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FILE - A Sept 22 2014 file photo of Tian Tian, the United Kingdom's at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. Edinburgh Zoo says the giant panda is believed to be pregnant. The zoo said Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 that Tian Tian "is being closely monitored," but it can’t say when she will give birth.

Hopes soar in Scotland: Edinburgh Zoo panda may be pregnant

FILE - A Sept 22 2014 file photo of Tian Tian, the United Kingdom's at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. Edinburgh Zoo says the giant panda is believed to be pregnant. The zoo said Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 that Tian Tian "is being closely monitored," but it can’t say when she will give birth.

August 24, 2017, 11:13am Life

The only female giant panda in Britain is believed to be pregnant, Edinburgh Zoo said Thursday. Read story

This photo taken in 2014 by an automatic trail camera shows an adult female grizzly bear in the Cabinet Mountains in northwest Montana. U.S.

Grizzly bear ruling tossed

This photo taken in 2014 by an automatic trail camera shows an adult female grizzly bear in the Cabinet Mountains in northwest Montana. U.S.

August 23, 2017, 7:49pm Northwest

Animals and plants can be considered endangered even if they are not on the brink of extinction, a judge ruled in overturning the U.S. government’s re-classification of a small population of grizzly bears living in the forests of Montana and Idaho near the Canada border. Read story

Judge: Bears near U.S.-Canada border merit endangered status

August 23, 2017, 11:00am Life

A judge has ruled a small population of grizzly bears in Montana and Idaho near the Canadian border can be considered endangered even if they are not on the brink of extinction. Read story

Critics maintain Utah mustang meeting a ‘slaughter summit’

August 23, 2017, 9:24am Life

Federal scientists and mostly rural interests are gathering at a wild horse conference in Utah that mustang-protection advocates maintain is a thinly veiled effort to promote increased roundups and eventual slaughter of tens of thousands of animals from California to Colorado without public input. Read story

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2014 file photo, Kendra Aiken stands wearing a parka made by her grandmother as she poses for a photo in front of a bowhead whale in a field near Utqiagvik, then known as Barrow, Alaska. Federal officials are reviewing annual quotas for 11 Alaska Native villages whose subsistence hunters are authorized to harvest bowhead whales. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the public has until Sept. 14, 2017, to comment on catch limits for a six-year period to begin in 2019.

Feds review annual whaling quotas for Alaska Native hunters

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2014 file photo, Kendra Aiken stands wearing a parka made by her grandmother as she poses for a photo in front of a bowhead whale in a field near Utqiagvik, then known as Barrow, Alaska. Federal officials are reviewing annual quotas for 11 Alaska Native villages whose subsistence hunters are authorized to harvest bowhead whales. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the public has until Sept. 14, 2017, to comment on catch limits for a six-year period to begin in 2019.

August 23, 2017, 6:00am Northwest

Federal officials are reviewing annual catch limits for 11 Alaska Native communities whose subsistence hunters are authorized to harvest bowhead whales. Read story

Washougal: “Forever Faithful,” a life-sized bronze sculpture of a Belgian Malinois, a common breed of police service dog, was dedicated Aug. 5 at the Washougal Police Department, and artist Susan Bahary was on hand for the celebration.

Police dog statue dedicated in Washougal

Washougal: “Forever Faithful,” a life-sized bronze sculpture of a Belgian Malinois, a common breed of police service dog, was dedicated Aug. 5 at the Washougal Police Department, and artist Susan Bahary was on hand for the celebration.

August 23, 2017, 5:55am Community

The Washougal Arts and Culture Alliance hosted a dedication ceremony Aug. 5 for the city’s newest piece of public art: a life-sized bronze sculpture of a Belgian Malinois, a common breed of police service dog. The statue, “Forever Faithful,” is located at the Washougal Police Department, 1320 A St., Washougal.… Read story

W. Richland couple, service dog ordered off transit bus

August 22, 2017, 11:14am Northwest

Cid, the Boston terrier, is anything but vicious. Read story

Officials: 26 bulldog puppies found in hot van at store

August 20, 2017, 2:41pm Nation & World

Animal welfare officials say more than two dozen puppies were found inside a hot van parked at a New Jersey store. Read story

In this Aug. 6, 2017 photo provided by NOAA Fisheries a North Pacific right whale swims in the Bering Sea west of Bristol Bay. Jessica Crance, a research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was able to use acoustic equipment to find and photograph two of the extremely endangered whales and obtain a biopsy sample from one. NOAA estimates only 30 to 50 eastern stock North Pacific right whales still remain.

Scientists spot two rare whales in Bering Sea

In this Aug. 6, 2017 photo provided by NOAA Fisheries a North Pacific right whale swims in the Bering Sea west of Bristol Bay. Jessica Crance, a research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was able to use acoustic equipment to find and photograph two of the extremely endangered whales and obtain a biopsy sample from one. NOAA estimates only 30 to 50 eastern stock North Pacific right whales still remain.

August 18, 2017, 6:00am Pets & Wildlife

Federal researchers studying critically endangered North Pacific right whales sometimes go years without finding their subjects. This month they got lucky. Read story

In this May 13, 2017 photo, an activist holds a sign during a protest outside Sea Life Park in Waimanalo, Hawaii. A marine mammal that has contributed to groundbreaking science for the past 30 years is again making waves after being sold to the marine amusement park in Hawaii. Kina is a false killer whale, a large member of the dolphin family. Animal-rights activists say she deserves a peaceful retirement in an ocean-based refuge but is instead being traumatized by confinement in concrete tanks at Sea Life Park. But Kina’s former Navy trainer and a longtime marine mammal researcher say no such sea sanctuaries exist, and the park is the best place for the 40-year-old toothy cetacean.

New home for dolphins, whales?

In this May 13, 2017 photo, an activist holds a sign during a protest outside Sea Life Park in Waimanalo, Hawaii. A marine mammal that has contributed to groundbreaking science for the past 30 years is again making waves after being sold to the marine amusement park in Hawaii. Kina is a false killer whale, a large member of the dolphin family. Animal-rights activists say she deserves a peaceful retirement in an ocean-based refuge but is instead being traumatized by confinement in concrete tanks at Sea Life Park. But Kina’s former Navy trainer and a longtime marine mammal researcher say no such sea sanctuaries exist, and the park is the best place for the 40-year-old toothy cetacean.

August 18, 2017, 6:00am Life

A Hawaii marine park’s purchase of Kina, a 40-year-old false killer whale long used in echolocation research, has reignited a debate about captive marine mammals and the places that care for them. Read story