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Zoo Atlanta was the site of the latest “Vet for a Day,” a program started by the stars of the TV show “Critter Fixers,” Drs. Terrence Ferguson and Vernard Hodges, to make future veterinarians by introducing kids to veterinary medicine early in their lives.
zooepidemicus (also known as Strep zoo), which was complicated by infection with bacterial agents. Four dogs at the San Diego Humane Society (SDHS) have been euthanized after being infected with Streptococcus equi subsp.
AVMA News has compiled a list of activities that AVMA Convention 2025 attendees can do this summer, including exploring the National Mall, visiting museums, enjoying river cruises, and seeing the pandas at the National Zoo.
I am reminded of the ducks’ perilous and arduous existence on each family outing to Heidelberg Zoo. The Duck Pond of Heidelberg Zoo with camp Crystal Lake in the background Little did Woody realize he was being watched – from below. And I am forced to face my fears once more. All is peaceful, all is quiet.
The Zoo and Aquarium Radiology Database (ZARD), housed at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, is an online reference tool of thousands of digital radiographs and CT scans preapproved by board-certified veterinary radiologists as “normal” for each species.
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), The Wildlife Confiscations Network lessens the logistical burden of searching for appropriate placement of trafficked animals. Through a cooperative agreement between the U.S.
Participants completed in-person assessments of the welfare of animals in a variety of scenarios, including laboratory rats, farmed bison, cage-free laying hens, and tortoises in a zoo.
It's bad enough to send animals to zoos, but to a zoo in Baghdad?? Tags: zoos iraq. It makes me sick thinking about the animals already there (numbering 1,500 including lions and tigers.).
A Sumatran female at the Taman Rimbo Zoo was drugged by poachers, slaughtered and harvested for her parts. Tags: zoos wildlife crime poaching tigers indonesia. Tigers are not safe anywhere. Just awful.
Things have been tough at the San Francisco Zoo after Tatiana the Siberian tiger attacked those three people in 2007. Here's an article that explains the hard times the Zoo has faced since then. The attacks led to intense scrutiny from the city and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which threatened to yank the zoo's accreditation.
Next door to my hometown, the Gulf Breeze Zoo occupies 50 acres near the Santa Rosa Sound. A few weeks later, I returned to the zoo, and sure enough, the nest was empty. I’ve seen many geese nesting during my time watching avian varieties, but the Gulf Breeze Zoo nest takes the cake for most unique! Where were the babies?
The Smithsonian recently produced a behind-the-scenes YouTube video with Mike Maslanka, head nutritionist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, as he talks about what it takes to feed 2,000 animals from 400 different species 365 days a year. In all, 13 people make up the Zoo’s nutrition team.
Like a "BBQ, pony rides and a petting zoo!" When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use? What would you do?
In Defense of Animals has taken up the cause of Lucky the elephant, the only elephant at the San Antonio Zoo, alleging poor conditions and emotional distress. She has been at the San Antonio Zoo for 47 years. Tags: zoos animal cruelty Texas elephants. What amazes me is Lucky's age.49 49 years old. Is this right?
He was storing hundreds of stones to throw at visitors at the Furuvik Zoo. Keepers at Furuvik Zoo found that the chimp collected and stored stones that he would later use as missiles. Tags: zoos chimpanzees. The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology. The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology.
This story comes from Melissa Gillmer, a zookeeper and wildlife rehabilitator at the Bear Mountain Zoo. The zoo is part of Bear Mountain State Park , a glorious expanse of mountainous land on the west side of the Hudson River in New York. Does this happen all the time?” asked Danielle.
I live in Seattle where Woodland Park Zoo is located. On the other hand, Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants says they are not well-treated and should be in a sanctuary. Elephants need to roam and I don't particularly like having any animal gawked at in a zoo.but I don't really know if Woodland Park is worse than any other zoo.
PETA is trying to prevent more animals going to the Manila Zoo. Tags: animal welfar zoo PETA phillipines. They are working with local animal welfare groups on this issue. Joining PETA as the petition’s signatories are the Animal Kingdom Foundation Inc. That's not true. There are activists in every country of the world.
I live near a small zoo. Local people who unexpectedly end up with injured wildlife in their cars tend to beeline for the zoo; especially if they have no cell phone. The man arrived at the zoo with bloody puncture wounds up and down both arms. He pulled to the side, climbed out and approached it, expecting it to fly away.
An article in today's Seattle Times about Woodland Park Zoo's attempts over the last 20 years to breed elephants. The zoo claims it's to preserve the species. Very controversial with organizations such as In Defense of Animals, PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network. They say it's cruel.
Not only is Toronto closing its elephant exhibit, but the City Council voted to send the remaining elderly elephants to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) sanctuary instead of another zoo.
The Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) has proposed that the Ministry exempt JAZA's members from the current requirement to register as animal handlers with local authorities. The Ministry of the Environment is in the process of amending the Japanese animal protection law.
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.
University campus at Im Neuenheimer Feld, particularly in the north (turn off Berliner Straße and into the street Im Neuenheimer Feld) and south (park at the zoo, see below). Heidelberg Zoo to the south-west of Neuenheimer Feld, all over the place but most often at the seals enclosure and the adjacent kiosk.
Lilly Tomlin is in Seattle and spoke out about the conditions of elephants at the Woodland Park Zoo on behalf of the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN). Addressing supporters and the media at the Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Center, Tomlin said elephants in zoos across the country are suffering in confinement.
.): Hot Bird Summer (“Every spring, for as long as records have been kept, a crowd of hundreds of black-crowned night herons descend on the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, mating, eating and generally causing a ruckus. Many of the keepers at the zoo enjoy them, but they can be a tough bird to love.”). Sidedoor ( Smithsonian , 2020, 25 min.):
My scheduled rodent pick-up day wasn’t for another two weeks, so I called my friends at the local zoo and begged for help. But I was on a work deadline, so by the time I arrived at the zoo the vulture had eaten several pork chops and some very nice free-range chicken. they said, “come on over and we’ll give you as much as you need.”
Along with about 200 Los Angeles Zoo employees, children and community members gathered today at City Hall, rock guitarist Slash pledged his support for completing the zoo’s Pachyderm Forest. The donation is for helping Billy the elephant. But the opposition had its own celebrity endorsement, this one with a $1.5
Dauphine works at the National Zoo studying wild birds, where her research has focused on one of birds’ enemies: cats. .” The Ph.D. Smithsonian Institute researcher is accused of trying to poison street cats outside her apartment building on 15th Street in Northwest.
It seems likely that this individual bird was an escape from a local zoo, as has already been theorized on the New York State listserv. That’s a lot more fun than a bird that sneaked out of the zoo, isn’t it?
They embody “opportunity” whether it’s using a new food source or eating bugs. Above is a photo Art Drauglis captured of a red-shoulder making off with meat put out for Marabou Storks at the Washington D.C. When I worked at a wild bird store, one of my customers had her own Red-shouldered Hawk Feeder.
The trust uses education, fieldwork, and a zoo in the Channel Islands to further its goal of saving threatened species from distinction. It can be hard for the average joe to understand why preserving exotic species in far-flung places is so important. Enter the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust , and The Lonely Dodo.
I, on the other hand, had a very busy weekend that included seeing The Big Year (look for a review soon), joining the huge Occupy Wall Street rally in Times Square, taking Desi to the Queens Zoo, and driving upstate to visit the newest addition to the family, my nephew, Andrew Peter (Congrats Jonathan and Shannon!).
Though it took place in a zoo the video below definitely shows some wild behavior. If you don’t want to see a bird killed and eaten then don’t watch it. Instead may I recommend some cuteness ?) If you have the stomach for nature, red in tooth and claw, then watch away! Crazy, no?
Thirteen Spoon-billed Sandpipers have arrived in England after spending sixty days in quarantine at Moscow Zoo. The birds were captured on their breeding grounds in Siberia and the hope is that they can be used to start a captive breeding program in an attempt to bring the species back from the brink. Here’s hoping it goes well!
Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago was the scene for this madness. A Whooper Swan conservation project keeps a small wildfowl collection, which includes the Wood Ducks, but free food during cold spells attracts “freeloaders” from Lake Michigan and the zoo end up providing winter fuel for hundreds of Mallards.
The new rankings will be used in a major conservation initiative called the Edge of Existence program at the London Zoo. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. Also written up here.
A crop of Eucalypt trees had been planted and clearly coppiced, apparently to feed recovering koalas from Steve Irwin’s [he of Crocodile Hunter fame] family’s zoo and wildlife hospital. And then we started a loop around an interesting but surprising plantation.
Consequently, the news that three Bali Mynah chicks recently hatched at Lincoln Park Zoo is cause for celebration. The lovely Bali Mynah , categorized as Critically Endangered by BirdLife International, is considered one of the world’s rarest birds. Not all mynahs are bad , right? hat tip to Meredith ) a.
Staff from the San Diego Zoo think so. Prothonotary Warblers (like the dapper bird above captured for posterity by Corey) should carry frequent-flier cards—a recent Audubon-led study found that one geolocator-toting individual racked up more than 5,000 miles in eight months.
Still hard for me to believe that these guys live outside of zoos. Conservation status is Least Concern: “This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion” Or to put it more personally, I saw it in Shanghai yesterday. Painted Stork. Purple Sunbird.
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