They were worried she might have trouble fitting into the family.
But as these tender pictures show, Kera the gorilla already considers herself perfectly at home.
Cuddling up to her keepers, having a quiet chat or clinging on for a piggyback ride, she looks like she has known them all her life.
But the four-year-old western [...]
This art is created not by hands, but by paws and claws. Paintings featuring the brush strokes and paw prints of animals such as snow leopards and sea lions from zoos around the nation sold Tuesday for surprising amounts of money.
Just a few minutes into the auction, a painting by Cha Cha the Lion [...]
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She looks a little rough, but the Assiniboine Park Zoo’s polar bear Debby, famous for being the oldest living polar bear in the world, is dealing better than expected with health issues that threatened her life earlier this year, zoo officials said Thursday.
Zookeepers feared the worst for the 41-year-old after a series of strokes over [...]
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Oregon’s most popular baby boy names — Jacob, Alexander, Logan — simply won’t do.
Not for a baby elephant.
(”Alexander, would you care for a peanut?”)
So at the Oregon Zoo, where a male Asian elephant calf was born Aug. 23, keepers have scoured dictionaries and other sources, searching for an appropriate name. Something that [...]
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Green polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo.
Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
The sight of green polar bears has prompted many questions from visitors concerned about whether [...]
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Two black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo have each given birth to a kit that was sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000. These endangered ferrets—part of a multi-institutional breeding and reintroduction program—were artificially inseminated in May with frozen semen from the two deceased males, each giving birth to a kit on [...]
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A police search launched after reports of an escaped lion was called off today after the animal on the loose turned out to be a big dog, not a big cat.
A full-scale operation involving a police helicopter was initiated in north Belfast last night when a large sandy-coloured animal was spotted prowling in a [...]
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Zoo Atlanta’s giant panda Lun Lun is pregnant and the birth of her offspring is considered imminent, the zoo said Thursday.
A veterinary team at the zoo confirmed the 11-year-old Lun Lun was pregnant at about 4 p.m. after performing an ultrasound. “During today’s ultrasound we confirmed a full formed fetus with a very strong [...]
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For the loving couple, their duet was simply a natural expression of romance. Neighbours of the gibbons’ zoo home, however, found their dawn singing was more of a rude awakening.
Now Samuel and Duana, a pair of agile gibbons, have been placed under curfew to give residents nearby some respite from their mating rituals.
Zoo [...]
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A baby male tapir joins the menagerie at the Jackson Zoo.
The bundle of joy was born to Malayan tapirs Symphony and Larue on mid-day Saturday.
“We are very excited to welcome this new addition to the Jackson Zoo family,” zoo director Beth Poff said in a news release. “We’ve observed the little tyke sticking very closely [...]
