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Watch: Rare manatee sea cow enjoys new home at French zoo | Lifestyle [Video]

A young manatee cow is settling into her new home at a Paris zoo, with the hope she will breed and secure the future of the threatened species. The Parc Zoologique de Paris hopes two-year-old Unai will mate with one of its three male manatees aged 15 to 35 years, as part of a Europe-wide programme to breed the species in captivity. The threatened species has seen its numbers dwindle to less than 10,000 amid a loss of habitat, injuries from contact with the propellers of ships, and pollution.

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Campbells pollution suits: Darcy cartoon [Video]

Even the iconic Campbell’s Soup Kids may be leery of being in or on the Maumee River and Lake Erie after the company was sued by the D.O.J./E.P.A. and advocacy groups for discharging millions of gallons of wastewater from it’s Ohio canning plant into the river that flows into the lake downstream