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Photos: Giant panda bears

In light of the recent birth and death of a panda cub in Washington, DC's National Zoo, here's a photo gallery of the curiously hard-to-breed creatures.

The very high price of pandas (photos)

WASHINGTON — An expert from Beijing University said the effort to reintroduce pandas is as "pointless as taking off the pants in order to fart.”

The yellow-tailed woolly monkey: Peru’s charismatic, endangered primate

COROSHA, Peru — Homero Francisco Lopez shudders as he recalls how he used to hunt one of the world’s most endangered monkey species. “I'm ashamed when I think about it now,” says the 58-year-old subsistence farmer. He once shot a yellow-tailed woolly monkey because it had playfully goaded him. “But now that we have learned what a unique animal it is, and how it can even bring tourists here, we want it protected.”

In Ecuador, a young shark "massacre"

PUERTO LOPEZ — A quasi-legal market for shark meat has sprung up in this small fishing village. “Why shouldn’t we be able to share in the riches?” asked one local fin trader.
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