Hippo hygiene reminds us to brush our dog's teeth - San Antonio Express (blog)

Hippo hygiene reminds us to brush our dog's teeth
San Antonio Express (blog)
At the Shanghai Zoo, zookeepers administer regular oral hygiene to its three hippos. They once used brooms, but for the past two years have used a specially-designed toothbrush they created for a hippo's enormous mouth, which can be up to four-feet ...

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Hippo gets help to brush up on dental hygiene - The Sun


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Hippo gets help to brush up on dental hygiene
The Sun
By MATT QUINTON THESE animal snaps show the moment a hippopotamus opens wide — to allow zoo keepers to brush his teeth. Staff at Shanghai zoo recently introduced brushing sessions three times a week to ensure the animals' gnashers are kept sparkling.

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Open wide! Hilarious pictures of hippo having his teeth brushed - Daily Mail


Daily Mail
Open wide! Hilarious pictures of hippo having his teeth brushed
Daily Mail
By Heather Skillen This is the hilarious moment a hippo makes sure his pearly whites are gleaming - as zoo keepers brush his teeth. The enormous hippos at Shanghai Zoo have some of the cleanest gnashers in the animal kingdom after keepers introduced ...

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Fish finder -- Published May 23, 2012 - Stockton Record

Fish finder -- Published May 23, 2012
Stockton Record
Feather - Shad offer good sport, especially early and late, at Verona, Shanghai Bend and from the bend to the mouth of the Yuba River. Sacramento - Try jumbo minnows to hook pre-spawn and spawned-out striped bass at Colusa and down to Knights Landing.

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Crocodile in suburban creek avoids capture, killed - EastDay.com

Crocodile in suburban creek avoids capture, killed
EastDay.com
A team of animal experts from Shanghai Zoo and police officers tried for two hours to capture it alive from the Zhoupu River using a tranquilizer dart after it was spotted about 4pm on Saturday. Police said the animal evaded repeated attempts to ...

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Dirty Beaches' creative force Hungtai aimed to impress dad - 77Square.com

Dirty Beaches' creative force Hungtai aimed to impress dad
77Square.com
Dirty Beaches' 2011 breakout album, “Badlands” (Zoo), might never have been recorded had Alex Hungtai — the sole creative force behind the name — not wanted to impress his father. “A lot of (the music) I was playing under Dirty Beaches before was not ...

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Hot Picks: Cirque Shanghai's 'Year of the Dragon' - SouthtownStar

Hot Picks: Cirque Shanghai's 'Year of the Dragon'
SouthtownStar
By Jessi Virtusio jvirtusio@southtownstar.com May 16, 2012 3:58PM Cirque Shanghai will present “Year of the Dragon” through Sept. 3 at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago. May 18's Weekend magazine will feature a preview of Suburban Youth Symphony ...

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'Bugs' go to the extreme at Brookfield Zoo - Chicago Sun-Times

'Bugs' go to the extreme at Brookfield Zoo
Chicago Sun-Times
Also on tap: a bug petting zoo (daily), cockroach races and bug cooking demonstrations (weekends only), and an 8-foot-wide by 4-foot-high ant farm in which 5000 harvester ants live. ♦ Cirque Shanghai Year of the Dragon opens May 24 at the Skyline ...

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Day in pictures: 23 May 2012 - BBC News


BBC News
Day in pictures: 23 May 2012
BBC News
... game at the ITTF World Tour 2012 China Open in Shanghai. Alex Spadetti plays with Lequinho, a two-month-old green monkey, whose mother died upon giving birth and is being cared for by a team of veterinarians and biologists at Rio de Janeiro's zoo.

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Japan pandas - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Japan pandas
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Panda fever gripped Japan as a pair of the bamboo eaters was heading in from China, with Tokyo's zoo eying a visitor boom and the government predicting smoother ties with Beijing. Photo: Getty Images / SL A mother takes a photo of a her son posing with ...

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