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Monica Szczupider, the photographer who took National Geographic's chimp funeral photo, explains how the chimps reacted to seeing the 40-year-old chimp named Dorothy taken to her burial in September of 2008. Szczupider's photo is in the November issue of National Geographic magazine, on sale now. --blogs.ngm.com

Among the results of studies on canine intelligence? Border collies are #1. --nytimes.com

Folk singer Taylor Mitchell's mother Emily asked that the coyotes that attacked her daughter be spared. --nytimes.com

Two oryx, which are extinct in the wild, died at the National Zoo. --foxnews.com

A Japanese fishing boat capsized when its crew tried to haul in giant jellyfish. --telegraph.co.uk

Amazing photo: a photographer on a hike took a snapshot of a little bird attacking a hawk on its head. --dailymail.co.uk