Decades after the question was first raised about whether to display one of the enduring symbols of the Minnesota woods, three black bears have arrived at the Minnesota Zoo in a new exhibit that opens Saturday.

Zoo officials say the Asian wild dogs were born April 12 and 14, but an exact count is still unknown. The dhole pups are expected to spend more time outside their den in the coming weeks at the Apple Valley zoo.

There are fewer than 2,500 of the endangered dogs -- or dholes -- left in the wild. They're social pack animals that dwell in China, Russia, India and Thailand. Click the headline to see some videos of the animals.

Nearly seven thousand sandhill cranes were counted at the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge in Zimmerman last Friday. The birds coming from Canada and northern Minnesota are making a pit stop before heading south to Indiana and eventually Florida for the winter.

A new Father's Day-friendly exhibit at the Como Zoo in St. Paul is dedicated to nature's "super dad" -- the seahorse. Seahorses are one of the only animals on Earth whose fathers carry the unborn young until they hatch.