Topic: Noble Beasts (page 4)

In this Feb. 19, 2011, photo a bison graze in a snow covered pasture at the Wilder buffalo ranch near McLaughlin, S.D. Corson County, which ordered the animals into the sheriff's care, has spent more than $50,000 providing feed and plowing roads at the ranch, which straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer) (AP)

JAMES MacPHERSON

Michael Rubinkam

Peter Finocchiaro

Scottish deerhound Foxcliffe Hickory Wind is led in the ring during competition at the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, at Madison Square Garden in New York. The dog won the hound division. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (AP)

Peter Finocchiaro

Kaffi, an Icelandic Sheepdog, enjoys a belly rub during a news conference to introduce the new dog breeds ahead of the 135th Annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 in New York. The dog show runs Feb. 14-15 at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo) (AP)

The author's 15-year-old pug, Belle

Stephanie Tames

Rogue turkey terrorizes Massachusetts

Associated Press

Mary Elizabeth Williams

An artist's rendition of Punxatawney Phil.

From left: "River Monsters," "Monsters Inside Me" and "I, Predator"

Schuyler Velasco

Christy Corp-Minamiji

Lion held in captivity at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lion_-_melbourne_zoo.jpg">Melbourne Zoo</a>.

Man lives with real live lions for charity

In this Jan. 11, 2011 photo, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin named Tanner, foreground, imitates the behavior of another dolphin, Kibby, rear, at the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Fla. During the study Tanner, who wore eyecups to block his vision, was able to copy the behavior of the other dolphin without the use of vision. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) (AP)

FILE - This undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf. An environmental group has filed notice that it will sue the federal government to force it to adopt a plan for the recovery of gray wolves across the lower 48 states. Biologists with the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 they want to expand that recovery nationwide. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,file) (Anonymous)

Adam Clark Estes

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2010 file photo, a cross-eyed opossum (didelphis) called Heidi sits in her interim enclosure, in the zoo in Leipzig, Germany. Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is the latest creature to rocket from Germany's front pages to international recognition, capturing the world's imagination with her bright, black eyes turned toward her pointed pink nose. (AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Willnow, File) (AP)

Adam Clark Estes

A worker with U.S. Environmental Services, a private contractor, picks up a dead bird in Beebe, Ark. on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011 as more can be seen on the street behind him. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday more than 1,000 dead black birds fell from the sky in Beebe. The agency said its enforcement officers began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. Friday. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins) RETRANSMISSION FOR LARGER FILE (AP)

Adam Clark Estes

A leatherback turtle (Mark Dodd / Wildlife Resources Division, State of Georgia)

Study tracks turtles' trek across South Atlantic

Vet: Power line to blame for Louisiana bird kill

JANET McCONNAUGHEY

Assistant State Veterinarian Dr. Brandon Doss examines dead red-winged blackbirds at the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission Diagnostic Laboratory in Little Rock, Ark., Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Scientists are investigating whether bad weather, fireworks or poison might have forced more than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds out of the sky, or if a disoriented bird simply led the flock into the ground. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston) (AP)

Mystery of 4,000 dead blackbirds still unsolved

Inside the shady world of reptile smuggling

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