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If you enjoy learning about interesting jobs, find this article and more like it on Your Hot Job, TFK's career-focused website for kids. What does your future hold? Meet Arvid Edward. He first heard of veterinarians in ninth grade. He…
South Korea’s panda population nearly doubled on Tuesday, July 11—from three to five. Twin cubs were born at Everland theme park. That’s near the capital city of Seoul. But the newcomers will eventually be sent to China, where their parents…
In the middle of the night, a baby chimpanzee is having nightmares. Chantal, his caretaker, tries to soothe him back to sleep. They’re at the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center. It’s in the Republic of the Congo, in Africa. The chimp’s…
Dogs bark. Frogs croak. Birds chirp. Certain animals are known for their sounds. Others seem to be silent. But a study published last October in Nature Communications suggests otherwise about some of these so-called quiet creatures. Researchers recorded 53 species…
Jane Goodall is the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees. She began studying them in what is now Gombe Stream National Park, in Tanzania, in the 1960s. She spoke with TFK Kid Reporter Shaivi Moparthi. 1. What inspired you to dedicate…
A baby pangolin is weighed on February 23. It lives at the Prague Zoo, in the Czech Republic. It’s the first of the endangered species ever born in Europe.
Joan Strassmann can rattle off trivia about birds as fast as a peregrine falcon can shoot through the sky. Did you know that northern flickers get their young to leave the nest by continuously shrieking? Or that American coots sometimes…
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was held last month in Panama. The international conference set new protections for some 500 species. Many were animals. They have been hunted and sold as…
On September 13, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced a proposal. It would protect tricolored bats. The animal would now be listed under the Endangered Species Act. This follows a similar proposal, made in March, to reclassify…
This dolphin calf is improving after being stranded near the shore in Thailand. When it was found, it was sick and too weak to swim. Vets and volunteers feed th…
