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Matevz Logar plays with brown bear (Ursus arctos) cub 'Medo' in Podvrh village, central Slovenia, on June 1. Authorities do not want the Logar family to keep Medo as a pet. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)
12:34 pm ET -'Medo' is an abandoned baby brown bruin rescued by a family in Slovenia. Now they want to keep him, much to the chagrin of local animal experts.
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More Wildlife
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Outdoor cats are easy prey for coyotes
Cats are known as hunters but when coyotes come on the scene, cats who go outdoors become the prey.
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Earth Talk - Little is known of hard-to-track orcas
Orcas are very susceptible to pollution, due to their place at the top of the ocean food chain. But little is known of their habits since they're hard to track.
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Oyster 'gardening' restores reefs after hurricane
In Texas, neighbors experiment with oyster gardening to help rebuild reefs damaged by Hurricane Ike.
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Sizing up palm oil
Palm oil is in everything from fuel to cosmetics. Is it a solution or a problem?
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Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace
Social networks help raise money to save the endangered mountain gorilla.
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How monarch butterflies find their way to Mexico
A new study shows that the butterflies' antennae are key.
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World's first shark sanctuary set to open in Palau
The tiny Pacific nation is fighting to protect more than 130 species fighting extinction in the Pacific Ocean.
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Researchers find rare bird in Fiji
Photos reveal the first sighting of the elusive seabird, the Fiji petrel.
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Endangered Florida panthers feel the squeeze
The big cats need plenty of space, which can put them in conflict with expanding development in the state.
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Traffic noise could be drowning out the croaks of male frogs
A survey of more than 100 ponds found that the number of frogs has declined in Australia's second-largest city.
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