Critter News
JUNE 20, 2010
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2022
As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. placopedetes occurred since the arrival of people and presumably was due to human impact.”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. ” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. Some people actually don’t consider human beings as animals.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Greater Rheas, a species the Germans call Nandu, are very popular in Germany and frequently kept in zoos as well as private enclosures. This is where the fact that German birders are humans comes into play (and they sure aren’t the only ones ). Birding Birds Germany Invasive Species Week South America'
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
It is now believed to have been a fairly common resident of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until the arrival of the first humans when it went the way of most flightless easy to catch island birds immediately after the arrival of man. Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. .
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now.
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