cub
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Crimson is the latest mountain lion cub to be rescued at the Oakland Zoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
The resulting series is a very grand, real-life chronicle of a lion cub named Kio and how he becomes a king.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
But cold-calling the president of the United States — on his personal cellphone — made me feel like a cub reporter all over again.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
A spokesperson told the BBC the cub "died of natural causes" but the remaining three are "doing exceptionally well and growing in confidence and character every day".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Could it be that the cub was his guide?
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
That pair and their two youngest cubs returned in 2024 to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, where their five older offspring also live.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Over many, many years, they started bringing their cubs into the yard, and then they started nursing in front of us,” said Joanne Edney-Coray, who with her husband runs the popular Silver Salmon Creek Lodge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
A 2-year-old red panda named Ruby died at the Santa Barbara Zoo this week, weeks after the deaths of her two newborn cubs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
But the first weeks of a red panda’s life are fragile, with a mortality rate of roughly 40% for cubs under 1 year of age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
When three cubs were born ten weeks ago, rangers visited all fifty or so of the inhabited islands to share the good news.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season.
From Time Magazine Archive
He set type and cubbed in the summers on nearby weeklies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upon my inquiry of Big Bill respecting his operations on the previous day, he replied that he "guessed he had been occupied in running away from the biggest grizzly bear that ever was cubbed."
From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Sir Samuel White Baker
“Because we don’t have sight inside her cubbing box we can’t be sure if Victoria has had more than one cub but we can confirm the birth,” she added.
From Reuters ● Jan. 3, 2018
On Thursday, Tian Tian dragged more logs into the cubbing box.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015
Last Tuesday afternoon, Maclean noticed damp patches appearing on Tian Tian’s cubbing box.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015
She began to spend more time in and around her cubbing box, a basket that her keepers had placed in her den and modified this year to include a heating element.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015
This was not cubbing, and no one knew it better than Nora; but the sight of Carnage among the prophets—Carnage, whose noblest quarry hitherto had been the Mount Purcell turkey-cock—overthrew her scruples.
From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville
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