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Cheetah sets new world speed record!

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Sarah, an 11-year-old cheetah at the Cincinnati Zoo, broke her own world record by running 100m in 5.95 seconds on June 20, 2012. Her run was photographed for a November 2012 National Geographic magazine article that will include never-before-seen high speed photographs and video of cheetah movement. She was clocked at 61mph.

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Endangered Malayan Tiger Cubs Born at Busch Gardens Tampa

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The births are part of park’s partnership in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival Plan® (SSP). Malayan tiger cub births in managed care are rare – just one successful birth in 2012 as part of the SSP. There are currently just over 50 Malayan tigers in the Species Survival Plan.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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In 2012, the Hindustani Times claimed that from January 2011 to June 2012, a further 9 tigers were killed in the Tadoba buffer zone. During 1990s, the South China Tiger became extinct in the wild (some still survive in zoos) and the number of extinct races reached four.

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Sungei Buloh – Singapore’s Finest Wetlands

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SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 2012 – Ask any birder where you should go birding in Singapore and the short list will always include Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , this city-state’s finest wetlands. Guess the grub is good at the zoo. The magnificent Mudskipper , lord of the mangroves.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo. Though the third-most densely populated county in the United States (as of the 2010 census, thank you Wikipedia), about 25% of Bronx land is open, public space. Which is true.

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Awkward Fostering

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One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012. 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.

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Greater Rheas: Germany’s new Big Bird

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Greater Rheas, a species the Germans call Nandu, are very popular in Germany and frequently kept in zoos as well as private enclosures. Their current population stands at more than 150 birds (I have no recent population estimate, but there were 129 in 2012, up from 100 in 2011), and they are spreading slowly but consistently.

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