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LIFE Goes on a 'Gorilla Hunt,' 1951

By Liz Ronk

How Was Your Day at Work? Oh, Fine, Just Snuggled With Some Kittens

By Olivia B. Waxman

Pictures of the Week: September 20 - September 27

By Phil Bicker

LIFE Goes to a Cat Show, 1952

By Liz Ronk
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Tiny Giants

In TIME's photo of the day, giant pandas breed like rabbits.

By TIME Photo Department

Wild Fire

In TIME's photo of the day, an exotic animal braves flaming hoops.

By TIME Photo Department

Fearless Fagan: Portrait of the Lion as a Young Actor

Back in the early 1950s, LIFE magazine saw fit to report on -- and to exhaustively photograph -- a lion named Fagan not just once, but twice.

By Ben Cosgrove

A Glimpse Into the World of Dog Couture

With the start of New York City's Fashion Week, photographer Robin Schwartz presents an insider's view into another kind of couture: the bizarre, extreme, wonderful world of doggie fashion.

By Feifei Sun

Udder Bliss: One Cow, Three Cats and Some (Very) Fresh Milk

In 1954, LIFE photographer Nat Farbman made a series of pictures of some enterprising (and entertaining) felines on Art Badertscher's dairy farm near Fresno, California.

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Bee's Knees: The Origins of 9 Bee-Inspired Sayings

These little insects are the buzz of the English language

By Katy Steinmetz

The Duck's Alive. The Dog's Embarrassed. The Photo's a Classic

What happens when a duck that thinks it's a dog meets a Chesapeake Bay retriever that can't stop itself from diving into the water to chase after anything that moves? A classic photo happens, that's what.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Softer Side of Pit Bulls

A reviled breed gets a makeover

By Paul Tullis

A Bear Grows in Brooklyn: Portraits of Rosie, a Furry Star of the Forties

In the 1940s, an entertainment impresario named Stanley Beebe routinely walked his star, Rosie the bear, through the streets of New York, shuttling her to gigs at recording studios and arenas.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Mike the Headless Chicken: Photos of a Famously Tough Fowl

LIFE.com presents Mike the Headless Chicken's unlikely story, and the utterly unsettling pictures that can still shock today.

By Ben Cosgrove

Buzz Thrill: LIFE Goes to a Bee Market

LIFE.com celebrates the at-once humble and remarkable bee by transporting readers back six decades, to a bustling bee market in the Netherlands.

By Liz Ronk

The Mystery of Animal Grief

Scientists are finding new evidence that beasts honor, mourn and even hold wakes for their dead. What it reveals about them--and us

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Heart of a Beast: Charlotte Dumas' Poignant Animal Photography

For Jeffrey Kluger's feature on animal grieving in this week's issue, TIME reached out to noted animal photographer Charlotte Dumas, who has been making deeply empathetic portraits of a variety of species for years.

By Jeffrey Kluger

When Cover Lines Collide: Mixed Messages From LIFE Magazine

Taking a friendly look at a number of LIFE magazine covers through the years that featured jarring — and frequently humorous — disconnects between cover photos and cover lines.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Horace the Housebroken Hare

In 1956, the great photojournalist Carl Mydans memorably captured the mercurial essence of a figure as fascinating as any that ever graced the pages of LIFE: Horace the housebroken hare.

By Ben Cosgrove

Here Far Away: The Visual Fables of Pentti Sammallahti

In Pentti Sammallahti’s world, man is not the center. His images are almost fables, where animals act as our guides.

By Carole Naggar
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