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Dog grooming refers to both the hygienic care and cleaning of a dog, as well as a process by which a dog's physical appearance is enhanced for showing or other types of competition. A "dog groomer" (or simply "groomer") is a person who earns their living grooming dogs. Grooming is an important part of dog care. Depending on the breed, age, and health of the dog, grooming may be a daily activity...

An elephant wild run in an Indian city of Thrissur, causing panic for around three hours. The Indian Elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, is one of four subspecies of the Asian Elephant, the largest population of which is found in India. This subspecies is also found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Burma/Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam. The other three subspecies of the Asian Elephant are the Sumatran Elephant (E. m...

"We had been taking some pictures and had just decided to head back when a Southern Right whale, between 11 - 14 m (37-45 ft) long, breached about 100 meters (328 ft) away from us. It then suddenly breached about 10 meters (33 ft) from us and then – right on us! We were sailing so had no engine and we could not even take any action." The Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena...

It's hot in China and tigers are looking for places to cool themselves down. These two tigers fought for a pool and the Siberian tiger was defeated and fled...

A young female polar bear came to the vessel, which was stopped and shut down in fast ice on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway. She was playing right in front of cameras entertaining people. The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a bear native largely within the Arctic circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses...

These beautiful underwater creatures were discovered by scientists during the 6-week expedition that was part of the MAR-ECO project. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge Ecosystem Project is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that studies the macrofauna of the northern mid-Atlantic Ocean including the processes that control their distribution and community structures in the waters around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...

Owls belong to the order Strigiformes, constituting 200 extant bird of prey species. Most are solitary and nocturnal, with some exceptions (e.g. the Northern Hawk Owl). Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except Antarctica, most of Greenland and some remote islands. Though owls are typically solitary, the literary collective noun for a group of owls is a parliament...

A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to 6 m; some authors set a minimum of 10 cm trunk diameter (30 cm girth). Woody plants that do not meet these definitions by having multiple stems and/or small size are called shrubs...