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United Press International
PEKING — Starving giant
pandas, faced with the wither
ing of their bamboo feeding
grounds, have broken into
peasant homes in central China
in search of food, the official
Xinhua News Agency said
Tuesday.
Xinhua said local authorities
in Sichuan Province had appro
priated funds to reimburse
peasants whose homes were
damaged by the marauding
pandas recently.
Wang Quanan, a peasant liv
ing deep in the mountains of Si
chuan’s Baoxing County, said a
f iant panda broke into his
itchen one night, scattered all
the utensils and would not leave
until it had eaten its fill, Xinhua
said.
Wang now leaves a regular
supply of food outside his home
before he leaves for work each
day, the agency said.
Chinese and foreign wildlife
experts trying to save the en
dangered giant pandas say a
famine caused by cyclical with
ering of bamboo plants, the
pandas staple food, is wors
ening.
Xinhua said nearly all of the
bamboo has withered in Si
chuan’s Fengtongzhai Nature
Reserve, home of 200 pandas,
or about one-fifth of China’s to
tal.
The cyclical withering of the
bamboo occurs every 40 years.
The bamboo began to flower
and wither last year and has af
fected up to 90 percent of the
f ilants in some areas, wildlife of-
icials said.
Xinhua said five giant pandas
have died at Fengtongzhai since
last September. At least nine of
the animals have died in other
preserves.
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He is pure greased lightning.
The African Aldabra tortoise
will be cruising for another
eight weeks on a jury-rigged
scooter so his forepaw can heal,
said Robert Fulton, El Paso Zoo
director.
During a zoo board meeting
last week, Fulton reported Al
suffered an injury, possible
when a child seeking a ride sat
on him.
The board accepted Fulton’s
report and responded with little
or no emotion when told about
Al’s unusual mode of transport-
inj^mnself.
Then Al whizzed by a glass
door.
“Hey, what’s that?” one of the
board members yelled with sur
prise. The board immediately
recessed to marvel at the gliding
tortoise.
He could have beaten any^
hare — at least by a turtle neck
— in a race.
Al, a native of the African Al
dabra Islands, went on a safari
halfway around the park in
about 40 minutes, his fastest
time ever, said zoo keeper Di
ana Riley.
Ever since Al got his new set
of wheels, he’s coming out of his
shell after 30 years of intro
verted life, zoo keepers com
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At first, Robert NauJ
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Ms. Gallegos said.
“He likes it. He gets in my
kitchen closet and he can rest
on his scooter,” said zoo keeper
Armida Gallegos.
Al is able to go up small
ramps, making it difficult to
bring the heavy tortoise down
to earth.
Gallegos said it took a while
to develop the ultimate scooter
for Al.
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but he will lx coasting-
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weeks.
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orate telephone hoax by a "very
believable creep" sent a couple
to California in a f rantic search
for relatives they believed were
seriously ill or dead, officials
said Tuesday.
Police said a woman called
the wife of the San Antonio
couple over the Easter week
end, telling her that her brother
was dead and her sister-in-law
critically ill.
The prank call prompted the
unidentified couple to fly to San
Diego, where the brother and
sister-in-law were found in
good health.
In one of three separate calls
to the couple, the prankster
pretended to be the San Anto
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caller also pretended »J
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