Dog That Rescued 100 Koalas From Disasters Has Retired
Bear, a detection dog known for locating endangered koalas during fires and floods in Australia, has retired after ten years of service. Efforts are now underway to find a successor for the role.
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“Dog That Rescued 100 Koalas From Disasters Has Retired”
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The provided evidence consists of general Wikipedia definitions for the numbers '1' and '100'. There is no information regarding a dog, koalas, or a retirement event.
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— 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and grapheme. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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— 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100
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— 100% may refer to:
1 (number), the equivalent to 100%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%
“After a decade helping rescue koalas, 11-year-old detection dog Bear retired in March.”
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The provided evidence contains general information about bear species, the financial firm Bear Stearns, a bear that consumed cocaine, and a bow hunter named Fred Bear. None of the evidence mentions a koala detection dog named Bear or his retirement in March.
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— The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was an American investment bank, securities trading, and brokerage firm that famously failed during the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession. After its closur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns
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— Cocaine Bear, also known as Pablo Eskobear (sometimes spelled Escobear) or Cokey the Bear, was a 175-pound (79 kg) female American black bear that fatally overdosed on cocaine in 1985. The cocaine had…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Bear_(bear)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Bear_(bear)
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— Fred Bear (March 5, 1902 – April 27, 1988) was an American bow hunter and manufacturer. Although he did not start bow hunting until he was 29 and did not master the skill for many years, he is widely …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Bear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Bear
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