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...First Parish Plant & Craft Fair in Bedford will feature a large selection of locally-grown annuals and perennials, along with herbs and veggies. Crafters and live music will also be on the scene as well as a professional face painter and petting zoo...
...NING, program director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, on the 11 rare Siberian tigers that starved to death at a Shenyang zoo; three more are in critical condition...
...irony not lost on the Chinese public that the Year of the Tiger has not been good for the big cats. On Tuesday, state media reported that dozens of tigers and other endangered animals had died of malnutrition over the past two years at the Northern Forest Zoo in the Chinese city of Harbin. Workers, who later leaked the story to the media, buried their bodies in a 3-meter pit to hide the animals from authorities...
...report follows the news in March that 11 rare Siberian tigers had starved to death within a few months at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in northeast China. The cases have shed light on the murky world of China's 12 tiger farms, which were initially set up by the state in the 1980s to preserve the numbers of animals in existence. They have also underscored changing attitudes toward animal rights in a country where exotic animals have often been treasured less for their rarity and more for their medicinal or culinary benefits. (See the top 10 animal stories...
Yale astronomy graduate student Carolin Cardamone, who has published research on green pea galaxies, says astronomers were alerted to their existence by Galaxy Zoo volunteers who posted hundreds of images to the site's busy discussion forum. She says the project is an enormous boon to her field. "This is all hard, rigorous science," she says. "We're not giving [the volunteers] busywork to do. We're not doing this so they can have fun with science, but so they can participate in real science...