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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

New Zealand has a very odd biota these days. There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. If New Zealand had a poor fauna, they would enrich it.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. The 10-year-old dog and 4-month-old joey eventually became best friends.

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