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BEIJING (AP) - The U.S. panda population will soon grow to six. Two giant
pandas were loaded into crates, and left Beijing Friday for a 7,500-mile flight
to a new life in Atlanta. The 2-year-old pandas, Jiujiu and Huahua, will have a
new $7 million home at Zoo Atlanta, where they will be on loan for 10 years.
Researchers will study them to try to learn more about why the endangered
animals show little interest in mating while in captivity. Pandas are native
only to China. Of the roughly 1,000 remaining pandas in the world, more than 120
live in captivity and 80% live in the province of Sichuan. See full
story
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - To the delight of conservationists and fishermen, Atlantic salmon have returned to the waters above the site of a 162-year-old dam that was torn down earlier this year to allow fish to swim upstream. Striped bass have come back too, in such numbers that fly fishermen have been having a field day on the upper Kennebec River. The stripers have been feeding on yet another species that swims upstream from the sea, alewives. The removal of the 24-foot-high Edwards Dam has completed the rebirth of what was historically such a rich fishery that early colonial settlers grew weary of eating fish. See full story |
