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DR Congo - Kinshasa Zoo battles to keep going
Kinshasa Zoo in the Democratic Republic of Zaire is battling against all odds to find the money to keep going. Without the help of one woman in particular, namely Claudine Minesi, it might not have survived.
WS exterior Kinshasa...
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Zoo animals are being kept cool during the summer heat with frozen treats as Rio de Janeiro reaches nearly 104 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday. (Jan. 13)
Zoo animals are being kept cool during the summer heat with frozen treats as Rio de Janeiro reaches nearly 104 Fahrenheit on Tuesday.
Zookeepers from Rio's Zoo provided the furry animals with frozen meat, blocks of frozen fruit and...
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ISRAEL: BIBLE ZOO HOLDS POPULARITY POLL
Hebrew/Eng/Nat
As Labour and Likud struggle for dominance on Israel's political front, there is also a contest to decide who's tops in the animal kingdom.
Jerusalem's Bible Zoo held a popularity poll on Monday - with the elephants...
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CORRECTION Eruption in east sends lava towards national park
Mount Nyamulagira, Virunga National Park - 3 January 2010
1. Mid shot of volcano, with red glow from lava visible
Goma - 4 January 2010
2. SOUNDBITE: (Kiswahili) Celestin Keasereka Mahinda, Volcanologist from Volcanic Observatory of...
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CONGO: FIRST FRENCH SOLDIERS WITHDRAW FROM BRAZZAVILLE
French/Nat
The first French soldiers have begun to withdraw from the Congolese capital, Brazzaville, on Monday.
About 100 French troops left the Congo for the neighbouring West African state of Gabon where talks on resolving the...
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Russia - Katyn Massacre Remembered
Polish and Russian leaders on Sunday (4/6) laid a memorial stone
to mark the site of a mass grave in Katyn Forest about 400 km west
of Moscow of some 4,400 Polish officers executed in 1940 by the
Soviet secret police. Polish President...
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Animals in cool off with ice-cold popsicles as temperatures soar in Rio de Janeiro
Zoo animals in Rio de Janeiro cooled off in the summer heat with some frozen treats on Tuesday, as temperatures reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
Ze Comeia, a brown bear, received a block of frozen fruit which he...
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Pet monkeys threaten native species in Brazil
AP Television
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 1, 2011
1. Various of the Common Marmoset in trees (Callithrix jacchus)
2. Wide pan right of the Barra Woods Park
3. Wide of mother and children in the park.
4. Mid of biologists in woods...
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Two clouded leopard cubs make their public debut at Houston Zoo
'Koshi' and 'Senja', two clouded leopard cubs, made their public debut at the Houston Zoo on Thursday.
Born on June 6th, the brothers have so far spent their time in the zoo's veterinary clinic under round-the-clock care.
In the wild not...
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Zoo presents newborn twin Tamarin monkeys
1. Various of red-handed Tamarin monkey
2. Sign outside the red-handed Tamarin cage
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Andreas Pauly, curator
"The red-handed Tamarins belong to the group of talon apes. What's special about this group is that the...
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A world of strange and wonderful animals await curious football fans
With the football World Cup just days away, one family in Brazil's northern host city of Manaus has been showcasing some of the exotic animals native to the Amazon rainforest that visitors may come across.
Sloths, pythons and baby...
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Mysterious new creature discovered in dense forest
1. Wide of World Wide Wildlife Fund (WWF) at news conference
2. WWF biologist Stephen Wulffraat speaking to journalists
3. Various still photo of a possible new species
4.SOUNDBITE: (English) Stephen Wulffraat, WWF biologist:
"This was...
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Valentine's Day date for gorillas Lisa and Makoko
February 14, 2005
1. Sign reading "Johannesburg Zoo"
2. Various of posters advertising Valentine Day's engagement
3. Press
4. Makoko and Lisa getting to know each other
5. Press and people watching gorillas
6. Makoko and Lisa getting to...
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SOUTH AFRICA: ZOO GORILLA SHOOTING: SUSPECT APPEARS IN COURT
Natural Sound
A South African man who shot and wounded a gorilla in a Johannesburg zoo while fleeing police, appeared in court, on Monday.
Max the gorilla hit the headlines last month, after Isaac Mofokeng entered his pen and in the...
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Zoo animals struggle to stay cool in sweltering heat
1. Panda hall at Beijing Zoo, visitors looking at the panda though glass
2. Panda lying on ground
3. Wide shot visitors
4. Close up of panda covering its eyes with its paw
5. Monkeys hill
6. Various shots of monkeys playing water
7....
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CONGO: LATEST SITUATION UPDATE
French/Nat
Fighting has flared up again around the airport in Brazzaville as French soldiers withdraw from the Congolese capital.
The withdrawal comes as African heads of state joined delegates from the warring factions in the Congo at...
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Honduran president calls his arrest military coup, CRican president
1. Wide of Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, walking into press conference with President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras:
"President Oscar Arias has received me as a friend and...
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Animals feel the heat as drought grips southern Europe
1. Wide shot of zoo entrance
2. Close up of elephant statue on entrance, balloon passes
3. Sign at zoo entrance
4. Elephants in enclosure
5. Various of zookeeper hosing Asian elephants with water
6. Wide shot of visitors watching...
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SOUTH AFRICA: JOHANNESBURG ZOO HOLDS PARTY FOR MAX THE GORILLA
English/Nat
Johannesburg Zoo held a party for its hero, Max the gorilla, to celebrate his bravery after he was shot by a gunman.
Presents and get well messages have been flooding in for Max who's now well on the way to full recovery....
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Animals at Kabul's zoo are also victims of war
1. Wide shot street in front of Kabul zoo
2. Kabul zoo sign
3. Children pulling candy out to feed the animals
4. Chimpanzee
5. Chimpanzee sitting in tyre swing
6. Children looking at monkeys
7. Amazed child
8. Children lined up at the...
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Answer to ancient mystery shows man's ancestors hunted by birds
1. Wide exterior of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand Medical School
2. Close-up of sign reading "Faculty of Health Science, Medical School"
3. Pan from Taung skull posters to people looking at skulls
4. Taung skull
5....
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Ice blocks and popsicles keep sweltering zoo animals cool
Jerusalem
1. Various of bears eating frozen fruit and ice in water and on dry land
2. Close up of bear eating peach
3. Walking shot of zookeeper holding a fruit basket
4. SOUNDBITE: (english) Dennis Smith, zookeeper:
"They like it, it's...
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MALAYSIA: SMOG CAUSING HEALTH PROBLEMS FOR ZOO ANIMALS
Malay/Eng/Nat
The haze of smoke and pollution that's been hanging over much of southeast Asia has been causing health problems for thousands of people.
Now those problems are being shared by the residents of Kuala Lumpur Zoo - where ...
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South Africa - Crime fighting gorilla
Johannesburg Zoo held a party (on Saturday afternoon 26/07) for Max, its crime-fighting gorilla. Max captured the admiration of the world after he wrestled with a fugitive from justice who was hiding in his cage. The astonished criminal...