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On a cool December afternoon at the Fort Worth Zoo, Lady Bird splashes her tiny trunk in a watering hole while her mother, ...

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Although populations of bighorn sheep have been reintroduced in Washington since they disappeared 100 years ago, their future remains at risk.

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