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Dog nurses abandoned panda cubs in China

Two red panda cubs abandoned by their mother at birth are thriving at a northern China zoo thanks to milk and loving care from an unlikely surrogate mother - a dog, state media reported on Thursday. ...full story at CNews

from CNews on Thu, Jul 16 2009

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