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Captivity

Members of the "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign celebrate news that Boko Haram extremists have released 21 young captives.

Nigeria’s #BringBackOurGirls campaign celebrates 21 returnees

Conflict

Twenty-one Nigerian school girls were reunited with their parents Sunday after two years in captivity. They say Boko Haram is still holding some of their classmates.

Sumatran tiger Melati looks inside a present box put out to celebrate the first birthday of her cub triplets in their enclosure at the London Zoo on February 4, 2015.

Is it time to close all the zoos?

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It’s All Happening at the Zoo

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