August 20, 2008—A ten-year-old tortoise with paralyzed hind legs has been fitted with wheels at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo—and her "love life" is picking up speed.
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August 28, 2008—The fatal cancer that has ravaged Australia’s Tasmanian devils is evolving more quickly than the feisty marsupials can fight it.
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October 24, 2008— Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park, nicknamed 'Shark Island,' has what might be the highest concentration of sharks anywhere. But even here, sharks are vulnerable.
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March 23, 2009—An animal behaviorist regularly romps with lions on his private animal preserve in South Africa. "If they did kill me ... if I had the opportunity to come back after dying, I would do it all the same," he says.
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August 19, 2008—For the second day an orphaned humpback whale calf is trying to nurse from yachts in an Australian harbor. If the whale doesn’t get milk soon, the animal could die.
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March 13, 2009—In researching sea turtles in Australia, National Geographic’s Crittercam researchers discovered a surprise in the eating habits of the marine creatures.
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March 25, 2008—Pacific leatherback turtles are under serious threat of extinction, as their numbers diminish due to egg poaching and drownings in fishing nets.
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February 6, 2009—National Geographic researchers are trying to collect DNA samples from these odd duck-billed mammals to determine whether there are separate subspecies.
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