10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 19, 2023
The others follow, some dozen animals in all. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. Driving slowly behind them… The guide knows his animals. The first to cross is an old female with a two-year old baby.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 17, 2009
Please join the Utah Chapter American Association of Zookeepers (AAZK) for their 18th annual “Bowling for Rhinos” on Friday, May 1st. Collect $50 in pledges (in addition to your registration fee) and receive a Bowling For Rhinos T-shirt and entry into one door prize category. This year our door prizes are better than ever!
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
While I harbor mixed feelings about zoos in general, this facility seems to make the best effort possible to keep animals in interesting enclosures, move them to different areas of the zoo to maintain novel surroundings, and invest money and space into a 30 acre mixed species enclosure, where the animals can move freely.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2013
The others follow, some dozen animals in all. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good! They are crossing one or two at a time. Sniffing us.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2016
Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. 10000birds.com/is-my-rhino-still-alive.htm. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. It rotates its head 180 degrees to keep an eye on us.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Busch Gardens’ animal care team has something new keeping them up at night – a four-week-old baby cheetah that requires regular feedings and 24-hour care. When zoo keepers saw that the baby was not eating and having trouble gaining weight, they made the decision to hand-raise him.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 14, 2011
Just a month after Busch Gardens took in a cheetah cub whose mother wasn’t caring for it, the park’s animal care team has identified the perfect four-legged friend for the 8-week-old cat: a 16-week old female yellow Labrador puppy. The two were first introduced over the weekend and have been spending supervised play times together each day.
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