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Scottish Wildcats Are Interbreeding Themselves Into Extinction
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 14 hours ago - blogs.smithsonianmag.com
Scottish wildcats, the U.K.'s only remaining species of wild feline, look a little bit like adorable grey tabbies, slightly on the large size, with a bushy striped tail. But the species lived in Scotland long before any domestic relatives--or humans--
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Tyler's Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge Provides Homes for Big Cats
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, tigers )

Cher
- 14 hours ago - news-journal.com
Nestled away in the tall pines of East Texas is a place where the big cats are free to roam and roar as they please.
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4-Pound Hairball in Stomach of 400-Pound Florida Tiger! VIDEO!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, tigers, hairballs )

Cher
- 14 hours ago - sun-sentinel.com
While Ty reclined drowsily in the back of Vernon Yates' white pickup, about a dozen reporters and photographers stood less than 2 feet from his open cage, snapping photos of him - and of themselves, standing within inches of the 400-pound Siberian tiger
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Growing Siberian Tiger Population Poses New Challenges
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, tigers, wildlife )

Cher
- 14 hours ago - english.peopledaily.com.cn
While the growth of the Siberian tiger population has provided some comfort to animal protection experts, increasing human-tiger conflicts in northeast China have created new challenges.
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Operation Enduring Wait - Jon Stewart
Offbeat  (tags: Jon Stewart, Operation Enduring Wait, Veterans, veteran health care system, Obama Administration 2009 promise, backlog, unacceptable, Americas Heroes Return )

Dandelion
- 1 day ago - thedailyshow.com
The Obama administration's 2009 promise to create a seamless, computerized health record system for veterans proves elusive. Jon Stewart may do this in a humorous way, but at the end, he lets everyone know, there is nothing at all funny about this.
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Very Rare Leopards Caught On Camera! VIDEO!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, camera traps )

Cher
- 7 hours ago - planetsave.com
Critically endangered Javan leopards have been caught on digital camera traps in West Java. If you have been following conservation news, you know that the Formosan Cloud Leopard was recently declared extinct. They were driven into extinction by human
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David Bowie's Bass Player Trevor Bolder Dies Aged 62 Long Battle With Cancer
Offbeat  (tags: Music, Rock, performer, Media, news, David Bowie. Uriah Heep )

Candy
- 1 day ago - nme.com
As a member of the Spiders From Mars backing band alongside Mick Ronson on guitar & Mick Woodmansey on drums Bolder played on a host of classic Bowie albums, including 'Hunky Dory', 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
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Chicken Rescuer Says Hens From New Colony Cages as Damaged as Those From Battery Cages
Offbeat  (tags: endangered, environment, humans, money, lies, dishonesty, corruption, business, food, disease, death, safety, treatment, prevention, protection, nutrition, interesting )

Kelly
- 1 day ago - freefromharm.org
Justine Renhard is a 42-years-old, and living in England who has rescued a lot of animals. Among them, Justine has had the opportunity of rescuing both chicken hens from battery cages as well as chicken hens from the new enriched cages
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After You Read This Kid's Story, You'Ll Think Twice About What You Post On Facebook. (And That's The Problem.)
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Agnes
- 1 day ago - one-vibration.com
Meet Cameron D'Ambrosio. He's 18 and lives in a small town outside Boston. He wants to be a rapper and calls himself "Cammy Dee" in his YouTube videos. Oh, and he's been locked up without bail for weeks -- facing terrorism charges and 20 years in prison
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Seeing For Two
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection )

Cher
- 7 hours ago - all-creatures.org
If his mother could see him now--her beloved boy, alive and well, and cherished, in a land of love and plenty. If she could see the way he sauntered out of the rescue trailer, swift and surefooted as a deer, the way he glided into this welcoming world
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Citizen Army Lobbies Congress for Clean Air
Offbeat  (tags: pollution, protection, politics, healthconditions, humans, congress, propaganda, usa, ethics, unusual, safety, society, protection, interesting, goodnews, americans )

JL
- 1 day ago - earthjustice.org
Ambassadors from every state arrive en masse to buttonhole congress reps
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Westboro Baptist Church Blames Oklahoma Tornado On Jason Collins' Coming Out
Offbeat  (tags: ethics, bizarre, odd )

Marty
- 2 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
A prominent member of the Westboro Baptist Church is drawing a link between the Oklahoma tornado's devastation and a local team's support for openly gay NBA star Jason Collins.
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Video:World's Weirdest - Narwhals
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, interesting, off-beat, wildlife, unusual )

JL
- 5 hours ago - biologicaldiversity.org
The so-called unicorn horns once prized by Renaissance collectors &thought to have magical powers likely belonged not to mythical white horses but to the chunky, odd-looking whales we know as narwhals, which are now among the marine animals threatened
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Video:Letterman's 'Top 10 Reasons I Decided to Become a Teacher'
Offbeat  (tags: funny, ethics, americans, humor, off-beat, society )

JL
- 5 hours ago - takepart.com
In this funny clip, ten rookie educators from Teach for America tell Letterman why they entered the teaching profession.
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Man Takes Elderly Dog on One Last Adventure
Offbeat  (tags: safety, interesting, world, off-beat, humans, animals, interesting, pictures, safety, goodnews, dogs, design, pets, animalwelfare )

Kelly
- 1 day ago - animalconnectionac.wordpress.com
On the Manly Ferry to the city Novak Tonkin Zeus is 15-years-old, deaf and blind. His owner isn't ready to just let him die yet though. Instead he is taking Zeus on an adventure, traveling all around Australia
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