‘Alligators don’t make good pets, y’all’: Texas zoo rescues reptile stolen as egg

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Admin

Woman who did not have a permit to keep alligator as a pet confessed to taking an egg from zoo near Austin 20 years ago

A Texas zoo said it had taken back an 8ft alligator which was stolen as an egg more than 20 years ago, then kept as a backyard pet.

In an Instagram post accompanying footage of three agents gingerly lifting the alligator into a truck and releasing it into a zoo enclosure, the state parks and wildlife department said: “Alligators don’t make good pets, y’all.”

Mexico zoo chief accused of ordering pygmy goats to be killed and cooked for party

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Admin

Authorities claim animals in the zoo in city of Chilpancingo were sold, traded or eaten under orders of former director

The former director of a zoo in southern Mexico killed four of the zoo’s pygmy goats and served them up at a Christmas-season party, authorities have alleged.

“These four animals [were] slaughtered and cooked on the zoo’s premises, and were served as food at the year-end party,” said Fernando Ruiz Gutierrez, the state environment department’s director of wildlife, blaming the zoo’s director at the time, José Rubén Nava. “This put the health of the people who ate them at risk, because these animals were not fit for human consumption.”

Mystery of the missing monkeys adds to litany of unexplained Dallas zoo attacks

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Admin

Monkeys were reported missing Monday after a vulture died, a clouded leopard escaped and a monkey cage was damaged

A mystery is unfolding at the Dallas zoo as two emperor tamarin monkeys were reported missing on Monday in what is now the fourth recent incident involving animals at the popular attraction in Texas.

Previously a vulture was apparently killed and a clouded leopard escaped after its cage was cut open. Before that another monkey cage was deliberately damaged.

Men admit break-in at Hampshire zoo in which giraffes and tigers suffered

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Admin

Nathan Daniels, 21, and Bradley Green, 24, damaged enclosures and allegedly threw bottle at giraffe’s head

Two men have admitted breaking into a zoo and damaging the penguin and giraffe enclosures during an incident in which a bottle was allegedly thrown at a giraffe’s head.

Nathan Daniels, 21, admitted damaging the penguin enclosure at Marwell zoo, near Southampton, while Bradley Green, 24, admitted damaging an enclosure containing giraffes.

Chester zoo hails birth of rare Malayan tapir as ‘important moment’

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Admin

Female calf named Nessa will help efforts to protect species, of which fewer than 2,500 remain in the wild

An endangered Malayan tapir has been born at a UK zoo, in what the zoo said was an “important moment” for conservation.

The female calf, which zookeepers have named Nessa, was born weighing 9kg on Wednesday at Chester zoo, one of only two places in the country to keep tapirs, a species related to the horse and the rhinoceros.

‘Our worst nightmare’: Sydney’s Taronga zoo locked down after five lions escape enclosure

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Admin

Father of two staying overnight on ‘roar and snore’ experience says family told to flee tents and ‘it was pretty shocking – imagine facing a lion’

Five lions broke out of their enclosure at Sydney’s Taronga zoo, forcing staff and visitors to hide in “safe zones” and triggering a review of zoo safety.

The lions – four cubs and one adult – were seen outside their enclosure about 6.30am on Wednesday. A “code one” alert soon after sent the zoo into lockdown. Police were called at 7.10am and the lions returned to their enclosure just before 9am.

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Canada zoo finds escaped wolf pups in moment of joy tinged with tragedy

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Admin

Four days after a ‘suspicious’ break-in, one pup is found safe and another appears to have been hit by a car

Emotions are bittersweet at a Canadian zoo after a runaway wolf pup was safely located after four days on the loose, but another was found dead along a road.

Conservation officers and zoo staff in Canada have spent the last four days searching for a runaway wolf after mysterious break-in freed a pack of the predators from the popular zoo.

Brexit threatening endangered species as red tape hits zoo breeding programmes

Posted on August 13, 2022 by Admin

Transferring critically endangered species within Europe to broaden the gene pool is more difficult with Britain outside the EU

Breeding programmes designed to save critically endangered species are being jeopardised by Brexit, with zoos warning they are being prevented from transferring animals such as rhinos and giraffes by red tape created by the UK’s departure from the EU.

The animal health regulation was passed in 2016 before the EU referendum, but came into force in April 2021. There have been no reports that the UK dissented from the regulation.

An An, world’s oldest captive male giant panda, dies in Hong Kong zoo aged 35

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Admin

Thousands send condolences after zoo staff euthanise panda, who was in poor health and had stopped eating

The world’s oldest male giant panda in captivity has died in a Hong Kong zoo on Thursday.

The panda, named An An, was euthanised at the age of 35, the equivalent of 105 years for humans. He was born in the wild in the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan in 1986.

Wild fox infiltrates flamingos’ pen at Washington’s National zoo and kills 25

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Admin

The birds’ wings are clipped to keep them from escaping their enclosure – leaving them unable to escape a predator

A wild fox in Washington DC, has chewed through a fence at the National zoo and killed 25 flamingos in the worst animal attack there in two decades.

On Tuesday, zoo officials announced that in addition to the 25 American flamingos that were killed early on Monday in their outdoor habitat, three more were injured. A northern pintail duck was also killed by the fox.

Camel kills two men after escaping Tennessee petting zoo

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Admin

Sheriff’s deputies destroyed the animal after finding ‘two unconscious victims’ and ‘a camel still on the loose

A camel killed two men after escaping a petting zoo in Tennessee, a county sheriff said.

Officials from the Obion county sheriff’s office said the fatal incident unfolded around 5.44pm on Thursday, when they “received a call of a loose camel near Shirley Farms on South Bluff Road in Obion … attacking people”.

‘It’s Tiger King meets Ace Ventura’: the wild true story of the world’s biggest insect heist

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Admin

From snails the size of dogs to the most venomous arachnids on the planet, the true-crime series Bug Out profiles the bizarre investigation into a robbery at the US’s first bug zoo

A room swarming with thousands of giant, exotic creepy-crawlies may sound like your worst nightmare (or one of Ant and Dec’s Bushtucker Trials on I’m a Celebrity). It is also the starting point for Bug Out, the latest bizarre true-crime documentary series, which is set in the US’s first bug zoo, the Philadelphia Insectarium & Butterfly Pavilion. Prepare for a mystery with more twists than a worm colony.

The show focuses on the moment in August 2018 when the museum’s boss, Dr John Cambridge, arrived at work and did a double take when he realised his room, that ought to have been full of critters, was suddenly empty. Glass tanks were upended, shelves bare, displays cleared out. Thousands of live bugs, worth an estimated $50,000 (£38,000), had been stolen. It was the biggest insect heist in history.

The 90-year-old Australian fish who likes belly rubs is likely oldest aquarium fish – video

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Admin

A primitive Australian fish living in a San Francisco museum is believed to be the oldest living aquarium fish in the world. Methuselah is a four-foot-long (1.2-meter) Australian lungfish, weighing around 40lb (18.1kg). The species has both lungs and gills and is believed to be the evolutionary link between fish and amphibians. The lungfish was brought to the San Francisco museum in 1938 from Australia and now lives at the California Academy of Sciences. The species is threatened and can no longer be exported from Australian waters so biologists at the academy say it's unlikely they'll get a replacement once Methuselah passes away

Methuselah: oldest aquarium fish lives in San Francisco and likes belly rubs

Two hippos test positive for Covid at Antwerp zoo

Posted on December 5, 2021 by Admin

Staff at zoo in Belgium investigating cause of infections, which could be first reported cases in species

Two hippos at Antwerp zoo in Belgium have tested positive for Covid-19 in what could be the first reported cases in the species, staff said.

Imani, aged 14, and Hermien, 41, have no symptoms apart from runny noses, but the zoo said they had been put in quarantine as a precaution.

Three snow leopards die of Covid-19 at children’s zoo in Nebraska

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Admin

Lincoln Children’s Zoo says deaths of Ranney, Everest and Makalu are ‘truly heartbreaking’, as two tigers recover

Three snow leopards have died at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska of complications from Covid-19.

The zoo made the announcement in a Facebook post on Friday, describing the deaths of the three leopards – named Ranney, Everest, and Makalu – as “truly heartbreaking”.

Panda ‘twerks’ around pen to prepare for rare mating event at Adelaide zoo – video

Posted on September 23, 2021 by Admin

Australia’s only two giant pandas are getting ready to rumble. Once a year, a tiny mating window opens. The notoriously sex-shy animals will have about 36 hours to try for a cub. Thanks to the pandemic, which kept a Chinese reproduction expert out of the country, and a better understanding of the panda (research shows it’s best to just 'let them be pandas'), Adelaide zoo now sees natural breeding as the best option for Wang Wang and Fu Ni. Giant pandas are no longer endangered, but with just over 1,800 in the wild, they’re still vulnerable. Around the world, panda keepers have met the goal of having 600 in breeding programs.

Lyrebird in Australia perfectly mimics crying baby – video

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Admin

Not many birds can compare to the vocal range of the Australian lyrebird, and Taronga Zoo's lyrebird, Echo, is no exception. The zoo says Echo has the ability to replicate a variety of calls, but its perfect impersonation of a crying baby is perhaps not the pleasant day at the zoo parents would be hoping for

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Born to be wild: India’s first captive-bred endangered vultures are set free

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Admin

Numbers of the country’s carrion-loving birds dropped by over 97% in the 1990s. Now, a successful breeding scheme is giving them a boost

In February, the doors of an aviary in West Bengal’s Buxa tiger reserve were flung open. Eight critically endangered captive-bred white-rumped vultures cautiously emerged and within minutes were mingling with wild vultures, devouring the meat of carcasses left out by a team of researchers from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS).

The birds were raised in a nearby breeding centre by BNHS, led by assistant director Sachin Ranade, as part of efforts to save India’s Gyps vultures. Gradually, some of the released vultures perched on trees with their wild cousins, while others returned to the wire-mesh aviary where they had spent the previous few months getting acclimatised to their surroundings.

Mammoth journey ahead as elephants leave Kent zoo for the Kenyan savannah

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Admin

All but one of the herd of 13 were born in captivity, but conservationists hope they can be ‘rewilded’

A herd of elephants born and raised in a Kent zoo are about to get on a plane to travel almost 4,500 miles (7,000km) to Kenya, in order to reintroduce them to the wild in a first-of-its kind operation.

The herd of 13, which includes three calves, were all but one born at Howletts Wild Animal Park, a private zoo near Canterbury. The mammoth mission to “rewild” the elephants is being carried out by the Aspinall Foundation, the Kenya Wildlife Service and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

Big cats seized by US authorities from Tiger King zoo in Oklahoma

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Admin

Animal park that featured in 2020 Netflix series investigated in possible violation of Endangered Species Act

US authorities have seized 68 big cats from an Oklahoma animal park that featured in the 2020 Netflix series Tiger King, the Department of Justice has said.

In an affidavit of more than 50 pages, prosecutors said they believed a jaguar, seven lions, 46 tigers and 15 lion-tiger hybrids owned by Jeffrey Lowe and his wife, Lauren Lowe, had been sold, purchased or transported, which would be a violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Category Archives: Zoos

‘Alligators don’t make good pets, y’all’: Texas zoo rescues reptile stolen as egg

Mexico zoo chief accused of ordering pygmy goats to be killed and cooked for party

Mystery of the missing monkeys adds to litany of unexplained Dallas zoo attacks

Men admit break-in at Hampshire zoo in which giraffes and tigers suffered

Chester zoo hails birth of rare Malayan tapir as ‘important moment’

‘Our worst nightmare’: Sydney’s Taronga zoo locked down after five lions escape enclosure

Canada zoo finds escaped wolf pups in moment of joy tinged with tragedy

Brexit threatening endangered species as red tape hits zoo breeding programmes

An An, world’s oldest captive male giant panda, dies in Hong Kong zoo aged 35

Wild fox infiltrates flamingos’ pen at Washington’s National zoo and kills 25

Camel kills two men after escaping Tennessee petting zoo

‘It’s Tiger King meets Ace Ventura’: the wild true story of the world’s biggest insect heist

The 90-year-old Australian fish who likes belly rubs is likely oldest aquarium fish – video

Two hippos test positive for Covid at Antwerp zoo

Three snow leopards die of Covid-19 at children’s zoo in Nebraska

Panda ‘twerks’ around pen to prepare for rare mating event at Adelaide zoo – video

Lyrebird in Australia perfectly mimics crying baby – video

Born to be wild: India’s first captive-bred endangered vultures are set free

Mammoth journey ahead as elephants leave Kent zoo for the Kenyan savannah

Big cats seized by US authorities from Tiger King zoo in Oklahoma