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Chinese conservationists are dressing up in fluffy panda costumes as they help prepare captive-born cubs to live in the wild.
"No other mammal routinely adopts other species in the wild - no gazelles take in baby cheetahs, no mountain lions raise baby deer... Every mouthful you feed to another species is one that your own children do not eat. On the face of it, caring for another species is maladaptive, so why do we humans do this?"
"'In 1959, Soviet scientist Dmitri Belyaev set out to breed a tamer fox that would be easier for their handlers in the Russian fur industry to work with. Much to the scientist's shock, changes no one had expected emerged after just 10 generations. The foxes began behaving playfully, were smaller in size, and even changed color - much like dogs.' Belyaev died in 1985, but the experiment continued in his absence, and to this day provides strong evidence to parts of evolutionary theory. The experiment eventually branched out to involve other species as well (rats)."
"Animated characters Wallace and Gromit are to present a new BBC1 programme about inventions."
New studies suggest that our modern elephant had aquatic ancestors.
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