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About Animals 6 A HIPPO in our TIME
About Animals 5 ZOO, 1750
About Animals 4 Cell Phones for Canines & Cats
About Animals 3 Oscar, Nursing Home Comfort Care Cat
About Animals 2 Jet was a Dog no Shelter Wanted
About Animals 1 How Florida’s Famous Animals Originated
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A HIPPO in Our TIME
Each year on the Central West Coast of FLORIDA, a hippo born at the San Diego Zoo that has lived in Florida since 1966, receives extra visitors at a birthday bash.
If you watched TV in the 1960s you may have seen Daktari. On that show you may have seen a hippo, [...]
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Zoo, 1750
Writer & artists were pulled to the muse of wild animals of the world when ships unloaded them as treasures from expeditions that also brought back plants, spices, seeds and gems. In France, King Louis XV’s Versailles’ private zoo included cheetah, rhino, macaw, cassowary, along with domestic fox, wolf and others. Artist Jean-Baptiste Oudry painted many of the royals [...]
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Cell Phones for Canines & Cats
Jon Mooallem writes in The New York Times Sunday Magazine (1.13.2008) about many things cell phone, including info on how animal groups can benefit from our olde cells.
Groups that receive a donation from a business called Collective Good for these used cell phones include the Humane Society of the United States. The [...]
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“A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat” by Dr. David M. Dosa of the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island is a must-read article in the New England Journal of Medicine ( July 2007).
I reached it via www.boston.com/news/globe/heatlh_science.gallery
Oscar is a valued member of the 3rd-floor staff of the Steere House [...]
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JET was a dog no shelter wanted.
But good news for JET.
His high energy level worked well in Fort Myers Florida at the Southwest Florida International Airport.
JET took classes in chasing wild birds away from areas at the airport where their activities might interfere with air traffic. The result is that he beame the first documented dog [...]
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How FLORIDA’s FAMOUS ANIMALS originated.
On Florida’s lower west coast in Bradenton in 1966 my family & I met a manatee.
Today this same manatee is still living in Bradenton. He is known as Snooty.
I never forgot his story.
And his story, from baby reportedly born in captivity to his work in educating schoolchildren & helping visiting sick & injured [...]
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