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The Amusing Case of the Gulf Breeze Zoo Canada Geese

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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. A few weeks later, I returned to the zoo, and sure enough, the nest was empty.

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Urban Birding in San Diego

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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. At just under 1,000 acres of reserve property with several habitat types, it hosts a diversity of plants and animals. San Diego has a lot going for it.

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Questionable Practices at the Calgary Zoo

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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. Tags: zoos welfare violations animal welfare.

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what if a komodo grown with only clean foods?

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so what if someone or a zoo raised it with only clean foods like clean and fresh meats and clean water since it's a baby? they say komodo's venom is from all the bacteria and microbes it gathered up in its system, and those are from all the dirty food it eats including carcasses and whatnot.

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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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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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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. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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They were one, two or three to a cage, and I am 80 percent sure the accommodations were exemplary as far as such institutions (or for that matter traditional zoos) go. If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. But chimpanzees can abstract.

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