Critter News
JUNE 20, 2010
We've written about the Calgary Zoo here before. To many people, the number of animal fatalities at the Calgary Zoo in newer years seemed very high. A hippo passed away following a long, horrible transfer from another zoo. Woodyer wanted Lanthier to quit and for the zoo’s accreditation to be taken away.
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. Birds carolina parakeet Extinct Parrots Extinct Species Week extinction'
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
Unlike North America, Germany has never had naturally occurring psittacines that went extinct, and the one we have is a true and complete invasive alien introduction. Heidelberg Zoo to the south-west of Neuenheimer Feld, all over the place but most often at the seals enclosure and the adjacent kiosk. Very stupid thing to do.
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 25, 2012
Busch Gardens participates in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival Plan (SSP) to ensure genetic diversification among threatened and endangered animals in zoological facilities. Fewer than 15,000 white rhinos remain in the wild, and approximately 200 live in zoological facilities across North America.
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. What is surprising is quite how many species did end up here, and how economically unimportant they were.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. Lost Birds looks at photographic representations of 28 species, 21 of which are birds. Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Back in 2009, Tai Haku sent us a fascinating post exploring a question that ecologists worldwide grapple with: can the translocation of rare species into niches left empty by extinction be successful or justified? Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. . It is extinct.
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