1.   A zoologist and a woman who raised the gorilla work together to rescue him and bring him to a California animal preserve.

2.   In her effort to protect him from hunters, she takes him to the animal preserve in California.

3.   She reluctantly assents to his argument that Joe would face less danger in his California animal preserve than he would from poachers in his native Africa.

4.   His agency was contacting Florida animal preserves on Wednesday trying to find a new home for the gator.

5.   Resources at accredited animal preserves are strained as they deal with increasing numbers of big cats that were once pets, wild life activists said.