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The Amusing Case of the Gulf Breeze Zoo Canada Geese

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Next door to my hometown, the Gulf Breeze Zoo occupies 50 acres near the Santa Rosa Sound. Just beyond a fence, a pair of rhino adults and one baby munched contentedly on hay. A few weeks later, I returned to the zoo, and sure enough, the nest was empty. The Canada Goose sits on its nest of pine cones. Had they merely hatched?

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes a baby white rhinoceros!

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes its seventh baby white rhino since 2004. The adorable baby, a female, will join other rhinos in the 26-acre white rhino habitat on Busch Gardens’ Serengeti Plain. Busch Gardens has celebrated a total of seventh white rhino births since October 2004.

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Busch Gardens Welcomes New Baby Cheetah

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The new cub was born at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens to a mother who wasn’t able to care for him. When zoo keepers saw that the baby was not eating and having trouble gaining weight, they made the decision to hand-raise him. It was on the SSP and Jacksonville Zoo’s advice that the new baby was brought to Busch Gardens.

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A new pond has been set up at Vienna Zoo's Indian rhino enclosure - to the great delight of its horned inhabitants.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. According to Stanley Temple, a professor emeritus of conservation at the University of Wisconsin, “the extinction was part of the motivation for the birth of modern 20th century conservation.” A newly created U.S.

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