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  • A brown bear photographed underwater while fishing. Bears thrive on salmon but compete with 137 species of fish, birds, and mammals that also depend on salmon as a main staple of their diet. <br />
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Grizzly bears gorge on rich protein of salmon for three months.  Though they munch on greens and berries, salmon are their main protein source and they fatten up before hibernating in the winter. <br />
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Brown bears in Kamchatka can be 7 to 9 feet in length and weigh 700-800 pounds. Species: U. arctic Genus:Ursus<br />
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Kamchatka has the highest density of brown bears in the world, with almost 15,000 on the peninsula.<br />
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To make this photograph, which was selected as one of the best photographs in National Geographic, I had to be approximately six feet away from bears like this one that was charging into the water to try to catch a fish. The water in Duril Lake is murky, so I had to be close and shot this photograph with a 12mm lens.
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  • A detail showing a brown bear’s paws and claws while he is tranquilized to be radio-collared by state biologists.  <br />
Grizzly bears, as they are commonly known, are found in most of Alaska from the islands of the Southeast to the Arctic. Over 98 percent of the brown bear population resides in Alaska.<br />
The coastal brown bear is the world’s largest carnivorous land mammal. Nearly 45,000 brown bears (Ursus arctos), roam Alaska, weigh up to 1,100 pounds. Salmon is their primary food source.
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  • An okapi forages in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a World Heritage site that covers around 20 percent of the Ituri Rainforest. <br />
The Okapi is a mammal with distinct striped markings that stands less than five feet tall. It is an herbivore that feeds on tree leaves, grasses and ferns that never developed the long neck of a savannah giraffe since all its’ food is low. <br />
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Okapi are solitary animals whose dark bodies blend into the shadows and stripes break up an animal outline making it difficult for predators to see them. Major threats to this solitary forest creature include habitat loss due to logging, mining and hunting. Classified as endangered,  The Okapi Conservation Project was established in 1987 to protect the species. T
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  • The Okapi is a mammal with distinct striped markings that stands less than five feet tall. The herbivore feeds on tree leaves, grasses and ferns and never developed the long neck of a savannah giraffe since all its’ food is low.<br />
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 Okapi are solitary animals whose dark bodies blend into the shadows and stripes break up an animal outline making it difficult for predators to see them. Major threats to this solitary forest creature include habitat loss due to logging, mining and hunting. Classified as endangered,  The Okapi Conservation Project was established in 1987 to protect the species. THE Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a World Heritage site that covers around 20 percent of the Ituri Rainforest.
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  • School of bottlenose dolphins.
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  • School of bottlenose dolphins.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfaces and dives into Stephens Passage. Studies how the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns in the summer to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • Girlfriends cuddle puppies that bring them joy in a family's barn in the Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Thoroughbred mare runs along side her foal in a pasture on a Kentucky horse farm. Kentucky is famous for bluegrass and rolling hills where over 450 farms breed and train race horses.
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  • Rare white Thoroughbred mare grazes beside her foal. A recessive gene produces all white horses. Patchen Beauty foaled the first white colt in the family, The White Fox on Patchen Wilkes farm. The young foal plays while his mother grazes. He is the 16th non-albino white thoroughbred to be registered with the studbook of the Jockey Club in the more than 1.7 million horses registered.<br />
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The mare and foal descend from the first non-albino white thoroughbred horse registered in 1963—White Beauty—a filly that belonged to Herman Goodpaster. White Beauty produced several alabaster white horses including Patchen Beauty who won two races before becoming a broodmare.
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  • Boy holds a small kitten on his family farm in Greenup, Illinois..
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  • Young puppies learn to associate the horn with food as Rhoda Hopkins uses condi tioning to train the future fox hunters for the Old Chatham Hunt Club.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Fruit bats roosting in a tree.
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  • A pair of fruit bats roosting in a tree.
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  • Child with calf, Church of the Brethren Mennonite families, Peace Valley, Misso uri.  Ozark Mountain area.
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  • A female moose nuzzles her juvenile.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • School of bottlenose dolphins.
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  • School of bottlenose dolphins.
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  • School of bottlenose dolphins.
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  • School of bottlenose dolphins.
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  • Goats stand on the roof in a beach settlement of the fishing village of Saint Louis, Senegal.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A horse cart on a road passing an abandoned granary and church.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfaces and dives into Stephens Passage. Studies how the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • A spotted fawn tries to hide in tall grasses along Pack Creek on Admiralty Island in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Water flows off the tail of a diving humpback whale  (Megaptera novaeangliae). Studies show the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • A dappled gray Thoroughbred mare runs with a black foal in a pasture on a horse farm in Kentucky.
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  • Thoroughbred mare with foal in a pasture munching on bluegrass on a horse farm in Lexington, Kentucky. The region is known as the horse capital of the world with around 450 horse farms.
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  • A recessive gene produces all rare white horses on Patchen Wilkes Farm.  Patchen Beauty foaled the first white colt in the family, The White Fox.  The young foal plays while his mother grazes. He is the 16th non-albino white thoroughbred to be registered with the studbook of the Jockey Club in the more than 1.7 million horses registered.<br />
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The mare and foal descend from the first non-albino white thoroughbred horse registered in 1963—White Beauty—a filly that belonged to Herman Goodpaster. White Beauty produced several alabaster white horses including Patchen Beauty who won two races before becoming a broodmare.
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  • Nurse mares guard over young Thoroughbred foals who are fitted for a halter the first day of their life. They spend weeks in fenced paddocks eating sweet clover, bluegrass and dandelions while learning to socialize before training begins.
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  • Volunteers hold feral kittens waiting to be spayed and neutered.
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  • A black bear sow and her cubs cross a gravel road on Kayford Mountain.
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  • Girl holds a small kitten on her family farm in Greenup, Illinois.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade grounds gate.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A Nyangatom girl tends to livestock in a thorn-fenced area.
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  • A brown bear breast-feeding her cubs at Kurilskoye Lake Preserve. There are almost 15,000 grizzly bears on Russian Kamchatka peninsula that provides habitat and plenty of salmon for bears to thrive on.
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  • A brown bear with cubs on Kuril Lake.A brown bear and her cubs at Kurilskoye Lake Preserve. There are almost 15,000 grizzly bears on Russian Kamchatka peninsula that provides habitat and plenty of salmon for bears to thrive on.
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  • Hyena cubs and other animals are becoming used to tourists.
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  • Refugee Pygmy children and sleeping puppies surround a charred campfire.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribesmen in the rain forest with freshly killed duikers which are an important part of their diet.
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  • A hunter, carries a rifle bushmeat followed by his dogs. He provides monkey meat to the town and surrounding community. Estimates are that between 30 and 85% of daily protein intake of Africans comes from bushmeat. <br />
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Population growth and the commercialization of the trade in bushmeat creates hunting pressure upon wild animal populations. Wildlife numbers are rapidly declining, and there are concerns that animal diseases may be transmitted to humans.
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  • Hunters provide monkey meat to the town and surrounding community.<br />
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Estimates are that between 30 and 85% of daily protein intake of Africans comes from bushmeat. <br />
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Population growth and the commercialization of the trade in bushmeat creates hunting pressure upon wild animal populations. Wildlife numbers are rapidly declining, and there are concerns that animal diseases may be transmitted to humans.
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  • Pin Oak Farm owner and breeder Josephine Abercrombie ran a prominent 4,000 acre  farm near Versailles. A horse lover in her childhood, she brought sugar cubes to her thoroughbreds hoping for a kiss on the cheek from a gentle mare and foal. Abercrombie died in 2022.
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  • Some prized horses live a pampered life in retirement and command large amount of money for breeding rights in the hopes they’ll pass on the best qualities of their bloodline. An Irish farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore, was built in recent years and features stone barns and bridges creating the charm of an earlier era. Stalls are filled with plush straw for bedding under chandeliers that shine in the cupolas.  <br />
Past Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch's stud fees are as high as $125,000 per mating. A farm worker leads the stallion to a breeding barn.
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  • Mares and foals gallop across the pasture on an Irish farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore.
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  • A moose crosses a road on the Gaspe Peninsula.
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  • Some prized horses live a pampered life in retirement and command large amount of money for breeding rights in the hopes they’ll pass on the best qualities of their bloodline. An Irish-owned farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore, was built in recent years and features stone barns and bridges creating the charm of an earlier era. Stalls are filled with plush straw for bedding under chandeliers that shine in the cupolas.  <br />
Past Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch's stud fees are as high as $125,000 per mating. A farm worker leads the stallion to a breeding barn.
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  • Hunters with dead axis deer, an invasive introduced species.
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  • A young camel is slaughtered for meat in a camp kitchen.
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  • Searching for salmon in a fishing camp where waters reveal a bear carcass.
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  • A freshly slain blue duiker or small antelope and a machete in a basket. Pygmies hunt meat for their diet in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Aborigine men skinning and butchering a fresh killed water buffalo.
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  • Two men look at two sacrificed sheep.
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  • A curious Kiger mustang band of wild horses noted for their intelligence and stamina.
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  • Walking in Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach.
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  • Wild horses wade in a waterhole to drink and cool off on a summer evening in the Wild Horse Sanctuary.
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  • Two gray stallions put their heads together to smell a territorial marking. Although it may look friendly, the mustangs are exhibiting behavior typical in a wild horse herd when studs are vying for dominance. At this point, they may fight or walk away to battle another time.
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  • Young boy gallops at full speed riding bare back on a horse leaving clouds of dust in the barren, high-mountain Peruvian desert near Chauchilla.
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  • Street scene outside Ghoray Shah temple.
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  • Larry Visnosky plays with his pet bear, Coco.
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  • Jesse Driskill herding cattle on the Koa Ranch.
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  • Wedding on the island of American Samoa.
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  • Wedding on the island of American Samoa.
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  • Wedding on the island of American Samoa.
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  • Samoan men haul a gift of a gutted pig to a wedding reception.
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  • Samoan men haul a gift of a gutted pig to a wedding reception.
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  • Samoan men haul a gift of a gutted pig to a wedding reception.
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  • Wedding on the island of American Samoa.
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  • Wedding on the island of American Samoa.
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  • Wedding on the island of American Samoa.
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  • Wedding on the island of American Samoa.
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  • Wedding on the island of American Samoa.
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  • A white, miniature poodle gets a bath in a small blue bucket by a worker at a pet spa.
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  • A pet lover with her dog holds out a treat while a dog with big ears peers out from a television screen.
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  • China's only full-time pet photographer kisses one of three Chow Chows wearing hats and scarves..
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  • This couple is training their pet on their friend’s treadmill because they fear if they take the dog outside for a walk, they risk having it beaten to death in front of them by a policeman. Beijing at the time of this photo had a "one dog policy." The dog on the treadmill is a Siberian Husky and police cracked down on large dog ownership. <br />
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Owners of big dogs that live within the sixth ring in Beijing and have an illegal pet have purchased treadmills after the crackdown began. Pets were pulled out of the hands of their crying owners. A group protested in front of the zoo because there was suspicion that some of the dogs were being fed to the tigers. The activists claim dog owners tried to take policemen to dinner to bribe them, but it did not work. They believe the policemen sold some of the nice animals and sent the rest to the zoo.
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  • Two Sudanese children, an adult and a donkey in a desolate landscape.
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  • Dinka tribesmen and their cattle hide in acacia forests to escape attack by government forces. The Government of Sudan (GOS) dropped bombs nearby, wiping out an entire village and all of the livestock. Animals are a target because they are the last resource in times of famine.
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  • A small herd of wild horses, brought by Catholic missionaries in the 19th-century from Tahiti, cross the main road through the island to graze.
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  • A small breed of wild horses, brought over from Tahiti, graze on Easter Island.
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  • A man on horseback rides through downtown Hanga Roa on a busy street in the community of less than 10,000.
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  • A small herd of wild horses, introduced from Tahiti by Catholic missionaries in the 19th-century, trek across Easter Island.
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  • A small herd of wild horses, introduced from Tahiti by Catholic missionaries in the 19th-century, trek across Easter Island.
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  • An ancient Moai statue and wild horses on Rano Raraku crater. Moai toppled along the road were left as rubble.Their eyes are not completed until they standing upright.<br />
A small herd of wild horses, introduced from Tahiti by Catholic missionaries in the 19th-century, trek across Easter Island.
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  • A man with his goats in a beach settlement in Saint Louis, Senegal.<br />
The town was once an important economic center during French West Africa, however, it still has important industries, including tourism, a commercial center, a center of sugar production, and fishing.
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  • Dairy cows stand in water holes to drink in the Suwannee basin in Florida. Concentrated dairy cow operations contribute high nitrate into the aquifer that has karst soil and nearby clear water springs. Waste from a total of 44,000 head of cattle helped ruin a thriving oyster industry in the town of Suwannee, downstream situated on the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • Wisps of smoke float from a burning Chinese herb on acupuncture needles used by veterinarian Rhonda Rathgeber to treat a mare for fertility troubles. The Chinese have been needling horses for several thousand years. Now Western vets are using such holistic remedies alongside traditional medicine or after it fails. Some believe the quick, painless pricks also boost the animal's athletic performance.
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  • A sick foal is tended to while lying on a mat under heated blankets in stall on a Thoroughbred horse farm. Veterinarians treated many foals when a number of mares delivered prematurely or aborted for a mysterious disease that was traced to tent caterpillars in the pastures.
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  • Sick foals are put in the hyperbaric chamber and given large amounts of oxygen for two hours--an experiment that has helped humans and they are hoping horses.  at famed Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital.  The facility is respected throughout the world for innovative and skilled treatment for horses including surgery, internal medicine, advanced diagnostic imaging, a specialized Podiatry Center and specialized Reproductive Center. Thoroughbred horses are like high-powered human athletes and sustain repairable injuries that can keep them racing.
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  • Morning fog rises over Donamire Farm's fenced pastures and pastoral setting in Lexington, Kentucky
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  • Keeneland Race track's Thoroughbred horse auction for two-year olds is where horses often sell for six figures. A bid spotter dressed in a tuxedo searches the crowd while a video showing the horse sprinting on the track along with the time is show on monitors above.
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