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| Thousands of pets have been stranded by rising waters - but huge efforts are being made to find them and take them to safety. |
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| Returning to base with a new cargo of pets |
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| Animals have also been rescued from floodwaters elsewhere in the country. |
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| Another of the rescued dogs. |
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| Elephants prepare to float Krathongs during the Loi Krathong festival. |
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| Thai residents carry plastic bags containing groceries with a tree branch as they walk along a flooded area in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. Thailand's record floods encroached deeper into the capital Friday, swamping a major intersection in the northern edge of the city center and threatening the subway system. |
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| A Thai soldier helps a Thai Buddhist monk wade through floodwater at Lod Praow district in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. Thailand's record floods encroached deeper into the capital Friday, swamping a major intersection in the northern edge of the city center and threatening the subway system. |
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| Thai residents are transported in a truck through a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. Thailand's worst floods in more than half a century continued to creep into Bangkok. |
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People paddle and wade through floodwater at Lod Praow district in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. Thailand's record floods encroached deeper into the capital Friday, swamping a major intersection in the northern edge of the city center and threatening the subway system. |
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| A Thai woman holds her dog as wading through floodwaters at Lod Praow district in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. Thailand's record floods encroached deeper into the capital Friday, swamping a major intersection in the northern edge of the city center and threatening the subway system. |
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Vehicles drive along flooded streets at the Lod Praow district in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. Thailand's record floods encroached deeper into the capital Friday, swamping a major intersection in the northern edge of the city center and threatening the subway system. |
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| A boy sit in floodwater next to garbage bins at Salaya district in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. Skin diseases and fungal infections are the flood's biggest plague so far with nearly 100,000 cases of athlete's foot reported. Bouts of diarrhea and respiratory infections are also common, especially with many flood victims sheltering together in hot, cramped sites that may not have electricity or clean water. |
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| Cranes walk as deer and antelopes herd together in floodwater in Safari world, an open zoo and theme park in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. More and more businesses are being put in jeopardy as Thailand’s capital city sees more of its areas submerged under water. Open zoo Safari World in Bangkok is one of the affected victims. It has lost around 50 percent of its premise to the flood, which is said to be the worst in the past 50 years of the Thai history. |
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A deer stands in floodwater in Safari world, an open zoo and theme park in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. More and more businesses are being put in jeopardy as Thailand’s capital city sees more of its areas submerged under water. Open zoo Safari World in Bangkok is one of the affected victims. It has lost around 50 percent of its premise to the flood, which is said to be the worst in the past 50 years of the Thai history. |
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| Members of an animal rescue team carry an abandoned dog at a flooded temple in Ayutthaya province on Oct. 19. The animal rescue team said there were about 300 dogs and cats trapped in Ayutthaya that had to be evacuated to a dry area. |
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| Members of an animal rescue team place an abandoned cat in a cage at a flooded temple in Ayutthaya province in Oct. 19. |
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| A Thai woman throws water out of her house while her dog offers encouragement after the swollen Chao Phraya river flowed into a neighborhood in Bangkok on Oct. 29. |
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| Deer stand in the floodwaters of the wildlife park Safari World in Bangkok on Nov. 2. Almost half of Safari World was flooded overnight, but all animals were taken to higher ground. |
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| A man and his dog sit in a boat as they are evacuated from a flooded area in Bangkok's suburbs on Oct. 22. |
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| A woman, with her dog, is partially submerged in water as floods advanced into her neighborhood near the Chao Praya river in central Bangkok on Oct. 25. |
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| A stranded elephant drinks water while swimming with its mahout in the floods in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand, on Oct. 31. Seventeen elephants were stranded at the elephant camps in Ayutthaya province following floods that submerged the north and central part of the country for more than two months. |
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| A Thai boy wades through floodwaters as he carries a dog while leaving a flooded area in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 27. Residents poured out of the Thai capital by bus, plane, and train, heeding government warnings to use a special five-day holiday to evacuate parts of the flood-threatened metropolis before a deluge rushed through the city. |
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| A Thai villager keeps his cat dry while wading through floodwaters in Pak Kred district in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, on Oct. 15. Flooding that has devastated great areas of northern and central Thailand has taken nearly 300 lives since July. |
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| A woman floats with her dog in a flooded street in Bangkok on Oct. 31. |
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| A man rows a float with his dog on a flooded road in Bangkok on Nov. 1. Higher than normal tides pushing into the Chao Phraya river from the Gulf of Thailand have complicated efforts to drain floodwaters flowing from the country's central heartland. |
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| A woman carries a cat as residents were evacuated from flooded areas in Bangkok's suburbs on Oct. 20. |
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| A man carries his dog through water around a flooded temple where hundreds of victims found shelter in Bangkok on Nov. 1. |
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| A two-day-old elephant plays with mahout or elephant keeper Suthon Swangwonganan while taking shelter at an area for flood victims in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand, on Oct. 31. |
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A Thai worker rests next to a dog at a flooded gas station in Bangkok on Oct. 25. |
