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Paul Barton has been playing to the elephants at the Elephantstay program at the Royal Elephant Kraal & Village in Thailand since 1996, but it wasn't until he met Peter that one of the elephants felt compelled to join in. Peter is now a piano-playing pachyderm who totally loves to rock out to a bit of the boogie woogie blues. With his trunk he turns Paul's solo into a delightful duet.

That’s right, gamers: You can make the world a better place for our animal friends by meeting certain challenges set in the newest installment of the hit videogame franchise Zoo Tycoon recently released for the Xbox One and Xbox 360. Pass the controller, it’s time to save the planet!

At one time, the Florida black bear was hunted from a booming population of around 12,000, down to a few surviving hundred. With the black bear population roaring back in the Sunshine State, the crafty bears are quickly encroaching on human property…

Northerners have developed a now-familiar migratory pattern of leaving their empty nests in the North to head South during their retirement years -- or seasonally (December through the March) -- if they can't afford relocation. In the past, they used to be easily identifiable by their white hair color (or sometimes light blue or orange from a dye job gone bad) and were often witnessed driving gas-guzzling Cadillacs or Lincolns down Highway 1.

Lions and Tigers and Bears!  Oh, my!  Noah's Ark Sanctuary has all three--living together after being rescued from an abusive home.

A team of researchers set up a series of motion activated cameras in northwestern Australia to study crocodiles last May, but when they discovered why one of their cameras ended up 70 miles away, they couldn’t help but to share it with the entire internet!

Pit bulls have gotten a really bad reputation over the past couple of decades and it has led to numerous communities banning the breed. While some of the dogs have shown aggressive and even violent tendencies, they can also have a sweet, caring side that gets far less press. This has led to many debates over whether it is really the dogs or the owners that are at fault. Lilly is one pit bull that has challenged the bad press after saving her owner from an oncoming train.

Over the years, there's been legal cases where pets became the sole beneficiaries of their masters' fortunes. The most famous case in point is when New York hotel magnate Leona Helmsley (aka the "Queen of Mean") bequeathed the bulk of her $12 million estate to her Maltese dog, appropriately named "Trouble -- instead of any of her relatives. But up till now, a pet's legal rights is a nebulous area of the law where they literally have no say in legal matters. That was -- until Tommy the chimpanzee . . .

Although animals don’t always act like we’d like them to, I think that punishment should rarely go beyond a rolled up newspaper. The police in India and Nigeria don’t agree, as they’ve arrested an elephant for vandalism and a cow for murder!

Even if you don't allow your pets on your furniture, pet fur and feathers find a way to fly around your rooms until they land on something nice and soft, like your furniture fabric, with great sticktoitiveness. And what about their pet beds and your carpeted stairs?  It's a lot easier to use a lightweight hand-held vacuum cleaner to suck up these pet hairs than an upright vacuum, and there are those that are particularly efficient pet hair suckers! Here are the top five pet owner favorites....