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This year we retired animal names and have introduced inanimate-object aliases such as the Doorknobs and Gumball Machines.
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Combining stakes in Discovery Channel and Animal Planet into new publicly traded company later this year.
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The day of races attracts some of the biggest names in the sport and this year the Dubai World Cup features 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, two-time Eclipse Award-winning Royal Delta and defending champion Monterosso, owned by Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.
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The health board said it believed animal faeces were to blame for this latest Scottish outbreak, which comes just over a year after 18 children were infected at a Scout camp in Aberdeenshire, which was blamed on sheep droppings.
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Animal welfare charity Blue Cross said it dealt with 1, 530 stray and abandoned animals this year, compared with 1, 027 in 2010 - a rise of nearly 50%.
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Joe Cornell, founder of Chicago-based Spin-Off Advisors, says the next step will likely be an exchange offer from Pfizer later this year, giving shareholders the ability to exchange some of their holdings for shares in the animal health business, likely at a discount to incentivize participation.
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This year, it has unveiled a set of 12 Blue Label bottles, each decorated with a different zodiac animal etched with gold onto the glass.
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