Critter News
JULY 2, 2009
Things have been tough at the San Francisco Zoo after Tatiana the Siberian tiger attacked those three people in 2007. Here's an article that explains the hard times the Zoo has faced since then. The attacks led to intense scrutiny from the city and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which threatened to yank the zoo's accreditation.
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2012
The naturalist got out of his car, picked her up, took the tape off her legs, and took her to a local zoo. She was rescued, put back into her crate, and returned to the Raptor Trust. The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself. One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic.
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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. We were told that Marco, one of the rescued chimpanzees, does a dance during thunderstorms during which he looks like he’s in a trance. Shirley and Jenny: Remembering Friends.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. I do occasional rescues, though, because everyone still has my number. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2014
“The diehards will be there,” he said reassuringly and squired me to the Oxley Nature Center , a beautiful educational building set on 804 acres of flood-plain forest, prairie, and wetlands one mile north of the Tulsa Zoo. Each summer Seinna, her father, and her mother Christy raise nestling songbirds as subpermittees of WING-IT.
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