41.   Wapstra said wildlife officers had begun a rescue operation.

42.   Wildlife officers are watching weather and tide conditions and are likely to tow the whales back out to sea late Friday or the weekend.

43.   Wildlife officers argued for the primate to be given to the Giza zoo, airport officials said.

44.   Wildlife officers said they had found the charred remains of dozens of rare animals in a blackened nearby national park.

45.   Wildlife officers say the apes might become extinct in some parts of Borneo if the fires worsen.

46.   Wildlife officers were treating dozens of possums, fruit bats, kookaburras and other birds who were knocked out of trees.

47.   Wildlife officers strung fluorescent fencing in March around vast sections of sand where the piping plover nest for the summer.

48.   Wildlife officers and volunteers planned on Wednesday to rescue seven stranded melon-headed whales.

49.   Wildlife officers and volunteers Wednesday saved seven stranded melon-headed whales which had stranded themselves near rocky coastline.

50.   Wildlife officers grapple with potential population explosion.