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Bird Park in Bali

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May 17 2012 20:27

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Polar bear Knut's half-sister makes public debut

April 22 2012 14:34

Baby polar bear Anori was born on January 4, 2012. Anori has the same father as world famous polar bear Knut, who died in 2011. →

Bears run away from Japanese zoo

April 20 2012 15:49

Bears, who had run away from their cages at the zoo in the Towada-Hatimantai National park in the Japanese prefecture of Akita, have killed two female workers of the park. Another worker, a man, managed to run away. At present, the park is still closed for the winter period, and there are no tourists there. →

Mangabey cub in Paris zoo

April 19 2012 12:36

Mangabey cub Loango was born in Jardin des Plantes’s zoo in Paris France. →

Gibbon cub from German zoo

April 12 2012 15:01

3 month old gibbon cub is growing in German city Bremen. →

Mutant earless bunny dies

March 16 2012 00:28

A small earless rabbit named Til met an untimely death under the heel of a cameraman in Germany. The man accidentally stepped on the furry celebrity during filming. Til was born in a zoo in the east of the country, and immediately became a German media star because of his congenital defect. →

Brown bears awake in Khabarovsk Zoo

March 2 2012 12:02

Brown bears have woken up at the Khabarovsk Zoo in the Russian Far East. The bears woke up following a warm spell, the director of the zoo said. Though awake, both the brown bears and the Himalayans are keeping to their dens, so it’s hard to say whether they have had any cubs. →

Triplets in Novosibirsk Zoo

January 16 2012 16:48

The Novosibirsk Zoo, which is known for its collection of the feline species, which is the biggest in the world, is celebrating the birth of the jaguar cub triplets. This is the first offspring of the jaguar family. →

Animal Christmas in Australia

December 22 2011 15:22

Various animals were given early Christmas enrichment treats inside boxes wrapped in colourful paper to arouse their curiosity. →

Leopard named Yelisei

November 29 2011 14:42

Visitors to the Barnaul Zoo in Western Siberia can see the “sold out” notice every day. The point is that everybody wants to see the new settler – the Amur leopard named Yelisei. →

Making friends with apes

August 20 2011 18:42

Visitors to a zoo in Penza southeast of Moscow are invited to spend time sharing cage space with orangutans. Conservationists hope this can raise awareness of the need to protect these endangered great apes. The Penza Zoo is home to more than 2 thousand mammals, birds and reptiles. →

World’s oldest porcupine turns 30

August 17 2011 02:26

The oldest in the world porcupine named Ferdinand has marked its 30th anniversary in Prague zoo.The creature has already outstripped the previous record holder from Canada by a month. In the wild these animals live about 10 years and often fall prey to predators. For his birthday Ferdinand was treated to some large sweet pretzels. →

Lion cubs are born in Ukraine

August 12 2011 21:24

Two Berber lion cubs were born in a private mini-zoo in the Ukrainian town of Vasilievka (the Zaporozhye Region) today. The owner of the zoo Alexander Pylyshenko locked himself up in the cage with the lioness 10 days ago and assisted in the delivery. The lioness and the cubs feel well. →

Baby elephant conceived by artificial insemination in Australia

August 4 2011 11:06

A baby elephant conceived by artificial insemination will hopefully appear at the Melbourne Zoo in Australia early next year. The 10-year-old mother elephant feels well. Elephants carry their babies for 24 months, so Melbourne zoologists have a lot of time ahead to prepare for the birth. →

New puma cubs on the Volga

July 30 2011 17:54

At the beginning of August visitors of the Samara Zoo in the Volga area will be able to watch four newly-born puma cubs. They were born on the 22nd of June from the only couple of these animals in the zoo. The cubs feel well and do not mind the hot weather. →

New mammal discovered in Brazil

July 12 2011 10:12

A tiny mouse found in a Brazilian national park adds a new type of mammals to the long list of the ones already known. The miniature rodent, just a few centimeters long, was discovered in the woods outside of Macae in the eastern state of Rio de Janeiro. →

S.Korean Zoo welcomes two Russians

June 23 2011 15:59

The Seoul Zoo has welcomed two Siberian tigers from Russia. The gift marked 20 years of diplomatic relations between Russia and South Korea  in 2010. Two cubs arrived on May 24 and underwent an adaptation period.    →

Royal treatment for royal fish

June 10 2011 18:04

Caviar and sturgeon, centuries-old symbols of Russia, were invariably present on the Russian monarchs’ menu since the times of Ivan the Terrible. In the 16th century, caviar made it to royal dinner tables in Europe after Pope Julius II found it delicious. Today, sturgeon, the source of caviar, is on the brink of extinction. →

Moscow Zoo welcomes new resident

June 3 2011 18:56

Moscow Zoo is welcoming a new resident – a woylie, brush-tailed betong, the smallest and rarest kangaroo in the world. It weighs less than two kilos and measures 26-40 cm. The woylie is at the verge of extinction once inhabiting the Australian mainland. →

Animals starving in Ivory Coast zoo

May 6 2011 19:09

Animals in the Ivory Coast’s Abidjan Zoo are dying from malnutrition, the management of  the zoo report, asking the global organizations for help. Predators are fed with grass and vegetables  due to he lack of money and are starving to death.  Three lions died longing for meat. →

 
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