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Zoo Decides to Give Up Cruel Elephant Rides

Several animal rights groups have recently managed to obtain their first victory, since Santa Ana Zoo has decided to comply with their requests and put an end to dangerous, barbaric elephant rides. The Animal Protection and Rescue League, Animal Defenders International (ADI), PETA and a few eco-conscious celebrities ...

19 December 2011
05:32 GMT

'Gay' Penguin Finds Soulmate

The end of a bad romance marks the beginning of another. This appears to be the case of one of the separated “gay” penguins sheltered by the Toronto zoo. The two cute creatures shared an uncommon affection that made them famous worldwide, the Telegraph informs. Although Facebook fans struggled to conv...

13 December 2011
04:27 GMT

BBC Misleads Audience on Polar Bear Birth

BBC is currently accused of misleading the audience, encouraging its public to believe that a footage of a newly-born polar bear cub was filmed in the wild, when it was actually produced in an animal park from Germany. Even though the creatures were not born in their natural habitat, born “beneath the snow&rdq...

12 December 2011
03:57 GMT

Famous Pandas Eat Bamboo Worth £70,000 ($109,172/€81,441) Annually

Two eccentric creatures live the lives of the rich and famous at the Edinburgh Zoo. They demand bamboo worth £70,000 every year and live in luxurious suites costing no less than £275,000 annually. As if this wouldn't be enough, officials say the facility will have to pay £636,000 a year to Chin...

5 December 2011
05:42 GMT

Edinburgh Zoo Will Have Two Expensive Giant Pandas

Authorities from the Edinburgh Zoo are excited to announce they are going to have new residents: two Giant Pandas brought from China. Even if these new creatures will increase the popularity of the facility, members of eco-groups claim their intention has a rather insignificant conservation value and is a waste of mo...

30 November 2011
10:26 GMT

Create Your Own Safari Zoo on iPad, iPhone for Free

Glu Mobile Inc. has announced its new Safari Zoo game for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a free download from the iTunes App Store and it lets you earn currency through special offers.Safari Zoo is aimed at kids who want to build, maintain and interacti with their very own preserve of exotic wild animals.&ld...

6 September 2011
10:31 GMT

'Enrichment Programs' Make Zoo Animals Happier

For more than a century, zoo keepers around the world have believed that growing animals in captivity implies nothing more than feeding them well and preventing them from exercising, so as not to injure themselves. Now, a growing number of animal experts and zoological garden owners feel that “animal enrichment...

23 March 2009
07:04 GMT

Captive Chimp Actively Plans to Hurt Zoo Visitors

The Furuvik Zoo in Sweden is the home of several primates and a few chimps. One of them has recently offered a surprise in terms of behavior, when caretakers have observed the animal actively planning ways to harm visitors that approached its cage. It has been seen chipping away at the concrete walls surrounding its ...

10 March 2009
03:27 GMT

Africa's Oldest Chimpanzee Dies at Age 66

One of the most iconic chimpanzee figures in the world, Gregoire lived some 40 years of his life caged in solitary confinement at the Brazzaville zoo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He was rescued from the poorly-run zoo some 11 years ago and lived the remainder of his life at the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee R...

28 December 2008
09:38 GMT

Adult Elephants Die Faster in Zoos Than in the Wild

A recent scientific study has shown that adult female elephants living in captivity die at a much younger age than their “peers” living in the wild, in natural reservations or on their own. The find was announced by a team of international scientists, who studied well over half of the world's captive...

12 December 2008
02:22 GMT

Tokyo Zoo Mistook Female Polar Bear for a Male

Zookeepers at Kushiro Municipal Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, had the surprise of their life, when they noticed that the bear they took care of for more than 4 years was actually a female, instead of a male, as the medical certificate said. The cream-colored animal lived with his designated pair – another female –...

26 November 2008
11:00 GMT

How High Can a Tiger Jump?

The event is fresh: just two weeks ago, a 300-pound (136-kilogram) tigress escaped from its enclosure in San Francisco Zoo, killing one man and mauling other two. "The tiger's enclosure is surrounded by a 15-foot-wide (4.5-meter-wide) moat and 20-foot-high (6-meter-high) walls, and the big cat did not leave thr...

11 January 2008
02:51 GMT

How Happy is a Zoo Animal?

Unlike the stuffed animals in the museums or the documentaries on wild life, a zoo gives you the opportunity to see wild animals alive with your own eyes, at close range. Today, as our knowledge about species' biology and behavior has increased, zoos come with conditions more similar to those required by the ani...

9 January 2008
07:07 GMT

What's Behind the Croc Attack at Taiwan Zoo?

Allegations about lousy conditions on the state-run Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, the second largest city of Taiwan, where a crocodile bit off the forearm of a veterinarian last month seem to explain the attack. The gruesome incident, which took place on April 11, was captured in photos wide spread by international med...

19 May 2007
05:55 GMT

Madagascar Cheats and Walkthrough (Xbox)

Play as zany Zoosters and embark on a crazy adventure from New York City to the wild island of Madagascar in the only game based on the highly anticipated animated film from DreamWorks. Enter the world of personality-packed Central Park Zoo animals, including a lion, zebra, giraffe, hippo, and their penguin sidekicks...

26 March 2007
08:04 GMT


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