4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 23, 2012

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s famous cheetah cub, Kasi, visited the park’s new Animal Care Center today for his one-year check-up. The 90-minute routine procedure included cleaning Kasi’s teeth, taking X-rays and using an endoscope to check out and take biopsies along his digestive tract.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 30, 2012

Photos by Matt Marriott/Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. Stay tuned to Busch Gardens’ Facebook and Blog to find out when this healthy baby aardvark will make his public debut at Jambo Junction for guests to see. For further details, visit www.buschgardens.com.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

TAMPA, Fla. November 12, 2008) – Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomed a new baby white rhinoceros on Wednesday, Nov. The female rhino was born in the night quarters adjacent to their 26-acre white rhino habitat on Busch Gardens’ Serengeti Plain.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay welcomed a new baby female reticulated giraffe on Tuesday, December 27, 2011. At 5 foot, 7 inches tall and weighing approximately 127 pounds! That’s a big baby! The calf is the daughter of father, Jafari and mother, Tesa, who has previously given birth to four other calves at Busch Gardens.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2010

Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay recently welcomed two more baby giraffes, bringing the herd to 17! And they are super cute too! The giraffes joined the rest of the heard on the Serengeti Plain on July 13th. What is neat about giraffes is that it is common for other members of the herd to become involved with the care of newborns.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 23, 2010

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomed a new baby reticulated giraffe just days ago. Weighing approximately 147 pounds at birth, the newborn is the calf of mother, Teesa, and father, Sterling. The addition brings Busch Gardens’ giraffe population to 15.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2014

Eventually the business and the workers moved to Tampa, leaving a sizable chicken population behind. KWWC also has a thriving feral chicken sideline. It turns out that back when cigar manufacturing was big in the Keys, Cuban laborers arrived with their chickens. KWWC is located within the eight-acre Sonny McCoy Indigenous Park in Key West.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 17, 2010

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomed two endangered baby red-ruffed lemurs on April 21. The babies can be viewed by guests in Jambo Junction, where they reside with their mother and father, Maditra and Bozeny.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2014

I fly in to Orlando early Tuesday morning and I will immediately head west to Tampa in search of these two countable exotics. Add Nanday Parakeet and Budgerigar to my ABA Life List. This goal will either be reached or missed before the festival actually starts. Show lots of good birds to lots of birders!

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 22, 2008

He is a star player for the Philadelphia Phillies, who are in this year's World Series (which begins tonight in Tampa). Those of you who aren't baseball fans (I feel sorry for you) may not know Chase Utley. Chase and his wife, Jen, are animal lovers, which makes them good people in my book. See here for a story.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2014

Petersburg, which is where I was headed after dipping the Bar-tailed Godwit north of Tampa. They are quite charming parrots, mostly green with a black facial mask and beak, red feathers around the thighs, a bluish tint to the chest, and blue edging the tail. They are relatively easy to find around St. I never got to St. Petersburg.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2013

From the 1940s to the 1970s, the species rapidly spread from the southern tip of the peninsula to areas north of Lake Okeechobee including the Tampa-St. According to the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas, the first confirmed breeding record was in Miami in July of 1938. Petersburg area and Cape Canaveral.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

Petersburg area on the west coast. However, the bulk of the population breeds in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties at the southern tip of the state, particularly around the mangrove fringed coasts and islets of Florida and Biscayne Bay.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

Sunday we had to head to Tampa to take a flight home, Brian back to the Richmond area for work and me to Washington. Down the beach it continued to make its way past other people and even dogs, though I hope for its sake it eventually took wing – it was a very long line of hotels. Great Egret.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

Many visitors who come through Orlando or Tampa see maybe eight or ten species on a winter trip. Magnolia Warbler is an annual winter resident in small numbers in Miami-Dade, FL. . Few birders realize how many warblers actually do winter in southernmost Florida — even long time birders within the state.

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Creature Talk

APRIL 17, 2009

My sister lives in Tampa, FL and she sees wild chickens all the time. Those that couldn’t - like “broiler&# chickens - would only find it difficult because of human intervention in their breeding. Chickens who are bred for meat grow so large so quickly that even with the best of care, they do not live long.

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