The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

They have made over twenty movies and written many books and articles about the behavior of animals in the wild.

VOA: special.2011.03.23

Miz Goodall says when she began working in Tanzania, there were between one and two million chimps in the wild.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Americans can also adopt a burro removed from the wild by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

In a disputed decision, officials took the wild condors into captivity so that their breeding could be supervised and protected.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

It is also called Mardi Gras City for the wild celebrations and parades that take place there every year.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

On average, rhesus monkeys live about twenty-seven years in captivity, that is,when they live with humans and not in the wild.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Instead,visitors travel in small buses that take them to areas where they can walk on paths into the wild areas.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

And as they set off across the wild country of west Texas, their mother and father could hardly hear a thing.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

These include the cowboy of the Wild West and famous Hollywood actors like James Dean and Marlon Brando in the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Being able to watch these animals playing, eating and communicating with each other in the wild is a special experience to treasure.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Nor does he think of the men who struggled to build the first railroads across the wild land.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

It is because of his work that the wild forest at Biltmore has an ordered and peaceful look.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

her grandmother said proudly. "She knows the forest so well, the wild animals come and eat bread right out of her hands."

VOA: special.2010.04.03

She read a book about the wild mountain gorillas of central Africa written by American zoologist George Schaller.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

"Where the Wild Things Are" is a live action film based on the popular book by Maurice Sendak.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Until two years ago, the Red List of Threatened Species of the World Conservation Union said Przewalski's horses were extinct in the wild.

VOA: special.2010.06.22