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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. The first panda kept outside of China, it would die just two years later, but marked the beginning...
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| x Buddy |
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Jan 2, 2002 | Chappaqua |
Buddy (September 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 a...
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| x Seabiscuit |
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May 17, 1947 | Ridgewood Ranch |
Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans...
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| x Mick the Miller | 1939 |
Mick the Miller (29 June 1926 – 6 May 1939) was a male brindle Greyhound. He is celebrated as the first great racing greyhound to compete in England. Despite a short three year racing career, his achievements were highly publicised around the world...
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| x Moose |
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Jun 22, 2006 | Los Angeles |
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 |
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2006 |
Wiarton Willie is a Canadian groundhog who lived in the community of Wiarton in Bruce County, Ontario. Every February 2, on Groundhog Day, Willie took part in the local Wiarton Willie Festival. His role is to predict whether there will be an early...
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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 amongst the longest-living animals in the world.
"Historical records...
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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 |
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 Derby held at Churchill Downs, a race run by only thirty...
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| x Bamboo Harvester | 1970 |
Bamboo Harvester was the name of the Palomino horse that portrayed Mister 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 | Park City |
Bart the Bear (January 19, 1977 - May 10, 2000) was an Alaskan Kodiak Bear that 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 Wasatch...
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| x Laika | Nov 3, 1957 | Low Earth orbit |
Laika (Russian: Лайка, literally meaning "Barker"; c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth – as well as the first animal to die in orbit.
As little was known about the impact of spaceflight...
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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 chimpanzee launched into outer space in the American space program. Ham's name is an acronym for the lab that prepared him for his historic mission...
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| x Enos |
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Nov 4, 1962 | Holloman Air Force Base |
Enos (died November 4, 1962) was the first chimpanzee that was launched into Earth orbit.
Enos was purchased from the Miami Rare Bird Farm on April 3, 1960. He completed more than 1,250 hours of training for his mission at the University of Kentucky...
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| x Nim Chimpsky | Mar 10, 2000 | Texas |
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. Chimpsky was given his name as a pun on...
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| x Toto | 1968 |
Toto (1931–1968) (a.k.a. M'Toto meaning "Little Child" in Swahili) was a gorilla that was adopted and raised very much like a human child.
A. Maria Hoyt adopted the baby female gorilla orphaned by a hunt in French Equatorial Africa in 1931. Mrs....
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| x Nijinsky II |
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Apr 15, 1992 |
Nijinsky (21 February 1967–15 April 1992), usually known in the United States as Nijinsky II, was a Canadian-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the outstanding two-year-old in Europe in 1969 when he was unbeaten in five...
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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 |
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 | Nov 11, 1975 |
Higgins (December 12, 1957 – November 11, 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...
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| x John Henry |
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Oct 8, 2007 | Kentucky Horse Park |
John Henry (March 9, 1975 – October 8, 2007) was an American Thoroughbred race horse who had 39 wins, with $6,591,860 in earnings. He was twice voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year in 1981 and 1984, with his 1981 selection is the only one...
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| x Ruby |
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Nov 6, 1998 | Phoenix |
Ruby (1973 – November 6, 1998) was a 4.5 ton Asian elephant that lived at the Phoenix Zoo and was famous for creating paintings. The most expensive of her paintings sold for $25,000.
Ruby was born in Thailand, probably in the summer of 1973, and was...
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| x Alex | 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 University and Brandeis...
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| x Rin Tin Tin | Aug 10, 1932 | Los Angeles |
Rin Tin Tin (often billed as Rin-Tin-Tin in the 1920s and 1930s) was the name given to a dog adopted from a WWI battlefield that went on to star in twenty-three Hollywood films. The name was subsequently given to several related German Shepherd dogs...
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| x Blondi | Apr 29, 1945 | Führerbunker |
Blondi (1941 – 29 April 1945) was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd dog, given to him as a gift in 1941 by Martin Bormann. Blondi stayed with Hitler even after his move into the Führerbunker located underneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery on...
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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 |
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1934 | London Zoo |
Winnipeg (or "Winnie") (1914 in Ontario, Canada – 12 May 1934 in London, England) 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...
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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 the French Sudan – present-day Mali – 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...
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| x Jambo | Sep 16, 1992 | Jersey Zoological Park |
Jambo (April 17, 1961 - September 16, 1992) was a celebrated gorilla housed at Jersey Zoo. He is well known for rescuing a young boy called Levan Merritt who fell into the gorilla enclosure in 1986.
Jambo means "hello" in Swahili. The gorilla was...
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| x Pal | Jun 1958 | North Hollywood |
Pal (June 4, 1940 – 1958) was a Rough Collie actor 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,...
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| x Skippy |
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Skippy aka Asta (born 1931 or 1932; retired 1939) was a Wire-haired 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...
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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 410 people over a period of several years in Kumaon District of Northern India in the early 20th century.The Panar Leopard was hunted down and killed in...
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| x Leopard of Rudraprayag |
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1925 |
The Leopard of Rudraprayag was a male man-eating leopard, reputed to have killed over 125 people. It was eventually killed by famed big cat hunter and author Jim Corbett.
The first victim of the leopard was from village Benji. For eight years, no...
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| x Mother of the Forest | 1852 |
The Mother of the Forest (668 BC – AD 1852) was an ancient and huge Sequoiadendron tree. The tree lived in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in eastern central California, United States. The dead tree's remains are within the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees...
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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 19th century. She was one of the first three giraffes to be...
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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 Clinton-Currie (March 23, 1989 – February 20, 2009) was the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton's family during his presidency. An adopted stray cat, he was the only pet of the Clintons during the early years of the administration, and his...
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| x Millie |
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May 19, 1997 |
Mildred "Millie" Kerr Bush (January 12, 1985 – May 19, 1997) was the pet english 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...
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| x Lucky | Jan 5, 1995 |
Lucky, a Bouvier des Flandres dog, was a pet of Ronald Reagan.
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Aug 31, 1998 |
Rex (December 16, 1984 – August 31, 1998) was a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel owned by Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy during his term as President of the United States.
Rex, along with brother Fred, had belonged as a puppy to conservative...
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| x Checkers | 1964 |
Checkers, an American Cocker Spaniel, was a pet of Richard Nixon.
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| x Vicki | 1976 |
Vicki, a poodle, was a pet of Richard Nixon.
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| x Pasha | 1974 |
Pasha, a terrier, was a pet of Richard Nixon.
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| x King Timahoe |
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 | 1966 |
Him, a Beagle dog, was a pet of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| x Blanco |
Blanco, a White Collie, was a pet of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| x Her | Nov 1964 |
Her, a Beagle dog, was a pet of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| x Yuki |
Yuki was a dog owned by Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| x Fala |
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Apr 5, 1952 | Hyde Park |
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 | Smithsonian National Zoological Park |
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 (July 26,1920 – 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,...
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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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| x Fanny the Wonderdog |
Fanny the Wonderdog was a pet of Julian Clary.
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