Feature Article #1
Gorilla baby born at Louisville Zoo!
From WHAS Channel 11
Louisville Zoo’s 20-year-old western lowland gorilla Mia Moja gave birth to her second baby on Saturday, February 6. It is the first gorilla baby born in North America this year and the second gorilla ever born in the Zoo’s 41-year history. (The first was male Azizi born to Makari on December 4, [...]
Feature Article #2
Baby elephant to make big debut
By Kathy Lord – ABC News
Victorians will get their first peek at Melbourne Zoo’s new baby elephant from tomorrow.
It is the first baby elephant born in the zoo’s 148-year history.
The as-yet unnamed female, born on January 16, will go on display for short periods of time at first, but the viewing time would be extended [...]
Feature Article #3
American-born giant pandas arrive in China
The Hindu
Two American-born giant pandas arrived in China by special cargo jet on Friday afternoon and enjoyed a welcoming ceremony.
The three-year-old female Mei Lan and 4.5-year-old male Tai Shan arrived at Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, at around 4:28 p.m..
The two stars were taken out of the cargo jet [...]
Feature Article #4
New Zealand zoo visitors panic as cheetahs escape enclosure
Startled visitors at a wildlife park in New Zealand were forced to take refuge into a zoo shuttle bus after three cheetahs escaped from their compound.
By Paul Chapman in Wellington – telegraph.co.uk
The cheetahs, which crawled through a hole in a fence then swam across a protective moat, were seen prowling in the public area [...]
Feature Article #5
Mark your calendar: Feb. 3 is Tai Shan’s last public showing
By Jacqueline E. Trescott and Michael E. Ruane – Washington Post
After four years, six months and four weeks as the National Zoo’s reigning prince of bears, Tai Shan, Washington’s beloved giant panda, will leave the place of his birth Feb. 4, Smithsonian Institution officials said Monday.
Nine weeks after the zoo announced that Tai Shan would [...]
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