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Calgary Zoo in Big Trouble

Critter News

We've written about the Calgary Zoo here before. To many people, the number of animal fatalities at the Calgary Zoo in newer years seemed very high. A hippo passed away following a long, horrible transfer from another zoo. Woodyer wanted Lanthier to quit and for the zoo’s accreditation to be taken away.

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes a baby white rhinoceros!

4 The Love Of Animals

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes its seventh baby white rhino since 2004. Busch Gardens has celebrated a total of seventh white rhino births since October 2004. The adorable baby, a female, will join other rhinos in the 26-acre white rhino habitat on Busch Gardens’ Serengeti Plain.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004. Even the fuzzy images have life.

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