In all, White Oak houses 270 animals.

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On their wish list for celebrity endorsements of the campaign are animal rights advocate Betty White ( who loves animals more than people) and vegan Alicia Silverstone who loves animals so much that she feeds her son like one.

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Sick animals often have higher white-cell counts as their bodies churn out more ammunition to fight the infection, but those in the Virginian study all came from zoos, and were believed to be hale and hearty.

ECONOMIST: Promiscuity pays

The white sun was still cool and the animals were cautiously on the move: wildebeest were calving and zebras grazed, their brush-like tails swishing at clouds of pestering tsetse flies.

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The woman's blouse is a purple-striped white cloth embroidered with flamboyant images of birds, animals and flowers.

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The zoo runs the European breeding programme for white-collared lemurs and is home to 10 of Europe's 14 animals.

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They have found up to threefold variations in the concentrations of lymphocytes and monocytes two key types of white cell in the immune system coursing through the veins of the animals they looked at.

ECONOMIST: Promiscuity pays

He told the packed hearing room that Ms. White served as chairman of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, likes to "crack open a cold can of Bud" and was effective on the basketball court as a member of a New York women's basketball league.

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In the 1990s, the first white rhinos were imported from South Africa and the results of the breeding programme saw the animals transferred to other reserves in Kenya, including Lake Nakuru National Park, Sweetwaters Game Reserve and Lewa Downs Conservancy.

BBC: The rhino wars of central Kenya