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Without human intervention, 50 to 70 percent of those chicks would have died, Lisa Argilla, the hospital’s senior wildlife veterinarian and director, estimates. But these herculean efforts can ...

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This article is a selection from the November 2024 issue of Smithsonian magazine Belinda ... In 1957, her money mostly gone, Mulrooney moved to a senior care facility in Seattle, where she died ...

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Kamala arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in May 2014. During this time, staff noted that she had unusual joint confirmation.

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