and his colleagues discovered a new behavior they call "sand rolling."

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  • Science

This video from a humpback 'whale spa' shows skin care is serious — and social

The footage of humpback whales exfoliating their skin with sand offer new insight into these animals' complex lifestyles deep beneath the ocean

August 22, 2023
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  • Carrie Feibel
In this Aug 25, 2019 photo, a Southern Vietnamese box turtle (Cuora picturata) walks in its pen at a turtle sanctuary in Cuc Phuong national park in Ninh Binh province, Vietnam.

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  • Health

A salmonella outbreak is being linked to pet turtles

Half of the people infected in the outbreak reported having contact with turtle with shells smaller than four inches wide. Owning pet turtles of that size is prohibited by federal law.

August 21, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Lolita was captured in the Pacific coast near Seattle nearly 50 years ago at the age of 4.

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  • Animals

Lolita, oldest orca held in captivity, dies before chance to return to the ocean

After years of pressure to set the Miami Seaquarium orca free, Lolita was scheduled to spend her final days in her natural habitat sometime next year. On Friday, she died of a "renal condition."

August 20, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
An illustration of the head and mouth parts of Anopheles sp. female and male mosquitoes. The hairs (or fibrillae) on the antenna of the male enable them to hear the buzz of females in a swarm.

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  • Global Health

A male mosquito's hairy ears tune into mates. New research suggests we can stop that

If the guy skeeters can't hear the buzz of females ... no mating, no new generations. The results of a study on mosquito hearing could lead to a different kind of population control tool.

August 19, 2023
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  • Max Barnhart
The yellow-legged hornet is a prolific predator of honey bees and other pollinators. Now it's been spotted alive in the wild in the U.S. for the first time.

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  • National

An invasive hornet that hunts honeybees is spotted in the U.S. for the first time

The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, is a close cousin of the northern giant hornet, or "murder hornet." Both of them are very adept in the wholesale destruction of honey bees.

August 17, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
A spider in the center of its web

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  • Animals

What do venomous spider bites look like? Here’s how to ID them and what to do

Out of the 3,500 spiders in the United States, only two species of spiders are venomous, according to Healthline.

August 14, 2023
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  • Chelsea Madden
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