SeaWorld selling stock: don't mind the debt, trainer deaths, dolphin trade

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SeaWorld IPO documents show a company deep in debt and reveal some interesting stats about how they do business.

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Bears kill keepers in creepy Japanese Bear Farm

Bears escaped from desolate pens where they performed for food (and may have been part of gall bladder harvest). Two of 3 elderly caretakers were found dead.

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Toronto snubs "Raccoon Capital of the World" title

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A “Nature” documentary salutes Toronto’s high density of urban wildlife, but tourism officials want to hide their light under a bushel.

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Japan's Kabukiri Wetlands, a Ramsar site, hopes birders return

Kabukiri Wetlands, where farmers flood their fields to serve migrating ducks and swans, hopes birders will return to the area about 100 miles from the nuclear disaster.

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Top 10 Animal Webcams of 2011

Just a couple years after the Shiba Inu cam sensation, wild animals are fascinating millions of viewers with reality TV, family tragedies and triumphs.

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Wildlife near Fukushima: thriving but radioactive

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Wild boars are thriving near Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, but test with really high levels of radiation. What will happen to the birds and fish that migrate through?

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Yale report: not enough data to believe Japan’s radioactive water dump is safe

Japan isn’t releasing enough information on radioactive compounds and levels to know if sea life is safe. Past nuclear dumps have lead to mass die-offs.

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Tsunami hit biggest colony of endangered albatross, but wildlife largely spared

About 80% of Laysan albatross live on the Midway atoll, which was hit by the tsunami. Rare Japanese wildlife live on southern islands. Orphaned pets wandering.

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Japanese dolphin killers at it again, this time more discreetly & daily tour of animal news

Blue Atlantic discovers Japan still slaughtering dolphins in way that doesn’t turn bay red. South Africa kills four poachers. Six WWF workers kidnapped in India, likely by poachers.

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Woolly mammoths comeback in 5 years; FL monkeys decline

Japan to clone woolly mammoths soon. FL monkey colony down to 20 animals. Porcupine class in WI. Why Mexican wolves get crappy “experimental, non-essential” label

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