Wayward Wallaby Nabbed in Calif. Yard
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FONTANA, Calif. - A wayward wallaby was captured Tuesday after hopping into a backyard in this San Bernardino County suburb about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, authorities said. Someone called police at about 8:30 a.m.
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Thoroughbred escaped from his paddock and may have joined a herd of wild horses
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OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP) - The body of a missing autistic man was pulled from a creek Monday, just metres from where a key piece of evidence was uncovered but originally overlooked because searchers had the wrong information.
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A previously unknown creature has been roaming the Kenai Peninsula's Mystery Hills &#151; or at least its alpine rock crevices.
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FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. - Wildlife officials are trying to coax a seal back into the ocean after it found its way into an area of woods and marshes near the Delaware River.  The 300-pound animal was found in suburban Philadelphia, about 50 miles upriver from where the Delaware becomes salty.
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A three-week search for the companion dog of an Oregon man battling depression has ended happily in Wyoming, more than 700 miles from where the dog went missing in Nebraska.
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FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. - It's a sight not often seen in rural central Indiana - a 6-foot-tall kangaroo bounding around on the loose.  Hancock County Animal Control officers helped capture the Australian marsupial, an escaped pet named Skippy, early Monday not far from its home.
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By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER  SACRAMENTO -- When Berkeley biologist Chris Conroy and colleagues went looking in Yosemite for the alpine and shadow chipmunks, they had trouble finding mammals that an earlier generation of Berkeley scientists found everywhere in the park.
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulled two species be pulled from the endangered list on Monday and recommended that four be downlisted from endangered to threatened on Monday, saying there's been much progress toward wildlife recovery in California.
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Indonesia is returning 17 rare pygmy kangaroos to the Papuan rain forest after rescuing and acquiring them in recent years from illegal traders and private zoos, officials said Monday. It is unknown how many of the mammals, which can grow up to a yard long and weigh 26 pounds, still survive in the wild.
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Animal stolen from zoo found in raid on gang hideout, but two Arabic-speaking parrots still missing.
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By WES SMALLING, PHOTO BY JANE PHILLIPS  ANIMALS  If you leave your hummingbird feeder or your pet's food dish out at night, you might be awakened at 3 a.m. by a grumpy old bear rummaging through your backyard.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo _ killing one visitor and mauling two others on Christmas _ planned a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues.
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By OSKAR GARCIA A three-week search for the companion dog of an Oregon man battling depression has ended happily in Wyoming, more than 700 miles from where the dog went missing in Nebraska. Melody, a 12-year-old border collie mix, was found huddled under a pickup in Sheridan, Wyo.
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A dog let out to chase foxes by his owner, a sheriff's deputy, was picked up by an animal rights activist who now faces a felony theft charge.