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Famous Flamingos

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So both birds are assumed by many to be escapees from a zoo or a private collection somewhere. As they flew, a large group of Avocets took flight around them. Of course, when a group sees 109 species, there are many highlights for the day. If you don’t know about this devilish group, consider yourself fortunate.)

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Controversial Elephant Death at San Diego Zoo

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An animal rights group has called for a federal investigation into the death of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The Northern California-based In Defense of Animals called for the Department of Agriculture, which does inspections of zoos, to investigate Umoya's death.

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Calgary Zoo Set for External Review

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Bowing under pressure, they are allowing an outside group of experts review their operations. But, of course, this is really all because of some extremists who want to close down all zoos. think it’s an extreme animal rights organization that wants to close all zoos,” Steve Feldman {AZA spokesman} said.

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Followup: Some Zoo Keepers Fighting to Stop Elephant Transfer to Sanctuary

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War has erupted between Toronto Zoo elephant keepers and the animal rights group helping to co-ordinate a move of three aging elephants to a California sanctuary. Excepted from the Toronto News.

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Birding Wolongshan, Sichuan, China

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Many of the pandas are kept in a kind of zoo in Wolongshan – ironically, the government apparently first asked local farmers to plant bamboo (to be fed to the pandas in the zoo) but later prohibited them from cutting down the bamboo (as it might be used as food by wild pandas). Bird photography for extremely lazy people.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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It is a bit worrying that while the Basel Zoo is listed by Google as having a page on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush , that page itself does not seem to exist anymore, and the species is not listed among the inhabitants of the aviary of the zoo. His obituary was published in Nature. ” ( source ).

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Calgary Zoo Feeling Economic Pressure

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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. Lanthier doesn't hide his contempt for animal rights groups who lash out, without considering the role zoos play in conservation.