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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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Aussie Vets Save Pregnant Leopard

August 22, 2008 12:30am
AUSTRALIAN veterinarians have saved the life of a critically ill pregnant leopard after a plea for help from an Indian zoo.
South Australian vet Dr Ian Douglas, who set up a Vets Beyond Borders program to improve animal welfare in the northeast Indian state of Sikkim, said the pregnant leopard, [...]

admin | August 22nd, 2008 | Continued

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Bandh Takes Toll on Jammu Zoo, Two Leopards Starve to Death

Jammu, August 12: Reshma and Raja are just two more casualties of the current tumult in Jammu and Kashmir, but they are unlikely to make too many headlines given that they were mere animals. However, the fact that they were victims of the ‘economic blockade’ here is undeniable. The two leopards [...]

admin | August 13th, 2008 | Continued

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Rare Monkey Stolen from N.B. Zoo

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Officials at the Cherry Brook Zoo in Saint John, N.B., made a desperate plea Wednesday for the return of a stolen baby monkey.
Police said someone jumped a fence, kicked in a door at the monkey house and made off with a young callimico monkey named April.
Zoo Director Len [...]

admin | August 8th, 2008 | Continued

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Elephant baby born in Emmen Zoo

2008-09-04 - Emmen, Netherlands
A male calf has been born this morning at 11.30 AM in Emmen Zoo. His mother is Mingalar Oo and his father is Radza (father to seven babies, grandfather of 2 babies in Japan). Its the first time in the zoos history that a birth took place in the [...]

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Zoo’s panda plan panned

ANIMAL welfare campaigners have voiced fresh opposition to plans to bring a pair of giant pandas to Edinburgh Zoo.
The Born Free Foundation has written to First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister Gordon Brown urging them not to support the “misguided plan” to import pandas from China.
Will Travers, Born Free [...]

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Tautphaus Park Zoo Welcomes Three Babies

Reporter: Suzanne Hobbs

The Tautphaus Park Zoo showed off its latest arrivals Thursday morning and are they cute!
Three male African Servals were born just a few weeks ago and each got its first check-up with the veterinarian. The cubs were given a thorough physical and all got a clean bill of health.
These [...]

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Offspring Pines For Mom, After T.O. Zoo Elephant Dies Unexpectedly

Thursday September 4, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff

They may never know what killed her and they still can’t believe she’s gone.
CityNews.ca was the first to tell you Wednesday about the sudden death of Tequila, a 38-year-old African elephant who had been a long time resident of the Toronto Zoo. Officials admit they have no real idea what may [...]

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LEAFCUTTER ANTS AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO


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Dallas Zoo receives largest private gift in its 120-year history

The Dallas Zoo’s African savanna habitat is a giant step closer to reality thanks to a $5 million gift from the Harold Simmons Foundation. The three-year pledge to the Dallas Zoological Society (DZS) is the largest single private contribution in the Dallas Zoo’s 120-year history.
“We are pleased to support the Dallas Zoo’s [...]

3Sep2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

About Death, Just Like Us or Pretty Much Unaware?

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Efforts on 2 Fronts to Save a Population of Ferrets

By JIM ROBBINS
Published: July 15, 2008

WALL, S.D. — A colony that contains nearly half of the black-footed ferrets in the country and which biologists say is critical to the long-term health of the species has been struck by plague, which may have killed a third of the 300 animals.
A much-publicized endangered [...]

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New Rare Primate Groups Found in Cambodia

Sara Goudarzi
for National Geographic News
September 3, 2008
Two new populations of rare primate species, both numbering in the thousands, have been discovered in a Cambodia preserve.
A 2008 survey estimates 42,000 black-shanked doucs and 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons live in Cambodia’s Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area.
“These Cambodian animals represent undoubtedly the largest [known] remaining [...]

3Sep2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Teddy Bear Day at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

Bring your favorite stuffed friend for a check-up on September 27

Kids are invited to bring their favorite teddy bears to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo for Teddy Bear Day on Saturday, September 27. Children with a teddy bear (or plush toy of any species) receive free admission to the Zoo with a paid adult [...]

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