The 200-square meter wall near Marylebone Road -- one of the UK capital's grimiest thoroughfares -- is being monitored by Imperial College, London.

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James (Jim) Foster, an animal breeder, has 187, 500 furry creatures in just one of his kennels, a half-filled 6, 000-square-meter building in Wilmington, Massachusetts.

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