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>> reporter: today, a confident vladimir putin, touring sochi. even petting a snow leopard, which later growled. but did his tour include this? seven years after winning the games, sochi is scrambling. stores, hotels. >> did not have rooms ready. they have dozens of rooms not ready for journalists or whoever. its just absolutely an embarrassment. >> reporter: key roads, still need to be fixed. crews say theyve been ordered to work around the clock. one thing they say theyre allowed to take a bre...

Yorker sleep on his shoulder for a whole half hour. wabc tracked down the good samaritan. >> i was trying to let the poor guy capture his zs as it were. >> reporter: meanwhile at the national zoo in d.c. a tiger cub learns how to swim in case he ever falls into that moat. in colorado an elk learns how to trampoline. and after one too many falls decides jumping just isnt for him. back to those russian cops. some of them just couldnt quite get their groove on. that is instant index. im nick watt. ...

New animal, a furry teddy bear discovered in the jungles of south america. scientists got one in a zoo and noticed she wasnt mating with similar fig-eating creatures. turns out the bachelorette was different, different dna. nighttime explorations in the wild revealed other creatures like her. tonight the world welcomed the olinguito among us. sometimes desperate times breed desperate gambles. lets say you have a zoo but no exotic animals. a zoo in china put up a sign saying timber wolf but, in...

Leopards in the wild has been decimated by hunters and poachers. but here, scientists are studying these animals to try to save them. one thing theyve learnt -- the higher the trees theyve got to climb, the lower the cats stress levels. and that helps them breed. so far, theyve successfully raised 80 of these magnificent cats. many of these exotic animals will eventually be returned to nature. like these month-old baby black-footed ferrets. once all but wiped out, the institute has bred and rele...

Sales are expected to soar in 2013 up to more than 15 million vehicles which would be the highest in six years. still ahead here on "world news," an american secret so many couples sleep apart to get a good nights rest. is it really your spouses fault? our experiment explores how to sleep in peace. later an urgent effort to save cheetahs, cranes, pandas and leopards from extinction. youll never guess where this is happening tonight. extinction. youll never guess where this is happening tonig...

Finally tonight were going to take you to a mysterious place designed to create more life for some of the most beautiful creatures on earth. come with us, believe it or not, to the hills of virginia and inside a passionate race against time with abcs ron claiborne. >> reporter: nobody wants this to disappear. a 3-month-old clouded leopard is one of the last of a vanishing breed. this three-month-old cubs dazzling liquid blue will darken soon. thats one of the secrets of these mysterious cats -- ...

Why not give it a shot? carry on. now you can test-drive snapshot before you switch. visit progressive.com today. tonight, there is outrage from london, after two rock greats were silenced. bruce springsteen and paul mccartney, performing together in london when they mikes were turned off. the boss invited the former beatle to the stage. suddenly, the mikes were gone. springsteen right here, you cant heard a thing, because they had shut the mikes down. concert organizers said they went over th...

Populations are stabilizing? >> because of really good enforcement and patrols in these areas. >> reporter: the thai government has trained 190 park rangers who work in 20 separate patrol teams, using g.p.s. and tracking devices to try to prevent poaching. >> this is fabulous. >> reporter: the video shows not just tigers, but a clouded leopard, this jungle pig nursing her babies and other animals thought to have disappeared from this area. with a mere 3,200 tigers left in the wild worldwide, the...

We learned today that the owner of all those exotic animals released in the town of zanesville, ohio, this week was a gun collector who sometimes traded guns for unwanted animals including a leopard and a tiger cub. only a few of the 56 animals he let loose survived. they are being cared for at the columbus zoo now. ohios governor signed an executive order temporarily stopping the sale of all potentially dangerous animals and asked the state legislature to pass a tougher permanent law in ohio....

Tired months old bear cub was discovered inside a suitcase by investigators. >> very sophisticated smuggling operation. weve never seen one like this before. the guy had a zoo in his suitcases checked in. >> reporter: two baby leopards two panthers and two monkeys were hidden in his checked luggage, headed for dubai. the animals had been drugged and placed in small plastic canisters punched with air holes designed to look like folded clothes. investigators believe they were being transported as ...