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Duncan, a 9 month- old Boxer, runs in the backyard Thursday April 3, 2014 in Vancouver, Wash. Duncan was born with deformed rear legs that were amputated to remove the dead weight. The 9-month-old boxer belongs to Amanda Giese and Gary Walters, who run a non-profit animal rescue called Panda Paws Rescue out of their home in the Clark County community of Felida. Duncan has become an instant YouTube sensation. (AP Photo/The Columbian, Troy Wayrynen)

Duncan, a 9 month- old Boxer, runs in the backyard in Vancouver, Wash. Duncan was born with deformed rear legs that were amputated to remove the dead weight. The 9-month-old boxer belongs to Amanda Giese and Gary Walters, who run a non-profit animal rescue called Panda Paws Rescue out of their home in the Clark County community of Felida.

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A Lemur catta, also known as ring-tailed lemur, with its three-week-old cub clinging to its back sits on a tree at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna April 4, 2014. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA - Tags: ANIMALS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Lemur catta, also known as ring-tailed lemur, with its three-week-old cub clinging to its back sits on a tree at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria.

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A villager holds a red flag as he waits to signal an arriving helicopter at Basa Village Development Committee in Solukhumbu District April 4, 2014. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A villager holds a red flag as he waits to signal an arriving helicopter at Basa Village Development Committee in Solukhumbu District, Nepal.

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Young men walk past a destroyed and graffitied building on a cold afternoon near Kabul's Darulaman Palace April 1, 2014. Picture taken April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)

Young men walk past a destroyed and graffiti-covered building on a cold afternoon near Kabul's Darulaman Palace on April 1.

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A Palestinian protester runs during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, outside Israel's Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah April 4, 2014. Israel has called off a planned release of Palestinian prisoners meant to advance the U.S.-sponsored peace process and called for a review of how the troubled negotiations can make progress, an official briefed on the talks said on Thursday. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Palestinian protester runs during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, outside Israel's Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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A sniffer dog trained to search for explosives, performs during an awareness campaign for schoolchildren at the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters in the town of Naqoura in southern Lebanon April 4, 2014. U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon held an educational campaign for schoolchildren teaching them to identify mines and unexploded cluster bombs to commemorate international mine awareness day. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST EDUCATION ANIMALS MILITARY POLITICS)

A sniffer dog trained to search for explosives performs during an awareness campaign for schoolchildren at the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters in Naqoura, Lebanon.

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A Spanish Red Cross member (R) assists to a Syrian refugee woman inside a Spanish Red Cross office before being transferred to a reception centre in Spain, upon their arrival from Melilla at Malaga port, southern Spain, April 4, 2014. About 30 Syrian refugees, including 15 minors, arrived to mainland Spain by ferry as a measure to alleviate the situation of saturation of the Spanish government-run temporary immigrants holding centre in Spain's north African enclave Melilla, according to local media. Spain has two enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, and migrants from all over Africa regularly try to reach them, mostly by climbing the triple fence that separate them from Morocco. REUTERS/Jon Nazca (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS)

A Spanish Red Cross member assists a Syrian refugee inside a Spanish Red Cross office. About 30 Syrian refugees, including 15 minors, arrived to mainland Spain by ferry as a measure to alleviate the situation of saturation of the Spanish government-run temporary immigrants holding center in Spain's north African enclave Melilla. Spain has two enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, and migrants from all over Africa regularly try to reach them, mostly by climbing the triple fences that separate them from Morocco.

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India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C24), carrying the second navigation satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS-1B, lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100 km (62 miles) north of the southern Indian city of Chennai April 4, 2014. REUTERS/Babu (INDIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle , carrying the second navigation satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS-1B, lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.

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Riders and horses clear 'The Chair' in the 'Supporting The Everton In The Community Steeple Chase' during the Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, northern England April 4, 2014. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: SPORT HORSE RACING)

Riders and horses clear the chair during the Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, northern England.

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Chadian soldiers sit with guns on a vehicle as they drive in Bangui April 4, 2014. Chadian soldiers killed 30 civilians and seriously wounded more than 300 in an indiscriminate attack on a market on March 29 in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, a spokesman for the U.N. human rights office said on Friday. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)

Chadian soldiers sit with guns on a vehicle as they drive in Bangui, Central African Republic. Chadian soldiers killed 30 civilians and seriously wounded more than 300 in an attack on a market on March 29.

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A model presents a creation at the 3rd Salon du Chocolat (Zurich Chocolate Show) in Zurich April 4, 2014. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: SOCIETY FASHION FOOD)

A model presents a creation at the 3rd Salon du Chocolat (Zurich Chocolate Show) in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain drives during the second practice session of the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir, south of Manama April 4, 2014. REUTERS/Caren Firouz (BAHRAIN - Tags: SPORT MOTORSPORT F1)

Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain drives during the second practice session of the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir, south of Manama.

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Racegoers walk through litter as they leave on Ladies' Day, the second day of the Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, northern England April 4, 2014. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: SPORT HORSE RACING SOCIETY)

Racegoers walk through litter as they leave on Ladies' Day, the second day of the Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, northern England.

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - APRIL 04: Tian Tian the female panda at Edinburgh zoo sits inside her enclosure on April 4, 2014 in Edinburgh,Scotland. Experts at the zoo have been monitoring Tian Tian as her hormone levels have been showing she will soon enter her brief fertile mating period. It is hoped that Tian Tian and the zoo's male panda Yang Guang will produce a cub this year as both animals start to show the signs that they are ready to breed.. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Tian Tian the female panda at Edinburgh zoo sits inside her enclosure. Experts at the zoo have been monitoring Tian Tian as her hormone levels have been showing she will soon enter her brief fertile mating period. It is hoped that Tian Tian and the zoo's male panda Yang Guang will produce a cub this year as both animals start to show the signs that they are ready to breed.

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FORT HOOD, TX - APRIL 04: Texas Governor Rick Perry( at podium) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speak to the media during a press conference at the front gate of Fort Hood about Iraq war veteran, Ivan Lopez, who killed three and wounded 16 before taking his own life on April 4, 2014 in Fort Hood, Texas. The investigation continues into why Lopez did the shooting on the base. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Texas Governor Rick Perry (at podium) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speak to the media during a press conference at the front gate of Fort Hood about Iraq war veteran, Ivan Lopez, who killed three and wounded 16 before taking his own life in Fort Hood, Texas. The investigation continues into why Lopez did the shooting on the base.

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An Afghan policeman stands guard on his vehicle in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 4, 2014. Elections will take place on Saturday. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

An Afghan policeman stands guard on his vehicle in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan. Elections will take place on Saturday.

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A truck remains covered by debris and boxes of fallen merchandise that fell from the earthquake ravaged Duty Free Zone of Iquique, in Iquique, Chile, Friday, April 4, 2014. Following a magnitude-8.2 earthquake early in the week, soldiers have kept a close watch on supermarkets and gas stations to prevent looting as many people continued to line up on Friday for gasoline, water and food. The city remained largely peaceful and no new major damage or casualties were reported from the continuing aftershocks that have rattled the sleep-deprived citizens of Chile's north. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

A truck remains covered by debris and boxes of fallen merchandise that fell from the earthquake ravaged Duty Free Zone of Iquique in Iquique, Chile.

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President Barack Obama meets with Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, Friday, April 4, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama meets with Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa in the Oval Office.

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The skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church, are laid out on shelves in an underground vault as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Nyamata, Rwanda, Friday, April 4, 2014. The country will commemorate on April 7, 2014 the 20th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbors, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

The skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered inside a church are laid out on shelves in an underground vault as a memorial to the thousands who were killed during the 1994 genocide in Nyamata, Rwanda. Rwanda will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbors, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050.

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Aurora, a four-year-old female polar bear, swims in a pool for the first time in the season, with the air temperature at about 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit), at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a suburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, April 4, 2014. Two female polar bear cubs, Aurora and Victoria, were found without their mother in Russia's Taymyr Peninsula on the Arctic Ocean coast in May 2010 and were later brought to the zoo in Krasnoyarsk, according to zoo representatives. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

Aurora, a four-year-old female polar bear, swims in a pool for the first time this season, with the air temperature at about 68 degrees at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a suburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.