Word: pumbaa
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From Mickey and Goofy to the Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa, animals have been valued--and immensely profitable--members of the Disney family. But caring for the live creatures at Animal Kingdom is different from controlling the animated critters for which the company has been famous. Over the past six months, more than a dozen animals have died at the Disney zoo or on their way there. Last week, prompted by the string of deaths, the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched an investigation to determine whether Disney has violated the Animal Welfare...
...names Timon, Pumbaa, Simba or Nala don't mean anything to you, then you probably don't know people who count their age in single digits. These are names many zookeepers hear every day as children gazing at meerkats, warthogs and lion cubs recall the characters from Disney's 1994 hit The Lion King. "The popularity of these animals in the last three years has been amazing," says Greg Hudson, director of the Fort Worth (Texas) Zoo. "It's great. We can take that and educate [more kids] about the social structure of those animals...
...TIMON AND PUMBAA (from The Lion King) 66 2 RUGRATS 63 3 BUGS BUNNY 60 4 MICKEY MOUSE 59 5 (tied) MILO (from The Mask) 55 6 (tied) ROAD RUNNER 55 7 TASMANIAN DEVIL 54 8 (tied) CASPER 53 9 (tied) GARFIELD 53 10 (tied) SNOOPY...
...says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane), a streetwitty meerkat, and the lumbering wart-hog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). They chew beetles...