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San Francisco Zoo Struggles After Tiger Attack

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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.

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Bob Barker Donates $1.5 Million to LA Zoo

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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

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

10,000 Birds

Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008. During 1990s, the South China Tiger became extinct in the wild (some still survive in zoos) and the number of extinct races reached four. Tiger’s historic range in about 1850 (pale yellow) and in 2006 (in green).

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

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. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

” A Nicobar Pigeon bathes at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington © David J. Thankfully not extinct: Western Crowned-Pigeon ( Goura cristata ) at the National Zoo © David J. The Ones Who Didn’t Make It. With specialization comes risk. Tongan Tooth-billed Pigeon ( Didunculus placopedetes ).

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

Dogs are likely to be true-born wet-nurses; in particular, it is related to whelp dogs, which are often used as step-mothers for young predators in the Zoos. In 2006, in Yalta private zoo (Ukraine) two white lions were left without mother’s care. Puma rejected her children and they were given to Mary.

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