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Calgary Zoo Feeling Economic Pressure

Critter News

They had to cancel a big project that would have showcased polar bears and seals. Dr. Clement Lanthier, Calgary Zoo president and CEO (is this a corporation??) It's off the table until somebody comes to the zoo and says, I want this and I'm willing to pay," said Lanthier. But don't feel too bad for them. sounds like a real jerk.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

10,000 Birds

With 7,500 birds (1,500 breeding pairs), the German population is still rather small compared to the numbers the parakeets have built up in the UK or the Netherlands, where the populations range in the 10s of thousands. The zoo has a small colony of genuinely wild Grey Herons (watch them compete with the seals for the fish!),

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