Animal Raised Species Zoos 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Next door to my hometown, the Gulf Breeze Zoo occupies 50 acres near the Santa Rosa Sound. The first time I visited the 30 acre enclosure, I walked the raised boardwalk over the space with eyes wide. But the geese didn’t care, going about their business surrounded by dozens of species from around the globe.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2024
There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. Riding around Mission Bay and back to the headquarters along the San Diego River can garner us about sixty-five species over the 10-mile bike ride.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. I don't track zoos, but this seems like an unusually high number of casualties. The fatality is one in a string of animal deaths in recent years. They were a part of the zoo’s breeding program for the rare birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. Thus, the earlier the species has died out, the fuzzier and grainier the photo.
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. The new cub was born at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens to a mother who wasn’t able to care for him. Only approximately 12,400 cheetahs remain in the wild.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Nat Geo WILD takes viewers around the world to follow dedicated people working to save Nature’s Miracle Babies – often the last hope for critically vulnerable species. Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 7, 2016
The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. Finally, what of the audience?
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