Famous Animals, Liberia, 2001.
- Rin Tin Tin, Rusty's loyal companion, was the movie star of D.P. Zanuck's famous TV series.
- Skippy, the TV series kangaroo that took us into the Australian countryside.
- Barry, the Saint Bernard that saved the life of over 40 people in Switzerland.
- Kanzi, the bonobo from the Georgia University Research Center that achieved communication with humans using a keyboard and sign language.
- Chu-Lin, the first giant panda born in captivity, at the Madrid Zoo.
- Elsa, the lioness, was the star of the most popular wildlife saga of its era: Joy Adamson's Born Free.
- Snowflake, the unique albino gorilla at the Barcelona Zoo.
- Layka, the first animal in space, travelled on the Soviet spaceship Sputnik II in 1957.
- Ham, the first of N.A.S.A.'s astronaut chimps that helped science to open new horizons to humankind.
- Lassie, the famous TV series star of the 1950's, from a story created by Eric Knight in 1938.
- Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned in 1997 by Ian Wilmut in Scotland.
- Flipper, the movie and TV star played by dolphins Suzy & Kathy.
Koko the Gorilla
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