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Obviously this makes no sense at all.

USDA offers incentives for employees working on avian influenza outbreak to quit Three USDA National Animal Health Laboratory Network employees accepted financial incentives to leave the agency at the end of the month. The employees' jobs include ensuring avian influenza testing is consistent, managing funding and providing administrative support, according to someone with knowl...

This is interesting. Never thought about this phenomenon happening in zoo animals.

Limited exposure to microbes may raise allergy risks in captive animals Siku, a polar bear at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, developed allergies to substances including human hair dander, highlighting how animals in human care can develop allergies due to limited exposure to microbes and parasites, experts say. The rise in allergies among zoo animals, pets and farm animals...

Its important to have native plants in your gardens for the bees.

4,000 native bee species in US, none of which produces honey There are more than 4,000 species of native bees in the US, each of which has unique pollination abilities, none of which live in hives or produce honey, and many of which have only a mild sting, says biologist Sydney Shumar of the US Geological Survey's Bee Lab. Shumar notes that native bee populat...