Reddit Animals

JULY 13, 2023

zoos have pandas (Washington DC zoo and Zoo Atlanta). I wanna feel their fur. Pandas are my favorite animal. Obviously they normally don’t let visitors close up to animals but it’s my dream to pet a panda just once. How do I convince them to let me pet my favorite animal?

Pandas 40

Pandas Pets Atlanta DC 40

Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Third Place (The Student Award): Kyle Ramirez, a design student at The Art Institute of Dallas, for his “Cotton Candy Dress” that creates the illusion of something “soft and weightless like fur and cotton candy” but uses cascading ruffles, antiqued satin fabric, artificial flowers and beads, to achieve that illusion.

Fur 100

Fur Animal Welfare Ethics Primates 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

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. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry.

New Zealand 161

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

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.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

I do think that in my lifetime greyhound racing will end, circuses will be animal-free, elephants and marine mammals won't be in zoos, and fur might even be banned. The whole development of society must be slow and continuous, the changes incremental. ( None of these things will happen without targeted campaigns.

Psychology 100

Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. The Amur Leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis – above) is just one majestic animal on the Critically Endangered (CR) list with less than 100 individuals in the wild due to hunting for its fur.

Hunting 111

Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 111