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      <title>Toy helicopter used to sample whale health</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A scientist from ZSL has invented a highly innovative way of looking for whale diseases: flying a toy helicopter over whales’ blows to sample the gases and mucus that they exhale.]]></description>
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      <title>Knee clicking – male antelope flexes pecs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Male eland antelope demonstrate their physical prowess via a bizarre knee-clicking signal, scientists led by ZSL have found]]></description>
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      <title>Elephants spin out over CDs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Bad music is being put to good use by conservationists in Thailand who are stringing up unwanted CDs to keep elephants away from farmers’ crops.]]></description>
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      <title>Fears for missing gorilla rangers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Thirty-nine ZSL-funded wildlife rangers dedicated to protecting some of the world’s last mountain gorillas are unaccounted for in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[He’s often thought of as a god in the natural world and a recent visit by Sir David Attenborough to ZSL London Zoo seemed to prove it!]]></description>
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      <title>Sabre-tooth tiger was a party animal</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two schoolgirl bookworms found some novel places to browse, by taking their homework to ZSL Whipsnade Zoo for some ‘extreme reading’. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[There’s nothing more rock and roll than being surrounded by female fans and causing mayhem, and ZSL London Zoo’s gorillas are no exception to the rule.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[What do you give a Komodo dragon who’s celebrating a landmark 10th birthday? Well you give him a manicure of course!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A number of red squirrels are immune to squirrelpox viral disease, which many believed would lead to the extinction of the species, scientists have discovered. 
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