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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sun Bears: Have It Your Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Hall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bear Awareness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, observing sun bear cubs Pagi and Palu can come with certain challenges associated with their current life stage. Like a growing human child, the sun bear twins have begun asserting themselves with regard to their daily lives (see previous post, Sun Bear Enrichment).  We saw this same behavior with previous cubs Danum and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andean Bears: Field Research Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Van Horn</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[agouti]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[bear research Peru]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ocelot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Qoyllor Rit’i]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve left the field and spent some time on vacation around Cusco, Peru, before returning to the U.S. This was a short trip to southern Peru, but it was as productive as I could expect, and I believe it will prove beneficial later this year (see previous post, Andean Bears: Back to Peru). With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exciting Times at the Okapi Barn!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Redding and Matt Anderson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Animal Stories]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[imprinting okapi calf]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[okapi bioacoustics study]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[okapi breeding program]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[okapi foot care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[okapi training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recording okapi behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=4747</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The okapi barn at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park has been a bustling place of late. Our training program has been coming along beautifully; we can now perform a variety of husbandry procedures with the okapis without anesthesia. We can take temperatures, lift and examine feet, perform ultrasounds, and undertake many other procedures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Tortoise: Twizzler</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Kahn</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Desert Tortoise Conservation Center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[desert tortoises with special needs]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[special-needs tortoises]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tortoise shell deformities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tortoises and paint]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tracking desert tortoises]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=4734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at the San Diego Zoo’s Desert Tortoise Conservation Center (DTCC) in Las Vegas, we have a number of special-needs desert tortoises that serve as wonderful education animals, and each of us has our favorites. Mine is Twizzler. He arrived here at the DTCC in 2007, and when he arrived, we found that he had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naming &#8216;Alala Chicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Switzer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Hawaii Bird Project]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA['alala]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alala chicks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Keauhou Bird Conservation Center]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=4731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, June 7, a group of students from Volcano School of Arts and Sciences, K’au High, and Pahala Elementary School were welcomed on a VIP visit to the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center (KBCC) on Hawaii. Four of the children were winners of a contest to name the four `alala youngsters successfully reared during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Panda Fun!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anastasia Horning</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Giant Pandas]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=4711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we start our summer hours, the Giant Panda Research Station at the San Diego Zoo is open until 8:30 each evening during Nighttime Zoo. Since we are open later, a few changes are occurring to condition the bears. Usually in the summer we offer their evening feeding a little later, so as we start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeper Questions: Panda Behavior</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juli Borowski</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=4685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello again, panda fans! I was excited to read all of your questions in response to my previous post (see Panda Keeper Questions)! 
It seems that our Panda Cam provides not only entertainment but a chance for our viewers to study panda behavior and to wonder where some of the pandas’ actions come from. Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkeying Around…with Marsupials!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Kline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Bonner Summer Student Intern]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Buerger’s tree kangaroos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[enrichment]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=4678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen big plastic toys in polar bear pools? How about mirrors, swings, or other objects with gorillas and monkeys? But what about marsupial exhibits: have you ever seen interesting objects in with these animals? Probably not very often. Unlike bears, large cats, and primates, we don’t always think about enrichment items for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Okapi Spends Its Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Brzezinski</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[activity budget of okapis]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=4673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frequent comments heard at the okapi exhibit in the Wild Animal Park’s Heart of Africa habitat is “Hey, it’s a zebra-horse!” However, okapis are not very closely related to either zebras or horses; the unusual and eye-catching okapi is most closely related to the giraffe.
In the wild, the okapi lives in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pandas: A Better View</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Hall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Giant Pandas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[panda bai yun]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[panda cub den]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[preparing for panda birth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the birthing window for Bai Yun, we are busy making preparations to ensure that things go smoothly for her this summer. Over the years, we have a series of tried-and-true checklist items we believe help us to ensure the health and wellbeing of our prolific panda and her offspring. One of the [...]]]></description>
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