10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
The first time I visited the 30 acre enclosure, I walked the raised boardwalk over the space with eyes wide. On large islands shaded with multiple trees, a family of orangutans and another of gorillas lounged in the green grass. Just beyond a fence, a pair of rhino adults and one baby munched contentedly on hay.
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs. Zoo patrons were shocked to see Barika, a western lowland gorilla, holding a knife and apparently pointing it at another primate in the enclosure.
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2008
In response to both kinds of scenarios, some have begun to raise the possibility of an "eco-intervention," analogous to humanitarian interventions. In some parts of Africa, rangers receive military training and equipment to defend animals (and themselves) from poachers in pursuit of elephants, rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered species.
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