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On Feb. 29, Cody Roberts was out hunting on his snowmobile in Wyoming when he crossed paths with a lone gray wolf in the state’s “predator zone,” where wolves can be killed by almost any means and without a license. What happened next made national headlines, and prompted a backlash so fierce that Wyoming’s tourism agency temporarily suspended its practice of advertising state wildlife.
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When pathologists cut open dead sloths from a planned Florida tourist attraction, they found a plethora of pathogens.
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