Critter News

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

War has erupted between Toronto Zoo elephant keepers and the animal rights group helping to co-ordinate a move of three aging elephants to a California sanctuary. Excepted from the Toronto News.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group. With no prior training they can make hooks from straight pieces of wire to obtain out-of-reach food.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Park in the lot across from Summit Gardens and Zoo, then walk across the railroad tracks. Spotted some massive migratory groups at Radisson Summit Hotel and Golf Panama. Seen in groups of 1-4 at Radisson Summit, Pipeline Road, and Summit Ponds. A group in the trees at Summit Ponds. One group of four on Old Gamboa Road.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo. I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. But I am grumbling a little bit about it. Back to real birds.

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