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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. Just beyond a fence, a pair of rhino adults and one baby munched contentedly on hay. On large islands shaded with multiple trees, a family of orangutans and another of gorillas lounged in the green grass. Had they merely hatched?

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. According to Stanley Temple, a professor emeritus of conservation at the University of Wisconsin, “the extinction was part of the motivation for the birth of modern 20th century conservation.” A newly created U.S.

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