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...health of their breed. But pooches with health problems still win prizes. John Smith Baxter, a vet in northern Leeds and once the star of a long-running TV series on vets, recalls examining a top Crufts spaniel and finding that both its patellas (the kneecaps of the hind legs) were slipping out of place, a condition almost certain to have been caused by an inherited developmental abnormality. The legacy of ill health resulting from too much inbreeding is long. Cavalier King Charles spaniels and boxers are now often afflicted by heart problems. Irish setters, cocker spaniels and collies suffer...
...grasslands and bushes and things like this, and eating a lot of fruits and berries coming off low bushes, there is a hell of an advantage to be able to reach higher. That's why the gerenuk [a type of antelope] evolved its long neck and stands on its hind legs, and why the giraffe evolved its long neck. There's strong pressure to be able to reach a wider range of levels...
...Moments after the photo was taken, he was killed in the cross fire. Several weeks into the contest, however, a wave of Web surfers, spurred by mass e-mails among Israeli sympathizers, swamped the site with votes for cute-animal photos. (A crippled puppy using a wheeled cart for hind legs took the top spot.) The site canceled the contest last month on the ground that people were voting more than once...
...crowded city-and certainly not with its teeth removed, subsisting on bread and milk and fettered by a painful noose through its nose. They shouldn't behave like Girdhari Lal, a bear who knows all the standard stunts. How does a movie heroine walk? The bear stands on his hind legs and sways seductively. A hero? The bear swaggers. Show us how to smoke a cigarette? The beast puffs on a bamboo stick. And are you going to claw these nice people watching you? He shakes his head. "These animal rights people don't understand," says Girdhari Lal's owner...