From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Bo,  formerly Worthless,  who inspired his person Tammy
Sneath Grimes to found the anti-chaining organization Dogs Deserve
Better,  was euthanized on April 25 “due to heart failure with
possible tumor complications,”  Grimes said.

Brutus,  24,  a black bear,  was euthanized on May 28 at the
Folsom city Zoo Sanctuary due to conditions of age,  a year after the
death of his twin sister Ursula.   Brutus and Ursula for many years
were the last animals left at the defunct and often flooded Royer
Park Zoo in Roseville.  Discovering them caged and alone,
then-16-year-old Justin Barker raised the first $25,000 of the sum
needed to move them to the Folsom Zoo,  where they enjoyed a markedly
better quality of life.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Guy Mountfort,  97,  died on April 22 in Bournemouth,
England.   Honorary secretary of the British Ornithologists Union,
1952-1962,  and president 1970-1975,  Mountfort co-authored  A Field
Guide To The Birds of Britain and Europe,  a 1954 best-seller,  still
in print,  and wrote other books on nature themes including Portrait
of A Wilderness (1958),  which led eventually to the creation of
Donana National Park in Spain;  The Vanishing Jungle (1969) and
Saving The Tiger (1981),  which dealt with his role in founding
Project Tiger in India,  1968-1972;  and Rare Birds Of The World
(1988).   Mountfort in 1961 joined with Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
founder Peter Scott,  zoologist Julian Huxley,  and British Nature
Conserv-ancy director general Max Nicholson to found the World
Wildlife Fund.  Mountfort served as WWF treasurer,  1961-1978,  and
thereafter as a vice president.

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