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New tiger graces Calgary Zoo
CBC News
The Calgary Zoo has a new Siberian tiger, a large male named Baikal, after the oldest freshwater lake in Russia.
The Associations of Zoos and Aquariums recommended moving Baikal from the Bronx Zoo to Calgary under the organization’s species survival plan. The program is meant to ensure a healthy and genetically diverse population of endangered, [...]
White tiger savages zookeeper
A German zookeeper was taken to hospital in a serious condition after she was mauled by a white tiger while cleaning out its cage.
Police say the male tiger – named Karim – attacked the 30-year-old while her back was turned, after slipping through a gate she had apparently left unlocked.
Colleagues at the zoo in the [...]
Putin’s rare Siberian tiger goes missing
By LIYA KHABAROVA (AP)
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — A rare Siberian tiger fitted by Vladimir Putin with a radio-tracking collar has vanished, a Russian environmentalist said Wednesday, dramatizing the plight of a species some conservationists fear may be approaching extinction.
Russia’s prime minister drew worldwide publicity in 2008 when he shot the five-year-old female tiger with a tranquilizer [...]
Once-tame Baghdad zoo now a roaring success
By Prashant Rao (AFP)
BAGHDAD — Baghdad’s Al-Zawraa zoo is enjoying a boom, and not just in attendance — its Siberian tigers gave birth to twins this summer, part of a rush of new arrivals swelling the park’s population.
From the dark days of 2003, in the aftermath of the US-led invasion which left the zoo in [...]
Man attacked by tiger at Calgary Zoo
By Chuck Chiang and Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
CALGARY – A man has been sent to hospital after being injured by a tiger at the Calgary Zoo this morning, officials said.
Zoo staff says two men – including the person eventually hurt in the incident – sneaked into the zoo at about 1 a.m. unnoticed. This was [...]
Beardsley Zoo has a new female tiger
From EastonCourier.com
A new tiger is calling Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo her home.
Naka (pronounced “Nuh-’KAH”), a 4-year-old female Amur — or Siberian — tiger, recently arrived in Bridgeport from the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y.
Naka joins the zoo’s new male tiger, Booskin, who arrived in December 2008. Their presence at the zoo is part of the [...]
Zoo lets tiger out of cage – to put him in new one
By MICHAEL MILLER – Press of Atlantic City
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – Photographers clamored to shoot a picture of the Cape May County Park & Zoo’s Siberian tiger Monday without the distortion of the chain-link fence.
The zoo relocated Rocky on Monday after months of renovation to his enclosure.
But the sun’s glare and the heavy fence [...]
At its 80th anniversary, S.F. Zoo reassesses
Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
When the San Francisco Zoo opened during the Great Depression, chimpanzees were trained to ride elephants and zookeepers pried open big hippo jaws for applause.
Eight decades later, the carnival has been replaced by conservation: The endangered aye-aye lemur lives in a pitch-black exhibit, so visitors can only glimpse the [...]
Zoo mired in debt it cannot afford
By: Brent Begin
Examiner Staff Writer
The San Francisco Zoo has overdue bills that it cannot afford to pay.
The nonprofit San Francisco Zoological Society, which runs the facility, has amassed a $2.4 million tab for utility bills and labor costs in the current fiscal year. Another $400,000 is still outstanding from last fiscal year, according to officials [...]
Cold-weather games keep zoo animals from going snaky
Nick Aveling
Staff Reporter
Like any toddler, Coco is easily bored – especially in winter.
It’s too cold to get up to much, and without something to keep her preoccupied, it won’t be long until she’s into some kind of trouble, picking fights or pulling her room apart piece by piece.
Which can be a problem, considering she’s a [...]
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I was very sorry to hear of this. We have been so blessed at our San Diego Zoo, and ...
The gorilla exhibit at the Louisville Zoo is very attractive. This just makes it better.
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What a sad, horrible accident for everyone involved...
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