the animals live one day, i live one day. >> the sheer number of animals here is incredible.t does give you a sense of the magnitude. people like her and others have for years fought the government to improve it should policies in terms of the treatment of three animals but some feel the policies are not humane enough. activists say the government should either neutered animals and set them free or encourage more people to adopt. the government admits there are shortcomings but they are addressing concerns. >> in 1999, for example, will be -- euthanizing 90% of all animals we called and last year were down to 50%. i would say we made remarkable progress. >> government officials extended the number of days the keep animals alive from 7-12, but they said the public and its role which culture and ultimately are to blame -- abandoning pets and leaving them to be dealt with by an overwhelming system. al jazeera, tie 1. >> scientists found the biggest fragment of a meteorite that exploded with the force of an atomic bomb in russia. it weighs almost 2 kilos and one of more than 100

(lyndal davies) johan deben dormir al animal para que podamos moverlo. davies) mientras más pronto pongamos al leopardo en otra jaula más pronto podremos despertarlo, mientras menos tiempo pase el animal sedado menos se demorará en recuperarse. (johan) está despierto. dejémoslo aquí, john, john. (lyndal davies) en este caso el leopardo sigue despierto y johan debe aumentar la dosis de tranquilizante. esperen, esperen. (lyndal davies) finalmente se duerme. al parecer este gran felino soportó más de lo que debía. tiene unos dientes rotos y su mandíbula está lesionada aunque al parecer está mejorando. una lesión como esta podría ser de una pelea con otro leopardo o de una patada que le dio un antílope cuando intentó atacarlo. (lyndal davies) el animal será llevado al hospital en donde dormirá con el efecto del tranquilizante. mañana lo traeremos a la reserva y no hay nada más peligroso que intentar liberar a un leopardo. ♪ ahora veremos un viaje a la escuela muy interesante. ♪ para la cuidadora peta-lynn o'brien el día comienza muy temprano. antes de preocu

they claim he was running an animal rescue the abused animals instead of helping them. mr. gear says that is not true. tonight he is free on bail and telling his story. attorney is an's animal lover. he is accused of animal cruelty. >> i agree to represent him because i believe in him. >> he was arrested thursday and charged with 23 counts of animal cruelty. prosecutors say they found 18 puppies and five dogs living in deplorable conditions. >> stacked in crates that in some cases were too small for them to turn around. the conditions were felt safe. >> baltimore county animal control says 4 dogs had to be unionized, 3 went to other rescues and the rest were adopted. >> there does not appear to be any facts to support any allegations, of animal abuse. >> gear says he saved animals from kill shelters. >> he does not make a lot of money doing it. he is looking out for their help in well-being. but his name has been destroyed in the industry. >> the three largest animal shelters in the area said they had never heard of him or have no relationship with him. the last 8 months th

it is wanting animal rescue that abused animals instead of helping them. he says it's not true. this morning he is free on bail and telling story to 11 news reporter cato mar -- kate omara. >> he is an animal lover brings his dog to the office an important point because anthony joseph gear is accused of animal cruelty. >> i agree to represent him because i believe in him. >> the 29-year-old was arrested thursday charged with animal cruelty. gears operation called baltimore animal rescue network or barn prosecutors say they found 18 puppies and nfive dogs living i deplorable condition. >> stacked in crates that were sometimes too small for them to turn around. the conditions were absolutely filthy. >> animal control says four dogs had to be euthanized three went to rescues and the rest were adopted. police call it neglect. gear's attorney calls it slander. >> there doesn't appear to be any facts to support any allegations of animal abuse. >> gear says he saved animals from kill shelters in west virginia as proper vet approvals and documents to do so. >> he doesn't make a lot of m

animals instead of helping them. he said he is free on bail and telling his story to 11 news reporter cato marah. >> the attorney is an animal lover brings his dog to the office an important point because he is accused of animal cruelty. >> charged with 23 counts of animal cruelty. baltimore animal rescue they found five dogs living in quote deplorable conditions>> stacked in crates that were in some cases too small for them to turn around. the conditions were abc slaughtly filthy. >> four dogs had to be euthanized three went to other rescues and the rest were adopted. police call it neglect. gear's attorney calls it slander. >> there doesn't appear to be any facts to support any allegations of animal accuse. he saved animals from still shelt shelters. >> he is not making a lot of money doing it. he looks out for their health and well-being. his name has been distroe i had. >> the animal rescue community is a tight knit one. however they said they never heard of barn or had no relationships. barks in baltimore city t

so, do you think tax dollars should be spent evacuating animals from disaster? >> i love animals. so i'm an animal lover. >> yes, 'cause i'm a vegetarian. so i should answer that question yes. >> i don't. i mean, personally, i'm all for animal rights, but i feel like there are a lot more pertinent issues than evacuating animals from disasters. >> although that is important, i don't think that should be the primary use of our tax dollars. >> um, if they're domestic animals, yes. if they're used for great, um -- great uses, such as maybe elephants in india or, um, horses in places that don't use engines and, um, vehicles such as tractors. >> i think tax dollars should be used for evacuating animals from disasters because animals don't exactly have the intelligence we do. so they can't really help themselves. they need help more than we do. >> uh, yeah. i think there is too much animal abuse in this country. and, um, when i have to pay taxes, that's what i want it to go towards. >> most of the teens we spoke to agree. they say spend the money, save the pets. if this issue is importan

baltimore animal rescue network. $but baltimore county police say barn, as its known, was a fraud, and accused its leader of not helping and abusing animals. >> reporter: the research shows the conditions were unsanitary. the dogs had very little room to move. they were crowded together, and the conditions were just filthy. >> reporter: on thursday, police arrested 29-year-old anthony gere. he was charnlged with 23 gownt -- charged with 23 counts of animal cruelty. police say gere would keep the animals in horrible conditions and later try to sell the animals. >> reporter: police tell eyewitness news that investigators have been watching the suspect and handling these animals since october of 2012. >> reporter: barn has its own facebook page. police say 18 puppy and 5 dogs were seized january 14. 5 of the puppies were in such bad shape, they were immediately euthanized. >> reporter: gere being held on $35,000 bail. it's not clear at this time what has happened to all of the puppies. >> gere is being held in dorcheste

the horses' owner faces two animal cruelty charges after animal control found one horse in desperate need of medical attention. it later died. >> the foals were really the ones that were in the worst condition. >> reporter: she runs a rescue group called the foxy g foundation that took in some of the sick horses. when she went looking for some unaccounted horses on the properties, she found multiple dead horses, many already decayed down to the bones, some still rotting karakas. >> i didn't know what kind of person could do that to an animal and just leave them like they were garbage. >> reporter: there's nothing in the law. although animal control officials say they're still investigating, for now there's little they can do about it. >> the longer an animal carcus is left to decompose, it's harder to prove points on animal cruelty. >> reporter: they might never know how these horses died or what happened to many of the horses they believe housemen owned. housemen is still facing two counts of animal cruelty. his first scheduled court appearance is set for march 6th. >> housemen coul

they live longer than any other animal on earth, well over 150 years. they weigh up to a quarter of a ton and have shells over a meter across. they really are giants. some 15 subspecies of these reptiles evolved on the galapagos, but in the 17th century, human beings discovered the islands. the tortoises were a valuable source of fresh meat, and visiting sailors took them away by the thousands. by the middle of the 20th century, one third of the original subspecies had been totally exterminated, and only 3,000 of the remainder still survived. in the early '60s, the world wildlife fund got involved in trying to halt the decline. they put money into a pioneering captive rearing program at the charles darwin research center on the galapagos. tortoise eggs were collected from the wild and carefully raised away from introduced predators. by the 1970s, when i first visited the galapagos, the first captive bred tortoises were ready to be released. and a dramatic discovery had been made on pinta island. the subspecies that evolved there had long been thought ex

you combine animals and life, you have zoetis, providing health care to animals. >> tom: one out of every seven new jobs created in january was in the health care field. the industry has added jobs every month for almost a decade, but the health care business faces big changes in the year ahead with government budgets under pressure and the reform law taking effect. we spoke with former senator tom daschle and former health and human services secretary donna shalala. shalala is now the president of the university of miami, where we caught up with them today. >> the two of you are veterans of capitol hill budget battles, both in congress and in the white house. how does the budget battle that is ongoing now different, especially in terms of health care? >> well i think there is a growing realization that the entitlement programs comprise one of the largest parts of our budget and have to be addressed if we're going to get some handle on the deficit problem going forward. >> you're part of the fix the debt organization trying to get congress to concentrate on entitlement reform. you have sa

you combine animals and life, you have zoetis, providing health care to animals. >> tom: one out of every seven new jobs created in january was in the health care field. the industry has added jobs every month for almost a decade, but the health care business faces big changes in the year ahead with government budgets under pressure and the reform law taking effect. we spoke with former senator tom daschle and former health and human services secretary donna shalala. shalala is now the president of the university of miami, where we caught up with them today. >> the two of you are veterans of capitol hill budget battles, both in congress and in the white house. how does the budget battle that is ongoing now, different, especially in terms of health care? >> well i think there is a growing realization that the entitlement programs comprise one of the largest parts of our budget and have to be addressed if we're going to get some handle on the deficit problem going forward. >> you're part of the fix the debt organization trying to get congress to concentrate on entitlement reform. you have s

this is the longest-lived animal or one of the longest-lived animals on the planet. the plow share tortoise. >> rose: how long? >> i would -- no one really knows but i would suspect at least 200 years. so to get to that size and then to come and engrave that beautiful shell, 150 year animal 2,00 years, it's hardtor do. >> rose: how do you measure success? >> i would like to believe that we can preserve these things in the wild for the most part. in some cases we can't but with the plow share tortoise i think that would be the case. >> rose: you're doing good's work. >> we're trying, one step at a time. let's see what happens. it's so important for people to get away. >> rose: and if they want to know more about this where do they go? >> www.the turtle conservancy.org. >> rose: thank you. pope benedict xvi resigned from his post as head of the roman catholic church last week. he is the first phone do so in almost 600 years. benedict stated that due to his age and health he could no longer fulfill his duty. as the vatican searches for answer and a successor, a debate o

an animal rights group say conditions inside slaughterhouses and farms here in the u.s. are horrible and insider and spend time working on a farm joins us to share his story. and what it was south florida university a private prison corporation and football have in common i handed involves money and naming rights we'll look into that connection coming up. it's wednesday february twentieth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. we begin today with a look at why environmentalists are outraged over president obama's recent golf trip as thousands tens of thousands of americans descended upon washington d.c. to protest the keystone x.l. pipeline we find out days later president obama was the gulf thing at a florida resort with tiger woods a big oil big wigs among its gulf buddies jim crane and milton carroll both prominent figures in the texas oil industry crane happens to own the excrete exclusive yacht and golf club where they were playing he was also a big donor to the obama campaign carroll is the chairman of houston based center point

, any animal, in a certain position, they could lose that animal. >> we found it happened. going through monthly air travel consumer reports from the department of transportation, dating back to 2007, the investigative unit discovered more than 300 animals have died, then injured or gone missing. most never to be found. all on the airlines' watch. but we don't know how many animals are transported. by law, airlines only have to disclose if a pet is hurt, lost, or dies during the trip. delta saw the most incidents. followed by alaska, american airlines, continental and united airlines, one of those incidents on united involved a dog named alabama many. >> his ticket was twice what mine was. >> reporter: michael paid $650 to have alabama fly from miami to san francisco, on united's pet safe program. >> they guarantee you that your pet will always be in acclimated surroundings. >> reporter: but he says during a layover in houston, he saw his dog, sitting on the tarmac on a luggage cart. >> he spent almost four hours in that plastic kennel in conditions well above 85 degrees. >

. >> animal abuse. >> exactly. kerplunk, problems with your digestive system. >> mousetrap animal hater. >> patty cake, patty cake, pro patties and cake. >> operation. animal mutilation. >> killing bin laden. >> my little pony, aryan youth? >> that is bestiality, at least in my family. do we have time for this one? from pistols to popularity, we love ya despite libya. that's the message to hillary clinton. reports that the former secretary of state is america's most popular politician. it obama, bynum and john gibson. let's go live to capitol hill. >> i was assuming that was an unsolicited video. we are all broken up by that. i am extremely troubled. tom, what do you make of this? are you surprised? she is a delight. she is a delightful person. >> women love her because she is a strong educated woman and she takes you back. >> how much does the favorable press help her? nobody asks tough questions. >> she has had a free pass her whole career. except when she ran against obama, of course. but she is the most popular

of the dinosaurs -- animals like this, amphibians. globally, the numbers of amphibians are declining at an alarming rate. one third of all species are now critically endangered. in the rainforest of costa rica in the late '70s, we filmed the monteverde toad. ten years later, inexplicably, it had become extinct. it was only in the last few years that the mystery of what killed the toad was finally solved, and that was not before many other species of amphibians had also died out. in fact, while we were filming "life in cold blood" in 2007, i actually witnessed the extinction in the wild of the panamanian golden frog, which fell victim to the same insidious killer. individual males set up their territories beside the river and then wait for females to turn up. and since good positions for the territory are not common, they may have to hold them against intruders. and here one comes. just in case his call is inaudible, he makes his message clear with a wave. and his rival waves back. he repeats his message so there's no misunderstanding.

we're going to handle some animals in a moment. first, natalie has the headlines. >>> alabama boy rescued monday after a six-day hostage standoff has gone home from the hospital. authorities stormed the bunker where he was held. jimmy lee dykes, also suspected of killing a bus driver, was found dead. a camera was used to monitor the activity in the bunker and decided to move in when they felt the boy was in imminent danger. >>> president obama is hosting separate white house meetings today with business and labor leaders to discuss immigration reform. on monday he took his push for tougher gun laws on the road, appearing with police officers in minneapolis to highlight that city's progress against gun violence. >>> and last night, the president signed a debt limit bill that temporarily suspends the cap on federal borrowing and delays the possibility of default. >>> a renewed effort to protect our nation's diplomats overseas, the senate approved a $1.1 billion bill that would beef up security at u.s. embassies around the world, tran

enrichment for the animals. anybody that goes to watch or participate they find out what it is you do for the animals. >> stimulation variety and encourages natural behavior in the animals. they are working to give valentine scenes for enrichment for animals. it is today and we have activities through out the entire day. find specific times there's an animal that you are looking to see what enrichment opportunities are going to be there. the zoo is open this entire weekend and monday. we also had 60 percent off general admission as well. >> this is the trend now in zoos. it has been maybe for the past 20-years or so to the animals just aren't in a cage. try to natural lies them and challenge them in what would be their natural environment as much as you can>> that is one thing enrichment does it encourages natural behaviors whether stalking or hunting that is part of what they do. there are other things that they wanted to work. >> to make in a good show so to speak>> the animals really enjoy it. the public love

most of the rock hard features the elk master of the siberian tiger are another animal to pick it is the bison one of the main targets for hunters according to archaeologists primitive humans killed off the last bison you could hear some six thousand years ago scientists of. numerous bones of my need for some beasts the ancient nomad camps. but recently direct descendants of the siberian bison reappeared here in the early twenty first century . these large amount ml's have an excellent sense of smell bison love that an area because they always smell of hay they keep the bison in good health communicate with them and even help with their private lives. woman bison have a matriarchal society there but the main herd is commanded by a wise mother she is always surrounded by young mothers and the cubs keep away from them they roam by themselves or in small groups but there is a dog one among them his name is yashica he insists on being with the cows. bison returned due to an unprecedented experiment set up by canada's elk islands national park it was the first time in history that would b

animals in need arriving non-stop for week.oing the very best to keep up. they have some great success stories to tell too. but as you will see in tonight assignment 7 report the center needs a new home. >>reporter: it's a picture perfect day at lake tahoe not everyone healthy enough to enjoy it. some local are sick or injured. or orphaned. >> we are given every single one of these birds and animals a second chance at life. >> this is lake tahoe wild life care run by cheryl and tom mill ham this sick bobcat arrived. not sure yet what is wrong with it. >> we have given her some fluid and some vitamins. >>reporter: in the next room a great horn oil owl. >> recovering from a broken wing. >>reporter: he had surgery 10 days ago now the challenge toning keep him calm and discourage him from flapping his wing while it mends. wild life center its actually part of the mill ham home. garage is packed with food for the animals. back yard filled with cabins. built for wide range of creature from river otter to bald eagle. >> see the right

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it's thursday let's get geeky on some dung beetles in the animal kingdom there are a few creatures as interesting as the dung beetle dung beetles are primarily known for scale of a gene in desert environments for animal droppings and rolling those droppings into a ball and stashing them away someplace and then eventually eating them well now dung beetles might become known for something else than eating other animals leftovers scientists have discovered the dung beetles may be the first insects at least so far that we found to use the band of light that stretches across the middle of the night sky in the summer of the milky way to orient themselves as they roll their balls of animal ways to around in the desert a study conducted by the south african scientist dr reid was reported in the journal current biology dung beetles like to run in straight lines and when they fire defined by a live animal droppings they shape it into a small ball and start pushing that ball away to a safe place where they can eat it to accomplish this task getting a good burying is crucial because if the beetle

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