Zoos and Aquariums

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Baghdad's once ravaged zoo comes back to life

Reuters Life! Online Report 8 days ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than six years after the U.S. invasion left Iraq's main zoo a wasteland of starving animals and deserted cages, the park in central Baghdad is enjoying a vigorous revival and needs to grow. Few Iraqis ventured into Baghdad ...

India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks

AP News 12 days ago

India orders all zoo and circus elephants moved to wildlife parks after animal rights outcry All elephants living in Indian zoos and circuses will be moved to wildlife parks and game sanctuaries where the animals can graze more freely, officials said Friday. ...

India Elephants

AP News 12 days ago

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 photograph, villagers walk on railway tracks in the background as a herd of wild elephants relax in a marshy area at Deepor Beel wildlife sanctuary, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. Wildlife authorities in India ...

Vienna zoo's panda Fu Long heads for China

AFP Global Edition 13 days ago

Fu Long the panda, Europe's first to be conceived naturally while in captivity, is to leave his home town of Vienna for China next week, the Schoenbrunn Zoo in the Austrian capital said Thursday. The giant panda, whose name means "Happy Dragon" ...

India to free zoo elephants

AFP Global Edition 13 days ago

India is to move 140 elephants living in zoos across the country to safari parks and sanctuaries where the normally free-roaming animals can graze openly, an official said Thursday. The Central Zoo Authority issued an order to India's 26 zoos to shift ...

China sends panda expert to Taiwan to aid breeding

AP News 16 days ago

China sends panda expert to Taiwan to advise how to get them to breed Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda. So says a panda expert sent by China to Taiwan to ...

DWP fish suck feeding bottle

WENN 22 days ago

Children feed colourful fish at a zoo in Hubei, China. (IG/WN) **Not Available for publication in China, Available for the rest of the world** Credit: WENN.com Copyright 2009 WENN

Israel feeds hungry, hungry hippo market

AFP Global Edition 23 days ago

The latest export from the land of milk and honey is a grass-chomping mammal that hangs out in rivers and lakes and is apparently hard to sedate. Israel's top safari says it has become the world's top exporter of hippopotamuses, having successfully ...

dwp eagle chick

WENN 26 days ago

Harpy Eagle Chick Born at Miami Metrozoo… Last month the Miami Metrozoo became the second zoo in the United States ever to breed a rare Harpy Eagle. Since baby eagle mortality rates are high, the zoo waited until this week to announce ...

Once-tame Baghdad zoo now a roaring success

AFP Global Edition 34 days ago

Baghdad's Al-Zawraa zoo is enjoying a boom, and not just in attendance -- its Siberian tigers gave birth to twins this summer, part of a rush of new arrivals swelling the park's population. From the dark days of 2003, in the aftermath ...

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