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• Fire burns 500 acres northeast of Los Angeles
The nonprofit agency houses more than 400 animals, including lions, bears and deer. Officials were loading up the animals in case the fire switched direction. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Elsewhere in California, a wildfire in Napa ...
• Animals have personalities, too
We know our siblings and in-laws have personalities — sometimes to a fault. But science recently has revealed that such individual differences are widespread in the animal kingdom, even reaching to spiders, birds, mice, squid, rats and pigs. Now a ...
• Kids want a hamster? Ask your doctor first
That's according to the nation's leading pediatricians' group in a new report about dangers from exotic animals. Besides evidence that they can carry dangerous and sometimes potentially deadly germs, exotic pets may be more prone than cats and dogs to ...
• California may require more space for hens
Chickens huddle in their cages at an egg processing plant at the Dwight Bell Farm in Atwater, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 10. On Nov. 4, California will vote on Proposition 2, which would set standards for housing chickens and other farm animals ...
• Mexican pot cartels sully U.S. forests, parks
Rat poison has been sprinkled over the landscape to keep animals away from tender plants. And many sites are strewn with the carcasses of deer and bears poached by workers during the five-month growing season that is now ending. "What's going on on ...