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Pets & Wildlife

Woman gets backlash for having invasive bear killed

August 6, 2016, 2:29pm Nation & World

A mother of three has provoked a backlash for having a bear shot after it repeatedly broke into her Southern California mountain home. Read story

Dog from Texas, missing for years, finds his way home

August 5, 2016, 6:03am Life

Corky went missing in August of 2009, when he somehow slipped away from the Montez family’s fenced-in yard in Texas. Read story

Clerk Sam Dagon does her work at Litchfield, Ill., Public Library as the library&#039;s cat, Stacks, sits on the circulation desk.

The last free-ranging library cat in Illinois

Clerk Sam Dagon does her work at Litchfield, Ill., Public Library as the library&#039;s cat, Stacks, sits on the circulation desk.

August 5, 2016, 6:02am Nation & World

Even before you enter the stately limestone library with leaded glass windows and copper-colored trim, you see signs of the local celebrity. Not at eye-level — look lower, and there, hovering in the shadows behind the glass door, are two ice-green eyes, staring up at you with frank curiosity. Read story

Airport now offering post-security pet potties

August 4, 2016, 5:27pm Business Briefs

Portland International Airport on Thursday opened its post-security Pet Relief Area. Read story

Pinky, a flamingo at the park in Tampa, Fla. Joseph Anthony Corrao was visiting Bush Gardens with his family on Tuesday when he reached into a pen, picked up Pinky and threw her down. The bird suffered traumatic injuries and had to be euthanized. Corrao was arrested and released on bond.

Family man fatally injures ‘Pinky’ the dancing flamingo

Pinky, a flamingo at the park in Tampa, Fla. Joseph Anthony Corrao was visiting Bush Gardens with his family on Tuesday when he reached into a pen, picked up Pinky and threw her down. The bird suffered traumatic injuries and had to be euthanized. Corrao was arrested and released on bond.

August 3, 2016, 10:24am Life

Veterinarians at Busch Gardens had to euthanize “Pinky” the dancing flamingo after a man grabbed her from an animal viewing area and threw her to the ground. Read story

A male greater honeyguide in Niassa National Reserve in Mozambique. (Claire N.

Bird teams up with humans for ultimate prize — honey

A male greater honeyguide in Niassa National Reserve in Mozambique. (Claire N.

July 31, 2016, 6:00am Life

For thousands of years, humans have trained animals to help them. Today, pigs locate truffles. Dogs sniff for drugs. Dolphins detect underwater mines. Read story

Rabat zoo seeks answers after elephant kills girl with stone

July 29, 2016, 10:58am Life

PARIS -- Experts at a zoo in the Moroccan capital of Rabat are trying to understand why an elephant hurled a stone toward visitors, killing a 7-year-old girl. Read story

Illinois Department of Natural Resources biologist Nerissa McClelland holds an alligator gar Aug. 12, 2015, collected during a sampling survey at Powerton Lake in Powerton, Ill. Biologists are restocking alligator gar in several states where it disappeared about a half-century ago, partly in the hope that it will be a powerful weapon against Asian carp.

Huge, once-hated fish now seen as weapon against Asian carp

Illinois Department of Natural Resources biologist Nerissa McClelland holds an alligator gar Aug. 12, 2015, collected during a sampling survey at Powerton Lake in Powerton, Ill. Biologists are restocking alligator gar in several states where it disappeared about a half-century ago, partly in the hope that it will be a powerful weapon against Asian carp.

July 29, 2016, 10:10am Life

CHICAGO -- It's a toothy giant that can grow longer than a horse and heavier than a refrigerator, a fearsome-looking prehistoric fish that plied U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico to Illinois until it disappeared from many states a half-century ago. Read story

Nancy Lee with Dolly, whom she adopted from the Animal Rescue League. Dolly is the shop cat at WearWoof, Lee&#039;s upscale Ross, Pa., resale store, where all proceeds go to local animal shelters, and a presidential candidate.

Cat runs for president to fix America

Nancy Lee with Dolly, whom she adopted from the Animal Rescue League. Dolly is the shop cat at WearWoof, Lee&#039;s upscale Ross, Pa., resale store, where all proceeds go to local animal shelters, and a presidential candidate.

July 29, 2016, 6:01am Pets & Wildlife

One more candidate entered the presidential race on July 22, promising to “Fix America.” Read story

You can summon someone to clean up after your dog with one-tap using the app Pooper.

App finds someone to scoop dog poop for you

You can summon someone to clean up after your dog with one-tap using the app Pooper.

July 29, 2016, 6:00am Pets & Wildlife

What do you get when you combine a population too busy to look up from its smartphones, a “one-tap economy” and 78 million pet dogs? Read story