Feature Article #1
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 #2
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 #3
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 [...]
Feature Article #4
Sea slug surprise: It’s half-plant, half-animal
Scientists aren’t yet sure how animals actually appropriate genes they need
By Clara Moskowitz – LiveScience.com
A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It’s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.
The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they’ve eaten. With their [...]
Feature Article #5
Chilean zoo celebrates litter of 5 white tigers; parents from Mexico, Argentina
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean National Zoo is celebrating the birth of a rare litter of five white tigers.
Zoo director Mauricio Fabry said Thursday that the zoo will build a special habitat to accommodate the tigers born on Dec. 28.
He said that the new enclosure will include a large expanse of grass and waterfalls [...]
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