Critter News
JULY 10, 2009
I'm not a fan of zoos on principle. But I know there are good zoos and bad zoos. Unfortunately I think there are way more bad zoos than good ones. But even for a bad zoo, this is awful. A lot of the comments are just about keeping zoos open for families and children. Who would they euthanize? It doesn't say.
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. I don't track zoos, but this seems like an unusually high number of casualties. They were a part of the zoo’s breeding program for the rare birds. In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Legend has it that anyone who kills one of these pigeons will go blind – for once, a superstition I highly appreciate and which I wish we could expand to all other bird species as well. And of course, there is a large number of Rock Doves (feral), particularly near one particular mosque.
Reddit Animals
APRIL 17, 2023
My dumb friend keeps saying that a wolverine would beat a polar bear and “jump on its back and cut its throat” and he seems to think wolverines are faster even though a quick search says otherwise and the only recorded incident of a wolverine killing a bear was at a zoo, where both animals are out of it’s natural habitat.
Animal Person
MARCH 20, 2010
Like a "BBQ, pony rides and a petting zoo!" When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use? What would you do?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2022
The shame would kill them. ” As well as in Southeast Asia, there are also Spotted Laughingthrushes (photos taken at Longcanggou and Wolongshan, Sichuan) at the San Diego Zoo. “ San Diego Zoo ” is also a nice song by the 6ths (mostly Stephin Merritt, in this song with Barbara Manning singing).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2017
The law of unintended consequences has tragic effects at a zoo in England, as rat poison ends up killing the Rainbow Lorikeets it was intended to protect. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.
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