Source: The Roanoke Times
Oops the monkey escaped. No, really. A Japanese macaque named Oops is monkeying around in the trees somewhere near the Mill Mountain Zoo.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Crosby MP Claire Curtis-Thomas wants Zoo, Nuts and their ilk consigned to the top shelf so minors do not see them. But defenders say there is nothing wrong with pictures of topless women and blokey features.
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The tortoise that Charles Darwin brought back from Galapagos in 1835 has died of old age in a zoo in Australia. Her name was Harriet and she was 176 years old, she is the oldest living tortoise.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Sorry for cutting into your territory, Ansab, but I couldn't help but notice you had overlooked this one: Harriet the tortoise, one of the world's oldest known living creatures, has died in Australia aged about 175.
Source: bigcatrescue.org
Only 1 in 4 tiger cubs from a white tiger bred to an orange tiger carrying the white gene are born white, and 80% of those die from birth defects associated with the inbreeding necessary to cause a white coat.
Source: dispatch.com
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is buying Wyandot Lake from Six Flags for $2 million, promising visitors a fresh, botanical look for the water park as newer water-theme parks spout across Ohio.
Source: I-Film
Video: Man Jumps Into Lion's Den
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
-- A lioness at Kiev's zoo has killed a man who climbed into her enclosure. A Ukrainian of Azerbaijani origin lowered himself into the enclosure using a rope. He was quoted as saying God would save him.
Source: today.reuters.com
Lioness in zoo kills man who invoked God KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.
Living in a zoo is no walk in the park. I mean who would want to live behind bars and be on display while complete strangers watch the most intimate and embarrassing goings-on of your life.
Source: examiner.com
SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai is getting set to open a "human zoo."
Source: news.com.au
Source: mg.co.za
"Wildlife authorities said on Wednesday they had been forced to euthanise "Big Mama", a giant 52-year-old Nile crocodile that had been a star attraction at a Ugandan zoo for nearly half a century.
A komodo dragon in the London Zoo has given birth to four beautiful babies. (Congratulations! It's a lizard! Four of them!)
Source: news.yahoo.com
Zoologists said they were delighted and perplexed at the birth of four rare Komodo dragons, whose paternity remains a mystery.
Source: abc.net.au
South Australian police say they will continue to investigate the theft of a meerkat from the Adelaide Zoo, despite the animal being found alive and well...
Source: abc.net.au
The Rockhampton City Council, in central Queensland, is trying to find a crocodile that has been stolen from the city's zoo...
Source: animal.discovery.com
Zoo officials in Kolkata said Thursday that a famed 255-year-old tortoise brought to the eastern Indian city during the rule of the British East India Company has died.
Source: wired.com
A giant aldabra tortoise thought to have been a personal pet of Robert Clive - a famous British colonial era officer in India in the mid 1700s, has died of liver failure in the Kolkota, India zoo.
Source: sfgate.com
Baby giraffe grows an inch a week.
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
"Just as polar bears don't thrive in a hot climate, Asian elephants shouldn't live in small groups without many acres to roam," Detroit Zoo director Ron Kagan said at the time.
Source: Detroit Free Press
After weeks of political wrangling, negotiations and shouting matches between elected officials and metro area residents, the Detroit City Council agreed this afternoon to transfer daily operations of the Detroit Zoo to the non-profit Detroit Zoological Society.
Source: Zoo-talk
A collection of stories/articles about the possible closure of the Detroit Zoo
Source: Zoo-talk
On Saturday morning, February 25, a team of seven veterinarians from Rochester, Florida, Missouri and Canada, and nine Seneca Park Zoo staff members performed a four-hour surgery, successfully removing a 248-pound, dead male calf from Genny C.’s (elephant) birth canal.
Source: wxyz.com
Council member Martha Reeves said, "Whoever runs the zoo should have an understanding with the city council. And it was not clear what the actual agreement was, it was never completed."