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Behind the Scenes: Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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The Smithsonian recently produced a behind-the-scenes YouTube video with Mike Maslanka, head nutritionist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, as he talks about what it takes to feed 2,000 animals from 400 different species 365 days a year. In all, 13 people make up the Zoo’s nutrition team.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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It is a bit worrying that while the Basel Zoo is listed by Google as having a page on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush , that page itself does not seem to exist anymore, and the species is not listed among the inhabitants of the aviary of the zoo. His obituary was published in Nature. I wonder why.

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Birding Dulan County, Qinghai

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Not in a zoo but in the wild, despite the fence in the background. If you want to learn more about being miserable and do not know Misery Bear, please watch this video. Three Himalayan Marmots without nice blue flowers. Two Himalayan Marmots , one of which small, presumably wet and rather cute. No nice blue flowers. Moupin Pika.

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The Lonely Dodo: A Cautionary Tale

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The trust uses education, fieldwork, and a zoo in the Channel Islands to further its goal of saving threatened species from distinction. To get this message out to the world, they recently partnered with the folks behind the Wallace and Gromit animations to produce a new video, The Lonely Dodo. Conservation dodo News video'

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Lions Eat Heron

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Though it took place in a zoo the video below definitely shows some wild behavior. If you don’t want to see a bird killed and eaten then don’t watch it. Instead may I recommend some cuteness ?) If you have the stomach for nature, red in tooth and claw, then watch away! Crazy, no?

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Witch Hunt or Just Prosecution?

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Dauphine works at the National Zoo studying wild birds, where her research has focused on one of birds’ enemies: cats. There is apparently no physical evidence involved, just a video that is not entirely clear. .” The Ph.D. Here’s hoping that Dauphine has her name cleared.

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Video captures Florida cop shoot tiger as it attacks screaming Naples Zoo worker in the USA

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