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What has worked before, however, is noncaptive breeding programs. In the mid-1990s the Florida panther, a subspecies of the mountain lion, had been reduced to 30 to 50 animals that were showing hallmarks of inbreeding, including kinked tails and deformed sperm. In 1995 eight female cougars from Texas were transported to Florida and let loose. They began breeding with their endangered Floridian cousins. Last April, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials declared the program a success, estimating the genetically healthy population at 80 to 100 animals. Alas, the Iberian lynx has no suitable relative to reinvigorate its stock...
Obama became a state senator in Illinois in 1997. In 2000, he had a career low point, when he lost a race against Bobby Rush for U.S. Congress. Rush, a former Black Panther, ran as the incumbent, and many in the black community didn’t find Obama’s biracial heritage appealing...
...Panthers gave him a narcotics test, but the results turned up negative. A doctor finally diagnosed Jenkins with sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that distorts normal sleep patterns and sparks fatigue. Surgery corrected his condition, and the 6-foot-4, 335 pound Jenkins has been awake ever since, making two straight All-Pro teams. Several NFL general managers have named him the best lineman in the game, and ex-Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and CBS commentator Boomer Esiason simply calls Jenkins a ?freak.? Some peers go even further. ?Kris Jenkins is the dominant force in football,? says fellow Panther tackle Brentson...
...Naomi Watts is not exactly a Gray Panther. But like the character she plays in 21 Grams--and like three other featured players in our ensemble: Paul Giamatti, Sean Astin and Shohreh Aghdashloo--she has been abruptly thrust into the spotlight after years of scrambling to make...
Zurich is about the last place in the world you'd expect to see a red-ruffed lemur or panther chameleon-in the middle of the alpine winter, no less. But the city's zoo on Zurichbergstrasse is a tropical jungle all year round. The 10,000-sq-m greenhouse is one of the world's largest man-made rain forests: its humidity and temperature faithfully re-create the climate and ecosystem of the endangered rain forest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula...