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Zoo under fire

City councilor wants to place blame for giraffe deaths
By KEVIN CANFIELD and SARA PLUMMER – Tulsa World
City Councilor Bill Christiansen said Tuesday that he expects someone to be held accountable for the second giraffe who died at the Tulsa Zoo.
“We pay a lot of money to people out there to make sure the zoo is [...]

27Jan2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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Zoo aiming for transparency

By James Carlson – Topeka Capital Journal
There was life and death in a recent Topeka Zoo report sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A giraffe will soon be born. A monkey has died.
These were just two tidbits contained in an Oct. 16 update sent to the USDA by zoo director Mike Coker. In the wake [...]

3Nov2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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L.A. Zoo had to pay federal fine over animal deaths

The $3,281 payment was made as part of a 2008 settlement with the USDA over the 2006 deaths of a popular Asian elephant and a chimpanzee. The zoo did not admit to wrongdoing.
By Carla Hall – LA Times
The Los Angeles Zoo paid a federal fine of several thousand dollars in the wake of a U.S. [...]

22Jul2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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