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• Doctors: No hamsters, exotic pets for kids
CHICAGO - Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets — or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter — because of risks for disease. That's according to the nation's leading pediatricians' group in a new report ...
• Sticky glue out-geckos the geckos
CHICAGO - A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stickier than other gecko-inspired glues, researchers said on Thursday. “It’s the stickiest dry glue yet,” said ...
• Boy breaks into zoo, kills animals
SYDNEY, Australia - A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday. The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo's ...
• Scientists count kangaroo rats from outer space
For food, they pile seeds from native grasses in circles outside their burrows, which provide shelter for the endangered San Joaquin antelope squirrel and blunt-nosed lizards. Their fat five-inch bodies are a favored source of food for the endangered ...
• Animal sanctuaries: Where the wild things are
The wildlife watcher willing to make the long trek to Komodo National Park in Indonesia is rewarded with sightings of the six- to eight-foot-long Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world and a species that's found nowhere else. While related ...