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With much ado, main Paris zoo at last gets redo
PARIS (AP) – Paris will soon have a zoo worthy of one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
The city’s main zoo, in the Vincennes woods on the capital’s eastern edge, is getting a euro133 million ($180.57 million) overhaul, thanks to a public-private partnership to fund it.
The zoo has been badly run-down for decades and has [...]
Utah zoo preps for leopard’s high-tech root canal
The Associated Press
A male Amur leopard at Utah’s Hogle Zoo will get a high-tech root canal to fix a cracked, partially missing tooth.
Zoo officials say the procedure is scheduled for Saturday at the new L.S. Skaggs Animal Health Center.
Zookeepers first noticed 6-year-old Vladamere’s tooth trouble during regular training. Veterinarians decided on the root canal — [...]
Tulsa Zoo Giraffe Death Audit Report Released
By Ashli Sims, The News On 6
TULSA, OK — The death of a crooked neck giraffe at the Tulsa Zoo in early December continues to cast a dark cloud over what was once voted America’s favorite zoo.
A city of Tulsa internal audit report reveals the trailer that brought Amali to Tulsa had bloody marks on [...]
Vendors Clash with Patna Zoo Officials
Patna Daily
Unruly visitors at Patna’s Sanjay Gandhi Botanical and Zoological Garden on Sunday clashed with the zoo authorities after the officials tried to remove vendors from the zoo premises during a meeting of the Vaishya Sabha.
As reported, a number of peanut and pan vendors had illegally set up their stalls inside the sprawling botanical garden [...]
Panda gets last checkup before public debut
By Jeanette Steele, UNION-TRIBUNE
SAN DIEGO — Panda cub Yun Zi is a bit of a brawler.
But his San Diego Zoo veterinarian and keepers are taking a boys-will-be-boys attitude about it, perhaps because Tuesday was the last weekly exam the 4-month-old cub will get before his public debut in January.
Zoo officials expect him to follow his [...]
Gorilla pair will become parents
Zoo announces March due date
By Sheldon S. Shafer – Courier-Journal
Pregnancy tests have confirmed that Mia Mojo, a 20-year-old western lowland gorilla, will give birth by late March, Louisville Zoo officials have announced.
The father is her Gorilla Forest mate, a 22-year-old silverback named Mshindi. It will be Mshindi’s first offspring and Mia Moja’s second. Zoo officials [...]
C-U-T-E ! Zoo Boise unveils baby tamarin
By KBCI
BOISE – Zoo Boise has a cute new addition to its family.
Zoo Boise has unveiled a cotton-top tamarin baby. Tamarins are endangered primates from South America. The baby is the first tamarin born at Zoo Boise.
The female tamarin was born at Zoo Boise on Nov. 6.
Zoo officials say the tamarin mother has never raised [...]
Say hello to Mechi — all 3,500 pounds of her
Seriously endangered’ Indian rhino finds new home at Mesker Park Zoo
By Seth Grundhoefer- Evansville Courier Press
EVANSVILLE — Gnawing on a stack of bamboo and pacing her new home Monday afternoon, Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden’s new resident — a 3,500-pound Indian rhinoceros named Mechi (pronounced May-chee), awaited her introduction to the public from zoo [...]
2 lions kill white tiger in Czech zoo
By KAREL JANICEK (AP)
PRAGUE — A rare white tiger was killed by two lions that managed to sneak into its enclosure in a Czech zoo, officials said Thursday.
The lions, 14-year-old Sultan and 11-year-old Elsa, entered the open-air area occupied by the 17-year-old tiger Isabella by opening a trap door, Liberec Zoo spokesman Ivan Langr said.
He [...]
Say hello to Yun Zi
New panda’s name means ‘son of cloud’
By Jeanette Steele – The San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO — His fame started with his birth in August. The San Diego Zoo’s Web site crashed that day as fans worldwide piled in to watch the “panda cam.”
The celebrity status continued yesterday, when the cute-as-pie cub got a name: Yun [...]
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It's great that these animals have been given an additional opportunity to survive. 
i think the baby elephant should be named ; ABENI This is an african meaning for" miracle girl prayed for ...
I have been in Naples Zoo already and I've seen panthers there!!I really had a good time visiting the place!!And ...
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.
Allen Nyhuis, Coauthor: America's Best Zoos 
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