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Zoo Halloween events offer more fun, less fright

By John Seewer, Associated Press Writer
Photo By Jeff Strout, Audubon Zoo
TOLEDO, Ohio — Ghosts and ghouls — friendly ones at that — are about to take over America’s zoos.
Hay mazes, pumpkin paths and haunted train rides too.
And there will be lots of candy, of course.
Zoos big and small are finding that Halloween events are among [...]

admin | September 29th, 2008 | Continued

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Oregon Zoo’s baby elephant doing “great”

Keeper says transition is exactly what they’d hoped for.
By Janine Wolf
 
The Oregon Zoo’s month old baby elephant, Samudra, is doing “great” after a rough start at birth when his mother, Rose-Tu and auntie, Shine became confused and nearly trampled him. Elephant keeper Bob Lee says now things are going exactly as they had hoped with [...]

admin | September 26th, 2008 | Continued

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Long Summer at the Zoo - Memories to Last a Lifetime

 Yes, this long summer is growing to a close. The days are cooling from that blistering summer heat, kids are back in school, and many zoos are slipping into their winter hours. This summer has reminded me of summers past as a child and the many memories that have stayed with me a lifetime. Those [...]

admin | September 10th, 2008 | Continued

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Fort Worth Zoo Welcomes Litter of Three Malayan Tiger Cubs

The Fort Worth Zoo is proud to debut its newest litter of Malayan tiger cubs. The three unnamed female cubs were born April 28, 2008, and weighed about 2 pounds at birth. The cubs now weigh in at about 14 pounds. Since birth, they have lived off-exhibit in a private den with [...]

admin | August 29th, 2008 | Continued

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New Giant Fish Species Announced

August 25, 2008—One fish—the goliath grouper—has suddenly become two.
The Atlantic goliath grouper, found in warm waters of the Americas and western Africa, is a separate species from the goliath grouper that roams tropical reefs of the eastern Pacific Ocean, a new genetic study shows.
The newly identified Pacific goliath grouper can grow more than [...]

admin | August 26th, 2008 | Continued

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Future of Pécs Zoo uncertain

By: All Hungary News

 The zoo of the southern capital of Pécs will have to move soon or have its area covered with concrete in order to protect the Tettye karst water it was built above, writes local daily Dunántúli Napló. Moving the nearly 50-year-old zoo would cost Ft 1.6 billion (over €6.4 million), while covering [...]

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Twin polar bears to leave Brno zoo for Prague, Gelsenkirchen

By ČTK
Brno, Oct 3 (CTK) - Bill and Tom, the twin polar bears who have been the Brno zoo’s biggest attraction since their birth last November, will leave Brno for the zoos in Prague and in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, respectively, next spring, zoo spokesman Martin Hovorka has told CTK. 
After the twin brothers’ departure, their father Umca [...]

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Mini-tigers will be big hit at the Zoo

By GARETH EDWARDS

A PAIR of critically endangered young tigers have become the latest attraction at Edinburgh Zoo.
The year-old Sumatran tigers, Tibor and Chandra, arrived from Heidelberg Zoo last week and are now settling into their new home in the Zoo’s jaguar enclosure.
They will spend the next six months there as part of their quarantine before [...]

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Zoo will overhaul south entrance

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/06/2008
The St. Louis Zoo will announce this afternoon a major overhaul of its south entrance, which is expected to include improvements to make crossing Wells Drive safer as well as other upgrades.
Officials have released few details in advance of the 4 p.m. announcement. According to a press release, a chief executive of “a [...]

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Jane Goodall unveils chimp habitat at Monarto Zoo

HELENE SOBOLEWSKI
INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed scientist Jane Goodall howled like a gleeful chimpanzee at the unveiling of Monarto Zoo’s chimpanzee habitat today.
On her return to Australia, Dr Goodall asked the crowd to join her in their best chimpanzee impression as she lifted the veil on the plaque dedicated to her work and the opening of the habitat, [...]

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12-foot python missing from Norman zoo

By Michael Kimball

NORMAN — The Little River Zoo in Norman is looking for a 12-foot snake that was stolen from its enclosure twice in three days and last went missing more than a week ago, zoo director Janet Schmid said.

“He’s a really, really nice snake,” Schmid said. “But he’s hungry, and when’s hungry he could [...]

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ZSL scheme shows reptile loss threatens global biodiversity

More than a fifth of the world’s reptiles are threatened with extinction, a new method of monitoring the fortunes of groups of species revealed today.

Instead of assessing each individual species to see if it is at risk of dying out, the Sampled Red List Index (SRLI) examines a sample of 1,500 species from a [...]

6Oct2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Beaches once thick with birds quiet thanks to Ike

By MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press Writer

GILCHRIST, Texas (AP) — One of North America’s renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent.
Blame Hurricane Ike.
“We had red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, a bunch of migrating birds,” recalled Ernest Stone, 75, leaning on his cane and surveying debris on the cratered moonscape that used to be the family [...]

4Oct2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Elderly turtle pair fails to produce offspring

By CARA ANNA
Associated Press Writer

SUZHOU, China (AP) — She’s around 80 years old. He’s 100. Breathless scientists watched as the world’s most endangered turtles successfully mated.

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But the attempt to breed the species’ last known female with the last known male in China has failed because the eggs didn’t hatch, disappointed conservationists said [...]

4Oct2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Lowry Park Zoo president to take leave of absence

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (Bay News 9) – The president of Lowry Park Zoo, Lex Salisbury, will take a leave of absence, effective immediately.
The executive committee of the board of directors of the Lowry Park Zoological Society and Salisbury came to a mutual agreement, according to a statement released Friday night.
An elected official has called for Salisbury to [...]

3Oct2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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