To protect the buffalo, KWS is conducting an awareness campaign among the locals and is also tracking the rare animal.

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Discount-cigarette billionaire owns land in Texas, New Mexico and Florida, mostly used to propagate rare animal species, like the pygmy hippo and okapi.

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In 1987, Mr. Gilman sent John Lukas, a zoologist who heads White Oak's conservation program, to Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to work with pygmy tribes to capture an okapi, an extremely rare animal that resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra.

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Scientists will eventually find widespread evidence of simple, microbial life, they theorized, but complex animal or plant life will prove extremely rare.

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He was looking for property to set up a place for his animal breeding operations a hobby that started with rare breeds of cattle, he says.

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Transmission to humans is extremely rare, but possible if a person is in close contact with an infected animal, the Food Standards Agency said.

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Lt Tony Spada of Fish and Wildlife told the Fresno Bee this type of incident was "very rare" because of the safety measures required by the state and because regulations require minimal human-animal interaction.

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