Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Block pleaded guilty in February to felony conspiracy to violate the Lacey and Endangered Species Acts by conspiring to smuggle orangutans. Biggest contracts: $232,500 with Army for Live Animals, Not Raised for Food. Signed on 2005-08-12. Completion date: 2005-10-17. Completion date: 2005-10-17.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

When zoo keepers saw that the baby was not eating and having trouble gaining weight, they made the decision to hand-raise him. Cheetahs are included on both the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list of vulnerable species as well as on the US Endangered Species Act list of threatened species.

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APRIL 4, 2013

Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The critically endangered Forest Owlet © Nitin Bhardwaj. Trips endangered species India owlets owls' This many birds at the same site (out of 250 of the reserve checklist) have lightened our spirits, but still – no owlet! Rhesus Macaque © Marina Vukovic-Bhardwaj.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. This many birds at the same site (out of 250 of the reserve checklist) have lightened our spirits, but still – no owlet! Rhesus Macaque © Marina Vukovic-Bhardwaj. It rotates its head 180 degrees to keep an eye on us. Humbly, we approach on foot. And it becomes a motionless observer once more.

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MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada. He came for the hawks. And grow they did.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 14, 2011

Although this is Busch Gardens’ first cub-and-puppy combo, it is not uncommon in the zoological community for a single cheetah to be raised with a canine companion. Male cheetahs are social and often live together in coalitions,” said Tim Smith, one of Busch Gardens’ animal curators. Only approximately 12,400 cheetahs remain in the wild.

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