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Quake Carnage Spares Pandas

Disaster may threaten animals' food source

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted May 13, 2008 4:27 PM CDT

(Newser) – The residents of the panda preserves deep in the earthquake-ravaged area of China are OK, state media reported today. Keepers of the 86 bears at the Wolong facility, in Sichuan province, and the 60-plus animals at the nearby Chengdu center now must worry about infrastructure... Read full story »

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