Lauren on October 29th, 2008

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Hayden Panettiere joined a few hundred other activists in forming a giant human pilot whale beside the message “VOTE,” yesterday in front of the U.S. Capitol building.
According to the organizers, the pilot whale symbolizes the tens of thousands of whales and dolphins killed each year by Japanese fishermen and the event commemorates the one-year [...]

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As this little fellow’s countryman Rolf Harris might say, ‘Can you see what it is yet?’
No? Well, that’s not surprising. How many times have you seen a baby kangaroo (joey) photographed this early in his mother’s pouch? He’s still at the embryonic stage, and about the size of a jellybean, but has been captured [...]

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Lauren on October 12th, 2008

There’s no doubt what Vladimir Putin’s favorite birthday present is this year _ a rare Ussuri tiger cub.
State television showed the Russian prime minister affectionately petting the two-month-old female cub on Friday. The tiger weighs only about 20 pounds and sleeps in a wicker basket at Putin’s residence outside Moscow.
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When it comes to celebrity tournaments for charity, we here at Ecorazzi simply gush. The concept is pretty simple: pick a game, gets a few celebs, raise a little cash, help a great charity thrive. Notice how “kill animal” was not listed in the above equation.
Rob Lowe has given up the game of golf after [...]

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Last weekend, Ellen DeGeneres hosted a star-studded event in Hollywood raising cash and support for Proposition 2 — a ballot initiative in California that would outlaw confining crates and cages used in the factory farming of hens, veal calves and pregnant pigs. “I think no one goes out of their way to hurt an animal,” [...]

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It looked like a scene from a comedy sketch show - the moment a cow attempted to leap over a woman - and the donkey she was with appeared to collapse to the floor laughing.
This bizarre sequence of pictures shows the cow spotting a lush patch of grass and bolting towards it for a quick [...]

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Lauren on September 23rd, 2008

Baby kissing and hand shaking move over. Tail wagging is now officially on the stump. Amidst the barrage of news on the 2008 presidential election, is another kind of campaign message, delivered by television actor and veteran stand up comic Richard Belzer. He’s now Uncle Sam, star of a life-saving campaign, “We Want You… To [...]

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The National Enquirer is reporting that on a recent trip to Mexico, the Grey’s Anatomy star confronted a local fisherman who had recently caught a yellow-finned tuna. Acting quickly, Heigl offered the man $100 to put the fish back into the water. The offer was declined and it was only after the star doubled the cash that [...]

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Before his death two years ago this month, “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin and his father discovered a unique turtle species that, as Irwin said, can “breathe through its bum.”
Researchers are now racing to save the rare and unusual turtle, Elseya irwini, which appears to be dying out as a result of human activities, according [...]

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Lauren on September 19th, 2008

PARIS Hilton’s publicist has denied rampant web rumours that a coyote savagely killed two of her pet dogs.

Celebrity website X17online.com claims Hilton was “devastated” at the loss of her tiny friends which were said to have been taken by the animal from her Hollywood Hills mansion yesterday afternoon (AEST).
A source told X17online.com, “some [...]

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