10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
A crop of Eucalypt trees had been planted and clearly coppiced, apparently to feed recovering koalas from Steve Irwin’s [he of Crocodile Hunter fame] family’s zoo and wildlife hospital. And then we started a loop around an interesting but surprising plantation.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Not more than four years following the final breath of the last living Passenger Pigeon , and at the same facility – the Cincinnati Zoo, whose place in ornithological history is morbidly established – the last Carolina Parakeet died. The 19-teens were not a good time for North American birdlife. It was called Incas.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 4, 2011
While shooting the premiere episode of National Geographic Channel’s new series, Beast Hunter , host Pat Spain visited the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia to visit a seven-year-old Orangutan named Pinky. Too cute, right?! Pinky sure does love Pat!
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2022
The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). On the other hand, the Black Kite is a raptor not known for integrity – Black Kites are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge ( source ). I guess the females feel that the blue of the bower treasures works well with their eyes.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2011
But it wasn’t all that diabolical when you consider that it was the Queens Zoo that served as the setting and I also left this clue: “a knowledge of what birds can be seen in my fine borough will be of great assistance to you.&# Those who are really familiar with Queens should know what birds are in the zoo named for our borough.
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Each year, US zoos label thousands of nonhuman animals 'surplus' and treat them accordingly" (87).
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