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| x Xiang Xiang | Feb 19, 2007 | China |
Xiang Xiang (August 25, 2001 – February 19, 2007) was the first giant panda to be released into the wild after being bred and raised in captivity. Born at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in the Sichuan Province, Xiang Xiang endured a three...
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| x Su-Lin |
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Brookfield Zoo |
Su-Lin (Chinese: 蘇琳; pinyin: Sūlín) was the name given to the giant panda cub captured in 1936 and brought to America by the explorer Ruth Harkness.
Su-Lin, 9 weeks old at the time of his capture, was named after Su-Lin Young, the sister-in-law of...
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| x Buddy |
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Jan 2, 2002 | Chappaqua |
Buddy "Budweiser" (1997 – January 2, 2002), a male chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever, was one of two pets owned by Bill Clinton while he was President of the United States. The Clintons' other pet was a cat named Socks. Clinton acquired Buddy as...
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| x Seabiscuit |
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May 17, 1947 | Ridgewood Ranch |
Seabiscuit (May 26, 1933—May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many US citizens during the Great Depression. Seabiscuit...
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| x Mick the Miller | 1939 |
Mick the Miller (June 1926 – 1939) is celebrated as the first great greyhound to race in England. Despite a short three year racing career, his achievements were highly publicised and greatly boosted the popularity of the sport. Mick the Miller's...
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| x Moose |
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Jun 22, 2006 |
Moose (December 24, 1990 – June 22, 2006) was a veteran canine actor. He was a Jack Russell Terrier and is most famous for his portrayal of Eddie Crane on the television sitcom Frasier.
Moose was born on Christmas Eve, 1990 in Florida, the youngest...
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| x Wiarton Willie | 2006 |
Wiarton Willie is a famous Canadian groundhog who lives in the community of Wiarton in Bruce County, Ontario. Every February 2, on Groundhog Day, Willie takes part in the local Wiarton Willie Festival. His role is to predict whether there will be an...
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| x Cindy | Jun 18, 2006 |
Cinderella (c.1975￢ﾀﾓJune 18, 2006), though more commonly just called Cindy, was a male bottle-nosed dolphin that made international headlines for an unofficial marriage to a woman.
Cindy was taken in 1990 from the Black Sea to the Dolphin Reef...
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| x Adwaita | 2006 |
Adwaita (meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – 23 March 2006) was the name of a male Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. He was the oldest living animal in Kolkata.
"Historical records show he was a...
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| x Bear JJ1 | Jun 26, 2006 |
Bear JJ1 (2004 – 26 June 2006) was a brown bear whose travels and exploits in Austria and Germany in the first half of 2006 drew international attention. JJ1, also known as Bruno in the German press (some newspapers also gave the bear different...
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| x Bummer and Lazarus |
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Bummer and Lazarus were two stray dogs that roamed the streets of San Francisco, California, USA, in the early 1860s. Recognized for their unique bond and their prodigious rat-killing ability, they became a fixture of city newspapers, were exempted...
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| x Eight Belles |
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May 3, 2008 |
For the nautical term "Eight Bells", see Ship's bell.
Eight Belles (February 23, 2005 – May 3, 2008) was a thoroughbred racehorse owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farms. She finished second to winner Big Brown in the 134th running of the Kentucky...
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| x Bamboo Harvester | 1970 |
Bamboo Harvester was the name of the Palomino horse which portrayed Mr. Ed on the 1961-1966 comedy series of the same name. Foaled in 1949 in El Monte, California, the gelding was trained by Will Rogers' protege, Les Hilton. With Hilton's help,...
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| x Bart the Bear | May 10, 2000 |
Bart the Bear (January 19, 1977 – May 10, 2000), was a male Alaskan Kodiak Bear who appeared in several Hollywood films. Previously, Bart's mother appeared in the films Grizzly and Day of the Animals. Animal trainers Doug Seus and Lynne Seus of...
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| x Laika |
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Nov 1957 | Low Earth orbit |
Laika (from the Russian: Лайка, literally meaning "Barker" or "Howler") was a Soviet space dog (c. 1954–November 3, 1957) who became the first living mammal to orbit the Earth and the first orbital casualty. Little was known about the impact of...
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| x Ham the Chimp |
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Jan 19, 1983 | North Carolina Zoo |
Ham (July 1956 – January 19, 1983), also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first hominid launched into outer space. Ham's name is an acronym for the lab that prepared him for his historic mission — the Holloman Aerospace Medical...
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| x Enos |
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Nov 4, 1962 |
Enos (died November 4, 1962) was a chimpanzee that was launched into space.
Enos was purchased from the Miami Rare Bird Farm in April 3, 1960. He completed more than 1,250 hours of training for his mission at the University of Kentucky and Holloman...
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| x Nim Chimpsky | Mar 10, 2000 |
Nim Chimpsky (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee who was the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition (codenamed 6.001) at Columbia University, led by Herbert S. Terrace.
The validity of the study is the subject...
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| x Toto | 1968 |
Toto (1931 - 1968) was a gorilla that was adopted and raised very much like a human child.
Mrs. A. Maria Hoyt adopted the baby female gorilla orphaned by a hunt in French Equatorial Africa in 1931. Mrs. Hoyt moved to Cuba to provide a more tropical...
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| x Nijinsky II |
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The racehorse Nijinsky (1967-1992) (named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky) was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page, both winners of the Queen's Plate, and a great grandson of Nearco and Bull Lea. For registration clarification, he was...
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| x Himmy |
Himmy is one of the largest cats who ever lived.
Owned by Thomas Vyse of Redlynch, Queensland, Australia, Himmy reportedly weighed 46 pounds 15.25 oz (21.3 kg), and died in 1986 at 10 years of age. He had a 15-inch (38 cm) neck, was 38 inches (97 cm...
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| x Orangey |
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Orangey, a red tabby cat, was a talented animal actor owned and trained by the well-known cinematic animal handler Frank Inn. Orangey (credited under various names), had a prolific career in film and television in the 1950s and early 1960s and was...
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| x Higgins |
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1975 |
Higgins (1957 – 1975) was one of the best-known dog actors of the 1960s – 1970s. Most people remember him either as "Dog" or as "Benji," two of the most popular roles he played during a 14-year career in show business.
The animal trainer Frank Inn...
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| x John Henry |
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Oct 8, 2007 |
John Henry (March 9, 1975 – October 8, 2007) was an American Thoroughbred race horse named after the folk hero John Henry. As a youngster, the equine John Henry had a habit of tearing steel water and feed buckets off stall walls and stomping them...
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| x Ruby |
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Nov 6, 1998 | Phoenix |
Ruby (1973 - 1998) was a 4.5 ton Asian elephant that lived at the Phoenix Zoo and was famous for creating paintings.
Ruby was born in Thailand, probably in the summer of 1973, and was shipped to the Phoenix Zoo in February of 1974. Her painting...
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| x Alex |
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Sep 6, 2007 |
Alex (1976 - September 6, 2007) was an African Grey Parrot and the subject of a thirty-year (1977-2007) experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard and Brandeis University....
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| x Rin Tin Tin |
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Aug 10, 1932 | Los Angeles |
Rin Tin Tin (often billed as Rin-Tin-Tin in the 1920s and 1930s) was the name given to several related German Shepherd dogs featured in fictional stories on film, radio, and television.
The first of the line (c. September 10, 1918 – August 10, 1932)...
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| x Blondi |
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Apr 29, 1945 | Führerbunker |
Blondi (1934 - 29 April 1945) was Adolf Hitler's female German Shepherd dog, given to him as a gift in 1941 by Martin Bormann. Blondi stayed with Hitler even after his move to the underground bunker in January 1945. During the Battle of Berlin in...
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| x Obaysch |
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Mar 1, 1878 |
Obaysch (1849?- 11 March 1878) was the first hippopotamus seen in England since prehistoric times, and the first in Europe since Ancient Rome. He was captured on an island on the White Nile when he was less than one year old. His name is derived...
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| x Winnipeg | 1934 |
Winnipeg (or "Winnie") was the name given to a female black bear that lived at London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934.
She was bought as a small cub for $20 (probably from the hunter who had shot her mother) at a stop in White River, Ontario,...
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| x Jumbo |
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Sep 15, 1885 | St. Thomas |
Jumbo (1861 – September 15, 1885) was a large African bush elephant, born 1861 in French Sudan, imported to a Paris zoo, transferred to the London Zoo in 1865, and sold in 1882 to P. T. Barnum, for the circus. The giant elephant's name has spawned...
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| x Knut |
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Thomas Dörflein (13 October 1963 – 22 September 2008) was a German zookeeper at the Berlin Zoological Garden for 26 years. After the polar bear cub Knut was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth in 2006, Dörflein was assigned as the cub's...
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| x Jambo |
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Sep 16, 1992 | Jersey Zoological Park |
Jambo was a celebrated gorilla housed at Jersey Zoo. The gorilla was born on April 17, 1961, in Zoo Basel, Basel, Switzerland, to mother Achilla and father Stephi. Stephi was acquired from the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo. Stephi was captured in 1950 by...
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| x Pal |
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1958 |
Pal (1940 – 1958) was a male Rough Collie and the first in a line of such dogs to portray the fictional female collie Lassie in film and television. Pal was born in California in 1940 and eventually brought to the notice of Rudd Weatherwax, a...
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| x Skippy |
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Skippy (born in 1931-32; retired in 1939) was a Wire-Haired Fox Terrier dog actor who appeared in dozens of movies during the 1930s.
Skippy starred in many movies. He is best known for the role of the pet dog "Asta" in the 1934 detective comedy The...
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| x India |
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Jan 4, 2009 | White House |
India "Willie" Bush is US President's George W. Bush and Laura Bush's black cat. There was some controversy reported in India as several people were upset with the cat's name. In the southern Indian...
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| x Leopard of Panar |
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1910 | Kumaon District |
The Leopard of Panar was a man-eating male leopard alleged to have killed and eaten as many as 400 people over a period of several years in the Kumaon District of Northern India in the early 20th century, after a wounding by a poacher had left it...
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| x Leopard of Rudraprayag |
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1925 |
The Leopard of Rudraprayag is claimed to have killed over 125 people before being killed by famed big cat hunter and author Jim Corbett.
For eight years no one dared move alone at night on the road between the Hindu shrines of Kedarnath and...
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| x Mother of the Forest | 1852 |
Mother of the Forest (668 BC – AD 1852) was a Californian tree. The tree spent most of its life in Calaveras County, California in the aptly named Calaveras Grove of Big Trees. Stretching 321 feet into the air with a girth of 90 feet at ground level...
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| x Zarafa |
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Jan 12, 1845 | Paris |
The giraffe given to Charles X of France by Muhammad Ali of Egypt (?1825-12 January 1845) was a female giraffe in a menagerie in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris for 18 years in the early 1800s. She was one of the first three giraffes to be seen in...
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| x Travis | Feb 16, 2009 | Stamford |
Travis was a 200 pound chimpanzee that attacked and mauled Charla Nash, on Monday, February 16, 2009 in Stamford, Connecticut.
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| x Socks |
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Feb 20, 2009 | Hollywood |
Socks (c. March 1989 – February 20, 2009) was the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton's family during his presidency. He then resided with former Clinton secretary Betty Currie and her husband.
Socks was adopted by the Clintons in 1991 after he...
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| x Millie |
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May 19, 1997 |
Millie (January 12, 1985 – May 19, 1997) was the pet springer spaniel of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. She was named for Mildred Caldwell Kerr, a long-time friend of the Bushes, which is also the name of Kerr's granddaughter, Millie Kerr.
Millie...
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| x Lucky |
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Jan 5, 1995 |
Lucky, a Bouvier des Flandres dog, was a pet of Ronald Reagan.
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| x Rex |
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Aug 31, 1998 |
Rex (December 16, 1984 – August 31, 1998) was a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel owned by Nancy and Ronald Reagan while the latter served as President of the United States.
Rex, along with brother Fred, had belonged as a puppy to conservative...
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| x Checkers |
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1964 |
Checkers, an American Cocker Spaniel, was a pet of Richard Nixon.
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| x Vicki |
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1976 |
Vicki, a poodle, was a pet of Richard Nixon.
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| x Pasha |
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1974 |
Pasha, a terrier, was a pet of Richard Nixon.
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| x King Timahoe |
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King Timahoe was a presidential pet during the Nixon administration. Named after a village in Co Kildare, Ireland, King Timahoe was a male Irish Setter and a fond companion of the late president.
King Timahoe is also the name of an anonymous...
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| x Him |
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1966 |
Him, a Beagle dog, was a pet of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| x Blanco |
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Blanco, a White Collie, was a pet of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| x Her |
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Nov 1964 |
Her, a Beagle dog, was a pet of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| x Yuki |
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Yuki was a dog owned by Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| x Fala |
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Apr 5, 1952 |
Fala (April 7, 1940 – April 5, 1952) was a famous Scottish Terrier, the beloved dog of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. One of the most famous presidential pets, Fala captured the attention of the public in the United States and followed...
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| x Billy |
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Oct 11, 1955 |
Billy, or William Johnson Hippopotamus, (1920s – October 11, 1955) was a Pygmy Hippopotamus given as a pet to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Captured in Liberia, he was given to Coolidge by Harvey Firestone in 1927. Billy spent most of his life in...
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| x Laddie Boy |
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Jan 23, 1929 |
Laddie Boy (1919-January 23, 1929) was an airedale terrier owned by US President Warren G. Harding and was a celebrity during the Harding administration. Laddie Boy was a faithful kind of dog. When the president played golf and hit a tree, Laddie...
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| x Miss Pussy | 1879 |
Miss Pussy, a siamese cat, was a pet of Rutherford B. Hayes.
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| x Chalky |
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Jan 13, 2007 |
Chalky was TV chef Rick Stein's rough-haired Jack Russell Terrier dog, who regularly accompanied Stein when filming his popular cookery shows and became recognised and popular in his own right - many of Stein's friends and interviewees claimed he...
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| x Clancy |
Clancy, an Irish Wolfhound, was a pet of Denis Leary.
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