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To a country obsessed with anti-bacterial lotion, but those animals could be one of the reasons these kids are so healthy. do your parents ever say to you, dont touch that, its dirty? >> yeah. only if its really dirty. >> reporter: one study found families on farms are almost half as likely to have asthma and nearly four times less likely to have hay fever. and researchers say animals help kids grow antibodies to fight infections better. i got up close and personal with rosie. how much milk do y...

And then, the black rhino, a notoriously solitary animal. or so we thought. watch as rhinos secretly gather at a waterhole at night. a mother emerging with her calf. their vision is poor, but their sense of smell is sharp. they greet each other with surprising gentleness. >> nobody knew about it because you cant see it. >> reporter: mike gunton produced the new africa series for discovery. he says there have been legends of such secret gatherings, but until now, no ones ever been able to film it...

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Dead at that point. so they went out to the great plains and gathered the remnants of what was left, 10-15 bison and grew them into the herds that today have made -- led to the comeback. john: they protected them for their own profit. >> they found a way to make them pay. the market, for them, was me. they sold bison to circuses, zoos, and public preserves. john: before that when there werr 30 million, at first there were not enough indians to kill them. they were doing okay. the white settlers ...

♪ john: look at the buffalo roam. bison are a great example of tragedy. 30 million of them once roamed in america. thats because no one knows them or rather everyone knows them. indians and the white settlers kept haunting them until there were nearly extinct. the buffalo herd went from 30 million to 1,000. now they have made a comeback, because now people own them. here to help explain what happened. what happens? >> well, property rights were established over the very few remaining by some o...

He won bison overall. if you look at the same panorama, its all over. >> bob: in reality, you talk about the final vote in 2008 versus a week left to go to vote. people who vote early. you have to separate absenteeism from early voting. two separate things. people who vote early are senior citizens and they normally do. >> andrea: who leads with senior citizens? mitt romney leads. >> bob: right. >> andrea: independent and women. 3-point turnout advantage this time around swayed ten points to -- ...

Likely voters by five points. he won bison overall. if you look at the same panorama, its all over. >> bob: in reality, you talk about the final vote in 2008 versus a week left to go to vote. people who vote early. you have to separate absenteeism from early voting. two separate things. people who vote early are senior citizens and they normally do. >> andrea: who leads with senior citizens? mitt romney leads. >> bob: right. >> andrea: independent and women. 3-point turnout advantage this time a...

But its reality for the individual service members where multiple deployments have become the norm. with more tough days ahead in afghanistan, a country engaged in its longest war continues to ask so much of so much few. does it gets tiring having to face your wife, to face terry and say, guess what, im being deployed again? >> it definitely does. it definitely takes a toll on the family. we have our own family while were here, we take care of each other. >> im proud of the things he does, im ec...

If were doing a 1-10-- 1 being the best, 10 being the worst drought condition you could imagine-- what whats this part of kansas right now? >> 12, probably. its bad. >> reporter: less than seven inches of rain has fallen here all year-- a third of what they get in a normal year. the flat terrain in kansas provides few places for large amounts of water to collect so farmers rely on gates like this one to divert water from the arkansas river to their fields. >> its plenty dry. >> reporter: no wate...

Its my world. thats my world. ♪ and national park officials are warning about a white-knuckle moment caught on tape. take a look at this. a group of children creep up to a seemingly friendly bison. it appears to be going well, then the bison charges. there it is. take again a look at the tape, because there are clues the bison is about to fly into a rage. its head bucks then its tail pops up. by the way, the little boy who was chased by the bison is fine, but officials remind us the best thi...